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[Ansoeb]

Bespoke driving footwear anyone?

My wife crocheted these over the winter period, guess she took pity on me not getting out for a blast and just tinkering in the garage.

 

[Flying Carrot Steve]

38 minutes ago, Ansoeb said:

Bespoke driving footwear anyone?

My wife crocheted these over the winter period, guess she took pity on me not getting out for a blast and just tinkering in the garage.

 

Brilliant! 

[Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator]

Cycle stays immersed in rust remover 😎

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

Gone from this:

 

 

to this:

 

[DarrenK]

I need a bigger garage 😭

[Chris Larner]

Made a little arm rest for those long drives.

[Stuart]

Love that

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

1 hour ago, Chris Larner said:

Made a little arm rest for those long drives.

Nice work, does it hinge up? You'll be after @Paul Aspden (MoFast) cup holder next.............. 😉

 

[Chris Larner]

No at the moment it just moves backwards when brakes up. Looking at fitting a hinge next as would make it nicer. Run out of carbon sheeting now though.

[Flying Carrot Steve]

2 hours ago, Chris Larner said:

Made a little arm rest for those long drives.

There was someone on WSCC selling something similar a while back. I liked it but it was quite expensive. This one was made from foam I think 

[Benrobson2999 - Kent AO]

I do like the caterham style padded tunnel top. Not sure if anyone makes them for a westfield

[Flying Carrot Steve]

On 02/02/2024 at 17:21, Chris Larner said:

Made a little arm rest for those long drives.

 

 

 

Found the one I saw for sale on here a while back....

 

https://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/topic/152570-westfield-handbrake-armrest/

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

7 hours ago, Benrobson2999 - Kent AO said:

I do like the caterham style padded tunnel top. Not sure if anyone makes them for a westfield

 

Owners have made their own variations of it, and had them made as one off's over the years, but no, there isn't a range of off-the-shelf models available, as far I know.

 

(Part of the issue is the shear variation in Westfield tunnel widths, making it quite hard to cover all the bases, for a manufacturer. Then you have the variation in things like gear lever position  and hand brake position, model to model.)

[cjwood23]

Built another bike and tidied the work bench & tool wall.

 

[Davemk1]

On 12/01/2024 at 04:25, Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO said:

Hi @Davemk1 I built my S2000 with a small denso type Alternator in 2016 and I've covered circa 32,000 miles since then. It's not been plain sailing, but I'd still recommend you doing the same. Details in my build thread here- Bagpuss build thread

 

If I was to do it again, I'd do the same again.

 

As a fellow S2000 user, regular visits to the 9000rpm redline are made by me. I chose the alternator pulley size to ensure the alternator doesn't seen north of 18000 rpm. Charging at the 1100 rpm idle isn't a problem.

 

My first alternator was a e-bay special and didn't last too long (the charge warning light started to flicker above 5000 rpm)

 

I replaced this with Denso branded item from GBS Cars and that's been fine ever since. I did have a concern last spring with a noise sometimes, so I took it off and took it to an alternator specialist and they confirmed the bearings to be fine and tested it electrical as fine too (free of charge as well).

 

I then used a laser light to align the pulley correcly with the 4 groove belt to the crank pulley and it's been quiet every since.

 

From my build thread, you'll see there has been some 'evolution' of brakets and tests of different types of tensioners.

 

My current large alloy bottom bracket and upper steel bracket have been fine. Though I did have the bottom alternator hole bushed so it didn't rock on the bolt. The two bolt fixing syem isn't ideal. I'd prefer 3.

 

Given you do much lower mileage than me, I'm sure you'll be fine.

 

Drop me a PM if you wish to have a call and talk any of this through.

 

Best regards,

Ian

 

Whelp - I finally had the stars align and I had the needed parts, and the time, so I got the new Denso alternator fit to the S2000. The alternator itself is a good bit lighter and that was expected (the Honda unit weighs 5.2kg) so that was easy weigh loss. I also ditched the stock belt tensioning system and that saved nearly as much weight as the alternator did. In total the weight loss was 3.9 kg (8.6 lbs) and as an added bonus it comes off the driver's side of my car. This should bring total car weight down to 545 kg at this point.

 

The alt charges at the desired 14.6 volts and I spun the engine up to 9000 rpms a few times and nothing went bang and came fly up through the engine cover so I think I'm off to a good start. Once we get some warmer weather I'll put some miles on it just to be sure but I suspect it will work out fine.

 

Maybe now it will finally start snowing here so I can stop fussing around in the garage and snowboard instead...a boy can dream during the warmest and driest winter in 30+ years here.

 

dave