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Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 3:38 pm
Hello, I'm new to this forum and am currently building an Eleven for use in hillclimbs.
The build is basically standard apart from the engine and gearbox, 1.8 Zetec and 4 speed dog box.
The A series axle is retained but upgraded with 3J driveline LSD and uprated halfshafts.
I have been working through the ROPS with the MSA, (motorsport authority) here in the UK
and during the process I discovered that the MSA holds two certified approved ROPS certificates for the Eleven.
Anyway, to cut a long story short and despite the fact that I have a certificate from the MSA,
which in theory will allow me to have a ROPS made to the spec shown on the certificate, I cannot.
First of all the ROPS needs to be manufactured by the company that had it certified, understand that.
Also it needs to be to the drawing the certification was based on.
The certification was obtained when Chris Smith owned Westfield but since the company has changed
hands, the drawings can't be found and indeed may have been disposed of during the change of ownership.
I already have tubes of the correct blue book spec ready to be welded onto the car, after which it will
probably look like a scaffolder's lorry.
This was really a last attempt to enquire if anyone has a Westfield eleven that has the twin hoop ROPS fitted.
The build is basically standard apart from the engine and gearbox, 1.8 Zetec and 4 speed dog box.
The A series axle is retained but upgraded with 3J driveline LSD and uprated halfshafts.
I have been working through the ROPS with the MSA, (motorsport authority) here in the UK
and during the process I discovered that the MSA holds two certified approved ROPS certificates for the Eleven.
Anyway, to cut a long story short and despite the fact that I have a certificate from the MSA,
which in theory will allow me to have a ROPS made to the spec shown on the certificate, I cannot.
First of all the ROPS needs to be manufactured by the company that had it certified, understand that.
Also it needs to be to the drawing the certification was based on.
The certification was obtained when Chris Smith owned Westfield but since the company has changed
hands, the drawings can't be found and indeed may have been disposed of during the change of ownership.
I already have tubes of the correct blue book spec ready to be welded onto the car, after which it will
probably look like a scaffolder's lorry.
This was really a last attempt to enquire if anyone has a Westfield eleven that has the twin hoop ROPS fitted.