C20LET Westfield Project

[Neil Adams]

Chicago was fab mate. Am going back again in a month or so. We went to some club/bar called 'Howl At The Moon' and if you're going back again you should definately go.

No probs mate - do you want the length of the arms or the distance out that they travel IYSWIM

[Adam]

cant belive u never came to Mike H's to take me for a coont in it! next time

[The Simps]

Chicago was fab mate. Am going back again in a month or so. We went to some club/bar called 'Howl At The Moon' and if you're going back again you should definately go.

No probs mate - do you want the length of the arms or the distance out that they travel IYSWIM

My mate lives there so will ask him about that one!

The length from chassis to hub please

[daddy cav]

Any up to date pics

[Kev_cav]

i seen this for sale for £19,995 on a westfield forum not so long ago so i take it thats the end???

[stt]

afaik he's seen the light and decided to keep it!

[Neil Adams]

Yep - only had it up for sale for a few days. Not sure what I was thinking really - just got a bit bored with the crap weather.

I've not really done much to it recently. I've just ordered a snap-off steering wheel kit and that's it. I'm waiting for winter to fit a full cage and sort out the cooling issues I have. The thing is going to be covered in vents and mesh by the end of the year!

[chip]

Nice one on the cage, these things are deathtraps without one.

[TigraTurbo]

I've not really done much to it recently. I've just ordered a snap-off steering wheel kit and that's it.

Which one?

[Neil Adams]

I've not really done much to it recently. I've just ordered a snap-off steering wheel kit and that's it.

Which one?

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[Neil Adams]

Got the car out on the road this weekend after it's winter hibernation.

Planned winter jobs were to fit a full roll cage, and address the intake temperature issues.

Unfortunately my wife was made redundant shortly after I placed an order for a new car so spending on the Westy wasn't going to be a sensible idea so the roll cage has been postponed.

First to do was to replace the small PWR charge cooler rad. I made a template that literally filled every available milimeter of my front nosecone and sent the drawings to Pro Alloy to build for me.





I moved the gel battery from the bulkhead to behind the dash to give me a bit more room under the bonnet. And tidied the hosing up by using some fresh yellow silicone.



I've always though that my engine bay could do with a bit of a tidy up. What with boost solenoids and water injection gubbins cluttering the place up it all looked a bit messy. Also I don't really like the under bonnet temps getting to stuff like the air filter etc so I thought I'd make a cover out of Nimbus heat shielding.



I also gave the exhaust manifold a fresh wrap, built a shield between the manifold and the coolant pipes and cut two large vents into the bonnet.



The engine bay looks much neater now and hopefully it should be a bit cooler too. Other jobs completed over the winter included fitting an FIA battery cut-off switch, swapping the standard SVA steering wheel for a suede D shaped one on a snap-off boss. And carpeing the interior... I'm doing a massive drive across Europe in the thing and want the enviroment to be a bit nicer. With that in mind I also installed an intercom system.



I've given the whole car a thorough going over - cleaning everywhere - underneath looks almost new again. It doesn't really serve any purpose I guess but makes me feel better.

[TigraTurbo]

Nice to see it back.......

[stealth106]

Hi, nice work on the engine bay. Me and my Dad have just had the brochure through for the westfields and our thinking of putting an XE in one, is yours the SEI model with the ford gearbox and serria rear end?

Thanks, Tom

[rc]

,looks bloody fantastic so much squeezed in that engine bay

[Neil Adams]

Hi, nice work on the engine bay. Me and my Dad have just had the brochure through for the westfields and our thinking of putting an XE in one, is yours the SEI model with the ford gearbox and serria rear end?

Thanks, Tom

Thanks Tom,

Yes it's the SEIW. It has a Ford T5 gearbox from a RWD Cosworth. Normally with an XE engined Westfield the Ford Type 9 box is fine. It has a XR4x4 LSD. The rear brake assembly is VW Golf. Hope you go for it - you wont regret it.

[corsakid]

Got the car out on the road this weekend after it's winter hibernation.

Planned winter jobs were to fit a full roll cage, and address the intake temperature issues.

Unfortunately my wife was made redundant shortly after I placed an order for a new car so spending on the Westy wasn't going to be a sensible idea so the roll cage has been postponed.

First to do was to replace the small PWR charge cooler rad. I made a template that literally filled every available milimeter of my front nosecone and sent the drawings to Pro Alloy to build for me.





I moved the gel battery from the bulkhead to behind the dash to give me a bit more room under the bonnet. And tidied the hosing up by using some fresh yellow silicone.



I've always though that my engine bay could do with a bit of a tidy up. What with boost solenoids and water injection gubbins cluttering the place up it all looked a bit messy. Also I don't really like the under bonnet temps getting to stuff like the air filter etc so I thought I'd make a cover out of Nimbus heat shielding.



I also gave the exhaust manifold a fresh wrap, built a shield between the manifold and the coolant pipes and cut two large vents into the bonnet.



The engine bay looks much neater now and hopefully it should be a bit cooler too. Other jobs completed over the winter included fitting an FIA battery cut-off switch, swapping the standard SVA steering wheel for a suede D shaped one on a snap-off boss. And carpeing the interior... I'm doing a massive drive across Europe in the thing and want the enviroment to be a bit nicer. With that in mind I also installed an intercom system.



I've given the whole car a thorough going over - cleaning everywhere - underneath looks almost new again. It doesn't really serve any purpose I guess but makes me feel better.

car is superb! what pump do you use for the charegcooler system?

what were your inlet temps on the previous rad set up?

[Neil Adams]

Thanks.

I'm using a baby Bosch 20Ltr / min unit. I asked Pro Alloy if the pump was up to the job and they said it was perfectly fine. The inlet temps were in the 40's but that's without much boost at the moment - we're still only at 1Bar.

[corsakid]

Thanks.

I'm using a baby Bosch 20Ltr / min unit. I asked Pro Alloy if the pump was up to the job and they said it was perfectly fine. The inlet temps were in the 40's but that's without much boost at the moment - we're still only at 1Bar.

see now i would disagree i will comment but this is just me experience

i have had 2 chargecooler system made by ah fabrications both exactly the same

(this being fitted to my latest nova)

my friend bougt the first syetm off me but ran it with a tiny pace charegcooler pump when it was mapped act were up in the 50's on the rollers which wasnt good (it was very hot in the dyno room though) he ran it like that for 2 years with out trouble even coming 3rd in totb last year with 12.1 124mph terminal

now when i fitted my system to my nova i spoke with alex at great length and he said get the biggest pump you can get , so i bought a davies craig 110 l pump when i had it mapped the charge temps were 23-24 degrees constant even at 1.8bar

same setup as my friend s only difference being the pump and about 30 degrees

[Neil Adams]

That's interesting to know. TBH for what an uprated pump costs I don't know why I just didn't replace it anyway - I was planning on doing so.

[corsakid]

That's interesting to know. TBH for what an uprated pump costs I don't know why I just didn't replace it anyway - I was planning on doing so.

if you change the pump to a higher out put item i bet the act's would fall and now you have a bigger better cored radiator should be spot on

not sure how good the pwr coolers are, alex at ah dont rate thembut then he wouldnt because he sold me 2 systems at 1k a pop

[big e]

Nice work mate , good to see some more progress o n this beast..

[Neil Adams]

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[Kev_cav]

Any figures on the car for prospective buyers...?

[Neil Adams]

It's mapped to 1Bar so somewhere around the 300Bhp mark. It's specced for 450Bhp and would simply need mapping if that's what's desired.

For me 300Bhp is plenty but I guess it's nice to know there's more available if needed.

The car weighs around 600Kgs.

[truevip]

just had a quick scan over this thread ..... what an awsome car sooooo jelous!!!lmao