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This is my 2nd Westfield and night and day difference between them. So pleased I took advice from people who know. Had almost 6-7 weeks now and the car has been out 3-4 times a week, even today, had a little run out and got a bit wet, but then was fun drying and cleaning the car. Was only a little shower. The purpose of the post - was just to encourage anyone on the fence of a purchase to just go for it! Almost 2000 miles and not a single glitch :-) love making it shine!

Yes although the diff has developed a leak, but that’s only a £10 seal. Im really happy with the colour!

Weather looking much better tomorrow, hope so! Rain did make entertaining racing though!

Another Westfield Wet Weekend

Ripped filter prompted early upgraditis

In many ways it doesn't forgo anything but when comparing alongside the modular "multi donor" car there are of course differences but many of these would not be obvious or visible when looking at a finished car. chassis (including all suspension bracket positions) and bodywork is all identical with the exception of a few extra brackets on the SDV to accept the donor Mazda parts. Wishbones are different as these need to carry the mazda uprights rather than the cortina and ford/VW parts and wheels would be mazda fit rather than ford. The mazda diff is supported in the chassis by a cage which bolts to the same mounting points as found on the ford based cars and the steering column is from the mazda rather than Austin Allegro. You'll also find the handbrake in a better position on the SDV as its alongside the gearstick rather than under your elbow. The Mazda SDV was designed as a "budget" build so depending on who built it there's a couple of areas to keep the costs down with an SDV. The first is the exhaust, where you could either build with the original mazda manifold or spec the optional westfield 4-1 exhaust and the other is the dashboard which was intended to use the mx5 clocks or as a few of us have done you can fit a standard westfield dashboard. For me i like the concept of the SDV as I know all the parts its built from are either going to be Mazda or Westfield. It may lack a bit of power as standard compared to the other offerings but as its built from donor parts sourced from a lightweight sportscar the overall weight of the car comes in notably less than those built with components sourced from family saloons.

I had a sunny and soggy journey to Curborough: Sorry, I had to rudely leave to meet a friend who'd popped into the UK briefly for a trip to the Peaks and North Wales. I had a great 1 car peak district blat to Baslow over some great, quiet roads after I left the A38. My car was missing it’s normal Westie friends at the Wheatsheaf: Sun stayed out in the Peaks: I took my friend's travel partner for a ride first and we had a great clear run through '13 bends' and then headed for Frogatt's Edge. Happy Passenger: Passengers where then swapped and another quick ride round and then I headed for home and they headed for North Wales. Sorry to hear about the damage @Martyn Vann - Joint Warwickshire AO I hope it's soon fixed. Looks like I missed a fun afternoon with you guys, but will catch up next Sat.

Need an oil seal for my Sigma engine, a part which has been "deleted" by Ford. A very helpful guy on the Spares desk at my local showroom did a Europe wide search for me. That threw up a Spanish dealer showing one in his stores. Armed with the email address I soon sent a simple message explaining what I was after and that I understood he may have one. I soon received the following reply: "NO VENDEMOS PIEZAS AL EXTRANJERO , SALUDOS ." Bring on Google translate and this is what came up: "WE DO NOT SELL PARTS TO THE FOREIGNER, GREETINGS" I guess that told me

Sooo sorry I couldn't join the Wetrats Sports Car Club today

Colour looks great!

I’ll be there around 9am (ish) tomorrow and will do my best to bring some sunshine with me!

Thank you @Stuart. You never know, might see you there!

Big car show at Pershore Plum festival tomorrow........

A really good day out, first time I had driven the Westfield in the wet, and at Loton so although I know the hill well mastering the changing conditions was interesting and I learnt that the car has reasonably forgiving handling. It started to understeer at full blast in 3rd going through the kink on the Cedar straight, I eased the throttle and fortunately it came back, albeit to slowest time in the group, I was about a second off the pace. Great to talk to everyone and very many thanks to IanD for the shelter under his Bongo's awning, without it we all would have been much wetter. So it's a good job that he managed to borrow a crash helmet!

Kosei K1's and Direzza ZII's. I've been very happy with these. That spare is from a set of Yokohamas on OZ's that I use when I take it out in cold weather.

Reluctantly, it's time to sell my much-loved Mazda 1.6 based Westfield. Built by me in 2011, she has given me a lot of ultra reliable fun on road and track as well as a trip to Le Mans, but it's time for the next project and I need the space. I'm based near Chippenham in North Wiltshire. Please note that the Private plate is not included in the sale - the car will revert to a G plate based on the age of the donor car. The car is a standard Mazda SDV built using ZK bodywork and the Westfield completion kit with the chrome pack - no carbon here, mate,, but she has had a few modifications over the years. I have the history of the donor, a file of all the receipts and build photos. She passed IVA at the first attempt: Engine & Gearbox etc are from a 1990 1.6 Mazda MX5 Mk 1. The donor was a much loved car from within the family and had been very well maintained, which reflects in the current reliability. 101k on the donor and I've put on another 7K, so the odometer reads 108K. Mileage is pretty academic really and as SDV'ers will know, parts are plentiful and cheap, including the big stuff like engines and gearboxes. There is potential to turbo/supercharge if required - a route successfully undertaken by other Mazda SDV mates. There is a rumour that the 'out of the box' performance of this particular car drove some to fit turbos just to get ahead of me, but that's another story.... It has been 'breathed on' by Skuzzle motorsports who fitted an ME221 mappable ECU, flowed the head and re-profiled the cams so it now has @145bhp the flywheel, up from the standard 115bhp. It has the 4-1 Westfield manifold fitted as well as a K&N filter. The car has been faultless from the off and starts first time every time, regardless of how long she's been sat in the garage. The standard gearbox is perfect for a Westfield. Standard suspension with GAZ shocks all round, professionally set up by Dave Gallop at Track Developments Other additions: Westfield half hood Playschool MSA roll bar, chromed. Brand new Toyo R1Rs all round - the front ones so new they've not even been fitted yet! Odyssey Gel Battery Shortened sump (done by Gary Gunn of Loaded Gunn) AA Composites lockable boot box (very useful!) Mintex 1144 front pads Perspex wind deflectors MOT October, but will be renewed before then. The car is in excellent condition, although there are the usual gravel rash marks on the front of rear arches and a small hole in the gel coat on the very bottom of the nearside wheel arch - probably stone damage - although this is invisible unless you crawl around underneath. Also, there's some minor gel coat crazing around a couple of the front mudguard mounting bolts. The windscreen has a 'bullseye' in it, but conveniently, it's behind the rearview mirror and has been hidden by a WSCC sticker for years. I'm looking for £8500 07834 539464 if you wish to chat more or come and have a look.

Already started at our house Gp3, now F2 then Porsche super cup all before lunch.

A scenic background would ruin this pic!

Lovely day today for a drive!

I used to fly this.

This is even crazier.

We've made it to the boat in plenty of time, another great trip coming to an end, I've clocked up 1500 miles Terry a lot more no doubt. No major problems with the westies as well

Welcome RTRT, nice looking car. I am due to collect my first Westy in a few weeks and I’m looking to upgrade the exhaust soon. Just wondered about yours and the purpose of the springs? Is this to allow easy removal/disassembly? Cheers

Yes I bought it off Kevin. Sadly it is no more a “perfect storm” of small negative effects (mostly mad hot weather, location and wind swinging 180 degrees on take off) led to a stall at around 50-100 ft ending in hitting the dry stone wall. Very nearly lost my life and only just kept my right leg!