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Ignition - or not...

Well, the time had come to try and start it. Tuesday just gone my neighbour and I set to and checked all the connections, put some fuel in the tank and cranked it over a few times with the coil disconnected. No spark. Diddly. Not even a twinkle. A quick look at the points revealed verdigris normally reserved for 14th century Venetian chapels. Oh, and the rotor arm was slacker than a politician at a trouser press convention. After a few minutes of cursing we packed up. I very nearly went out o
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Wagoneer's Blog

Watery bits

Not too much to report as I've been busy building walls again but I did manage to re-fit the fuel tank and some of that rather large fuel pipe from the new filler neck down to the tank. Here's the new filler neck, aluminium and locking. That's an improvement over the push-in type that it came with. I know the tank is tiny and the amount of fuel small but I still don't fancy having it syphoned when I'm not looking! I'd forgotten how soft the fibreglass is when a file is taken to it but I ma
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Tel's Tales

Tel's Tales Issue 038-Curborough figure of 8- Aug 2014

Tel's Tales 038– Curborough 23rd August 2014 This event marked a change for everyone, I think, as it was an introduction to the newish figure of 8 layout rather than the single or double lap course. There was a full entry and hence it was likely to be a slow day but hopefully the new challenge would make up for the anticipated low number of runs. The weather was also promising to be unpredictable but that’s not unusual and the promise of 100 points for this 1.6e event made up for the downsides.
Terry Everall

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Wagoneer's Blog

A good start

More progress. I'd earned plenty of points by building some retaining walls in the garden so set to on the Westfield again. The thermostat and water pump got re-fitted after being cleaned. The new gaskets and sealant made the job a little easier. I purchased some new water hose and elbows to go from the pump and thermostat housings. So, we went from this; ...to this. The alternator got a clean too. Having removed the securing nut and pulley, the cooling fan part got a bath in an electrol
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First Westi

Taking the plunge

Well after a couple of years warming the passenger seat in Mark Redpath's SEW i started to look for one of my own. Following a car accident when i was younger (which we don't talk about. do we Mark?) its time to give up motorcycling. The pain in my wrist and hand is just to much. I needed something to replace the feeling i get from biking but without the pain. After failing to put a deal together for a mates car it was off to the interweb where i came across this. A 1993 SeIw with 5k miles fr
Dave Stirrup

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Wagoneer's Blog

Let's begin

First job, give it a wash! Fifteen years of dirt and spiders washed away. That's better! What a difference already. OK, I know it's just a wash but this boosts the confidence a little and makes the other jobs seem less of a chore. On to the next part. Here's the engine bay: Plenty of corrosion. Most of the pipework has had it so that'll need replacing. The aluminium thermostat housing and the water pump both have some very interesting things inside them too. I think that whatever was i
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Wagoneer's Blog

Back to '99

This is the story of a 1990 Westfield SE7 sports car. Now I don’t know too much about it other than what I can see on my drive or the few items of paperwork that came with it. This therefore is a voyage of discovery, the best kind. What I do know though is what to expect, you see way back in 1989 a friend and I built one, an SEi to be precise. Apart from having a live rear axle (ours was an independent rear end) this new car is almost identical. The log book tells me that it was registered in
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Tel's Tales

Tel's Tales Issue 037-Hethel Aug 2014

Tel's Tales 037– Hethel 3rd August 2014 So after loan of my trolley jack Paul Aspden's tyre was changed at 0615hrs and Gary Bunn, Derek Hodder, Dave Cleaver, Paul Aspden were just about recovered from the lovely meal we had last night at the pub. Five minutes drive and we all arrived at the Hethel (Lotus cars) test track for todays event run by our friends at Borough 19 MC. Today's event presented a new challenge due to the new layout covering a 1.25 lap run so after signing on it was time to j
Terry Everall

Terry Everall

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Tel's Tales

Tel's Tales Issue 036-Mira Aug 2014

Tel's Tales 036– MIRA 2nd August 2014 An early 0500hrs start again for me along with a very good chance of rain saw me on my way to Mira for the start of the weekend which also included the round trip to Hethel on Sunday (see Blog). A good entry of 13 cars were spread around the paddock which did not look very full so thoughts of lots of runs flashed through my mind but this is an MAC event so only ever get two timed runs! There had been rain en route and the track was wet but no standing water
Terry Everall

Terry Everall

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Tel's Tales

Tel's Tales Issue 035- Blyton July 2014

Tel's Tales 035– Blyton Park 12th and 13th July 2014 Well I don't know where to start really as there was so much going on it was hard to record or remember all the good and bad bits. Firstly I have to say that as our own WSCC organised event this was very well managed and executed by Nick Algar and all the team of volunteers to which are thanks go are offered. Steve and myself set off early Friday afternoon to get settled in before the rush of competitors. It was good to see lots of Westfields
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Tel's Tales

Tel's Tales Issue 034- Curborough 6th July 2014

Tel's Tales 034– Curborough 2 laps 6th July 2014 I spent the week before this event looking at the weather forecast as well as changing my fuel pump, coil sticks, fuses and checking the wiring loom to ensure the Aintree electrical gremlin had been eliminated. Well the forecast was dry am with possible downpours and heavy rain from 1500hrs onwards so the sprint was gong to be tricky. Got up at 0500hrs for the 0530hrs start and met brother Steve at Ferrybridge on the A1to travel in our usual conv
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Tel's Tales

Tel's Tales Issue 033- 3 Sisters June 2014

Tel's Tales 033– 3 Sisters 29th June Sprint 2014 After a night that included more rain following yesterday's wet Aintree event we woke to a dry day but a track that was slippy due to a 4 hour kart race the night before. This time we had 11 Westfield guys out plus Nick Algar in his Force (he was also at Aintree). It was good to see Mark Anson back in the pack after a couple of years out whilst he rebuilt his car but he was concerned about his lack of seat time and adapting to the alterations on
Terry Everall

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Quinten's Mighty Blog

June 2014

June 15th, 2014 Spend: £446 Sold:  £300   For the past 2 months I've been sitting on a padded garden chair cushion due to not being able to drive the car with the standard Westfield sport seats. At the Stoneleigh show I visited the Intatrim stand which had a lovely, but more importantly, comfortable thin shell seat on display.     I placed my order the next working day, and last Thursday they finally arrived.     Cleaned up the old seats
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Tel's Tales

Tel's Tales Issue 032- Aintree June 2014

Tel's Tales 032– Aintree 28th June Sprint 2014 My car was ready having had a complete strip down and new main bearings fitted (and big ends as a precaution) after the loss of oil pressure at Pembrey and I also had a new 2nd gear fitted as the dogs were worn and it kept jumping out of gear at the most inappropriate moments. The forecast was good for the weekend and when I left home at 0500hrs from sunny Yorkshire all was well until I got onto the M62 and went over the Pennines to that god forsak
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pickmaster's Blog engine swap

Shifter Lights Homemade

I've been asked to put together how I made my shifter lights so here we go I went to Maplins and bought A small box 3 x 470k resistors 1x green bright led 1x yellow bright led 1x red bright led 1x small board 1x inline fuse OVERVIEW The LEDs are all wired 12v live via the fuse The earth return of each LED is through a 470k resistor to an earth trigger wire from the ECU The trigger wires can then be programmed to earth at set RPMs on the ECU Everything was glued into the box with a h
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Nothing ventured nothing gained

IVA passed

It would seem i have been a little remiss in keeping this blog up to date - but all things come to an end. So ends this blog Long story short I passed IVA on Friday 20th June Admittedly it was 2nd attempt, but not dissapointed - I trailered the car for the first appointment on Tuesday and as it passed all the safety bits i.e brakes, steering, build quality etc the opportunity to drive it up on Friday was too good to miss. Took the car up to Carlisle VOSA and was met by a very friendly team -
JPLS

JPLS

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Tel's Tales

Tel's Tales Issue 031- Prescott 2014

Report by James Alexander Apologies for the delay in preparing this blog but I have been on a Site Supervisors Health and Safety Course all week.... enough to drive any one insane! Prescott Hill is owned by the Bugatti Owners Club and as such is one of the old classics in the Hillclimb world. Situated in gorgeous woodland on the edge of the Winchcombe hills it really is typically Cotswold's (£4.50 a pint and £12 quid for a burger but more of that later). The weather was set fair for the weeken
Terry Everall

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Alexander72's Blog

Prescott Blog

Apologies for the delay in preparing this blog but I have been on a Site Supervisors Health and Safety Course all week.... enough to drive any one insane! Prescott Hill is owned by the Bugatti Owners Club and as such is one of the old classics in the Hillclimb world. Situated in gorgeous woodland on the edge of the Winchcombe hills it really is typically Cotswold's (£4.50 a pint and £12 quid for a burger but more of that later). The weather was set fair for the weekend and the entries for this
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czphillips' Sigma Swap

Another small update

So, I've not had a great deal of time to work on the car, but some stuff has happened. I finally found an exhaust manifold that will do what I want. It's a universal type thing but it's pretty much designed for a Duratec, once I have my flange for it I'll get it modified to fit. For anyone that might be thinking of doing this type of conversion it's this one: http://www.kitspares.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=43_24&product_id=736&car=43 Engine mounts are also ne
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Tel's Tales

Tel's Tales Issue 030- Pembrey 2014

Tel's Tales 030– Pembrey Weekend Sprint 2014 I dont really know where to begin as many of us there had a nightmare including me in the run up to the event as well as at the sprint. My problems started the week before the event when I needed to source and fit a replacement clutch to my brother Steve's sprint car after it failed at Snetterton. We found a good guy in Leeds who put new ceramic pads on the twin plate helix clutch and then I attempted to reinstall the engine and put the clutch arm in
Terry Everall

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Quinten's Mighty Blog

May 2014

May 3rd, 2014 Spend: £7   Now the brakes are back together again, I could finally concentrate on the diff. The breather was smaller than the thread on the diff, so I bought some Sikaflex EBT+ from Screwfix and just glued it in place.     Then went for spin to warm the diff oil up and used my Pela 6000 to suck the old stuff out (by god it smells!). Got about 800ml out and put about 1.1L back in. Looks like it was well overdue!     May 9th,
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Tel's Tales

Tel's Tales Issue 029- Snetterton 2014

Tel's Tales 029– Snetterton Weekend Sprint 2014 Saturday For me this was a new venue and the weather for the weekend was perfect with it being dry and warm during both days. After Steve and I fought our way through the Friday afternoon A1, A14 and A11 traffic we parked up in the paddock to enjoy a vodka jelly curtesy of Phil Nicholls who seemed to have an endless supply. (thats why he needs a big old Landrover as his tow truck.) We could all sign on immediately so that was easy and a quick tra
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