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Post by teamawesome on Mar 11, 2019 13:36:29 GMT
Thanks guys.
Hopefully all the relevant paperwork is complete and good enough for the DVLA. It'll be sent off later today.
In the meantime I've taken those awful covers off the wing mirror mounts and I'm moving on to replacing the differential seal and change the rear calipers for the Wilwood ones I had on the MX5. All I need is an adaptor to go from M10x1.0 from the Westfield lines to the 1/8NPT of the calipers and have the some parts for the handbrake cables modified slightly.
I've booked the car in to be tuned at the start of April as it's simply terrible on the base map.
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Post by teamawesome on Mar 15, 2019 22:32:10 GMT
This was something I wasn't expecting to do so soon but I've had to take it apart slightly. As I said in my IVA report there was a leaky differential seal so I've replaced that this afternoon. If I'm fair it's a much easier job on the Westfield than it is on the MX5 without a big subframe in the way.  I've started on the post-IVA work too. First job is to replace the rear calipers for the Wilwood ones I had on the donor car. I didn't fit these as I was worried the handbrake wouldn't be good enough. |
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Post by trackerjack on Mar 21, 2019 17:58:11 GMT
Loved reading and seeing the great work you have done and many beer vouchers used up getting there! I have a special that I created and put through the dreaded IVA and just enjoy driving it.
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Post by teamawesome on Mar 25, 2019 10:14:07 GMT
I've had some good news over the weekend, the car has been given a registration number and it's age related so I'm quite happy.
I just need the V5 and then I can hopefully allocate the ageless plate I had on the MX5. I couldn't send the retention certificate with the paperwork as I had forgotten to change my address when I moved last year.
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Post by teamawesome on Mar 27, 2019 11:59:07 GMT
The V5 has arrived!
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Post by Horney on Mar 27, 2019 14:26:08 GMT
Wooohoooooo!
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Post by teamawesome on Apr 4, 2019 22:20:44 GMT
I've finally had all the paperwork through, the original documents and then the new V5 after applying my retained number plate from the Mazda. Insurance is all updated so I believe I'm 100% legal. In the end I had to wait a while as they would only apply the new plate from 1st April, even though I had the V5 earlier. It's been 4 weeks since the IVA and I've not driven it since because, if I'm totally honest, it's horrible to drive. The map on the ECU allows me to drive, but just barely. It's booked in to be tuned tomorrow so I get to drive it there and hopefully it'll be nicer of the way back. In the meantime I've been changing the rear brakes from the standard Mazda items to wilwoods  These are most likely a bit overkill but I had them from the donor car so I may as well try them out. I didn't fit them for the IVA because I'm not sure the handbrake is good enough to pass it. I'll try to remember to get photos and videos from the dyno tomorrow, hopefully with some respectable figures to go with it. |
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Post by dadbif on Apr 5, 2019 6:06:52 GMT
I hope you haven’t overbraked the rear with those, very easy to lock up the rear end on a Westfield .....
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Post by teamawesome on Apr 5, 2019 14:51:56 GMT
Well as I said yesterday I was getting the car mapped today. It was such a miserable drive there. The car ran terribly and the weather was miserable. I couldn't wait to get out of the thing. I can't remember feeling as cold as when I got there. I guess the bright side is that it did make it there and I didn't actually have hypothermia, regardless of how it felt. We soon had it strapped down and ready to go. The nerves were definitely showing at this point.  Nick then started to work his magic, taking one of his maps and changing the basic settings for my setup. He had it idling nicely in about 5 mins. I was happy, but also annoyed as I couldn't get it to do it at all. After this was done it was time to make some noise on the dyno. There were lots of runs with fine tuning inbetween them. The power and torque figures slowly increasing. Here's the end result.  233bhp at the wheels with 202ftlbs torque. I'm really happy with their results! You can see 2 lines on the graph, the red line is my map and the green is what we had originally. The difference is that the torque comes in more gradually. The drive home was much better, dry and with a car behaving itself. It drives better now than when it was in the Mazda. Worth every last penny. I'd highly recommend Skuzzle Motorsport. |
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Post by apextwin on Apr 6, 2019 18:00:32 GMT
Nice plot and good results Was this stock internals?
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Post by niklas on Apr 6, 2019 20:18:54 GMT
Nice! Now we need track videos.
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Post by teamawesome on Apr 6, 2019 21:01:04 GMT
Nice plot and good results Was this stock internals? Yes it's on stock internals. Nick stopped at 200ftlbs because of it. |
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Post by howardb66 on Apr 7, 2019 12:29:27 GMT
That should feel quite sprightly in a lightweight Westfield. Good effort.
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Post by teamawesome on Jun 3, 2019 12:46:21 GMT
Been a while since I updated this. Here's whats been happening since I had the car mapped (none of it has been driving, it hasn't moved since I got home from the tuning session).
First off I had a nice relaxing holiday which wasn't very helpful for getting any miles in. When I came home I saw the thread on the disclouration of the carbon fibre exhausts. I decided to check mine, and unfortunately I was suffering from the problem others were having. I took my exhaust back to Westfiled and that was 4-5 weeks without the car on the road. This meant I missed Stoneleigh but at least Westfield sorted the issue and kept me informed on what was going on. I got it back about 2 weeks ago but seeing as I'd found another issue I was in no rush to fit it.
Onto that next issue. When building the car I'd put new CV boots on the drive shafts but in the 250 miles I'd completed in the car I'd managed to rip both outer boots. I can't see anything that could contact them so I'm really not sure what caused it. One almost looked like it was twisted around itself. Very strange. Changing the boots themselves wasn't the issue, it was more an issue with the drive shaft snap rings. I couldn't find them anywhere, it seems that Mazda don't sell them and I couldn't find a supplier for them. After a while I had to buy a box of 250 assorted clips to pick 2 out of, but this was only the start of the problem. When I tried to fit the shaft I tapped it with a hammer with increasing force, but it just wouldn't go on. It turns out there part of the old ring had snapped (literally a snap ring) and was still in the groove. I cleared this out and tried again but it was no better. It turns out that the previous attempt had made the new ring try to ride over the splines and sort of peel them away which was then stopping the CV from ging back on. I filed this down and finally the shaft went back together. It was only a small amount so hopefully I'll have no issues with strength. The other side went it a lot smoother.
The next issue. The hub nut has to be done up to 190ftlbs and in my haste to not forget this important step, I forgot to put the long stud back in the bottom of the rear hub, so the top wishbone took all 190ftlbs. This caused the bottom wishbone to no longer line up, and I was very angry with myself. I got a breaker bar on the wheel studs and bent it back so the hubs fits (it wasn't hugely off). Wheels back on and the car was on the floor.
The exhaust went on with zero fuss. Just what I needed after the pain on the drive shafts. We're back in business and ready to drive. It was all sorted just in time for the rain to start, so it went back in the garage and I've still not driven in since the tuning session. Given that I'm racing this weekend, and away for the following 3, I'm not sure I'll get much chance in June either!
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Post by teamawesome on Sept 10, 2019 13:55:17 GMT
I did eventually get to drive the car over the summer, not much but the miles I managed were a lot of fun. The main issue I've been having is a cooling issue, the car has been running at around 102-105 degrees just on the road and takes ages to come down when out of traffic. Due to this issue I haven't been able to drive it much through fear of getting stranded or doing major damage to something. Luckily the fix was relatively simple, I need to make a cowl for the intercooler and radiator to force the air through rather than allowing it to go around. Using the much proven cardboard template method I managed to cobble somthing together and surprisingly when transfered to aluminium it still fitted. I got it all rivetted together on Staurday and here's how it looks:  The result is amazing, it's taken almost 20 degrees off the coolant temperatures, and coming out of traffic reduces the temps nice and quickly. In other news I have decided that 275ish BHP is more than my poor old engine needs to deal with so I've started a collection of parts along with a £25 engine to rebuild. I'll be staying with the 1.6 engine and going for 1mm oversize pistons, new rods, billet oil pump, new harmonic balancer etc etc to try and make the engine pretty much bulletproof, certainly for my power levels anyway. |
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