Dracoro Posted March 11, 2004 Posted March 11, 2004 What are the performance figures for common westfield set-ups? Vauxhall 2.0, megabusa, megablade, seights, pintos, xflows. Assuming 'standard' or 'typical' set-up. 0-60 30-70 0-100 100-0 and braking if anyone knows, e.g. 100-0, 70-0 etc. Quote
Buzz Billsberry Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 What are the performance figures for common westfield set-ups? Vauxhall 2.0, megabusa, megablade, seights, pintos, xflows. Assuming 'standard' or 'typical' set-up. 0-60 30-70 0-100 100-0 and braking if anyone knows, e.g. 100-0, 70-0 etc. It would be quicker to ring every owner in the club and get them to do a test and post it by the time that one will be answered, but there will be a few replies that wouldn't 'stand up in court!!'. Buzz PS Car looks Well, like the colour Quote
Mike dB Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 Well "Jeremy Thomas - Chimaera 4.5 6.72 " is a bit dissapointing to read, I've always loved TVRs but knowing the West is quicker sort of means I don't need a TVR now, b*******! Quote
craggers Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 Well "Jeremy Thomas - Chimaera 4.5 6.72 " is a bit dissapointing to read, I've always loved TVRs but knowing the West is quicker sort of means I don't need a TVR now, b*******! I am big fan of TVR too (my father in law got 390SE) and remember Chimaera is the slowest TVR compared to Cerbera / Griffith / Tuscan. Or maybe he didn't pushed it hard enough without breaking something !! Quote
Matt Seabrook Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 Its down to how well you can get it off the line some people are just much better than others. With 280bhp and 1100kg of car it should be in the 5`s if not 4`s to 60. Im sure if someone more experienced than me jumped in my car they could get it down to 4 seconds. The web site will not be the be all and end all on timings Quote
Mike dB Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 Well that's ok then, I can still get one in my lifetime, yay! Or just a V8 westy........ lol Quote
Tigger Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 Try these links, they have roadtests on several westies. Pistonheads Car Pages Don't know how acurate they are but it gives you a general idea Tigger Quote
Mike H Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 For a better indication of performance you really need to look at 1/4 miles times IMO, esp. if you're thinking of traffic light racing. Have a look at Ian Crocker's site: www.seight.com click on the Performance link. cheers Mike Quote
Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 What are the performance figures for common westfield set-ups? Vauxhall 2.0, megabusa, megablade, seights, pintos, xflows. Assuming 'standard' or 'typical' set-up. 0-60 30-70 0-100 100-0 and braking if anyone knows, e.g. 100-0, 70-0 etc. Well my 2.0ltr Zetecs effin' fast enough for me Quote
markcoopers Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 100-0 My first westfield, a 1600 X flow with no mods at all would never of reached 100 let alone ever had to worry about stopping from this speed. Quote
Mike dB Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 Well my 2.0ltr Zetecs effin' fast enough for me Mine has more power Just a shame about the pants driver....although I hear Oulton is your fave circuit Paul? Quote
gee_fin Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 The 0-60mph figures quoted by manufacturers are very misleading in my opinion. You have no idea whether they were running drag slicks or Yoko 539s or the circumstances/surface etc... The R500 is meant to be 3.4s to 60mph. Well, we couldn't get the R500 below 4.4s (yes, maybe we're s**t ). Best we got for the Vx carbon thing was 4.1s but that was still lighting up the tyres too much. As yet the best time we have on their is for the SLR. Once you get above 300bhp/tonne the launch seems absolutely critical for 0-60 times. Timing on the bike cars is to commence shortly. There was an interesting article a while back about how Caterham did the 0-100-0 in the R500. Basically the seasoned pro in the car used the rev limiter as a flat-shift. ie. no clutch, no lift, just brrrrrrrrrrmmm b b b b b b force next gear brrrrrrmmmmm b b b b b b b force next gear. Which brings me to two things about factory 0-60s, noone in their right mind is going to do this in their own car so the time is effectively irrelevant in the real world, also, it might explain the phenomenom known in the pits as "Caterham Driver Syndrome" referring to excess use of the rev limiter... Quote
Matt Seabrook Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 Interesting Graeme about the R500 not getting it below 4.4. Makes me happier with my 4.37 to 60 in my car. Just shows you that lots of power and very little weight does not always make for the fastest times. But as has been said 0-60 is a bit meaningless on paper the R500 should be much quicker than my car with only about 370bhp per ton. I did read that to get the R500 into the 3`s they had to really slip the clutch badly i.e. rev the car to about 5000rpm and ease the clutch out a bit at a time until they changed up to second. Don’t think that the car would do to many 3.4 second to 60 times like that without needing a new clutch. I think the comment in the article was that the only thing that came past them was the smoke from the burning clutch. But if Caterham can prove that there car is the fastest thing to 60 then it will sell cars. Quote
mud Posted March 12, 2004 Posted March 12, 2004 Matt 4.37 sec to 60 v.impressed .i'm building an seiw with 230 bhp 2ltr vx on throttle bodies and i'm hoping for low 4 sec 0 to 60 times myself.i've always had a fascination/fettish for 0 to 60 times Quote
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