Front brakes

The fitted master brake cylinder didn't work for long. I had to pump more and more to get pressure and at some point I had to change it. Although the found Ford Fiesta item wasn't a direct fit, it was almost perfect and could be mounted with some minor changes. Since that day I had a functionning brake, but the pedal was quite hard. I drove the car for some time but already with upgraditis on my mind. Then I got aware of the Hispec brakes and ordered 4-piston brakes with M16-lugs and bolt pattern. A perfect fit, and with the bigger piston surface, the pedal wasn't as hard anymore. Ferodo DS2500 pads only need a little warm-up. The braking performance is just great. Every caliper weighs less than one kilo, which is around three kilos less than the original Cortina/Taunus calipers. In all a six kilo unsprung weight saving. I will keep the drums at the rear wheels, an upgrade to discs is unnecessary.
Cheers.

Exhaust manifold

Soon after the first road trips with my Seven (I bought it 3rd hand at least), the exhaust manifold cracked. Welding made it crack on a different place and so on. It just wasn't made right and vibrations under its own weight made it crack again and again. A friend had collected different manifolds from Escorts and Westfields and I could borrow them from him to check for fit. One 4-1 manifold with a welded Westfield sign was from a right hand car. The pipes coming from the flanges were too long and some bends collide with the steering column. I cut them short and a professional welder put the flanges back on. Since then no more cracks. The higher wall thickness and the stainless steel together with the bigger overall pipe diameter make it the ideal manifold for my exhaust system.
Cheers.

Dashboard

One of my first mods was to change the dashboard. Less gauges mean less weight. The central Stack includes RPM, speed, water and oil temp, odometer and tripmeter, a progressive shiftlight and lots of other gimmicks like quarter-mile timing, 0-100km/h acceleration a.s.o. Underneath remains oldfashioned with an oil-pressure and a fuel gauge, in the middle you can see the AFR-meter from Innovate. This unit measures the air fuel ratio (lambda) and with the help of a controller, the read values can be exported to a ECU thus altering ignition and/or injection. This may not be the last version of the dashboard. It might just have more class with all the gauges from the same manufacturer. In this case, I would opt for a full set of Stack gauges... time (and funds) will tell.
Cheers.
P.S. My car is not a trailer queen. You can see some road dirt on almost every published photo. Take it or leave it.

X-flow

This is how the engine looks for now. I love it very much, the way it revs, the noise, its odour... but also how it sometimes coughs and barks! Mods visible on this pic are the catchtank with K&N breather filter, the Super Seven valve cover (quite rare)... and maybe that intriguing copper pipe lurking out of the scuttle. The latter will be the new fuel pipe once I convert to injection. A less beautiful sight is the breaker box and general appearance of electrics. A new breaker box is ready for installation and will be added soon.
Cheers.

Westfield SEi (1988) Car Specs

New specs as off September 2013, rebuild finished after crash:
Engine

Type: Ford X-flow (Kent) 711M-6015-B-A by Vulcan Engines (Spec.110)

Displacement: 1696ccm (424x4cyl.) Hepolite pistons +0.090 
bore 83.82mm x stroke 76.84mm
New pistons and rings from Nüral 87-780617-00 fitted in 2013
alternatively AE ref. 21426V1 1.00MM
(normally these are fitted to the 1298cc engine @ 8/9:1
suitable to raise compression up to 9.5/10.3 in a larger capacity engine)
Cylinder Head: Maxiflow 1 (Vulcan)
Valves: inlet 1.625" (41,275mm); exhaust 1,340"(34.036mm); extra strong single springs
Camshaft: Kent BCF2 Sports 290° valve clearance: in 0.36mm; out 0.46mm
Converted from carburettors (twin 40mm-Dellorto) to injection in 2013:

Fueling: Jenvey two dual throttle bodies 40mm, 4x 272cc/min injectors

Fuel Pumps (external): Facet LP (integrated filter), Bosch HP
Fuel pressure regulator: Sytec (plus gauge) set to 3bar
Fuel filter: Sytec HP 
Fuel swirl pot: SVC 1 Liter capacity
Fueling and Ignition controlled with Emerald ECU

Cooling: Caterham water cooler, SPAL electric fan
Oil: Castrol 20W50 Classic 
Oilpump: PACE DSP5 wet sump
Oil filter: Mocal remote support with Hengst oil filter H90W19 (PH5713)
Oil catchtank: Sandtler with K&N breather filter, to be changed
Waterpump: original Ford
Belt: AVX10 x 750

Airfilter: K&N
Exhaust can: Westfield 5 1/2" no cat 1712051 (16521)

Exhaust manifold: Westfield 4-1 type 1711002 (16521) ???

Ignition
Emerald ECU
Ford type double coil for wasted spark 
NGK BPR7ES (gap = 1mm or 40thou)
Bosch HT leads
QED trigger-wheel 36-1
Marelli crank sensor

Chassis

1988 SEi Narrow ( ' i '  means independant rear suspension )
This chassis came in two different sizes: narrow and wide, see the difference in below drawing:

Suspension

Front:
Spax, independant front, widetrack +50mm per side 
rear shocks with Faulkner springs 11" x 1.9"ID 200lbs/in 
Rear:
Spax, independant rear, stock shocks & springs

Steering

Rallydesign quick rack 2.4
Hex quick release

270mm Sparco three spoke black suede

Running gear

Gearbox Ford Type 9, 5 speed, quick shift gearlever & extension
(4th gear is 1:1)
Gearbox oil: SAE75W-90GL4
Clutch: Sachs Race cable-operated, modified pedal ratio (OBP)
Clutch cable: Ford part# 15613600 from a 75-80 Ford Escort (short)
Differential type: Ford Escort Mk II (english diff) P75AG4004AMC

Differential ratio: 3,54:1 

Differential housing: front Ford, back bespoke Westfield housing
Differential oil: 0,9 Liter Hypoid SAE90 (EP90) GL5
Differential LSD: none
Differential oil seals: Westfield part# 3222008
Prop shaft: Caterham part# 72290

Westfield half shafts (oil seals FKM80 35x47x7mm)
Tires/rims:

Front:Toyo Proxxes R1R 195/50R15 on 8J15 ET10 Revolution 5spoke

Rear: Toyo Proxxes R1R 225/45R15 on 8J15 ET10 Revolution 5spoke
alternatively:
Front: KN Minilite 8-spoke 6J13 with Toyo Proxxes R888 185/60R13
Front: KN Minilite 8-spoke 7J13 with Toyo Proxxes R888 205/60R13

Brakes

Front: HiSpec M16 4pots

Rear: Ford 9" drums
Pedalbox: OBP floormounted, independant master cylinders
Front: 0.625"
Rear: 0.700"
Biasbar setting: fully set to front
Pads: Ferodo DS2500
Liquid: ATE DOT4

Bodywork

Yellow plastic: cycle wings (plastic carbon look), nose, rear arches

Aluminium unpainted: bonnet, scuttle, side-panels, boot
Modified (new) rear panel with fuel filler moved to top, Monza style cap
Modified side panel with hot air ducting to side vent

Heated Windscreen (not connected)
Four point rear roll bar

Interior

Gauges:
Stack ST700SR dash (RPM, speed, shift-lights, oil-temp, water-temp, voltage, odo, trip a.o.)

(Innovate AFR gauge (lambda))
Stack oil pressure & red low pressure alarm light
Stack fuel level

Seats: Corbeau Sportsman 'cloth'

Willans 4point harnesses

Heater: none

Cover: none

Doors: yes

Electrics

Alternator: Lucas Lord of  Darkness
Starter: Bosch 10 teeth

Battery: FIAMM FGH21803 12V 18Ah lead fleece type
Bespoke home-made harnesses (x3): normal i.e. high current, sensors, ECU

Jacob - start today

This is weird.
With all the possibilities nowadays to spread what you want to spread, without knowing anything about html, php, mysql, or whatever tool you once needed to run your proper webpage, you just do some clicky here, clicky there, and here we go.
This blog I called Jacob which stands for "Just Another Car Owner's Blog" because there already are so many. Depending on patience and available time, I will try to post and update my blog and show some of the mods I made to my car.
That's it for now. The pics are saved on a different PC anyway, consider this as a starter.
Cheers.