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Complete Kit Car December, 2015 Westfield Megas2000 COMPLETE KIT CAR RETRO RESTYLE GKD LEGEND Modern Mk3 MX-5 makeover Supercharged BMW power WWW.COMPLETEKITCAR.CO.UK DECEMBER 2015 – ISSUE 108 OPUS HISTORY How the kit car scene kicked off UK hot-rodding DECEMBER 2015 £4.75 Issue 108 On sale 13 November to 10 December BUILD DRIVE ENJOY • BUILD DRIVE ENJOY • BUILD DRIVE ENJOY • BUILD DRIVE ENJOY • BUILD DRIVE ENJOY Veranti-Lamberti V3000 ST NO EXCUSES! • Story Behind... Opus This car was built by a kit car novice in a single... sogarage... what will you build this winter? WIN! Autosport International • tickets GKD Legend • Readers Westfield Mega S2000 build • Temporary Garages • Turbocharging TVR based bodykit www.completekitcar.co.uk UK’s fi rst Cheetah replica RUNNING REPORTS • KITS AT THE SPA SIX-HOUR • INDUSTRY AND CLUB NEWS • OUR CARS • SHOWS TURBOS TAKE COVER HONDA-FIELD Get the lowdown Keep your kit dry this Westfi eld Mega S2000 – on turbocharging winter – we assess reader’s build of the best your kit car portable garages Westy money can buy Follow us on @CKCMagazine Reader’s Car – Westfield S2000 54Bill Bourne has built an amazing Honda VTEC engined Westfield. Here’s how. Our Cars 60Here’s what the CKC team members have been up to with their kit cars. Product Focus – Portable Garages 64Don’t let the lack of a garage put you off building a kit car. Here’s another way. Running Reports 68More news from real kit car builders in the real world. Products – Christmas Special 74A bumper selection of new products just perfect for Christmas. Theory – Turbocharging 76Chris Pickering looks at the appeal and potential of turbocharging your kit car. 54 12 Welcome Outside View 3Wilkins looks at the glut of new bodykits 17Heseltine gets all nostalgic about the with independent styling, and likes what he sees. Mini Marcos. Up Front – News Letters 6What’s going on in the kit car world. 50A chance to have your say. Up Front – Clubs & Lifestyle Between The Lines 12From weddings, to cakes, to club 82Insider knowledge revealed. gatherings and more. All kit car life is here. Events Diary 15What’s happening when. Pick up the January 2016 issue Friday 11 December SUBSCRIPTIONS EDITORIAL GRAPHIC DESIGN – Panda Creative Ltd T: 01823 617908 T: 01823 617908 T: 01903 531531 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] W: www.pandacreativeltd.co.uk ADVERTISING POSTAL ADDRESS T: 07000 785423 / 01823 617908 Performance Publishing, Complete Kit Car, Unit G, DISTRIBUTION – Marketforce UK Ltd. 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ISSN 1754-1271 www.completekitcar.co.uk December 2015 Issue 108 | 5 Up Front: News Like us on /CKCMagazine Westfield secures new distribution network in Asia estfield Sportscars Wis a consistently forward-looking and proactive kit car company, and its latest announcement has been the securing of a new distribution deal for Asia, with 100 cars to be exported – and that’s just an initial order, with the likelihood of more cars to follow. In 2014, Westfield approached UK Trade and Investment to conduct an Overseas Market Identification Service. The tangible result of that process is a deal with General Dynamics Aero Technology (GDAT) of Shanghai to distribute fully-built cars. A signing ceremony took place in Shanghai in October in the presence of The Right Honourable Lord Maude of Horsham and John Edwards, Her Majesty’s Consul General in Shanghai. Peter Jiang, President of General Dynamics Aero Technology, said: “GDAT is and sports car ranges as being aside at Westfield’s Kingswinford MD Julian Turner. “We have delighted to be working with very complimentary.” The fact factory to assemble the first 100 lots of similarities and both Westfield because of their quality that the cars are British-built cars. companies are passionate sports car range, their advanced was also seen as a major appeal “Westfield is delighted to be about the Westfield product. materials and technology in the in the Asian market, and a working with General Dynamic There is genuine technological vehicles. We see our aerospace dedicated area has been set Aero Tech,” said Westfield and advanced manufacturing 6 | December 2015 Issue 108 www.completekitcar.co.uk Follow us on @CKCMagazine Westfield secures new distribution network in Asia crossover between the aerospace relationships with Chinese that will come from Westfield in and sports car sectors, and universities for collaborative R&D the coming months. There’s a lot both Westfield and GDAT have a projects. You can expect to see more going on behind the scenes fantastic reputation in their local more coming from this export which we’ll be able to tell you markets.” deal. about very soon. Westfield is also forging This isn’t the only big news www.westfield-sportscars.co.uk www.completekitcar.co.uk December 2015 Issue 108 | 7 Readers’ Build: Westfield Mega S2000 Like us on /CKCMagazine Westfield Mega S2000 The Westfield Mega S2000 is the best Westfield we’ve ever driven. Adam Wilkins met Bill Bourne, who has built one in his garage at home. hen Bill Bourne was familiar with the kit car market and car for a Dutton. Although he built it up came to building knew exactly what he wanted from his to the stage where it could be driven his Westfield Mega next project. around his parents’ farm, it was sold S2000, he knew In fact, his first foray into kit cars as an unfinished project. It would be a Wwhich kit car he wanted to build with was even longer ago. When his first good couple of decades before he got very little research. Already a veteran car, a Mk1 Ford Escort 1300 GT, had back into kit car building with the MK. of an MK Indy and other Westfields, he expired, it was cannabalised as a donor Aside from cars, Bill’s other Below: Mega S2000 is Bill Bourne’s third Westfield. Below: Chassis on stands, where it stayed for most of build. Below: Chassis redesigned to set S2000 engine well back. 54 | December 2015 Issue 108 www.completekitcar.co.uk Follow us on @CKCMagazine Above: Suspension on. Front was upgraded to wide track front wishbones during the build... Above: Fitting aluminium panels was the first job. Above: ....and aluminium uprights were another upgrade. passion is motorcycles, and he has the Westfield factory. I knew all along from Westfield in a modular package. won numerous trophies in trials I wanted to build the S2000. The “That’s the joy of a Westfield,” says Bill. competitions. It’s motorsport that engine and gearbox combination is so “Everything is available off-the-shelf Bill enjoys more than road miles and, good it’s daft not to use it.” As well as and just fits. I don’t mind making up in 1995, he bought a second-hand liking the high-revving 2.0-litre Honda brackets and fabricating things – in fact, pre-litigation Westfield for sprints and engine and its associated 6-speed I quite like it – but it’s not necessary hillclimbs. Once that had gone, he went gearbox, Bill also really liked the way with a Westfield.” back to bikes for a while before building Westfield had engineered the car That doesn’t mean there’s not scope a Honda Fireblade powered MK Indy in specifically for the package. to change things, though. “As the build 2003. Things got increasingly serious The chassis has been redesigned progressed, I decided to get the wider with hillclimbing, and the MK was to allow the engine and gearbox front wishbones, bigger brakes and sold to make way for a purpose-built to be located well back in the car. aluminium uprights. ‘Upgradeitis’ set in competition car in the form of a Jedi. When you look at the engine bay before it was even finished!” As with the It came with a Honda CBR600 engine, photos, it’s clear to see how the top cars that have gone before it, the Mega which Bill swapped to a Yamaha R1. of the bulkhead has been changed. S2000 will be used for sprinting and His next kit car would be another It means that the front of the engine hillclimbing. “I’m not that into blatting,” second-hand Westfield, this time a is well behind the front ‘axle line’ for says Bill. “I prefer competition.” 2003 model powered by a Red Top optimum weight distribution. None It was September 2013 when Vauxhall engine. Sticking with the of this was lost on Stent when he the chassis and other parts to get Vauxhall theme, the car went to make tested the Mega S2000 at launch (April the car rolling arrived, followed by way for a VX220 Turbo, which has only 2013 issue) and declared it the best the bodywork the following spring.
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