Understandably, Færdselsstyrelsen do not have the resources needed to control/check everything.
That's why we have Automobil Teknisk Institut. It's a danish company that "greenlights" special, "not type approven" cars. HURRRRRAAAAHHH
Mostly they are supporting the auto industry, when it introduces new cars to the danish market, and see to it, that the cars live up to danish "second opinion" high standards.
ATI is very helpful, with guiding me with my project. They know all about the newest legislation from færdselsstyrelsen, and they will hopefully soon greenlight my project, after reading through the dutch papers on the car, and sorting out, what extra testing is needed to approve the car in denmark.
I dont want to go into details with my project yet, but I can come up with some of the rules, layed out by færdselsstyrelsen (29/09-08):
1. Youre allowed to increase the output by 20%, on top of what youre car is rated to AS LONG AS ITS THE SAME ENGINE!! (keep this in mind) if not, the car is suddenly "not Type approved".
2. If your car is not type approved, you have to get a company like Automobil Teknisk Institut to look at your car, find out what is needed for getting it approved by them (papers/closed road-tests), and then they will provide you with the papers, that makes it possible to get the normal MOT (normalt syn). Of course this is not something that they do for free.
Well, here's the problem. My car has got another engine i.e. not type approved with that engine. Suddenly nobody knows how the car handles with this engine? What about vibration patterns from the engine. What about the extra power? What about new top speed?
Furthermore, my cars new powertrain delivers more than the 20%.
So these two facts make it clear, that my car HAS TO BE greenlighted, by the right authorities, if I want to have the car road legal, and that indeed I want to.
Now here's another rule (well, basically only interesting for people wanting to get not-type-approved cars (another engine) approved in denmark. If you increase the power by more than 40%, THEN færdselsstyrelsen will demand a veeeery hardcore test, called the 2000 km test, where after the car has undergone this test, it will have to be FULLY disassembled, for checking all parts for fetique. DO I NEED TO GUESS WHAT THAT COSTS? forget about it then, and buy a lupo
Best regards,
Jesper