Hey mate I know how you feel. My best mates friend was over the power weight ratio down here. The cops give a hefty fine if they catch you again they will give you another and If they get you again you will get another and go to court on a repeated offense. Then you can have a criminal record. Its not worth it.

So to get around this you have 2 option either go for something with allot of power and non turbo like a non turbo supra i think thats legally fine for you guys.

However if you have your heart set on the RS once the cops see the scoop in the bonnet and green P plate they will pull you over. You could always install a BLACK FMIC with some black mesh in front of it and the standard GX bonnet. This will get rid of most  cop attention and of course you will get performance gains.

I hope that helped and gave you some points to consider.

Cheers

Troy

awww thats no fun..so everytime the cops pull over a old green ps (b4 restriction was enforced) with a wrx or a turbo skyline, supra etc.
theyll check under their bonnet everytime? hmmm

XoN wrote:

They didn't do it before the restrictions no. I think there should be something on your licence that says you have the vehicle restrictions. I'm guessing as soon as they see that they'll go over your car with a fine toothed comb

Doesn't bother me, I'm going for blacks in the next few days anyway

XoN wrote:

Doesn't bother me, I'm going for blacks in the next few days anyway

hyde wrote:

Spot on.
And yes, on the back of the license it says Conditions - Provisional drive must not drive Prohibited Vehicles
Then when u lose your license you will have to start again on your Red's. Not worth it at all. And also, was looking ovper the new laws coming in on July first, and there is an inclusion for the Provisional 2 plates
Which means, if you have had your license suspended... you can only carry 1 passenger..at ALL TIMES.

You see a sh!tload of P-platers in Skylines and XR6T around also.  Ironic how the law prevents such yet insurance (IE JustCars) targets this crowd.

I'm sure there are plenty of good p-platers out there but unfortunately, there are also plenty of hoons out there which become road statistics which give p-platers a bad rep.  With these new hoon-laws about, just not worth the trouble on getting an RS whilst on P's mate.  Get some experience behind the wheel first before you jump into a performance car and do all road-users a favour; most importantly, urself.

B4Cruiser wrote:

You see a sh!tload of P-platers in Skylines and XR6T around also.  Ironic how the law prevents such yet insurance (IE JustCars) targets this crowd.

Can someone clarify how this colour system works for P-platers?  :Dntknw:

The cops have asked me to have a look at my engine as i have a turbo bonnet

XoN wrote:

Sure thing. In NSW it goes like this:
L plates - Minimum of 6 months (I THINK - it was a while ago now...)
Red P plates - minimum of 12 months
Green P plates - minimum of 24 months
Black (full) licence.

They pick on any p plater regardless of colour or driving record... in Sydney anyway. It just means its harder for the youth to hold onto a licence as they have to go through 3 years of  Provisional driving...Police targeting them.
Same restrictions apply to both red and green about the types of cars they are allowed to drive however if you had your green p's before they passed their stupid law then you are able to drive any car you like or have.

B4Cruiser wrote:

ahh cheers for the clarification.  And its not just in Sydney mate.  I've seen plenty of 'random' roadworthy checks in Vic where i see an Integra Type R, Supra, Skyline being inspected (skyline and type R seems stock) but ironically, they wave thru a rust-bucket of a car with the bumper dangling off thru.  Fortunately they seem oblivious to the B4 so i cruised right thru behind the rust-bucket.