Thread: Registration/engineers on 202 replacing 186 - in VIC

You could be out of luck. If it has never been registered in Vic with that engine, you may have problems. I am currently going through this at the moment and I need a full engineers report no biggy for me as I have other things planned during the resto like disk brakes, better seats and maybe even power steering, so it would need to be done anyway.

If it had the 186 it was originally registered with in WA, then it could be a different story. Ring up Vicroads - surprisingly, they were very helpful with the information they supplied to me.

Hope you get it over the line.

Cheers - Gav

Try asking the question via Vicroads on line enquiry form.
Then you got it in writing.

Thanks Mick, I have sent in an enquiry form, this is by far the best way to do it as the amount of times ive been told different things by different people at vicroads is amazing.

The car has been bought now anyway so its just a matter of which way to go about getting it on the road in one form or another.

Originally Posted by philry

Thanks Mick, I have sent in an enquiry form, this is by far the best way to do it as the amount of times ive been told different things by different people at vicroads is amazing. The car has been bought now anyway so its just a matter of which way to go about getting it on the road in one form or another.

how did you go? Can you register it without the mod plate?

it had a holden 6 before so i cant see it making any diff.
i bought a rrc reg with a 3.5, the guy put in a 4.6 & then i bought it
is all they did at vic roads was update the eng no.
was still a rover v8 as far as they were concerned.
i think you would be very unlucky for them to dig out slightly diff eng capacity.
just tell them it had a new eng as the old was shagged, with the new eng no

that is as long as it was last reg with a holden 6

The problem is that it was registered in WA with this engine - The data bases for engine numbers isn't national so VicRoads may not recognise the conversion. Had the same issue with mine - had a Holden engine in it registered in NSW so it was going to require engineering to pass in Vic. Easy for me as I decided to stick the original engine back in, but unless for some reason VicRoads has the correct engine number in their system - not WA's system - then they may not pass it.