help on a kit car

[waverunner_388]

Can anyone help me with some info on a Westfield or Caterham or simliar cars, i have 5k for the car and about 3k to do adjustments wherever needed i am 20 and with no NCB , what should i be looking for?

Cheers

[andy_quantum]

Kit car forum

From my ownership of kit cars over the years, there's always something to do. Whether it needs doing immediately doesnt matter, it'll need doing at some point.

Your choice of engine will largely dictate what you'll need to do and look out for. X Flows, CVH's, V8's and all manner of other engines get stuffed into these.

You should be able to get a roadgoing, complete car for that sort of money. There's other cheaper options in the Seven world. If you're not in any rush to buy it might be worth checking out a few kit car shows coming up

Courtesy of Totalkitcar.com, here are the 2008 events

2008 EVENTS

Race Retro, Stoneleigh
March 14-16

DETLING SHOW
April 12-13

STONELEIGH SHOW
May 4-5

Motorexpo, Canary Wharf
June 9-15

NEWARK SHOW
June 21-22

Brooklands Festival
June 28/29

SPEED ON WHEELS (NEW)
July 5-6

Goodwood Festival of Speed
July 11-13

British International Motor Show
July 23-Aug 3

PETERBOROUGH SHOW (NEW)
August 9-10

ZANDHOVEN SHOW (Belgium)
August 23-24

DONINGTON
September 13
STAFFORD SHOW (NEW)
September 13-14
Goodwood Revival Meeting
September 19-21

totalkitcar LIVE! ROCKINGHAM (NEW)
November 2

EXETER SHOW
November 15-16

[sniff petrol]

A mate of mine built himself a very nice Tiger for about £8k, with a 2.0 Vauxhall redtop on Jenvey TBs, 180bhp and 600kgs

I know they're not great pics but it's the yellow one:

[gingerpaul]

Hopefully the mods will move this to the kit car forum as you'll get more responses in there I suspect.

Your best bet is to go to this site and ask over there. They're a great community and it is aimed at exactly the kind of cars you'll be looking at.

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/index.php 

[Big Al.]

Sorted

[Snake the Sniper]

Just to second what gingerpaul said. Come on over to the locost site. You may however be told NOT to get a caterham/westfield at that price, as it may be a little bit ropey. Personally I'd look further down the system a bit, as it where. Tiger, MK, Luego, GTS, MNR and Mac1 are the more mainstream, but smaller/less well known varieties, and as such tend to be cheaper. I got my bike engined MK Indy for £5K, so there are bargains out there.