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Have you got the long wings (proper name?) that start at the scuttle and run up over the front wheels? They are known to catch the air and make the front end light.

(Posting on behalf of Tony) The End Of Season Bash 2022 is on Friday 2nd September to Sunday 4th at Market Harbour Show Ground LE16 7QB September may feel a long way away but we need your help and commitment to get your tickets booked as soon as possible. This really helps with the organisation and logistics of this event. The Committee and non committee members work so hard on this event behind the scenes and we need more people to turn up to ensure that this event can carry on year after year. The End of Season Bash itself is a great event with marquee, bouncy castles, live band, bar, food van, Saturday ride out and loads of entertainment. Day tickets and camping tickets available. Even if you are not a member of our club and still at the building stage of your car this event would be so beneficial to you..... The amount of experienced people who have already built their own cars and are always more than willing to help and advised. Just seeing the cars and meeting people with same interest we give you the push to get your cars finished. Who knows you could be with us September 2023 in your finished car..... I urge you to join us please book your tickets on the following link. https://ticketstripe.com/EOSB2022/ or End of Season Bash 2022 - RHOCAR - The UK Kit Car Club We look forward to meeting you. If you are booking for the first time please message me, I can let you know what is going on, come meet you on the day and introduce you to other members. Tony Godden My user name is apgodden

Wow, I'm going to sell my car in Europe - have you seen the prices?! If you use that Scout24 site and use 'Caterham' as the model, you get lots of other kits, including this RH 1.6 from 2000 for almost £14k!!!! Or a Pinto-engined Tiger for £20k?!

Yes, it does sound expensive BUT it depends on the market in Belgium - are there any alternatives? If not and you want one badly, you have to pay what is being asked (haggle first, obviously ). What is the car market like generally in Belgium - more expensive than the UK? I visited Stockholm many years ago and cars there were all twice the price of the rest of the world because of the huge taxes on them.

No problem- I'd be interested to see your car - never seen a supercharged Zetec...

Lovely weather for the Surrey Massiv to come out (OK, 4 of us and only 1 from Surrey)...Nice to meet up and chew the fat... Always a great selection of cars at the Chalet:

As the new Surrey Area Sec, I thought I'd try arrange for a meet. I'm not a great fan of arranging things weeks in advance so just to let you know that I will be at the Chalet Cafe on Sunday morning (July 3rd) from around 9-10am for a couple of hours (or more if anyone turns up) - if you can find the time, it would be great to see you down there, in your kit or any old car. The Chalet Cafe address is - Henfield Rd, Horsham RH13 8DU and is a great little cafe for food, although it does shut at 1pm, so don't leave it too late. I will actually be on a run in the area (starting at 7am!!) with some friends, so if anyone wants to join us on that, do let me know. Otherwise, I hope to see some of you at the caff...

I made my own doors and used 2 frame pieces so they can fold down the middle - some details here when I first trialled them in plastic: https://zerolifebuild.blogspot.com/2018/01/whats-behind-door-number-1.html Not sure what you can do with existing doors - Richys suggestion is probably best...

Yeah, I was going to say, that looks like a Westfield GRP body they've tried to fit on that chassis which was designed for metal panels.

My IVA guy never asked for a single photo - I would imagine those ones are enough if they do ask. However, a lot to do to get that to IVA standard (those headlight fittings may have to go, for starters ). The full manual is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/iva-manual-for-vehicle-category-m1 A lot of it isn't relevant to a kit car but one of the main things are 'sharp edges' - IVA is very keen that any human body you've hit doesn't then get a scratch (as it's flying through the air) from a 'sharp' edge. So you'll need lots of rubber trim in various areas. Also, seatbelts are a common failure point, usually the strength of the lower mountings and where they are bolted into. You will not pass the IVA first time (very few do unless you pay someone like GBS a small fortune to do it for you), so don't stress getting it perfect. Worth just doing the initial test, getting the list of failure items and then working on those (re-test is £95 and you can do as many as you want/need). What is good is that you have a Mazda engine which is a major bonus - decent engine that. Hopefully, you've also got the Mazda gearbox which is excellent.

Yeah, I'm afraid so - effectively, you've got an almost-complete kit which has never been officially tested (IVA) and thus never registered. Quite common for kits to be sold at that stage - IVA test costs £450 and there is a shed-load of confusing paperwork after that to get it registered.

You're going to have to put it through IVA then, then get it registered. https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/kitbuilt-vehicles

I'll give it a go - what could possibly go wrong?

Annoyingly, it's tapered but around 15mm...I was thinking of a load of penny washers covered in a piece of bicycle inner tube rubber - does that sound stupid?

It's always been like this since I did my build 5 years ago. The prop was provided by GBS, so hopefully it was correctly balanced? Below is the quickshift mechanism - as you can see, lots of potential for vibration with all those long lengths dangling... I was really looking for some sort of weight I can bolt onto the lever, just above that rose joint.

IVA manual says it can be welded as long as the weld goes all the way round...

My gear lever vibrates a lot (GBS quickshift) - can anyone suggest some sort of weight I can attach to the lever to dampen the vibrations? Searched online but can't find anything suitable...

I doubt the IVA guy will be that bothered...the VIN number in my tintop is under the windscreen on the left of the car, for example.

Sorry, I didn't mean to panic you... Are you planning on doing any of the work yourself? Labour is the most expensive part of any work - I spent around 200 hours building my car and many more since I finished it, on repairs and upgrades. And I'm afraid to say, the last push to IVA was the most labour-intensive, getting all the little details done (look at my blog for examples - link in the sig below). So if you can do the work yourself, it will be MUCH cheaper and easier. If you find a pro, he'll charge, what, £50-£100 per hour? Quite rightly as it is his day job but it's expensive for you.

I hid the post so no-one clicks on the dodgy link....

Don't worry about that first point - it gets checked at IVA. For the plate itself, get the VIN engraved onto a metal plate (I literally took the metal piece to a key cutting shop) and then weld it on to the chassis somewhere visible/accessible. Mine was welded to the rail that the bonnet sits on (GBS leave a gap in the side panel especially for this), so very easy to see. (I would like to point out that I don't weld - a kind member (thanks Bob) did it for me ).

You can't add a location unless you're a paid-up member... Ah, those 'it only needs a few tweaks to get it through IVA' adverts - I really hope that is right but if it was that easy, why didn't the original guy do it and then sell the car for much more?

I have a 2L engine which was a new crate engine when the car was registered in 2017. On my V5, the CO2 field is blank. On the 2 MOTs I've done so far, both testers just did a smoke test. One guy was just lazy and the other couldn't get the sensor far enough up the exhaust to get a reading. In theory, emissions tests are done on the year of the plate, not the year it was registered; the car may be registered in 2016 but may have an age-related plate, in which case it should be tested against the emission standards of that year. I doubt there will be any difference between a 1.6 and a 2L.

I saw that car in someone else's pic - £34k !! I was at a show on Sunday where I told a newbie that GBS were cheaper than Caterham - not so sure now...

Be thankful, you hardly get anything in the newer kits - I'd hate to list the number I bought during my build, I was always complaining of not having the right nuts and bolts...