Reyland powered Westfield project

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:15

It's been a while since I posted something like this!

This Westfield belongs to Porkie who used to own the Reyland 3 door Sierra Cosworth.

There are a lot of pics so I'll add them as I have time.

The build is detailed in a long post on another forum (which most of you probably don't visit so I'll post all the interesting bits here!)

Porkie said:
This is pretty much the first pic I took of the car.

It was a sound car, and in good condition for its age Stu said

It was running ok apart from a slight misfire...

plan was to use the car for trackdays. As I wanted something different from the Sierra, Skyline and 911... (all big heavy powerful 4wd cars)

The Westy is small, light, RWD and with the YB engine it, I thought could still get some straight line speed! It also had to be very user friendly as I want it to be not only enjoyed my me and maria and my uncle Roy.... BUT I wanna get my mum out on track in it!

First outing was going to be that low profile event that is National day.

In an effort to make sure it wasn't totally gay, I bought some new TD Pro Race 1.2 15' wheels and got some R888's and Maria had them fitted up!

We then found out that I bought the wrong offset and so the fronts would not fit... and with the old wheels on the new wider tyres rubbed the bodywork...

Futher investigation revealed that one of the reasons is that the entire rear body is sitting to low as its never actually been attached to the car!!!

Chip and stu fitted some Group A WRC cable ties to try and make it better just for the day... but it was no good and I would have to run odd wheels on a gay offset at ND.

So car went over to Stus for a thorough going over. Here we change the plugs to champions out of stus Westy and the misfire was cured!!!

We also dumped the silly silly loud Forge dump valve for a 909 broom handle... and took out the restrictor in the turbo.

Chip then found the car was running lean and so upped the fuel pressure and we upped the boost as well to a humongmous 1bar!!!

BUT the car was now running 10 times better than it was and I was very excited about ND!!

especially as Maria had now fitted a shiny new gearknob which is much nicer to use... The gearbox is a T5 with a quickshift and its PERFECT in the car!

Chip and Stu both commented that although the car is dog slow it handled and drove really nicely!!!

I also contributed massively to the cars performance by peeling of the stickers. To be honest although Stu, chip and maria had played their part... it was these mods that changed the car the most. It was now lighter and more slippery and looked cooler. GOD I AM GOOD!

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:18

Porkie said:
Gonna add pics and bits to thread as I find em... or remember them!

So... ND came around and the little yellow coffin was awesome fun!!!

EVEN MARIA WOULD ADMIT THAT!!!

went all day long with the help of Chip and Steve and the old owner Ross helping to bodge a few bits and bobs!

Personally I thought it did really well on track and was able to mix it with cars and drivers as fast as Si B in his Evo!!!!

however the day showed that although the car was a nice little reliable road car... it was no track toy!!!

It was not holding boost and was spewing oil and water and poo and overheating for fun!!!!

BUT it drove there and drove back and me and maria had an awesome day with it and I really couldn't ask for more!!!

I had 3 more track days planned in next two weeks but Stu and Chip persuaded me that there was no way it was going to survive all that...

So the decision was made to take the car off the road and rebuild it!

Not to a mad standard and not to make it mental...

it had to be

1. RELIBALE
2. Cost effective long term
3. Fun and easy to drive

and so we decided to keep the engine 100% standard internally.

fit a T34.63 on a MSD chip and that would be tuning wise.

Siemens injectors, coil pack conversion, and closed loop again all for reliabilty and ease of use.

Fuel system was going to be uprated and few other bits and bobs....

SOOO... the strip down commenced.

last ever pic of old spec!

maria and helen broke the boot lid at ND!

TaKeN · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:20

ISH IS BACK

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:23

Porkie said:
It was all very very oily and dirty!!!

We think the last owner Ross's toilet was broken and that he had to use the header tank to **** in as this was what came out!!!!

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:25

Porkie said:
Box of bits started getting bigger....

found this is the coolant pipes? WTF?

Car had an electric water pump fitted... this is going in the bin. New Cossie one for mat lewis is replacing it!

overseeing the monkeys....

Head comes off tonight....

CROSS YOUR FINGERS GUYS AND GIRLS!!!!

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:29

Porkie said:
The Stigette taking me out in it at the weekend.....

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:30

Porkie said:
Update!

Head is off! and its all looking good according to Stu.

Lots more bits arrived. On the saftey side we have some new seat belts, New much bigger and taller and stronger rear RAC roll bar and some new fuel tank straps form Westfield.

Loads of Gaskets and service parts from Mat Lewis as well as new 044 pump and filer and Headgasket and bolts.

Lamdba, chip, injectors and all new engine sensors have arrived from MSD. As did a full MSD coilpack conversion

New billet Fuel rail and ECU from Reyland should be coming today. As well as new uber bling Aeromotive fuel reg, gauge and fittings.

Collins moniter arrived last night.

Bundles of aeroquip and fittings from THINK as we are ripping the entire fuel system out from tank to injectors and starting again.

Few more bits to sort and going to get the head skimmed very lightly as Chip and Stu want to do this once and do it right!

huge thanks to Chip for pulling the Ryan loom out of CossieRichs saff last night! Top work fellas!!!!

I am PROPERLY EXCITED!!!!!!

heres some more piccys!

This is what is under the back of the boot when we pulled it out.

and yes stu does have an electric engine crane in his garage!

and air tools

he isn't doing this as a mate... its just an excuse to play with his toys!!!

Taking off Chips new T3 Turbo for him!!!! (well undoing the ONE bolt that was holding in on )

Few small cracks on fannymold... anyone got a mint one?

The project manager was doing what all bosses normally do!!! **** ALL!

well actually doing nothing was not entirely true... I did bust it licking its bits!!!

and then it sulked...

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:31

Porkie said:
Stus been busy!

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:33

Porkie said:
Indeed! Its also given me a chance to update this thread!

Lots of cleaning to be done in the engine bay and rear and so the car was wheeled outside and drenched in foam degreaser and I used a wheel brush to get in all the mucky bits! Stu reckons it was the dirtiest and greasiest engine and engine bay on any car he had ever seen!!!

Took him about 3 hours he said just to clean the block!!!

You can see how little car there actually is!!!!

Imagine 380bhp in this!!!!

Lots of goodies arrived. A prize of a drive of it to the person that gets the closest to naming EVERY part in this picture!!!!

close up with one part I think missing

lots of cometic gaskets as well again from mat lewis. (AWESOME SERVICE!!!) ... some were already on the engine!

Stu had been busy reassembling the engine with the spunky new gaskets, new bolts... (and the bufty even sprayed the pully black and the washer gold!!! ) and the new water pump from Mat lewis again.

some aeroquip for the fuel system

also for the new fuel system, treated yorik to an ubercool fuel reg. Its not just bling either... Maria and mum are going to be driving this... so NO corners are being cut on the fuel system and no old parts are being used. Seen enough old cossies and old kit cars go up in flames and its NOT gonna happen to this!!!

New AP organic clutch from Rainbum. Because the cars soooo light you dont need a paddle clutch so you can use the nicer organic one

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:34

Porkie said:
Car was now dry and looking MUCH cleaner inside. Still some buftying to do with clothes and brake and clutch cleaner but it 1000% better already!

Trial fitted the new roll bar hoop.... LOOKS ****!! but much safer... it has other bars to add as well....

old... super cool looking... but totally useless in a crash!!!

none!!!

new (half of it)

Stu also got me this supercool gated sump.... no oil surge for yorik!!!

More updates later!!!

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:35

polly_x said:
Well, after getting my sorry arse off the sofa I did some bits on the Westy.

Stripped out the fuel tank and the old pump/filter and pipework ready for the new aeroquip gear.

Also made some nice new brackets and welded them on to make the rear bodywork really secure. :grin:

Need to finish making some new brackets for re-positioning the group A pump and filter tomorow and also gonna weld in some bars to strengthen the diff cage too. :grin:

Just a couple of pics.

Old fuel system...........YUK

New fuel system..........SWEEEEEEEEEET!

Engine bits like nice cleaned/skimmed head and pocketed pistons to be collected in tomorow.

Its all down hill from here! Hooray.

Lashout_UK · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:37

The 'wtf' thing is the coil off a temperature sender for a Kenlowe fan or similar, I'd have thought!

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:38

Maria. said:
Last6 night was quite amusing!! Watching chio and stu work away like the little squirrels that they are, and then watching lee watch!

Stu and Chip - i think stu was just about to go down on chip at this point!

Lee working VERY hard at trying to look like he is ACTUALLY interested in what chip is doing!

Lee looking for one of the many tool that between him and chip they lost!

Chip just loves dressing up!

Then making pretty lights!

But then needs assistance, but stu insists he doesnt have to dress up!

Then Stu and lee decided they needed a little lay down!

Then i found out it was to look at these things! Fuel things?

But then they had to do some head scratching to make it look like they were being interlectual

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:39

Porkie said:
Amazing progress!

One of the biggest jobs that stu has done was completely refitting the bodywork which unbelivably was not attached and never had been at the rear!!! This was causing the wheels to rub, the body to look wonky and whole body was cracking and feeling genuinely floopy!

At some point the car had a spare wheel carrier and wheel fitted at the back (thats why it has all the holes and stuff) but this was very much bodged on and so stu had to do a lot of cutting and rewelding just to get the car back to how it should look. Before riveting the body back together in the correct places. This together with the new RAC roll bar that fits right on the chassis has made a huge improvement to the look and feel and you can now lift the car up by the body! Will no doubt add to the drive as well!

The engine was now also going back together. New bigends, the tiniest head skim, and some pocketed pistons was all we went for (thanks to slim boy steve, amazing price and quick service)

Stu has a bufty obsession and wants to be a professional engine dresser and flower arranger when he grows up.... so bufty shiny hex bolts were used with cometic gaskets and all the pulleys and washers were sprayed It was starting to look cool though... oh and stu used these washers that apparently Mountune use and they mean things wont ever come undone

New Tensioner going on... and JUST in time! the old one was ****ED and about to fail and detroy the engine!!! We think that was the squeaking shreaking noise at National day that we put down to an alternator bearing before!!!

Stu checking the Chips Cambelt job! as it went on FAR too easily.... NEITHER of them wanted to put this on as they BOTH get the willys doing it on other peoples engine apparently POOFS

Reassembled and with the funky Reyland Billet Fuel and Siemens injectors and new Piper verniers that Mat Lewis sent by accident but that I was never going to be able to resist hahahah ... (GREAT sales technique Mat!)
Just needs some of those cool Reyland Pulley bolts! please send Martoooon!

Also fitted was a new 4x4 TPS as we are going to L8 with MSD coil pack conversion.... for reliability as well as performance. Seemed silly not to fit a new Ryan loom as well to really make sure things are bulletproof. Sadly Ryan is on holidays! but CossieRich came to the rescue and Chip and him ripped the one out of his saff for me!!!

Apparently it went into the Westy REALLY easily NOT! took about four hours of blood sweat and tears and the Westy was almost chopped up with an axe at one point I hear! but at 3am... it was done! THANKS CHAPS! :god:

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:40

Porkie said:
Stu had also been busy fabricating a bracket for the new 044 pump... awesome result in the end and also much better as before the pump was above the collecter in the tank... these pumps don't suck that well and ideally must be gravity fed. Here is the new set up...

This also meant that the fuel tank collecter would needed to be modded as the outlet and return were now in the wrong place...

Quick call and with the promise of cakes and boobs Wayne at Proalloy would mod the tank whilst we waited! Legend!!!

When we got there though Chris at PAlloy noticed that there was something rattling around inside the tank and was not happy with it.... and proceded to get it out!!!

this was pulled out eventually!!!

Then Chris started deciphering Stus scribbles on the tank and got to work modding it!

all done...

He then got to work making a little pipe stu wanted fabricated for the new water system he was planning on fitting.

wicked final result. Wish I could make stuff this cool in about 2 mins!!!!

Thanks to Wayne and Chris at Proalloy for super service!!!

We also got some new straps and some rubber to reattach the tank and few other bits and then left to VAUXHALL... to pick up a washer for 86p

Chips involved so we had to get one gay Vaux part of the Bathtub!!

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:42

Porkie said:
Few more parts arrived now....

Chip talked me out of my brand new unfitted AP organic....

into a new AP 6 paddle

Stu convinced me that I needed some Yorik needed some Carbon fibre.... so new door top, new dashboard and boot arrived... oh and new fuel tank straps

also some more new Harnesses arrived.... as a pressie for Stu! as a thanks for all the blood sweat and tears he is putting in! Thanks mate :smack:

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:43

Porkie said:
INTERCOOLER FOUND AT MY MUMS!!!

It was disguised as a Bosch pressure washer ops:

MASSIVE THANKS TO DIVA!!

Its now a PROPER project!!! Diva is involved!!! let me know how much I owe you mate!!!

ITS IN AMAZING CONDITION!!! :god:

Also arrived at my mums today... was 'some' Samco hoses Stu ordered to do the cars water and boost systems with...

I 'think' he has it all covered!!! JESUS H CHRIST STUUU!!!! I am sure he is also going to plumb in his uber cool porn bath with this!!!

Colour chosen my Maria I wanted yellow... stu wanted blue... guess who got her own way!!!

ENORMOUS thanks to Renton for helping finalise the order and liasing with Samco to make sure it was made THAT DAY! and arrived superfast!!!

a 'few' connecters as well

Have fun with your adult lego stu and chip!!!

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:44

Porkie said:
Update time! Stus been working hard!

Fuel tank is in properly now with the new straps

will update loads later.... busy at work!

with fuel tank in, stu could then bolt the new RAC roll bar in properly.

He also modded the boot so I could still use it. (Thanks mate, I know it took ages!)

Got some new shiny cam pully bolts from Reyland. These look supersweet and also add 10bhp!!! per side!

Martoon also sent down a Fanimold for us...

above you can also see the new Samcos starting to go on as Stu is making a whole new water system

Got a brand spanking T34.63 to go on it... sweeeet

JUST NEED THE CAMCOVER BACK!!! hurry up Rainbum!!!!!

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:46

Porkie said:
Update...

AP paddle clutch (thanks Rainbum!, super service) is getting fiitted..

with that on Stu gets to use his favourite toy.... no not the multi speed rampant rabbit deluxe turbo! but his electric engine crane...

I had to leave before it was all bolted up... and the mounts fitted! but it is now!!!

THANKS STU!!! YOU ARE A PROPER LEGEND!!! IT WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN MATE :hug:

Total labour cost for this build so far...AND ITS BEEN a lot OF HOURS!!! most that you cant see, little bits that needed doing and designing etc etc...

£0.00

which is good because we have gone slightly over budget on the mecahnical bits ops:

Plan was JUST some greens and a 3 bar. THAT was it.... oooops!

Stu :god: :god: :god: :god: :god: :god:

Ish · 12 Jun 2010 at 19:48

That's it for for now. I'll post more later!