Pics of Westfield with post SVA mods

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Second hand, nearly new bits are the key :-)

Got the clock set for £100 with only 3000 miles use - saved £250.
Carbon dash - £40 from ebay - saved £70
Manifold - £80 - saved £210
Seats - £200 - saved £260
Steering wheel and QR boss - £50 - saved £110

And so on. Plus I had the donor car already - I'm not factoring in the cost of that - you could easily add £500-£1000 if you needed to buy a donor then refresh all the parts used.
 
No, age related.

Your reg is based on major parts used during the build - chassis, engine, gearbox, steering, brakes, drive shafts and diff. Everything bar the chassis and the steering was from the donor, so I got an age related plate - same age as the donor.

They don't care where everything else comes from.

You get a Q plate if the major parts are second hand and/or can't be traced or you have no recpts showing they are new (even if the plainly are).

You get a new plate if all the major parts bar one item are new. So you can have an old engine (no cat needed) on a new reg plate.

If you re-use the donors chassis - you keep that reg - the reg is tied to the chassis. Depending how many other major parts you also re-use (on a totting up points based system) you don't even need to SVA/IVA it -just a built up inspection report (to verify the chassis number) and an MOT.
 
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Then they relieve you of £270 to get it registered (12 months tax and £60 first registration fee) :-)
 
well, i'm way off that bit :p

Still looking into various options before placing the order for the base kit. I'm on the hunt for the donor car at the moment. I know the post 91 2lt sierras have the MT75 box i need, but i've read that the 4x4's also have the mt75 box?

the 4x4's tend to go cheaper than the 2ltr's
 
but i've read that the 4x4's also have the mt75 box?
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They do but the boxes have a another output shaft to the front for the 4x4 system - you don't really want that unless your building a 4x4 kit.
 
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are they the ones which used to be on the car? Don't think there was anything wrong with them......on a different car.
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Indeed. It's not that there was anything particularly wrong with the wheels themselves, RS-Rs can look good on the right car. But on a westfield/caterham they just look completely out of place, and then of course there's the issue of the weight and size of them.
 
I did toy with the idea of putting the RSR's on my Scorpio Cosworth as they looked quite good on my old sierra (verrrry old photos - 2001 - before you comment on the daft spoiler ;-)

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I still miss that car, although the spoiler would have been binned by now if I hadn't turned it into the Westfield - yes - that Sierra was the donor car. Old Fords never die they simply rust away!
 
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New hweels arrived today ;-)

Old wheels and tyres weigh 20kg - new wheels weigh 14 kg :-) That's 24kg for the whole car but they say weight saved on the wheels is like x4 saved anywhere else - so I've shaved the equivalent of nearly 100kg from a car that only wieghed 605kg in the first place!

Old wheels:-

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New wheels (sorry about the fuzziness and the mud - when for a bit of a "rally" drive down the lanes last night):-

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Need to play around with the ride heights a little and the front cycle wing.

What do *I* think? Hmm, I'm not sure. Think I'll reserve judgement until I go out on Sunday for a blat :-)

Hmm, what next. The Cosworth is looking rather nervous - "I'm not ready to give up my engine" it keeps whispering. We'll see :-)
 
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