SR20DET powered Westfield

[Dan@DB-Power]

Hi Guys

I thought I should start a thread seeing as I am now making some progress

Anyhow lets start off by collecting the car:-

Firstly me and Amy had to get the blooming thing, so or journey was as follows:-

Leave Hemel Hempstead at 8:15am
Pick up trailer from GT Towing in Hatfield at 8:30am
Leave GT Towing at 9am and set off to Insch in Aberdeenshire some 534 miles away.

Had the sat nav all programmed so set off:-


Here is the route that the sat nav chose for us, never again The sat nav instead of telling us to go to aberdeen and then up to insch, decided to lead us through the hills. This was most fun as all around us was about 6" of snow and snow was still falling by the time we hit this part of the journey it was about 8pm and pitch black. Anyhow we made it out of the hills alive just tired


Anyhow how we finally got to our hotel in Insch at about 21:04, was a lovely place and seeing as the new car was in the same part of town, very convenient too

We then picked the car up the next morning at 8am, had breakfast and then decided to start our journey back, left at about 11am, this was better as we chose to head into Aberdeen, then follow the road down to Dundee and then perth. Although longer they were quicker roads. We arrived back in Hemel at about 21:00.

Anyhow enough of the journey here's the car:-







The spec is as follows:-

WESTFIELD SEi SPRINT/HILLCLIMB CAR ROLLING CHASSIS

WESTFIELD SEi NARROW BODY SPRINT/HILLCLIMB CAR ROLLING CHASSIS c/w REGISTRATION DOCUMENT (Q PLATE)

Winner of 2007 A6 Scottish Sprint Championship

CAT Motorsport wide track Front Suspension Kit
AVO fully adjustable coilovers all round (400lb Front Springs, 190lb Rear)
Polybushed wishbones all round
New QuickRack Steering Rack
Quaife ATB Limited Slip Diff (4.1) in Sierra Diff Case
Polybushed all round
Avon ACB10 Tyres (7" Front, 8" Rear) on 8x13" Superlite (Front) and 9x13" Minilite (Rear)
Single Fibreglass bucket seat
sabelt 3 inch 4 point harness
sparco flocked quick release steering wheel
Amber shift light
Fitted RAC MSA Approved Master Cutout Switch
Disk Brakes all round
1.1 Gallon Foam Filled Alloy Fuel Tank
Facet Fuel Pump

I have a few plans for it, 1st of the fuel tank will get changed as I can't see me getting very far with a gallon of petrol. The 2nd one will be the engine choice seeing as I know me 200's I thought a nice SR would suit it, the SR is lightweight, powerful and has great power delivery. I'll be looking installing it in a couple of months so here's to hoping it will fit

Also I thought seeing as we used the Skytrol to pick the car up (ran up there and back without one hiccup), a little video of his exhaust on the M6 toll:-



Dan

[Madda]

Gonna be awesome mate. I dont know much about kit cars, but always wanted one.

[Dan@DB-Power]

I've done a couple of little bits to it so far these are:-

Removed the 1 gallon petrol tank and Facet fuel pump as these aren't going to be man enough


I had to trim the gearbox down slightly to stand a chance of getting it into the gearbox tunnel, this was about the maximum I could carry out. I'll need to cut the tunnel still though (You can see in the below pic, where some webbing used to be)



Had a trial fit of a SR in the westfield, looks ok. I have extended the engine mount brackets too so am just waiting for some nylon and for me to finish the engine off and it in can go, also need to relocate the alternator to where the Air con pump would have been on a SR nothing major just minor tweaks

I also fitted a 180sx oil filter housing, the standard S14 one would hit the steering column


Talking of the engine here is how it stands at the moment:-




Spec is:-

Standard Crank, Rods and Pistons.
New Hastings piston rings
ACL race bearings
Cometic 1.6mm HG
264 Crower cams,
Brian Crower uprated valve springs and titanium retainers
Brian Crower Stainless Steel valves (1mm oversized)
3 Angled Valve Seats
Bronze Silicon Valve Guides
Squish area's removed

Should be quite potent

[Madda]

You putting 400mm brakes and 19" wheels to accomodate them on it ?

[Dan@DB-Power]

You putting 400mm brakes and 19" wheels to accomodate them on it ?

Sadly I'm really limited with wheels 13" Might use Focus disc and 4 pot brembos

Dan

[jamesmark]

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[Dan@DB-Power]

Engine trial fit:-




Bonnet needs some tweaking:-


SR engines seem to be quite tall

Dan

[eddie_s13]

looking good mate!

[Chriscooke]

I'm loving this already Is that engine with the orange rockercover the one that has been on ebay recently or one of your own builds?

[Dal]

I'm loving this already

Me too

Nice work Dan Ill be keeping an eye on this one

[Dave270r]

Nice

Have you had any more luck getting the gearbox to fit?

[FIGJAM]

Maybe a stupid Q but why are you going with 1mm oversized vqalves and then leave the rods, pistons standard? The bigger valves will probably loose you low rpm performance but gain you the potential at the top end which you will need uprated pistons and rods (ok maybe not the rods) to make the most of

[Daz]

Looking good dan, I hope you put a top mount turbo kit on it though

[scimmy ben]

is the tank for sale Dan?

[Dan@DB-Power]

I'm loving this already Is that engine with the orange rockercover the one that has been on ebay recently or one of your own builds?

Nah one of my own builds

Nice

Have you had any more luck getting the gearbox to fit?

Will get the box on over the weekend I hope

Maybe a stupid Q but why are you going with 1mm oversized vqalves and then leave the rods, pistons standard? The bigger valves will probably loose you low rpm performance but gain you the potential at the top end which you will need uprated pistons and rods (ok maybe not the rods) to make the most of

They were in the head already no other reason just had a spare head all built up ready to go

Looking good dan, I hope you put a top mount turbo kit on it though

Yep top mount with a GT2860

is the tank for sale Dan?

Do you mean the petrol tank? if so it will be, was going to put it onto ebay

Dan

[Daz]

Yep top mount with a GT2860

Good man.

[alex_s14a]

This is going to be good. I've allways thought the sr would be a good choice for this type of car.

I was down at re-worx the other week and they had a 330ish bhp cosworth turbo powered caterham on the rollers. Looked

So you going to be taking your customers out for passenger rides?

[gander]

you dont hang about. going to be a fun car. should have rb'd it though

ps. ill bring your £30 down when i drop bens engine off

[VIDAL BABBOON]

Just a quick one.

I noticed you have re worked the squish in the head yet you are still using a 1.6mm gasket ?

What was youur reason for removing the squish ?

[Dan@DB-Power]

you dont hang about. going to be a fun car. should have rb'd it though

ps. ill bring your £30 down when i drop bens engine off

would need a few shoe horns How's the 30 coming along?

Just a quick one.

I noticed you have re worked the squish in the head yet you are still using a 1.6mm gasket ?

What was youur reason for removing the squish ?

Too be honest it's only the inlet side which has removed, just to reduce the chance of det shouldn't effect C/R too much

Dan