Lotus 7/Caterham Replica

[Salted_Chipmunk]

Does anybody know where i can get a hold of anybody that does Lotus 7 replica's. Specifically one for road/track use.

Looking to branch out and wanted to find out some more information about the costs involved. Google aint helping me too much.

Not looking for exact replicas, just that style of Clubman car.

Edit : Prefereably in QLD if at all possible.

[That Bloke]

There are atleast 2 Australian companies making them, one had once been called Amaroo but I believe it has changed its name, this company had also held an official license from Lotus prior to Catherham holding said license.

Originally posted by Salted_Chipmunk
Does anybody know where i can get a hold of anybody that does Lotus 7 replica's. Specifically one for road/track use.

Looking to branch out and wanted to find out some more information about the costs involved. Google aint helping me too much.

Not looking for exact replicas, just that style of Clubman car.

Edit : Prefereably in QLD if at all possible.

[psi_ko]

i think there was a joint in melbourne that was making them with gen3 v8s....

power to weight? yes please!

[flow]

Shit - tonnes of options.

Gen3 or Nissan turbo:

http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_2176/article.html

The best way is to build it yourself - I've got a vid from Foxtel of "A Racing Car is Born". It uses a ford engine, low spec but at 700kg :) grins all around.

They build it to road spec then they de-spec'd it to race config. It's about 5hours of cool stuff.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

yeah i saw that, a race car is born, thats what got me thinking.

I wouldn't mind a kit car, me and dad would like to build one, granted it will be mainly used for the road, i want to do some track work with it also.

I've got a friend whose dad built one, projected cost was 10 g's on the road for his. He was runing a that 20v toyota twin cam from the corrollas, he mated it to a sprinter rwd gearbox, apparently the gearbox fits straight onto it.

I'de like to keep it simple and go NA, insurance is going to be a bit tight and i want to keep costs down somewhat.

But if money wasn't an option i'd go the twin hyabusa engined 4wd one that some english company built. 2.5 seconds to 10km'h, yes please!

[DumHed]

PRB make some nice ones :)

PRB Australia (http://www.prbaustralia.com.au/)


I was very close (half way to Woollongong from Sydney) to buying an almost finished clubman kit a few years ago for $4k.

It was sold before I made it there though :mad:

[kré]

i remember reading in a magazine a few years back a company making them called westfields. no idea if they are still around.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

Originally posted by DumHed
PRB make some nice ones :)

PRB Australia (http://www.prbaustralia.com.au/)


I was very close (half way to Woollongong from Sydney) to buying an almost finished clubman kit a few years ago for $4k.

It was sold before I made it there though :mad:

Thank you kind sir, you are of much help :) :)

Those PRB kits look very nice indeed.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

Originally posted by cray
i remember reading in a magazine a few years back a company making them called westfields. no idea if they are still around.

Yeah, the Westfields are an English company. They currently have a new project car, the Westfiled XTR2 i think it is

It similar to the clubmans, only a full bodied chassis, not an open wheeler
Hyabusa powered, they test drove it around this track that they test all the cars on, lapped quicker than the Pagani Zonda. that was about 20,000 gbp however. Looked fucken nice though

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/images/5039-3.jpg
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/images/5039-4.jpg

Fully road legal :)

http://www.pistonheads.com/clubmans/features/Default.asp?storyId=5039
http://www.pistonheads.com/clubmans/features/default.asp?storyId=3364

[kré]

cute

from what i read they had a distro in aus

[scathing]

The two most famous ones in Australia, at the moment, are PRB and Elfin.

The latter almost died, and is only famous because Holden bailed them out recently, because Mike Simcoe wanted something sporty for race use (which rules out any of the crappy FWD econoboxes or fat bargearses in Holden's current catalogue).