Anonymous

got 4 weeks off from uni so started to build up the westy again

started tue afternoon and been workin like a sod on it




westfield have made this chassis a bit wider on the tunnel so i can actually have the gearbox fit without actually touching the chassis! lol


i think the new alloy avo's (cheers chris ) look top with the chrome wishbones and springs! very bling bling


gave the new plenum (thanks jhon )a quick paint strip and polish its one of mikes desingsif ya wondering


this is what she looked like on day 2


if i ever see another rivit again i think im guna cry


found out today that the new rear wishbones are 25mm shorter than my old ones and that my old ones are special order only so i have to wait 3-4 weeks for them not happy but will just have to finish the car and fit them later


had a quick look at the loom and then decided thats a job im guna put off for as long as i can! i bloody hate electrics


mmmmmmmm shiny alloy


lowering the main body tub on this morning. very nervous about droping it by myself


trying the bonnet for fit and fitting the locks

and this is how i left it tonight roll on tomorrow

Adam_BlackRS

Anonymous

Fcuking Awsum mate,

Keep the pics coming.

Anonymous

How do you go about getting one of these cars mate??

I'd be interested in building one from scratch.

Is there a web site i can visit to buy the basic kit etc???

Cheers.

Matt

Anonymous

ZVHturbo, try the westfield web site mate

darren, lookin good, how come you are fully rebuilding it????????

Anonymous

cheers people

zvhturbo, westfieldsportscars.co.uk you can download all the price lists but make sure your sitting down when you do! lol

fudgeass, had a little misshap see here
https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25849

Anonymous

They don't list one with the Cozy engine though do they.

Would you recomend buying a full kit or just the basic kit???

Good work on the Seat, be proud.

Anonymous

yeah i remember that, didnt know it bent the chassis tho.

well, good luck mate and i hope its all sorted soon, or in the new weeks

hopefully ille get to drive a westy on the 10th of may at keevil

not coosiefied tho.....

3drstretch

iTrader: (1)

Looking good mate.

Did you get my pm about my logo's

Anonymous

no, they did a run of factory built zei220's about 10 years ago but dont make them anymore

if you want to do a westfield then just buy the starter kit for a 2ltr pinto.
cossy just fits with a bit of tweaking

just buy the other bits as you need them as you will need allot of custom stuff making like, exhaused, sump mod, prop, etc...... most other stuff fits straight in though build would cost you 11k for a basic build with no thrills or one my sort of spec would set you back between 17-22 depending on how far you want to go?
i know cars that have had 35k spent on them

Anonymous

coming on gd i c a red cozzie westfield the over day was proper nice
good luck with this 1

Anonymous

looks good coming on well i see a red cozzie westfield the other day was good luck with this 1

Anonymous

shit wtf my comp keeps posting

Anonymous

ok, not done very much this last 2 days cause ive been working and sleeping but done a bit.

got the fuel pump and lines in


striped the old engine, amazed how much ive taken off the clutch plate in the 900miles since i last had it out got to stop launching the car



painted up the new block that i finally got this weekend after 4 months of waiting still worth it though i think, got the block with pistons and rods (only done 500 miles since being built) for Ł450
thought i would go for blue this time

new pistons, been told they are 7:5:1 comp, but got to get this checked out


did the valve guides. who says you need a press to do them just do it the devon way and use a gert big hammer


modded sump that i had fitted the first time round, got 5mm skid plates on the bottom just incase i get a bit low to the tarmac


although i never had any problems yet i decided to add another baffel box inside the sump, should hold oil aroung the pickup a bit better



will update some more in a couple days

Anonymous

that is the ABSOLUTE TITS!!!!!

full respect Darren! If i had the time, id do exactly this!

well done!!

Anonymous

cheers mate

the problem is i dont really have the time either got 4 weeks off from uni and the car HAS to be finished in that time
need it for run to the sun in may roll on summer time

RSrussell

coming along nicely mate

i've spotted one at 10k

Westfield Cosworth
SeiW body in yellow
1997 on Q plate
Good condition all round
10k miles
Green Injetcors
3 bar
T34 Hybrid turbo
Wire ringed block
Hi Spec 4 pot brakes
Literally thousands spent getting it right
2 sets wheels (1 cut slicks, 1 road tyres)
Trailor
Full Car cover
RAC Roll over bar

what is the SEiW? the sei is the independant rear but whats the "W" stand for
The only thing is its on a Q
Whats you opinion on the bike engined ones?

Cheers
Rick

Anonymous

sounds good mate got any pics (might be the one i saw about a year ago

(w) means widebody

you could get around the q plate if you wanted to give it a bit of a little rebuild?

not driven a bike engine one yet but my mate is building a hyabusa engine dax rush from what ive heard they are great fun and you can rev the nuts off them but you do have to work them quite allot to get them going.
i just prefere a engine that i know will hold together for definate

Anonymous

ahh just found the one your looking at, is it the one thats 280bhp?

looks ok but being a track car it will be fairly basic inside etc, but this may suite you very well if you just want it for a track car

if your serious and its not to far away i could always go and have a look at it with you if you like?

RSrussell

its listed as 330bhp but i guess thats just predicted for the stg3 setup.
http://demoncars.myikonboard.com/vie...id=118#post489
It the only one i've seen for sale so far
Not in a rush just yet to get one, but when i'm ready you will be contacted

Is there a seven type/ westfield car forum thats any good?

Any new pictures?

Anonymous

ah i was looking at it on bookatrack.com got to be the same car but bookatrack has a pic and says 280bhp

im on this one turbo7@se7ens.net but theres no pics and it tends just to be loads of over technical toff most of the time

RSrussell

thats gotta be the same!
this is making me wanna hurry up and get shot of the cossie
how comes you don't have the screen on yours? apart from them looking crap surely its impossible to drive in the wet (or you don't?)

Anonymous

spot on. driving mine in the wet would mean instant death!

got caught in the rain once and the car was just aquaplaining all over the road

+ with a screen you really feel the drag it creates at about 120mph+ but with the race screen mine just pushes hard right off the clock (about 160ish)

oh, and if you have a proper screen you have to have a heater fitted for it to pass the sva and that means more weight and more hassel and im just a lazy bugger

Anonymous

ok today i got some little jobs out the way

got all the boot locks, hinges fitted and cut the holes for the turrets to fit through (ment for seatbelts but will make a nice camera mount )


finnished paneling the gearbox tunnel and fitted 95% of the interior


made up some brackets to fit the rad and got it all in the right place

you can always tell your doing well when your intercooler is bigger than your rad!



fitted the front arches, get them well preped so the bonding sealant dont let go at 160mph


place in oven on 20 deg for a few hours and allow to harden! lol
paint tins are an optional extra on these cars


cut out the extra little bit of ventalation. ment to be the number plate bracket but guna stick that on the nose as my intercooler duct needs to sit underneath as well


mate rich came around, since he cant be arsed to get on and build his dax hyabusa i thought he could do some crappy little jobs that i couldnt be arsed to do. lol


and thats it for today

RSrussell

did you size your cooler and rad or are they an off the shelf jobbie?

looking nice (wanna sell it for 10k?)

also i found out today that all the new chassis' are the widebody versions

Anonymous

rad is off the shelf pace item, cooler is custom

um no!

yep

Adam_BlackRS

Awsome mate

Coming along pretty quickly

Anonymous

bloody hell mate, you aint hangin about

Anonymous

doh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

due to being bloody tired and not paying attention ive just drilled a hole in the gearbox tunnel to run a cable compleatly forgeting that the rear brake line was on the other side not gone through compleatly but put a nice big flat spot on the pipe so that'l be me taking out the gearbox tomorrow then so i can run a new line back

RSrussell

you dick

Anonymous

what a fucker not what you need when you on a tight rebuild

Anonymous

Good to see the build progressing Darren.

For other build pics you can see my site:
http://g2.nu/chris/westie/

There's about a dozen official zei220s, of which mine was the first. On top of that there are another dozen or so cars where the owners have installed cossies off their own back. They don't come up for sale terribly often but when they do they're usually in the 13-17k area.

Rebuilding and upgrading mine to where it is now has cost me Ł16236.56 in materials plus 800 hours of labour. Will I ever sell it? No, probably not but then again if someone waved 20k-25k under my nose I think my resolution may waver.

Anonymous

sad thing is chris i think we both know we would never get 20k for either of our cars although at the moment i wouldnt sell mine for any less

Anonymous

You're right, the market is very depressed at the moment but I think my car, with all its history is more likely to make decent money than many others. I am pretty realistic though and know that I'll never recoup even a fraction of the cost of the improvements that I've made. Selling it though is not an option

RSrussell

Chris! glad you've joined the site mate, the other night when i was searching the net for info on these baby i stumbled upon your site, excellent!

Out of interest how much was you after the car back in 2/2002 http://g2.nu/chris/westie/specs/specs.html

Anonymous

It was JohnF who was selling the car back then, I think he was after 13k - that was for a 10 year old car with a number of issues inherent to putting a cossie engine into such cars. Now it's a pretty much brand new, fully sorted car.

20-25k, isn't a great deal when you consider what's gone into it and that a new V8 engined car has just only 60% of the power, is a lot more costly to run and costs a fair wodge over 20k for a basic spec of car.

Anonymous

ok.

made a new bit of dash to take the act gauge, just got to get some blue vinal to cover the edges


conrods finally turned up so engine is now built and in


made up a new actuator bar to fit the t34 at the angle i need it rotated.


all the ducting is in for the intercooler had to run the rad hose around the outside of the chassis as there was no room to put it anywere else


with the turbo rotated down there was no room for the altinator so thats had to be moved to the other side



made up a new throttle bracket. real tight though as the nose doesnt allow it to come straight out which is why its been fitted on the piss


new turbo heat shield as i wasnt happy with the fit of the old one. just got to give it a polish


and this is pretty much how she looked last night.

Anonymous

Andy.B

That Westi is the absolute bollox. Keep the pics comming

AustenW

Darren

The rebuild is looking very good mate.

You've spent alot of time on it

We will all have to meet up later in the year for a beer and to look at each others cars.

I hopefully will be at Elvington this year for Ten of the Best 3?

Up near York, will you be there?