Shaun you are nowhere near!
In theory, IF your car is a reshell, (and I DON'T want to know if it is!) ie the shell is not the one that corresponds to the comm number on the V5, then it should go through the BIVA and all that that entails. In practice, unless it is a very late car with the VIN stamped into the boot lip, who is to know? Me and at least another 20 Dolomite "experts" could create a "Sprint" shell, from a 1500HL say, that would fool all the other "experts", let alone someone who did not know Dolomites intimately!
As I have often said in the past, with Triumphs, identity is a matter of opinion, and the opinion that counts is the one of the man with the V5 in his hands!
As to your other mods and changes, NONE of it counts, you have replaced like for like! Sprint engine, box, axle, prop, steering, suspension, subframe, Your one non factory mod, the TJs is free as there are no points deducted for braking mods! As to the cage, tank, battery lines, etc, none of that even rates a mention in the rules.
The only thing I can see you falling foul of is the proposed 15% power to weight ratio increase limit for MOT exemption status. Which merely means that, should you declare that the car is uprated (and the weight you have shed alone, means you probably SHOULD, never mind the cam, webers etc) you would need to continue to MOT the car annually, no big deal! But my feeling is that this proposal will die, or be amended to vehicles with less than 8 points, before it gets into the statute book next April, even if the rolling 40 year old MOT exemption doesn't get killed off! Which it should!
Even this may not apply, some are interpreting the rules as to only apply to transplants, not uprated standard engines, after all, how would anyone KNOW, without a dyno printout? - And those are notoriously unreliable!
You, at least, can sleep easy!
Steve
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