C20LET Westfield Project

[Rob77]

That is looking MINT!

Plenum looks the tits!

[Drizz]

Awesome!

[Astraliam]

getting closer dude!

have you still a long to do list?

[Neil Adams]

The list isn't looking too bad now - although things always take longer than you expect. I'm hoping to get the lights and the dash sorted next and then the seats and exhaust.

I've been spending some time on building a stalk for the steering wheel to take care of indicators, lights and horn. These are traditionally all toggle switches on the dash and I've not been able to find anyone who's managed to do it successfully. With a lot of trial and error I've found a suitable stalk and have made up a bracket to mount it to the steering column - it even self cancels the indicators which is a real bonus. it just needs a few final tweeks and I'll be happy with it and it'll keep the dash clear for lots of guages lol.

[danielparrish]

how much has it costed you so far??

[olix99]

looks absolutely amazing fella!

although my "little bit different" bit from my project has been uncovered with the TB's and GTi-R plenum

May be contacting you for one of those backing plates if you decide to make them...

[mattcoupturbo]

That inlet is the nuts.

[Adam]

well fook me over and paint my tits neil thats a beauty

[montytronix]

that thing is gonna donut big time at the lights in the wet if you slightly boot it!
you need a low gear boost inhibitor! or you got one already?
its gonna be too fierce! careful in it buddy

very high standard well impressed ^5

[Benn]

Now that looks great, gonna be a weapon.

[rc]

inlet manifold looks stunning! top work mate! thats gonna be one mentally fast car when its done!!

[Adam]

or when neil let's it fit twin turbos lmao qrews idea haha

[vxlgsi]

Looks fantastic, gonna be a peach when its finished!

[The Simps]

where does the rad for the charge cooler sit?

[Brett]

Wow mate this is coming along really well!! Loving the inlet.

Good to hear Mikes still mincing around too after all his difficulties

[DaveB]

Thats fecking awesome. Tempted to try one of those inlets using the standard TB but on my XE *hmmm*

[Neil Adams]

Thanks for all the positive comments - I'm very happy to supply the backplates and spacers to anyone who wants to build a pulsar inlet

Prices (excluding postage):

Backplate: £21
Spacer: £53

The backplates can be supplied in either blank (ie no ports cut) or with the ports pre-cut if you can supply your own specific measurements (ie mine were 48mm hole, 45mm gap, 48mm hole, 45mm gap, 48mm hole, 45mm gap, 48mm hole)

The inlet diameter is 56mm and the volume of the plenum with the 12mm spacer is 3ltrs.

Simps: The chargecooler's rad will sit in front of the cooling system rad - you can't see it in the picture but it was in there.

[ashtal]

The charge cooler is mint !

[Trig]

Sweet baby jesus...

[InsaneSwede]

Looking good..

What power goals do you aim for?

[deek]

looks awsome mate,could do with making a decent plenum for the throttle bodies on my let

[steveturbocal]

just caught up with this thread again looks proper mint

[seanr28]

awsome project, some great work has gone into this!!

[Neil Adams]

With a few final llittle bits for the engine bay on order (braided hose, more silicone, battery cover, MSD Coil bracket and a stainless pipe for the coolant) I decided to move on to the rest of the car this weekend.

Firstly, I got stuck into the lighting. I've gone for a set of LED tail lights, with indicator outers and tail/stop light inners on the outside, and tail/stop light outers and reverse inners on the inside. I also have a set of fogs to fit either side of the number plate but I ran out of suitable electrical supplies.



I'm going to have a carbon fibre dash, but to avoid any ****-ups I decided to make up a couple of dash's in plywood first.





I test fitted the first mock-up and played around with the stack location before I was happy.



To eliminate the need for the traditional Westfield toggle switches for absolutely everything I made up a bracket to locate a stalk. This particular unit has a self cancelling switch that once mounted to my bracket, marries up perfectly to the lugs on the standard Westfield steering wheel. This stalk deals with horn, all lighting (except fogs), and indicators.



I made up a fresh mock-up dash when I was happy with the location of everything.



The black-faced fuel guage will be substituted for a white faced Stack equivilent as soon as stack get their act together and actually start making their auxilliary guages in white.



Finally I test fitted the carbon aeroscreen - and it's starting to look like a car now.

[Drizz]

Renault stalk is that?