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Happy to join you all as a new member. I've bought my first Toybox supplied Westfiel 2 litre zetec.☺️

A hard copy of my 'build diary' was delivered today - all 636 pages of it...! 😬 The result of many evenings of copying/ pasting and formatting.

More car p**n - finally decided to treat myself to some satin black 13” CXRs. Good service from R&R Alloys. Now I just need to get the tyres…

Bonnet mould having release coats applied, and between coats getting templates made up for the cloth layup. Thinking of doing a 0/90 spread tow for the scoop, and twill for the remainder. 45/45 biax mid layer, and coremat for extra stiffness. Haven’t done weight calcs yet, but should end up much lighter than the grp bonnet, and of course be much stiffer. Haven’t decided on vents as yet, but will make these separately and make them into a feature. Using the plug for my templates, and will be doing an infusion.

Warning to all Westfield drivers!! If you don't come out into the Peak District on a regular basis you will end up with Bagpuss Related Bad Parking Syndrome, as demonstated perfectly here! we won't name names though😁 Thanks Dan for the photo Breakfast for 9 in Cupola Cafe. Excellent quality food, not cheap but defo not nasty. We were out of the cafe before 11 and off on our run out. It stayed dry, the roads were really quiet, I did a superb last minute left turn (proud of that, nearly missed it!), had to take my sunglasses off on the tops due to fog and we all landed safely at The Tea Junction, Hulme End. Rita We all had a Worzel Gummidge moment, here's mine Ian was in control of his hair this week, until he sat next to me that is😁 That's it, we were done in record time and on our way home at 12:45, dry, light and all good having had a fun day with not a word of common sense between us. It's @AndrewBClarke's Christmas Party next Saturday at The Bentley Brook, if the weather is kind I will be doing a run out beforehand, looking forward to it, see you all there XXXX

This little kit arrived today, looking forward to fitting it, although a little daunted by the prospect, hopefully shouldn’t be too tricky 🤞. It’s an 8 channel version so plenty to play with.

I arrived at Paul Jnr house today. the house facing his was abandoned when it was just a concrete shell with a roof on. It was then bought and completed to a very high standard, to day I met Kasper from Denmark, the new owner. I will let the photos tell the rest of the story😎 I think it’s fair to say Kasper is into his cars. turn up the volume 😄

Fresh out the mould! Used a touch too much spray glue so the fabric didn’t slide too easily over itself under vac so a few spots with some bridging, but all in all quite happy 🤙🏽

Had a little bit of pampering done over the past two days. Nothing crazy, just a good once over. There were a few super minor marks from prior to my ownership, and I like my cars to look as good as they go. Mission accomplished. Very happy.

Message to ones self. Never leave your phone unattended in the house. The parrot took some selfies

Last north east club night run of the year tonight. A couple had peeled off by the pub but great run

Nice run out today with @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AOShame forecast wasn’t reality but still enjoyed the last run out of the year before the gritters get out!

Peak District AO here, you think that I would be in charge? no no, not while this lot are around. I was finishing early today because it's raining and going dark at 5, these nutter's tell me, 'these cars have light's don't they?' 'we need more cake' and that's on the ladies table!! We met at the museum, setting off in glorious but freezing sunshine. Glynn's Porsche sounded awesome. Andy Westwood's Westfield is called Precious for a reason!! so he donned his t-shirt and came in the SLK Breakfast in the car museum We came out of the museum to rain, we had already put our roof's on. I had expected everyone to want to head off home, but no, so off we went. It stayed dry so we went through Chatsworth, following the coach from hell, never went above 15 mph. Thankfully we turned up onto Owler Bar, round and to The Cow Shed at Tideswell, where it was now raining. More breakfast Mr Westwood, how many can you eat in one day? The BOY's table. The 'bella bella' table, I mean GIRL's table Him again, Mr Westwood with the first cake of the day A bit of smart parking from Andy Gilbert and Ian at the Cow Shed. Sun's out! Sun's NOT out! Forced I was, forced, to go to The Smithy, Monyash for cake, even though it was raining and already turning dark. The other Andy, Mr Clarke this time, with warmed Apple cake and ice cream, watch out Martin, someone will steal yours!! Mr Westwood AGAIN! more cake Cosy inside The Smithy Andy and Becky with their offering A fantastic day out, we had a laugh, wrote a romantic novel and travelled the world, thanks for coming everyone. For the SORN brigade, don't leave it until next March to come and see us, for the rest of you, see you next time XXXXXXX

Went to Caffeine & Machine. Lots of Ferrari’s there today, but we were given prime location outside the front door 🥰

Freshly arrived from Burton Power - a set of 4 pot callipers, bigger discs, fast-road pads and braided hoses. Hopefully this’ll make the car stop more quickly than it currently does, still running on the original Cortina callipers, discs and pads fitted by the factory 32 years ago!

Another smashing day out, thanks as ever to Julie & Glen. Roads pretty quiet and we had a fab drive up and back. A little foggy but all adds to the fun.

Thank you Bob. Yes, I copied and pasted every page in it's entirety directly from the forum (including comments) into a Word document, keeping my text in 'black' and changing club member comments to 'blue'. Tbh, it was an extremely tedious and time consuming process, but I wanted to capture everything. The final couple of pages show the emojis of all the contributors 🙂. After formatting to remove spaces between entries and to get suitable margins, I saved the file to 'pdf' (approximately 94 Mb in size) and sent it off to an internet company be printed. The printing cost less than £100, compared to almost £200 in one of the high street 'specialist' shops.

Something non car related…. Just 3D printed a skull bowl for Halloween sweets, and a scary spider to keep the small person entertained during half term 🕷️🎃💀😊

A few photos of the moist convoy at whatstandwell bridge!

£4 from temu... Worth protecting my rear end... 👍 😁

Took it work today. Drove home in amazing red skys and ahem also kept a few cars honest 🤣

Keis G201 heated glove liners with batteries. They seem like they'll be very good for winter drives

Got the colour and clear coats on last weekend... ...and got the tub back on the car yesterday. Just a case of putting it all back together now.

A couple from Mallory last week 😁

Good day out at Croft on Monday. Looked dodgy driving there with the mist and drizzle, but despite a pretty slippery start the circuit dried out nicely. We've also finally got a handle on the cooling - the car stayed within bounds all day, without any coddling or slow laps to cool. Really pleased! Nice to see another Westfield on track too - a red Zetec. Forgot to ask the driver if he was a club member!

The steering wheel buttons can be back-lit, but only for night time visibility. The active circuits would normally use the standard dash telltales. You can fit an illuminated dash CAN keypad though, which does light up brighter on the active circuits (there can be up to 14 of those) Edit to add a reminder that WSCC members have a 10% discount on my products since the whole business came about through this great club 💙

I went to view a 450 Chimaera on Wednesday at Lowe Classics near Abergavenny. They have some very nice cars for sale, nearly all on sale or return. They don't seem to mind people popping in for a nose but if you want a drive you need to book. They also I think sometimes do a kinda cars and coffee type thing on weekends now and then. Next door is a large workshop who do all their maintenance on the cars, they are young guys who really seem to know their stuff as they have worked on so many classics and exotica. They have also had quite a few kits through here over the years. If you're local and are looking for someone to work on your Westfield or classic, they'd be well worth talking to. Here are some of the cars they had for sale, some very valuable stuff there! Classic cars for sale in Abergavenny | Lowe Classics https://share.google/eKRXGq6Gur8dCgRdc

Thank you to all the daft people that came out to play today 🤔 I’m so glad that I don’t live with my mom anymore because we wouldn’t have been allowed out in the rain 🫣 A couple of photos of the day ( somebody has pinched some already 🤣) note no rain on the screen and following the crazy people to lunch ……. the long way round because the route changed after @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative gave instructions on which way we were going 🙄 as for my parking at the Cowshed…….in my defence the gap left by @AndrewBClarkeand @ianaliwas huge you could of opened the door of a Rolls Royce , so in my normal race mode of driving I saw a gap and took it 😜 the stewards said it was a safe manoeuvre and I’ve not been fined 😎 And on the way home down the A515 we’ve finally been stopped at the rail road crossing to see a train go past ( we’ve drove this road hundreds of times and thought it was a disused track ) take care guys and see you all soon Luv Andy and Becky

Glad you all had a great time , must say though that last photo looks more like a chimps tea party 🤣 take care and see you all soon xx

Well it needs to be simple enough for me to understand it! Essentially, if you have a removable steering wheel, it allows control of things like indicators, lights, wipers, horn etc from buttons on the wheel. This is done via a battery powered wireless transmitter on the wheel connected to the buttons, and a relay box receiver (in my case) which generally goes behind the dash and needs to be fitted either alongside or in place of the various controls on the dash or steering column. There are more sophisticated systems involving CAN bus for example but my car is way too basic to need any of that 🤣.

I've had a short mainly foggy run into the Peaks to join the gang for breakfast only and an equally foggy run home. Roads mainly dry and dirty! Nice to be out! Almost a poppy for @Greenstreak-Andy D My Peaky 'Bat cave' A great turn out as usual

Bonnet under vac, infusing tomorrow 😎

Maybe last ride this year , golden autumn, only watching recording... I had to speed up the video to show what I actually felt while riding

Hi from Penmaenmawr

It wasn't as bright and sunny as forecast, but we had a good blat round and got my oil warm ready for the annual oil change!

A bit of a last minute one this, but I had a free morning and suggested a run down across Dartmoor, but had to be back in Crewkerne by around 12.30pm. The weather looked a little dodgy too, so in the end we opted for a meet in Cullompton Services with four cars making the trip, myself, Adrian, Colin and Gareth & Linda - that is, once I drove from the wrong service station to the correct one . Deciding to stay further East to stay in the better weather, we drove over the Blackdown Hills in the general direction of Chard, then wound our way down to Charmouth. Soon after Charmouth we lost Adrian to a worsening Throttle Position Sensor problem, and he had to limp home with a popping and banging car which has now fortunately been fixed. After Charmouth, we headed roughly along the coast via West Bay to the viewing point overlooking Chesil Beach and Portland, somewhere I often find myself in the Westie! Back to West Bay for a coffee, then I headed home in time to collect my ladies from the train station, and the others ended up in Dawlish for lunch. A great morning's run with some surprisingly nice Autumn weather, although looking at the last picture one might consider it more of a splat than a blat

Relocated my battery from the nose, where it was getting dripped on, to the scuttle. Fortunately, a new intake plenum had just freed up some space.

Camera Practising. Need to clean the car!

The new heaters were great. We had to take jackets off as it was so warm!

Went to see Francis Rossi at the Barbican in York tonight. I've never seen so many middle aged men in double denim and Status Quo t shirts, myself included!!!!!

Are you getting both cars on the trailer done.

Westy being kept company at the moment by a lovely Sagaris that's in for an engine capacity increase from 4 litre to 4.5 litre (already has in-house ported head and uprated cams and carbon airbox) . Two Great British sports cars, love them both.

Getting ready for a trip up to Siltech for some suspension works 😎

Speak for yourself !!!! We all listen intently and nod and agree…….we haven’t got a clue where we’re going but we do listen 🫣

Highly recommended @Tillett Car Seats. David is very helpful and easy to deal with 👍🏼

DIY dipstick for my new OBP header tank. Not sure my wife has noticed the missing wooden spoon yet! 🤣

Junked the nasty Westfield plenum and constructed my own with silicone and aluminium pipe. Reused the original K&N. It's tight but it does fit under the bonnet.

good turn out lads!