Sidescreens

[kel176506]

hi guys

Does anyone know if you could get a set of caterham sidescreens to fit an early narrow bodied westfield. Im having real problems sourcing the westfield ones because my car is an early narrow body, i was hoping someone could give me a clue of the dimensions of the current caterham ones that they do for the similar caterham narrow car?

Any help would be appreciated

[Tango7]

Probably better to see if anyone near to you has a set that you could try and offer up to your car. There are quite a few owners around Essex

[davidball]

Do you mean the clear plastic side screens that are supposed to deflect the wind? If so do not bother, they are useless.

[kel176506]

Yeah the sidescreeen doors is what i mean, i am hoping to find the mesaurements out to see if the outside line of the door will fit the shape of the westfield.

[kel176506]

Yeah the sidescreeen doors is what i mean, i am hoping to find the mesaurements out to see if the outside line of the door will fit the shape of the westfield.

[Spingo]

davidball said:

Do you mean the clear plastic side screens that are supposed to deflect the wind? If so do not bother, they are useless.

I completely agree. I bought a set this year from a who said he'd only used them once, so I was quite chuffed.

After fitting them, one short drive up the road confirmed why he'd only used them once!

FOR SALE: One set of plastic side screens for a Caterham. Immaculate. Only used twice.

[Tango7]

Spingo said:

davidball said:

Do you mean the clear plastic side screens that are supposed to deflect the wind? If so do not bother, they are useless.

I completely agree. I bought a set this year from a who said he'd only used them once, so I was quite chuffed.

After fitting them, one short drive up the road confirmed why he'd only used them once!

FOR SALE: One set of plastic side screens for a Caterham. Immaculate. Only used twice.

Have you tried bending the base of the perspex screen so that the main deflector edge stands further out in the airstream? The big problem with the side wind deflectors is that they sit to close to the side of the car to be effective. Looking at a Cobra with their deflectors, these seem to be an extension to the main windscreen!

Try driving along the road and simply push the deflector out into the airstream and see if that improves things. Using a pan of boiling water (left on the stove to boil) or a hot air gun to get the perspex warm enough to bend, I applied quite a significant bend to my deflectors and these worked pretty well to 70+ mph

[Spingo]

Tango7 said:

Spingo said:

davidball said:

Do you mean the clear plastic side screens that are supposed to deflect the wind? If so do not bother, they are useless.

I completely agree. I bought a set this year from a who said he'd only used them once, so I was quite chuffed.

After fitting them, one short drive up the road confirmed why he'd only used them once!

FOR SALE: One set of plastic side screens for a Caterham. Immaculate. Only used twice.

Have you tried bending the base of the perspex screen so that the main deflector edge stands further out in the airstream? The big problem with the side wind deflectors is that they sit to close to the side of the car to be effective. Looking at a Cobra with their deflectors, these seem to be an extension to the main windscreen!

Try driving along the road and simply push the deflector out into the airstream and see if that improves things. Using a pan of boiling water (left on the stove to boil) or a hot air gun to get the perspex warm enough to bend, I applied quite a significant bend to my deflectors and these worked pretty well to 70+ mph

Mine are concaved in shape, so I don't think there is much I can do to improve them - but thanks for the advice anyway.

At fairly high speed, it's almost like they cause a semi-vacuum in the cockpit making it difficult to breathe!

One plus point though, they do look nice when fitted for photos etc but that is the only time I fit them now.