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Links
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These pages contain a whole bunch of links that are related to kitcar builds. Although the association gets
a bit tenuous on occasion.
Select the category you want from the list on the left.
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Kit car build pages
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Adrian's Race Genesis
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Adrian is a local cam7er. He is
also racing in the RGB series, albeit it in class A. This website is all about his Genesi kit cars.
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Alex Milton's Rush
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Another V8 LWB Rush build. He's even rebuilding he engine like I did.
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Ashley Trowe's site
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Another Oxford blue Rush. At the time of writing Ash has actually sold this car and is building another one.
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Bob Flaherty's site
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An Aussie Westfield builder. Isn't the web wonderful?
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Bob's Ultima site
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An Ultima build site! Drool....
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Bob's FuryBusa site
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Having built a MegaBusa and then an Ultima he's now doing another BEC, except this time he's going to race it!
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Charlie's Tiger build
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Another local chap, this time building a Tiger Avon with lots and lots of nice photos.
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Chris' site
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Chris has a fearsome Cosworth-engined Westfield.
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Craig's Phoenix
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Craig built a Phoenix, which is a design fairly closely related to the Fury. However, he's now sold it to Steve
who appears to be storing it until he can show it on Antiques Roadshow in 2052.
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Dan's stuff
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Dan is another cam7er who is now building a rather pimpy Fury complete with carbon fibre, kevlar, etc., etc.
He's recently started work on another Fury which he's intending to race in RGB. I'm trying to stop him fiddling
about with other cars and just get on with the racer...
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Derek's Blog
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Not strictly a build page, but Derek's also an RGBer.
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DH2's page
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Dave is another cam7er. He's built a Westfield MegaBird and
set up a webcam. Check out the time-lapse videos on his site.
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Duncan's Dax
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This was the first Dax Rush I saw. Duncan used to live just round the corner but then moved to Sheffied and
sold his Rush.
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Ed's Westfield builds
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Details of Ed Cane's Westfield builds. Ed has become a stalwart of the BEC (bike-engined car) builders and pioneered
some of the now standard approaches to things like propshafts and reverse gears.
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Erwin Dekker's page
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An amazing page detailing a real do-it-yourself seven-alike.
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Jim's Westfield build
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Yet another build from a cam7er.
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John's Pembleton
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John's building a Pembleton Brooklands, a new one on me until he mailed me. It looks like he's trying to produce
a nice warts and all page here.
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Kev's site
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A detailed description of buiding a Rush, with loads and loads of photos.
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Marc's site
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Yet another pseudo-local, this time with s Striker that's been converted to bike (Yamaha R1) power.
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Matt's Phoenix build
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An example of the relatively rare Phoenix build site. What's more, he reckons this site is "inspirational"
so he's clearly one of the good guys.
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Mojo-2
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Build page for a Zetec-engined Mojo-2. (Which I quite like, unlike many others.)
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R1 Fury
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Detailed build site for and R1 engined Fisher Fury.
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Richard's Rush build
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Vying with this site for torpidity is Richard's Zetec Rush build. He's actually finished the car now and it's
on the road, not that you'd know from the site.
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Rich's Striker
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A gorgeous R1 engined Striker. Rich has actually sold this car to Kerry.
However, his site has now been hosted elsewhere which is good as it's a great read!
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Rick's site
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Rick is a chap in the Netherlands building a Rush. Luckily, his English is very good!
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Rob Collingridge's Fury
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A nice site about the ongoing build of an R1 engined Fury. Lots of nice detail and frequently updated.
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Stephan's Dax
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A bi-lingual Dax build site.
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Steve Richards' site
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Yet another yellow Westfield, except this one's a SpeedSport
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Thomas' site
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Another Dutch Rush builder
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Trevor's Rush build
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I sold Trevor some unwanted brake bits, so see what happens to them here!
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William's Dax build
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William used to have a Tiger and, like me, went on to building a Dax.
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ZX9R Fury
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Another bike engined Fury build page, this time with a Ninja engine.
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Kit car manufacturers
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Aeon Sportscars
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Manufacturers of some nice cars, and also suppliers of Fury bits on account of them being the original chassis
suppliers.
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Dax
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Suppliers of the Dax Rush and Tojeiro. They used to also sell the Kamala but that's gone to the chaps below.
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Fisher Sportscars
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Manufacturers of the Fury. Fishers and the Kit Car
Workshop have now merged their operations under the former banner.
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Shelsley Cars
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This is one of the many things that I've been looking at as a possible next build. Mind you, I'll probably never
do it!
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Specialist Sports Cars
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The Stylus manufacturers
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Stuart Taylor
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Manufacturers of the Phoenix.
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Sylva
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Sylva are the originators of the Fury, Phoenix, Striker and Stylus designs.
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Westfield Sports Cars
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The Westfield factory web site. This used to be the worst website in the world. However, at long last they seem
to have sorted it.
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Kit car club pages
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Dax Rush owners club
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Site for Dax Rush owners. I used to be the webmaster here but eventually I ran out of steam.
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Stylus
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Club for drivers of the Stylus, as mentioned elsewhere here.
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Sylva Sportscar Register
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Club for Sylva and ex-Sylva cars such as the Fury, Phoenix and Striker.
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Westfield car club
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The site for the Westfield club.
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Se7ens lists
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Perhaps I'm biased, but the mailing lists accessible from here are the most wonderful source of information,
entertainment and friendship. You can find everything here from detailed Q&A about cars, pub style discussion
and even arrange to go on various tours to far flung parts of the world. Just follow the links to the list pages
and join the ones that seem appropriate. You could even join cam7 and join in the fun!
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BEC list
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Not one of the se7ens list, but another very friendly and helpful mailing list, this time for bike-engined cars.
This one is hosted by Yahoo with whom you have to register first.
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Motorsport
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Circuits
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Anglesey
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Recently rebuilt circuit on Anglesey in North Wales.
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Brands Hatch
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Great circuit where we first saw Ayrton Senna in 198<mumble>.
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Cadwell Park
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Narrow but really nice circuit out in the wilds of Lincolnshire.
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Donington
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Great circuit in the East Midlands
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Lydden Hill
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Short, but great, circuit in Kent
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Mallory Park
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Mallory Park circuit. Perhaps not the best circuit but one of the better circuit web sites.
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Oulton Park
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Circuit in Cheshire. A truly great circuit which used to hold all sorts of big meetings. It stills holds some
which is why the RGB 2005 meeting's been bumped from there. Sniff...
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Silverstone
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Silverstone circuit, home of the British GP, until they do something (even) more stupid with it. Unfortunately,
it's also an utterly stupid website where they assume that you've got some sort of terminal tunnel vision. Why
are there so many poor web designers around?
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Snetterton
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My local circuit, I guess. Actually a great circuit. It's a bit flat and windy out there but the circuit's got
everything.
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Spa
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Spa-Francorchamps; fastastic Belgian circuit.
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Trackday organisers
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Bookatrack
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My personal favourite trackday organisers, run by a friendly collection of people who nonetheless control things
pretty well.
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Motorsport Events
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These people do pretty well organised days at a local airfield circuit. A few too many stones but it's local.
Problem is, there noise limit is getting a bit difficult.
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Easytrack
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Another decent organiser
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Goldtrack
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Has to be one of the most horrible websites (why do some web designers presume to change the size of my
windows on my screen?), but they are there, I guess.
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Engine and transmission suppliers
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AB Performance
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This is Andy Bates emporium. He's a specialist in fireblades, but seems to be able to do most things with kit
cars really.
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Ashcroft transmissions
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Specialist supplier of Rover gearboxes.
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Bailey Morris
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Specialist propshaft manufacturers
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Classic conversions
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Suppliers of gearboxes and transmissions in various interesting flavours
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Dave Ellis
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Specialist Rover V8 engine builder. Also supplies gearboxes and is a good source of general information.
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Dunnell
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Zetec engine builders
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John Eales
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JE Developments here, who are highly regarded V8 builders.
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Merchant Race
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Specialist racing bike engine supplier
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Raceline
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Suppliers of Zetec performance parts, amongst other goodies.
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Real Steel
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Unfortunately they don't have a web site, but this is a truly wonderful supplier of all things for V8s, and
some other bits and pieces besides. What's more, they are very knowledgeable and keen to advise. Phone 01895 440505
and ask for their catalogue.
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RPI
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Suppliers of Rover V8 bits
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TTS
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Source of tuning bits for motorcycle engines
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V8 developments
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Rover V8 parts and so on
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V8 tuner
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Another Rover V8 tuning site. This one looks quite good
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Breakers
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Instrumentation and auto-electrical suppliers
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Autometer
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Instrumentation suppliers
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ETB
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ETB are instrument suppliers. I haven't used them myself but they are spoken of quite highly.
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Greengauges
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Instrumentation supplier
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Maplin
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Maplin are a perennial used suppliers of electronic and electrical stuff.
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MDS battery
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Battery (of all sorts) supplier. As well as being sponsors of the 750 MC RGB series.
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Premier wiring
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I bought my loom (well, the place that my loom started from) for the Dax from Premier Wiring.
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Race Technology
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Race Technology sell the DL1 data logger that I use, and a variety of other super-duper kit. Highly recommended.
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VDO
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Instrumentation suppliers
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Vehicle wiring products
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Lots of electrical things, and a decent on-line catalogue.
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Fasteners
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Namrick
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Fastener suppliers
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Primary Fasteners
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Fastener supplier specialising in non-threaded fasteners like rivets. They do sell rivnuts though.
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Fuel system suppliers
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Edelbrock
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More American carburettors, which masquerade as some sorts of Webers over here.
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Fuel parts
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All sorts of bits for fuel systems
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Holley
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American carburettors
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Webcon
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Suppliers of Weber carbs and Alpha ECUs.
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Wheel and tyre suppliers
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Compomotive
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Wheel manufacturers. As they supply racing wheels they supply one with offsets that almost match the Rush's
requirements.
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George Polley
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George specialises in Yokohama tyres for the motorsport fraternity.
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Tyresave
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Online-ish supplier of alloys and tyres.
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Exhaust system suppliers
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Custom chrome
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Exhaust system suppliers
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Milner offroad
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Supplier of various bits of stainless exhaust components. Enough, really, to completely make your own exhaust
system.
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Tony Law
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Expert fabricators of high performance exhaust systems. No web site but you can phone them on 01132 715422.
They're in Leeds.
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Wunoff
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Exhaust suppliers
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Suspension suppliers
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Protech
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Recommended aluminium bodied damper suppliers
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Trim and bodywork suppliers
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Auto-paint
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Suppliers of car paint, surprisingly enough
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Jill Judd
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Well-regarded supplier of soft bits for cars!
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Pointnorth
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Nothing specific for cars really, but these people supply materials suitable for things like hoods and tonneaux.
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Suffolk Trimmers
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There's no web site but these people are supposed to be good at hoods and tonneaux. They're on +44 (1359) 250513.
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Woolies
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Trim suppliers
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Other suppliers
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AWS
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Racewear suppliers
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Brian James
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Trailer manufacturers
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Burton Power
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Go faster kit suppliers. Curiously, their web site doesn't seem to include the phone number, which is 020 8554
2281.
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Car builder solutions
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Suppliers of various fascinating gadgets for kit car builders.
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CFS
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Glassfibre suppliers. They also sell stuff like 2-part foam as used for making seats.
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Demon Tweeks
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A supplier of all sorts of performance car bits and pieces. Their web site is now quite useful, unlike what
it used to be like.
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Engineering Supplies
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Taps, Dies and other mechanical engineering bits and pieces
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Fluke Motorsport
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Various things, including expensive carbon fibre and Sikaflex.
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Europa
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Europa sell all sorts of goodies for kit car builders.
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Haynes
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On-line suppliers of Haynes workshop manuals and other books, such as those about Rover V8 tuning.
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Hispec
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Manufacturers of braking components.
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HPC
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Suppliers of all sorts of gear-related things, if you want to make your own reversing gadget.
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Lings
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Honda parts source
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Marine Megastore
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Another boating place that also sells Sikaflex. Kind of hard to use though, as they've managed the hitherto
impossible feat of making it not work properly in both Firefox and IE! (Why don't people test these things,
it's not hard?)
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Marinestore
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Although they're actually about boats, these people are an on-line supplied of Sikaflex, which is one of those
magic glues for sticking all sort of bits of car together, such as cycle wings and cycle wing stays.
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Machine Mart
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Tool (mostly of the big and chunky variety) suppliers. At last an on-line catalogue too.
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Merlin
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Merlin Motorsport seem to be very competent and actually have stuff in stock unlike some other suppliers.
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Motorsport Superstore
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Not sure it's that, but it looks like a decent on-line supplier nonetheless.
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Race Cars Direct
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Racing related ads. Lots of cars, parts, transporters, etc.
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Raceparts
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Racing bits and pieces, especially Racetech products.
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Rally Design
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Suppliers of lots of car bits, not just for rally cars. The website, however, is just about illegible.
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Rimmer Bros
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Suppliers of parts for classic British cars, such as Rover SD1s. Hence a supplier of Rover V8 bits. They have
a rather nice web site and a selection of truly excellent paper catalogues.
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RS Components
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Originally bits for radios but these days they sell loads of mechanical stuff as well, such as Dzus fasteners
and rivets.
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Screwfix
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On-line suppliers of all sorts of tools and such goodies
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Stafford Vehicle Components
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They do all sorts of bits, mainly electrical. They also seem to be very knowledgable and more than happy to
chat around issues and problems.
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The Tap and Die Company
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Errr, taps and dies. Strangely enough!
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Think Automotive
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A supplier of all sorts of little things, such as blanking plugs, oil coolers and brake hoses.
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Tifosi
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General kit-car suppliers.
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Trackstore
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Various track associated supplies such as wheel nuts and studs.
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Publications
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Circuit Driver
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Magazine targeted at all drivers who use circuits.
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Total Kit Car
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A site maintained by Steve Hole, a journo who appears in things like KitCar magazine. It's got all sorts of
kit car topics and seems fairly well written.
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Various odds and sods
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Bresco Vehicle Services
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Specialist fastener suppliers
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British Motor Industry Heritage Trust
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Keepers of all sorts of information about history of cars and engines. Usefl for establishing the age of engines.
01926 641188.
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Dave Andrews
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This is Dave Andrews' home page. He has written loads of useful background material, for example a lot about
jetting Weber DCOE carburettors, which is all here.
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Do it yourself fuel injection
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Lots of stuff about building EFI systems.
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SEiGHT
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This page has lots of stuff about the SEiGHT, the V8 version of the Westfield.
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Wiggle
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This is actually a mountain bike place but they sell lots of high quality cables (bikers are enormously careful
about such things) that I've used to make throttle cables.
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