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ON. The current plan is that rain is heading our way in the afternoon, weather forecasts are unreliable so we intend on meeting for breakfast and taking it from there. Hopefully we can fit a run in and maybe even a pot of tea and a slice of cake.........said Worzel Gummidge here. As everyone who is coming has well over a 1 hour journey home, we will keep this one short and do our best to get you home dry.

Sorry but not us …… Here’s my list of excuses 1. she’s in bits !!!! Winter maintenance has begun 2. We’re working 🥴 ok I’m turning up 🤪 3. My passport is out of date and it is really far north 🤣 We couldn’t look at Ian with his lovely hair do! Take care guys and have a lovely day we’re not jealous at all Luv Andy & Becky

I have a set in prepreg carbon

Apologies for not getting back to you but found nothing that explains or addresses this. The system is a third party piece of software and we are at their mercy to a large degree.

That all sounds good, i am new to kit cars, so this is all new territory for me, I have done a fair bit with bikes, and ultimately I will build a car, but think I need to scratch this bec itch hopefully it fills the gap a bike leaves!

I'd not fret too much about the Sport 2000 record. When I built and registered my S2000- here's what I put on the registration application paperwork- Here's what DVLA's online checker shows- & the V5 is blank in some of the fields- I guess it all depends how much the DVLA Clerk wanted to type in on the day, perhaps!

Its priced well enough for me to be happy if its been converted, it may well have been built from new with bike engine in with a live axle, just can not figure out why it comes up as sport 2000 on the reg check, but everything else seems all good, it has a quaife reverse box apparently too, I guess a sport 2000 chassis was bought and a bike engine fitted either in build or shortly after, or sport 2000 was filled out on the registration paperwork, ill never know unless I find the original builder!

The tunnel and engine bay design on a genuine bec chassis are abit different with the driverside footwell being noticeable narrower due to how the reverse gearbox was mounted up by westfield and also in the engine bay some of the bracing tubes are missing from the bulkhead to engine bay top chassis rail to allow the fitment of the bec engine cradles . There are some genuine mega bec chassis out there that have a live axle setup and that was normally for people that wanted to save every kg as the live axle is the lighter of the two setups but they were special order only and i've seen 4 or 5 in my time. There is one thing to think about a cec chassis converted to take a bec engine on the selling market never sells aswell as a car with a genuine bec chassis unless the car is something really really special just something to think about if you did want to sell the car .

And some times, things like that can even end up working out for the best!

There's a steady supply of them out there... I missed on the first one I wanted. Didn't take too long to find another...

I have joined, having the short term option is a really good idea, i am really hoping to buy the car but wont get to it for just over a week, just keep my fingers crossed it doesnt sell before that

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Ive messaged you, I’d like these please.

If I can find and fix the reason for the misfire I had on the way to the Cheshire Meet last night, I'll be there! (And if I can't, I'll be crying into my cornflakes at home, while you all zoom around the Peaks!!)

Sounds all good!

It all looke nice and official, the v5 shows the correct engine and engine size, the chassis number and vin looks good too, the mot descprtion was just a little comment on one of the car vehicle type check things, i dont know where it originates from? May be from the mot testers description? It is fairly priced and has been used well, but it is in my budget and allows me to tidy it up too, I hope to be jouning as a full member soon!

To the best of my knowledge, all BEC chassis are independent rear suspension. They also use a lighter gauge tube for the chassis and a slightly narrower tunnel, as there's no big car gearbox in it. Obviously, they also have the mounting brackets for an engine cradle, but that's the sort of thing that's easily retro fitted in a conversion. All the factory bec info I've seen usually shows a single aluminium undertray, that encloses the tunnel too. Though again, not diffinitive as could be retro fitted to most models. A well converted car to bike chassis is going to be OK, just a tiny bit heavier than an original BEC, also as it's not a factory Mega Blade, Mega Bird or Mega Busa, you'd expect the second hand value to be slightly softer. How much depends how good a conversion it is. I would want to know why the V5 is incorrect though, I'd need to satisfy myself beyond all reasonable doubt that it was laziness/ignorance or incompetence, because the incorrect engine listed on the V5 could bite you hard if an insurance claim ever needed to be made on the car, for example. Ideally, I'd want it sorting before sale, in case the swap hasn't been listed for more worrying reasons. - Again, there's nothing in principle wrong with the swap, it's just making sure it's all nice and official!

HI Dave, Let's hope you're soon fixed. Here's the two cars that made it

Selling ad I have recently fitted a full roll cage. There is a very small stone chip on one of the covers, I’ve tried my best to photograph. £75.00 ono inc postage.

Well, that was absolutely gutting; apologies lads if I was a bit down last night, despite attempting to drown my sorrows in the biggest fish and chips I've ever seen - cracking food as ever at the Golden Pheasant! Having finally got the car back together, and the last couple of bits buttoned up on Wednesday, I set off in the Westfield last night, for the first run since July, only to start miss-firing after the first three or four miles. It got steadily worse to the barely drivable stage. So I managed to do a U-turn round a roundabout and make it home, despite it cutting out at every stop for lights etc. So the daily tin top of shame was jumped into for the meet. Fingers crossed it's something simple and quick to fix. I'll have to try and motivate myself to have a look tomorrow. However, pleased to say the sorting out Mike @Kit Car Electronics and Essex AO did for me on the FreeWheel and BeamStop all worked flawlessly. Many thanks Mike!

Perfectly normal 😂

Others may suggest if it's a bike engine car you're after, the chassis will be heavier that a true factory megablade chassis. Though it's better than having a BEC with a car engine in!

There is very little to no original paperwork, original builder owned a few years then owned for around 20 years by current owner, its kit bodywork from your info too, i believe it was converted or built to bike spec by the first owner, Iv no reason to believe anything is wrong i have just heard you need to be carefull, the only things i noticed have been sport 2000 instead of megablade, and one of the "mot description" in a vehicle check said 1999cc so assumed it was a 2.0 at some point early on? Oh and the L instead of an i or a 1 on the 6 digit of the vin, but again quite easy to see how this was done, the builder might of used L to avoid confusion between i and 1? And from the helpfull replies so far, ill be joining as soon as i have bought the car!

I've a homebuilt sport 2000 that's independent rear suspension. Sport 2000 was originally sold expecting a 2L Zetec Silvertop. So unless you have the original sales paperwork, it's going to be difficult to work out what was supplied from the factory vs changed after. Also the model description on the V5 seems to have more to do with what the builder put on the paperwork than anything else. It's also worth looking at the bodywork, so you know what you're getting. Bodywork has changed a few times over the years. The simplest place to start is the bonnet.... If it's got 4 external clips holding the bonnet on, it's most likely "kit" bodywork. If it's got two locating pins at the front of the bonnet and two clips at the back it's ZK bodywork There's no better or worse, it's more that ZK bits won't always fit with "kit" bits, so you need to know what you have. There is a more comprehensive bodywork guide in the tech section which is worth every penny of the membership in terms of knowledge to keep a Westie running.

Im looking at a car that looks to of been a home built sport 2000 in about 2001, but is now in megablade spec, it all looks good, i just expected to see a 1 or an i where the L is on the chassis number, and reg comes back as a sport 2000, not a megablade, engine number and chassis number all match stamped and logbook and the chassis in the engine area looks to be the same as megablade chassis i have seen, i know it completely possible for this conversion to have been done, it is a live axle, i was just hoping to find other evidence of it being a converted sport 2000 chassis that has been modified, unless sport 2000 could of been ordered from factory with bike engine mounts? Its a lovely car and im very excited to become a westie owner, and im almost definately being over cautious, but i am quite new so thought id see what the more experienced of you may think! Thankyou for the welcome so far too