best/cheap/track day 7????

[roy..roberts]

Having been a 7 owner who sold it to buy an Elise, I'm now contemplating buying another 7 (having sold my elise), this time it will be purely for track days only.I've got around £8k to spend, any ideas on what I should look for/get for my money?? Anyone contemplating selling theirs??

[Ade Ray]

Last September I paid 8k for my 1600 xflow. It was an ex-scholarship car with 7k miles on the clock. It came with a glass fibre racing seat, petty strut, 5x racing steels with A021R's (new) and 4x minilites with 008R's (1 trackdays worth of wear left). It also had full weather gear/doors and was carpeted (I've taken the carpet out).

 

I have seen some 1700 xflows for not much more but I do not know if you would get a k series. Anyway, nothing beats the sound of a xflow!

 

Ade

 

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[ashaughnessy]

£8000 would be at the lower limit for a Caterham. If you only went up to £9000 you'd have a better choice. Earlier crossflow cars (e.g. 1985 - 1995) would be available for this price.

 

Or, dare I even suggest it,

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what about a westfield? could probably get one second hand for less than a caterham

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Time to run and hide for my blasphemy!!!

[Bananaman]

I ahve a Westfield which cost 8k, it has a 2L Zetec engine producing 145bhp at the rear wheels.

 

When i was looking into buying a 7 i drove a 1600 & 1700 Caterham (both around 8k the 1600 was just to slow, the 1700 was better but the Westfield blows them away, you can also press just one pedal at once in the Westfield (size 11 feet).

 

The Caterhams were nice cars just too small and slow (for 8k)

 

I'm sure if you had £18,000 to spend you could get a SV Caterham 1.8K series.

 

Alternatively/perversley i saw a Caterham with the same engine in as mine for less than 10K apparently they do not sell well with this conversion, seems wierd to me as is a verry good power unit?