Prelit top wishbone

[westfield_bumble]

Found this at the back of the garage from when I had the prelit(q511wjr). Any good to anybody? Happy to post. Make me an offer 

[7Westfield]

are you sure?

Doesn't look anything like mine

[Rich Vaughan]

I think that's a bottom wishbone.

[7Westfield]

nope

[westfield_bumble]

8 hours ago, 7Westfield said:

are you sure?

Doesn't look anything like mine

Yes an early prelit one. It always frustrated me that others had the ball joint that threaded in and adjustments could be made 

[westfield_bumble]

2 minutes ago, westfield_bumble said:

Yes an early prelit one. It always frustrated me that others had the ball joint that threaded in and adjustments could be made 

If you zoom in you can see the bolt heads on the right hand side of the picture. I'll dig through and see if I have better pictures next time pc's on

[Rich Vaughan]

THis is a prelit top wishbone sitting on top of a standard track wishbone. I know the curved one is a prelit beacause I've built two pre lits and the curved wishbones came with both. I replaced them with the later wisbone to give better clearance for dampers and to increase track width and to provide better caster

[7Westfield]

The plot thickens    we are now up to 3 variations

on mine, the rear leg  (both upper and lower) is straight, at roughly 90 degrees to the frame rail

assuming the frame tabs are the same, it would seem my car could have a roughly 3 inch shorter wheelbase?

 

Mine is equipped with a xflow, Ford diff, and Spitfire front uprights 

 is there any count of cars so equipped?   or how many came to the US?

I know of one race shop that was building them over the winter, in order to keep staff busy

 

 

[Rich Vaughan]

28 minutes ago, 7Westfield said:

The plot thickens    we are now up to 3 variations

on mine, the rear leg  (both upper and lower) is straight, at roughly 90 degrees to the frame rail

assuming the frame tabs are the same, it would seem my car could have a roughly 3 inch shorter wheelbase?

 

Mine is equipped with a xflow, Ford diff, and Spitfire front uprights 

 is there any count of cars so equipped?   or how many came to the US?

I know of one race shop that was building them over the winter, in order to keep staff busy

 

 

To be honest that's not a Pre-lit because it is an early Westfield (clone of a Lotus 7) with Ali body. The pre lits that caused the court case with Caterham were the all fibreglass Westfield 7 SE built in the last part of the 80's. Chris Smith built around 800 of these and it was that success and the fact that they were cheaper to buy and build than a Caterham caused Robert Nearn to take out litigation. 

The red car is my first Pre lit built in 1986 and the other pic shows my current pre lit used for hillclimbs and sprints. Both have all glassfibre bodies and wings

[7Westfield]

interesting

So, mine is the first variation

if I interpret the chassis # correctly, it must be fairly early

by the info I have, it's 71, laid down in 1985

[Euan Hoosearmy]

@7Westfield those look very similar to the XI wishbones. 

[Captain Colonial]

19 hours ago, westfield_bumble said:

Found this at the back of the garage from when I had the prelit(q511wjr). Any good to anybody? Happy to post. Make me an offer 

It’s an upper from a 7SE according to the appropriate build manual:

 

[p k]

1 hour ago, Euan Hoosearmy said:

@7Westfield those look very similar to the XI wishbones. 

westfield Xl wishbones 

[7Westfield]

my wishbones do indeed look like the XI parts

I suppose they used them because they had the jigs

[westfield_bumble]

5 hours ago, Captain Colonial said:

It’s an upper from a 7SE according to the appropriate build manual:

 

That looks like the set up it had 

Thanks