Due to being a total tit and loosing the back end on a damp road whilst trying to get past a pokey seat Ibiza my westy now needs another new chassis 4 months after it had its 2nd new one when I brought it as a smacked up car and rebuilt it!
Bent the chassis in 3 places after getting thrown into a wall sideways at 60mph!
Bollocks

did look nice!
but know looks like this
oh well time to get some more power out of the engine whilsed its out, 400bhp here we come

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i think the seat came of worse though
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ouch

Good luck rebuilding it mate, keep the piccys coming

 

yea gud luk

 

Good luck mate! looks like a proper mans car

 

yea cheers lads, proper mans car but mayby some girly extras such as traction controll might have been nice cause 350bhp in a car that weighs 700kg is just a tad on the stupid side
na who am i kiddin, bring on the nitrous!!!

 

i built a super 7 with a k series vvc lump and that was mental so fcuk knows how scary yours is.

 

very!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i like it

 

496bhp per ton

 

Wounder

All the humans ok mate?

 

Yea a few bumps and bruises and my wrist is still shagged from where the steering wheel came back around at warp 9 but other than that it was quite lucky!
bit of a bummer though as I wasn’t even driving that fast!
There was a section of uphill straight and I pulled out to overtake, they were probably doing 50 and by the time I got level with them I was doing about 60-70, problem arised though when I did get level cause that’s when the turbo came on boost in 3rd and cause that section of road was greasy (I didn’t know that at the time) the backend just shot out to the right.
I made the correction but because I was beside them there just wasn’t room and my front nearside lightly tapped them in the rear quarter! Put them into a 360 and then the hedge and I got span across the road and into a stonewall!

Think I did my wrist even more damage trying to get the bonnet up on there car though so that I could put the fire out as they were just going to let the thing burn!
Think the woman was a bit mad as well though cause when they crashed she threw there dog out the window in the panic and it took them 3 days to find it again.
I would feel sorry for them but cause she’s trying to sue me for everything under the sun I think she can go to hell!

The car is never going out again unless it is hot and sunny!

 

hey.. horsepower bites back hard mate.....

And 496bhp per ton must bite like a great white!!

As long as no-one died or became disabled, then it could always have been worse (As well as better i guess!)

Best of luck with the claim, recovery and rebuild

 

yea it certanly bites!
stupid thing is though im rebuilding it to hopefully give 400bhp, if i can get that figure it will give 570bhp per ton
thats exactly the same as a mclaren f1!


and yes i know, i would rather have the mclaren as well

 

thought i would just put these up as well so you can see just how bent it was after the crash!
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You can see from the one above what a smack it took from the wall by the way its bent the top rail!
Hey its good fun this rebuild malarkey, first time I striped this car took me 18hours, now I know the car a little better it only took me 13hours from complete car to bits on the shelf! I should have hit the wall a bit harder and saved my self some time by disassembling it a bit more first

 

Thats a real pisser mate......

Dont forget, you could only choose the macca F1 if it was the same price, which it certainly is not

 

very true mate, but do you think i could get student discount on one?

 

Jesus glad your ok mate, aswell as the others involved.

Looks like its a piece of piss to work around though

 

only when its half in bits like this!
with the nose on its a total t**t to work on!

 

just some picture updates,

ported my head, got the valve guides on order so will do them when i next go down.
also repainted and polised my rocker cover and had a go at the plenum, didnt come up too bad but my give it a bit more of a going over

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Lookin good....

Dont forget to retrieve the pintle caps and o ring from the plenum before trying to fit new injectors

 

ok cheers stu

ass a rule should they be replaced everytime the injectors are removed?

 

good bit of reading that

 

 

scrap scrap scrap! whats with all the abuse? cant beleive you lot are abusing each other, behave, great reading and very entertaining though. I was told it would be interesting on this site!

 

Come on guys end that there, this was looking like a quality post for a minute..........

 

Right just for that you can both hand your keys over to me

Good luck with the rebuild college boy lol will be awesome i'm sure

 

Thanks russell, just waiting for mummy and daddy to give me some more money so I can get my carbon fibre body shell and Ł50k engine!

(And already ended it, all I wanted was an apology but I guess jealous people don’t apologise! )

p.s, you can have my keys if you want to put the car back together for me?

 

Ha Ha, good luck mate, keep us posted, good to see it when finished.

 

theres a video of it if your interested mate, just look in the video section for westfield cosworth the link is near the bottom of the post.

 

did the car originally belong to someone who now drives a scooby after he crashed it? thought i read that somewhere once
if so is it because he shit himself? i know i would. must give a good buzz though.
nice to see it hasn't put you off.

 

no mate, but the guy who i brought it off also has a gsxr with a turbo on it and he said the car would scare him more than the bike.

you know what they say, "its healthy to scare yourself once a day" lets just say the car keeps me very healthy!

 

what's traction like in the dry.
i.e. at santapod would it spin in 2nd? 3rd?
what rear tyres?
cheers

 

hi mate,
car runs 215x40x16's on the rear

traction is pretty good really.
if you launch it hard it will spin in 1st and 2nd and you just get a light weaving on the rear in 3rd but it tends not to spin in 3rd unless the road is damp which i found the hard way.

 

oh nasty id be gutted if that was me
good luck with the rebuild

 

testing new sig

 

thats better keep it cool eh men il be watching this

 

gaz I actually asked stu to delete all the crap above for me but he never did : are you able to do it as it does wreak a otherwise good and soon to be interesting post when i start posting the rebuild pics

 

of course darren da daaaaaaa

 

cheers gaz

 

unlucky mate. best of luck with the rebuild.

 

Good luck with the rebuild Darren

I'm also building a Westfield with a 400+bhp Zetec turbo engine in the thing.

Took it for its first outing at the weekend and I was definately touching cloth.