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Kit Car Discussion Thread

Welcome to the OCUK Kit Car thread - the one stop for information, questions or just chat about everything to do with kit cars!

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Current/Previous Builds

  • BigglesPiP - JC Wyvern - COMPLETED
  • Zuma - Great British Sports Cars 2B - COMPLETED
  • Hodders - Caterham 7 - COMPLETED
  • Dr Who - Various Caterhams and Westfields - COMPLETED
  • Perywinkle - MK indy - IN PROGRESS
  • Steve JL - Westfield Megabusa - IN PROGRESS
  • amigafan2003 - Westfield SDV - COMPLETED

F.A.Q.

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I wouldnt say Caterham are the best. They are by far the most well known and, because of that, the most expensive.

If your planning to build a kit yourself, Westfields and the like are far more common, and much cheaper.

Personally, Id love an MK Indy. Dirt cheap and simple as hell!
 
Thanks for the info. The way i understand it most 'kits' give you a body and everything that sits in that, then you use a 'donor' car for the chassis, engine, suspension etc.
 
I would love to learn how to do this, and perhaps bone up on some of the techniques needed, as I plan to build a kit car or similar project when I have the garage space (and a garage!).

Anything that's worth a read? I don't have a car to mess about with now, is it just a case of learning by doing? I'd be interested to see how others who've built them learnt how (if not by trade).
 
Superewza said:
Thanks for the info. The way i understand it most 'kits' give you a body and everything that sits in that, then you use a 'donor' car for the chassis, engine, suspension etc.
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Yeah, a lot of the low cost kits are designed to be built using a donor car for all the mechanical parts. The MK Indy kit can be built entirely using a donor Ford Sierra.

How happy you would be using 15-20 year old brakes and other components is another thing though.

While I plan to have a kit car in the not to distant future, I must say I dont have the patients, knowledge, or confidence in my own ability to build one myself. There are a lot of people out there who find the joy in building a kit rather than driving it, so you can find a lot of very well built cars that have only done a few miles for sale.

Cloudys Warner R4 has caught my eye though.
 
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Building an r1 powered MK Indy myself, not touched it in 6 months mind lol.
Locostbuilders.co.uk is the best source of info you'l fine in the intrawebnet.
 
Skeeter said:
Yeah, a lot of the low cost kits are designed to be built using a donor car for all the mechanical parts. The MK Indy kit can be built entirely using a donor Ford Sierra.

How happy you would be using 15-20 year old brakes and other components is another thing though.

While I plan to have a kit car in the not to distant future, I must say I dont have the patients, knowledge, or confidence in my own ability to build one myself. There are a lot of people out there who find the joy in building a kit rather than driving it, so you can find a lot of very well built cars that have only done a few miles for sale.

Cloudys Warner R4 has caught my eye though.
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Question, why are you giving advice on kitcars when you have not built one, and you state you dont even have the confidence to build one?
 
Dad's got a Westfield which we built together...... read as he used the fact that I was a child and had small hands for all the hard bits!

Remember a 'Kit Car' doesn't have to be using everything off of an old Sierra / MX5. Dad's Westfield was all brand new components supplied by Westfield and consequently is a '52' plate (as it was late 2002 we had it SVA'd).
 
Dad used to be the Dealer for JC composites a long time ago. Selling the JC Wyvern:
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It's based on a 1.3 Vauxhall Firenza. The Demonstrator is still in the family, it was built on a lightly tweaked 2.0L Firenza instead, about 600Kg with 105bhp at the rear tyres.

Not saying you should get one of these, I don't think JC are in business any more.

From what Dad has told me about building kit cars:
-There is more work (hours) involved than you think.
-A sign of a good (or expensive/largely produced) kit is a windscreen which isn't flat.
 
Dr Who said:
Question, why are you giving advice on kitcars when you have not built one, and you state you dont even have the confidence to build one?
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Im hardly giving advice.

Im just reciting information I have picked up from planning to own a kit car for years, but not having the money to do it. Its called being friendly.

If, however, my participation in a thread is dependant on having fully completed any task dictated in the OP, then I shall leave, and ensure I evict you from any thread you dare enter unless you have fully met the entry requirements of the OP.
 
Skeeter said:
Im hardly giving advice.

Im just reciting information I have picked up from planning to own a kit car for years, but not having the money to do it. Its called being friendly.

If, however, my participation in a thread is dependant on having fully completed any task dictated in the OP, then I shall leave, and ensure I evict you from any thread you dare enter unless you have fully met the entry requirements of the OP.
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Not evicting you, but as the guy is clearly looking for advice from people who have built one and you are just reciting heresay, I felt it worth pointing out. Along with belittling the scaremongering about 15-20 yr old components.

Feel free to lookout for threads I have no place in, you will be very busy, I avoid them myself.

:p
 
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Biohazard said:
There is a whole 10/15 year+ brigade on here, good luck.
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I expect it from the young ones, they forget in 20 years time they will be tinkering with 20 year old cars as well longing for the nostalgia of todays classics, cursing the latest safety features as clinical and lacking in feel, that is if they are actually allowed to control the vehicle in 20 years time!
 
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