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My Westy has finally made it's first journey out of the garage and into the real world. I took it to get it's exhaust made up and for a simple SVA friendly map.
Sadly, progress is painfully slow - I took the car in yesterday at 9am and the exhaust still isn't finished.
Anyway, I got the opportunity to take a few snaps of the car.
Optional bonnet mounted head seems to grab peoples attention.
Next to mine was the prototype Murtaya having some development work done.
The Murtaya was testing out a PWR charge cooler - same as mine (only slightly smaller) as it goes.
Progress so far is the downpipe and silencer are on the car. Kind of, sort of.
Downpipe is mounted to the turbo, but they're making up a turbo-bypass section so that I can run this NA engine for SVA purposes, then swap to the LET as and when I want.
AWesome stuff. Where is it having the exhaust done?
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Yours looks quite low for a kit car. Perhaps its the height of the guards over the tyres? Liking it though.
Murtaya; Impreza based?
it's a C20XE not a fookin Redtop FFS
Such an awesome car!!!!!
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My mate in newquey Does most of the body work on the Murtaya...
I'm louder than gods own revolver and twice as shiney.
Looking really nice Neil.
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is the murtaya 2 or 4wd ?
just read the whole of this thread really impressed with the amount of work gone into this, looks really good bet your glad its built up looking like it should now. good effort mate top work
Mucking Fental, still, getting the uncontrollable itches yet knowing its nearly done and wanting to get in it and having a go?
Oh yeah I can't wait to give it a drive. The exhaust took so long to build I ran out of time to get the car mapped so it's going to be done in the morning. All being well I might grab my first drive in it tomorrow on a private bit of road
The Murtaya is 4x4 and at half the weight of a subaru it's absolutely insane. Styling isn't my cup of tea but you just can't ignore the cars performance.
Simply stanning Neil....!!!!!!!!!!!! can wait to hear it and see some times like 0-60 or even 1/4 mile.....but the real joy will be when you cruising with that beauty....
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What a machine, I'd love to do something like this one day!!!
Simply stunning fella, keep up the good work
I'd use proper inlet temp sensors rather than stick on strips - but in fairness if the cooler is working well in your application then you why would you care how efficient it's being so long as the result is good enough.
The exhaust took a lot longer to build than planned and so mapping was pushed back - not that it mattered, a dead crank sensor meant that it wouldn't get done anyway.
Here's the turbo bypass pipe. When the LET needs to come out of the car for whatever reason, I can just unbolt the turbo from the downpipe, pull out the engine, drop in the XE and bolt in this section to run N/A. I dare say it's not very flowy but as long as it helps keep the car on the road while I'm fiddling I don't mind.
I've had the turbo modified so that it has the same 'universal' connector as this bypass section so the downpipe will just pull off either and reconnect to either.
That looks a bit hardcore...
Will you just have to swap ecus as well to run the engine n/a?
Or can it be run on the let one..? Or willyou have a switchable map thing?
I'm louder than gods own revolver and twice as shiney.
He will need to swap the whole engine...
Looking ace mate!
Nice workmanship all the same on that section of zorst.
it's a C20XE not a fookin Redtop FFS
ECU wont have to change. It's on Autronic SMC so I'll have maps for the XE and maps for the LET.
You have thought of everything Neil!
it's a C20XE not a fookin Redtop FFS
That is awesome
loving the bypass pipe as well
The cake is a lie :(
Ah cool, thought it might be like that. Good thinking.
I'm louder than gods own revolver and twice as shiney.
SVA is now looming - about a week to go, so I've been busy getting the last few jobs out of the way to get it all ready.
The heat coming off of the manifold was probably going to cause the bonnet to ignite so Chip recommended some fancy heat shield stuff. I cut it to shape and stuck a load of self-adhesive velcro to the underside of the bonnet.
Then the heatshield was bent into shape with the opposite velcro stuck in place.
this way makes it quite easy to attach to the bonnet, although I've found it does like to drop away after a while so I'll have to secure the edges with a bit of fiberglass or something.
I found out it's an SVA failure to have GRP sandwiched between the harness eyebolts and the chasis/washers so they all had to come back off. Surprisingly it's quite a big job as getting to the last eyebolt means removing the rollbar, which means removing the seats... These little spacers have an indent that slips through the GRP meaning the GRP isn't actually sandwiched.
Next was the fuel rig. I wanted to make up something different:
This ugly centre mirror is just there for SVA purposes - it'll go in the bin afterwards.
Interior-wise, I've just trimmed to remove the sharp edges, and to make it feel a bit less like a home-made car. Not sure what I'll do in here yet - probably just a few little bits of flocking here and there.
Almost there now - will have one last update this week prior to the SVA. I want to keep this weekend set aside for double checking everything and making sure all the bolts are tight and cable ties cut etc so will be in the garage every night getting the jobs done.
OMG wow! I never knew this thread existed.
I am a great fan of Westfields. The old man has a Caterham, so I know what a hoot they are to drive. The perfect chassis for a sports car. Looks an awesome project Neil. I would love to do something like this when I get the oppurtunity.
*Goes off to the Westfield website to check prices.*
How was the SVA, did it get through or were they very picky and give you back a failure sheet with a list as long as your arm???
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