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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!

Loving my Westfield, even though I broke it last weekend at Rockingham, spun on Saturday at loton and spent yesterday getting soaked also at loton. Cant wait to get it out again

Me n Debs are going on the Sunday

Jeff. Your pics show what a great weekend it was. Enjoyed it all, bacon butties, fairy cakes, but also great company, and lots of good friends. The Gold Cup is my favourite event of the year. The rain on Sunday produced some interesting racing, and the Monday was dry, Calum Lockie, in the 8.8 litre March, did a 100 mph average lap, pole position and won both races. Car of the meeting for me. Car 18 in your pics. John.

Great weekend at Oulton Park for the Gold Cup

Just don't break anything else of your car before Sat

Fixed that for you...

Weather is looking pretty promising for Saturday.

Thanks Jeff, for the tea and cakes. Compliments to the chef.

Mind have you seen the advert?

Yes I’m in on Sunday

Hi thanks just paid for the 60days so il try and get pictures and information uploaded now thanks .

As Dave says, yep. Also post up lots of pictures and information about the car and it’s history. More info will help it sell.

Great weekend. Thanks to Jeff for the gazebo, tea, coffee, cakes and bacon butties.

Happy to be of service. Was still a good weekend despite the rain on Sunday. All part of the fun. So good close battles and the usual Pee taking. Thanks all again for the help getting sorted with a helmet. Cheers.

^ Exactly what Chris said. Plus, be aware that, for various reasons, not least of which that many of the aftermarket gauges used in kit cars, aren't absolutely bob-on accurate, your readings may not 100% match someone else's, with the same set up, and at identical revs. As long as they're not hugely far apart, it's no reason to worry. The main thing to be conscious of, is consistancy; so your car at identical temperatures is always around about the same pressure at idle, or at certain rpm, under load - i.e. Driving. Again, don't panic about a few psi difference here or there. That's normal behaviour in these set ups. Please don't just clock watch though, it's easy to start doing it, and you develop a sort of gauge-blindness, if you're not careful, where you end up so focussed on a particular gauges reading, you almost blank everything else out! Really, all you need to be aware of, is if for a given engine temperature, the gauge suddenly starts giving a very different reading, so say, showing 90+ psi at hot idle, or say 30 psi, at high revs, when hot. Also, apologies if this sounds a daft statement, and is obvious, but lower pressure readings than normal, do not necessarily mean the oil is low and needs topping up! (Many have now grown up and spent (long) motoring lives without oil pressure gauges, and it always amazes me how often a gauge seems to get treated like a low oil level warning!)

Change of plan for me. Not doing the Saturday run now, but still coming on Sunday for the show. Anyone else coming from Leeds area? I'll sort out a meeting place. Sent you a message @Geoffrey (Buttercup) - North Yorkshire AO

Hopefully you meant drops a little. If it drops a litre of oil you are in trouble Normally oil pressure is highest when you first start the engine from cold. Cold oil is thicker (more viscous) than warm and thus makes the pressure read higher. As it warms up it becomes less viscous so will read lower. But pressure will also increase with revs. So tickover will read low and full chat will read high. Hope this helps explain that you are seeing fairly normal behaviour.

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!

Welcome from Bucks, really nice car.

from Nottingham

hi from sunny scotland, nice motor

No Craig 4 of us but you lot had gone by time we got there

Another flared wing car! Excellent! Unusual colour too.

On the way back from MOT this morning, it has been off the road for a too long .

Good thread. Here's mine undergoing a throttle body conversion......

I did a rally right at the end of 2017. The scrutineer did not have any FHR stickers but inspected my device, made a note on his checksheet and let me run. I have since had a sticker applied by a local scrutineer. I have spent a lot of money over the past 40 years updating helmets - some of them hardly used at all because I am an infrequent rallyist / sprinter. I daresay the FHRs will be lifed, too in the future. However, I have always made money available to buy good equipment - never the most expensive / lightest because I haven't ever had that kind of budget. I have lost friends in accidents due to head injuries and been at events (pre FHR) where such devices would have possibly saved people. The MSA fight hard to keep motor sport insurable in the light of such fatal / serious accidents possibly creating precedents and rendering motor sport statistically too much of a risk. If this year's cost to me is a £2.50 sticker, I am happy to forego a couple of small bottles of Coca Cola to make the scrutineers' life easier and maintain standards. No insurance = no sport. As an MSA licensed Clerk of the Course, I may need, one day, to be in the box at a Coroner's Court and I want to be able to rely on the scrutineers to have been able to have fully checked and to report back that all the PPE was in order. Simon