Engine Conversion Certification

[PeeBee]

He wants cash. Sounds a bit dodgy. Seen a few discussions floating around on FB about cash jobs for mod plates. Its his nuts that are on the line if he gets caught. So he signed off on the conversion without doing a brake test and checking spring rates? Again, Its his nuts that are on the line if he gets caught. Unless he's allowed to do this, which I doubt. But atleast you got it done. I thought Brunswick would have done the engineers report when doing the conversion.

The cash is an easy payment option with all that goes with it, so I suspect its perhaps not as 'dark' as perhaps you are saying, simply because the eng certificate is registered and any blow back if it were to occur has little to do with the payment method. He also takes credit card, but it wasn't working, so direct deposit was the final option, again, same numbers for each method.
Regards what he has to do and not do, I have no idea. The brake test was required for the GVM upgrade, not the engine swap, however his issue was the lack of detail in the BD docs to validate the GVM upgrade had gone thru the same process or rigour as the Vicroads requirement. Since the GVM upgrade is a NATIONAL certification, I could not understand the challenge to be honest. The issue with spring rates were related to the engine swap for sure - he wanted documentation for front and rear springs. I gave hime the fronts as these were upgraded by BD and he simply did a web search on the part number, however the rears were accepted based on what I told him was the complete upgrade, being 400kg Dobinson coils and firestone air bags and then Superior spring tower strengthening and then tying the spring towers together and bolting thru the floor with backing plates - this he accepted instead of a receipt or validated engineering comps.