Carl Meek & James Lovett - Build Diary for Westfield
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Westfield Megabusa Build & Race Diary

The megabusa has come to an end - it is being stripped down and re-chassied as a Duratec race car. Visit www.durabang.com to see progress!

Following terrible unreliability and three major engine failures, i decided to go down the car engine route.


For 2008, the megabusa was entered in the SEMSEC (South East Motor Sport Enthusiasts Club) race series. So we now have a new website section 'Racing' to track the progress!

It was a turbulent 2007. From the idea starting in May, the car was unofficially 'finished' on September 3rd, exactly 23 days after the kit arrived, taking a total of 139 hours, 216 man-hours. Of course, cars like this have a habit of never being finished - a new carbon dash, datalogger and computer install were the first round of upgrades. Following 2 disasterous track days, the engine ran dry and blew a main bearing resulting in me buying a new engine, sump, pump and tank.

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October 3 2008 - The last post
This is the last post on this website before www.durabang.com takes over.  Thanks to everyone for watching progress and keeping an eye!

Google tells me that the visitors have been:

9,928 Visits
5,610 Absolute Unique Visitors
39,367 Pageviews

Not bad, eh?

Lets see how the new site does: http://www.durabang.com