mark_24v_wiring lets hope they do a good job the capacity of the water system is not particularly relevant - it's the cooling capacity vs airflow of the radiator that is. especially on a kit car with small frontal area

 

Thought about that one already.
Bulkhead would need to be cut out to allow the engine to sit back far enough, sump and oil pick up pipe and exhaust manifolds will need to come from a ram pick up to go over the crossmember. thats about as far as i got lol.

Yes its easy to get the engine box ecu and wiring i could make 1 phone call for engine box and wiring and another to have the ecu modded like i had to to get it to start its that simple if you have the cash and the contacts lol



foreigneRS

Thats why were going to leave it up to a proper company to sort out last thing we need is it over heating.

Any idea's any one?

 

hmmm not too bad ...does it have to go that far back then? (i have no idea of dimensions btw) but in my head i was thinking rad can be moved right forward into the space where the intercooler is (gives an extra inch or two). i was thinking that the crossmember and rack would be a problem though

i reckon i could raise Ł6k -Ł7k selling the bits off the saff that won't be needed

this could be the project to keep me busy for the winter

 

ps...PRO-ALLOY are the daddies of keeping things cool imo...i'm sure they could come up with a solution

 

Yeh it needs to go that far back put it this way take a tape measure from the back of ya cossie engine and go 36 inches forwards you will see what i mean.

If you wanted a gen 1 or 2 rngine you may be able to do it for around 7k gen 3 like this one your more like 9k all done i would have thought but you would need to do all the work yourself.

Ta for the rad idea

 

for radiators, bigger really is better

and if you can't get a big core in there, make a big surface area out of more small cores.

but you can get around this to a certain extent with super high efficiency cores. if you have a specialist on it, they should sort you out

airflow and water flow rates are also very important. you may want to uprate the water pump depending on the original design

don't forget that cooling can also come from the oil

 

Engine is pre built with oil cooler take off's so its got to have one any way.

 

mark_24v_wiring
Thats why were going to leave it up to a proper company to sort out last thing we need is it over heating.

Any idea's any one?


Don't want to be called a cunt but what about a rad at the back?

 

Not such a stupid idea but there wont be any room what with the fuel tank lol

 

That is truely bonkers, what a weapon

 

why stop at one?

 

How about just below the cage like a RS 200's intercooler

 

Just to add another update take a look at what arrived today





So you get the idea for the front brakes 330mm wilwood discs ally bells uprights hubs mounting kit for the 6 pot caliper's.
All going over to mustang stud pattern as the back end parts when they arrive will be mustang makes life easyer for wheels and its strong enough to cope with the torque etc.

 

Very nice.. Have you got the body yet / Colour in mind

 

Picking up the body pannels this weekend i hope and yeh black

 

Very Nice!!!

 

 

christ on a bike!!

 

Lookin good mate

 

no point going fast if you can't stop, AWESOME

 

Its coming together slowly

Steve.

 

Nice project

 

MENTAL........Thats the only word thats comes into my mind

 

WOW!!
Not really looked at this before, the word interesting & are you kidding come to mind. Oh to be young & get stuck into a project like this, best of luck & I await the results with interest.
Rod

 

Rod your never too old to build a kit car

 

The last time I considered it was about 6 years ago, when I wanted to build a mega spec Dax Rush using a yb. Even went to the factory, then reality set in , & I considered that I was a bit old for all that fresh air. .

 

stunning

 

very weird design on the bell & rotor conifuration.

Looks pretty cool, never seen it before.

 

Have you ever had a kit car before?

 

look cool as fuck, but i think they may be a little overkill lol

im guessing not, std solid disc cortina brakes on a westfield are more than man enough lol and dont fade either

but them things will probably make the car do a forward roll lol

engine will be heavier and all that, but at least it will stop lol

 

talking of kit cars, if you buy a kit from westfield or caterham and assemble yourself, is there any chance of getting your money back at resale time?

i've always wanted to build one, but don't want to do it just for it to cost a large amount of wedge. but if the resale chances and prices are high it would be great to do, drive for a few months and then sell.

where can i find prices for used examples?

sorry to thread hijack, will also make a new post

https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4045832

 

Mark,those hubs look like cortina ones

Are they???

Paul

 

No

Steve.

 

Insane.

Will be an awesome car once it's done.

Has anyone on here heard of a Caterham RST-V8?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNDGx8NNP4
http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evoc.../caterham.html
http://www.sportscarforums.com/f17/c...t-v8-6819.html

 

You could have expanded a bit more than that brother lol

Paul there not cortina ones but they are very close there mustang 2 which is very very close to cortina.

The brakes maybe a little over the top but better to have bigger than we need that have to redesign once its finished if there not big enough ( oh and we did look at having a set of 355mm!!)

 

Thanks Mark

Steve you moody sod u going to FF????
If so i will catch up with ya

Paul

 

You asked a simple question and i gave you a simple answer

Yes

Steve

 

See you there LOL

I will be in the saff

Paul

 

You might do

Steve.

 

Any news on progress?

G