Vincent Langan Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Greetings...I have recently purchased a Westfield SE that I wanted to restore. The car was in a front end wreck and I thought I could rebuild the car and save it from the scrape pile. I will need to rebuild the front frame and need the "L" measurements (from the book). Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will be posting the sad pictures later... Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Langan Posted December 26, 2004 Author Share Posted December 26, 2004 Greetings...I have recently purchased a Westfield SE that I wanted to restore. The car was in a front end wreck and I thought I could rebuild the car and save it from the scrape pile. I will need to rebuild the front frame and need the "L" measurements (from the book). Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will be posting the sad pictures later... Cheers, [Hope is not a strategy...] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perksy Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Errr Just how bent is your Westy Westfield can fit New front chassis sections, but if the back-end of the Chassis is bent you will be looking at a New chassis If you do a Search you will find some more Info' on this subject.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilwillis Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Your best bet would be to go to Westfield Sports Cars, and get them to graft a new front end onto it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Langan Posted December 26, 2004 Author Share Posted December 26, 2004 I like the suggestions of getting Westfield to fabricate a new front end. The problems is that I live in the US.... Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perksy Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Vincent Post the Info' on your Chassis that you PM'd me for all to see, you'll probably get the Info' you need then Beleive you said it was a '94 year chassis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Langan Posted December 26, 2004 Author Share Posted December 26, 2004 I have been asked to post more detail on my wrecked car. The car was, as far as we can tell, built in 1994. It orignally came as a narrow bodied SE with a cross-flow engine. In late 1999, the engine was changed to a 1.8 liter Zetec. We can repair the car if I can get the geometry measurements for the front.My Webpage See the web page for a couple of photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perksy Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Vincent Why not email Westfield those two pictures/Info' and ask their opinion They'll be able to advise Errr It's Well Bent What did it Hit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Langan Posted December 26, 2004 Author Share Posted December 26, 2004 For those interested. This car was driven by an inexperienced driver who lost control going around a turn. The driver hit a car coming in the other direction...and yes...he did survive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chazpowerslide Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 I may get shot down in flames for this but (if all else fails and you can't get the info you need) you could allways re-build the front end to Locost specs (there was an issue with the front geometery in the earlier book by Ron Champion but this was corrected in his later book). The Locost chassis is "very" similar to the narrow SE chassis and the wishbones ect are all redily available. Try www.locostbuilders.co.uk for more Locost info. You maybe able to get Westfield to send you out a replacement front end but I doubt that they'd be happy about it seeing that they would'nt be doing the work and therefore probhably would'nt guarentuee the the new section. Chaz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arm Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 OK if you are intent on doing this. I did the same/similar repair and did not have a much to work from in the way of chassis data. Establish a centre line of the chassis and get measurements about the CL of the suspension mounting points in vertical and horizontal directions by either measuring a good car or getting someone here to give you some dimensions. Get dimensions from the rear wheels so to check the position fore/aft of the front suspension mountings. Check for chassis tubes that are straight / bent and try to keep as much existing structure as reasonably possible to copy from. Remove what is obviously junk and patch in some new sections checking all the time for square / straight / correct position. The chassis needs to be straight and strong with the suspension in the right place and the bits inbetween dont really matter. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Langan Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 If someone has an 1994 Se narrow body and would like to help me with front dimensions, please leave your phone number and I will call (you can send it PM) Cheers, Vince Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug D. Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 Vince I've got a 92 se std body which i think is the same on the front end, I can do the measurements for you if thats any help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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