Final Jobs

I received the spacers for the harness eyelets yesterday so I fitted them today. I was able to do it without removing the rollbar, which was a nice surprise. It is, however, impossible to enlarge the holes unless you have the flexible drive attachment for the Dremel. With that it took about 15 minutes to do all four. I did have to grind down the rollbar mount slightly on the right hand side to get the spacer to fit - other than that no problem, and I was able to get all four to tighten up nice and straight:

Harness spacers fitted and ready to go

The harnesses attached very easily to the lower mounting points - no problems with powdercoating in the threads. Here is the final product:

Faff city - no popping down the road with these boys
 to put on - it takes at least 15 minutes to get strapped in!

I have not fitted the crotch straps yet as I am still waiting for the hardware. Actually getting into the race seat and attaching the harness is quite a faff unless you have a pit crew!










After that, the final, and yes I mean final, job was to hook up the speedometer sensor and calibrate the dash. After a bit of adjusting of the position of the sender, it worked fine - it even told me (accurately) what gear I was in!  Actually a bit fiddly to enter the calibration on the dash but I got it eventually (after not hitting the enter button the first time).

I say it was the final job, but it really isn't. Westfield sent me a replacement temperature sender, but I can't use it because it has a funky wiring attachment - I have never seen one like that before. I also still need to tidy away/attach the wiring under the dash, and of course do the geo set up. And then there is the phantom swirl pot, the replacement body panels and the side impact bars than need a little modification.

I went to the DMV to see if I could get a temporary registration - no luck. The best they could do for me was a three-day registration so I could take Mr. Westfield down there so he could have a level II inspection (I think they stick a finger in his exhaust and ask him to cough). That was no use to me as I am away next week. Will sort it out when I get back. I just know it will be a headache.

These did arrive today though:

Some real track tyres

They will work a lot better on the track than the (wrong) tyres that were sent with the kit. I have run a set of R888s on my Lotus recently, and while they are an OK track tyre they don't let go progressively - it is all or nothing. We will see how they fare on the lighter Westfield.

Finally, a shot of Mr. Westfield's wonky mirror. I am not sure if it is annoying me enough yet to take it off and adjust it:

From that angle, it looks fine.

Nice calf burn from a hot exhaust.
Thankfully, the exhaust is not on the driver's side!

Oh, and by the way, don't stand too close to the exhaust on a Westfield. Ask me how I know:




Signing off for a week's vacation in Colorado. Will update with the progress with the DMV when I get back!

I still can't get the time-lapse video off my computer and on to YouTube. That is another thing that will have to wait until I get back.