Rob Hunter - Club Secretary Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Just spotted this (pardon the pun!) on Pistonheads.  Not much of a write up, but the obligatory armchair experts in the comments make me laugh 😂  https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-spottedykywt/westfield-seight---spotted/42758  1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhutch Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Spotted and following myself, why not! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TableLeg Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Got to love the armchair critics!😂 Be boring if we were all the same though. I won't put the cat amongst the pidgeons and tell them about my car🙈 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhutch Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 1 hour ago, TableLeg said: I won't put the cat amongst the pigeons and tell them about my car🙈 I think you should! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhutch Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Presumably you cant get a narrowbody SEieght? Obvious dedicated chassis, but all with wide bodywork? Â Mine is a 1991 Narrow, but I understand they buily both wide and narrow for a few years over lapping? Cant seem to find the 'date and serial number' info thread! Â Â Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 1 hour ago, dhutch said: Presumably you cant get a narrowbody SEieght? Obvious dedicated chassis, but all with wide bodywork?  Mine is a 1991 Narrow, but I understand they buily both wide and narrow for a few years over lapping? Cant seem to find the 'date and serial number' info thread!   Daniel  If memory serves, wides and narrows were built simultaneously until about 1994/1995. Up until that point the chassis weren't that different other than a bit more space in the cockpit. How do I know? My narrow has used V8 (also called Race) driveshafts since I corkscrewed a standard driveshaft early on after I fitted the Cossie back in 1998, but there was never a narrow V8... Many years later I fitted the rad and mounts from Windy Millars wide to the nose of my narrow and it fitted perfectly. All I had to do was drill some holes to mount the mount, IYSWIM. I think many of the detail differences came about when different donor cars started to become popular, which stands to reason. Things like diff mounts (duh...) drive flanges, calipers and discs, engine and gearbox mounts are obvious. Moving the suspension pick-up points is more of a head scratcher unless they were moved for safety concerns. When buying wishbones now one has to be careful as they are no longer universal or even limited to a couple of choices as I understand it. I know the upper rear shock mounts have moved two or three times over the years making shock lengths a bit more of a chore to understand as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhutch Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 14 minutes ago, Blatman said: If memory serves, wides and narrows were built simultaneously until about 1994/1995. Up until that point the chassis weren't that different other than a bit more space in the cockpit. How do I know? My narrow has used V8 (also called Race) driveshafts since I corkscrewed a standard driveshaft early on after I fitted the Cossie back in 1998, but there was never a narrow V8... Many years later I fitted the rad and mounts from Windy Millars wide to the nose of my narrow and it fitted perfectly. All I had to do was drill some holes to mount the mount, IYSWIM. I think many of the detail differences came about when different donor cars started to become popular, which stands to reason. Things like diff mounts (duh...) drive flanges, calipers and discs, engine and gearbox mounts are obvious. Moving the suspension pick-up points is more of a head scratcher unless they were moved for safety concerns. When buying wishbones now one has to be careful as they are no longer universal or even limited to a couple of choices as I understand it. I know the upper rear shock mounts have moved two or three times over the years making shock lengths a bit more of a chore to understand as well. Sounds fair enough.  Thanks for the information summary.  Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Narrows were still in the catalogue in 2003 when I ordered the kit to build my XE, I think that was pretty much towards the very end of them though, very few sold, and they discontinued them not that long after.  AFAIK, narrow always had the narrowest Type 9 and pre- Type 9 gearbox tunnel, whereas untill the Mega S2000 came along, SEiGHTs used the widest of the available tunnel options, for either the Rover boxes, (LT77 etc) or the alternative tunnel for Ford T5 'boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 5 hours ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary said: AFAIK, narrow always had the narrowest Type 9 and pre- Type 9 gearbox tunnel, My narrow had a type 9 tunnel and I've only ever had type 9's in it...  Wide body cars with the MT75 tunnel stole room from the footwells to accommodate the MT75. The side effect of that was that cars with MT75 tunnels could get a type 9 in there almost up to the gearbox/engine interface, placing the engine well back in the chassis, making for a mid engined car... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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