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Already on the Chunnel. Blue skies and bright sunshine. So easy to get through passport control and amazed how long the trains are to drive through.

The answer is yes, it's still going! Do you get any benefits? No, apart from the feeling of smug satisfaction for having great taste and the distress of knowing you've joined a club started by me. Mighty Mart: You are #64 Martin Letts: You are #65 Andy M: You are #66 Peter Robinson: You are #67 and may the Lord have mercy on your souls. I can't generate custom badges for individual members any more, but you can use the overall Narrow Club badge for your own nefarious purposes... There is also a video for you to enjoy as follows:

The list is on my desktop, I’ll check tomorrow. You are #68

354 miles done today. Most of it motorway but it was still enjoyable. Tonight we went to Dungeness and also past the live firing ranges. Dungeness is beautiful and desolate. Google Dungeness and read the Wikipedia page as it is so, so interesting. Expensive houses, houses built from railway carriages, nature, shipwrecks and nuclear power stations. Not forgetting the miniature railway. What's not to love.

Day 3 saw 260 miles today from Rawdon over to pontefract where we met Geoffrey and buttercup before being waved off by Robin and Marcus Then heading down to Folkestone where we met Ali and Gail and Jude a mix of a few rain showers and sunshine, waiting on Dave to arrive A bit of bad news that Martin can’t join us yet, get well soon So today 2 became 5

Nice and Sunny in West Yorkshire this morning 😂 have a great trip

Everyone loves a photo, the weather's come good the season officially here and in theory we should be out and about a bit more ...be it a track day or by the beach, so let's have a look! A recent snap of your westfield in the wild! Blat down Avon gorge and back for me on Monday night....good times

Hello all, I have just purchased my first Westfield. It is a registered as a 2017 model and is a Westfield Mega Bird. Not to sure which body is on it as yet as I wont be picking it up until next weekend. I wonder if anybody on this forum knows anything about this vehicle or build.... I also require details of my nearest meeting which seems to be on the Wirral....

Have you gave then a call? sometimes there stock list is slightly behind and they may have them in stock.

Small Project BRG update: I got all the final connectors through and thanks to @Marto303 some wiring to make up the IAT sensor and MAC EBC wiring looms. I also made a bracket for the EBC to mount on, fairly close to the turbo so I'm not running miles of silicone boost hose. Also mega thanks to @AdamR who welded in the IAT sensor boss to the intake pipe. In usual Adam awesomeness, he even added some ribs for the silicone hose to grip to. Cheers dude! Popped over to the garage tonight and got all that fitted, connected and neatly tidied away. Aaaaaaand relax. I'm really chuffed with the outcome, it remains a clean engine bay and you wouldn't know the IAT and EBC wiring was there. It's also a huge benefit to lose that MAF sensor!! IAT sensor and EBC in situ: Next job was to get what was left of the torn exhaust off the car. The three bolts that mount the downpipe to the exhaust were absolutely solid, despite liberal use of Poland's finest rust release spray (Vulcan!!!). Same was true of the exhaust gas sensor, so I did the sensible thing and unplugged that from the loom, and undid the two bolts to the cat, slid the lot out and did a little whoop to myself (the thought of doing that particular task has been eating a hole in my brain for a couple of weeks now!). All that stands in the way of making boost now is fixing the exhaust, refitting it, and installation of the ME221 ECU. I've removed the relevant fuse so all I need to do is whip out the factory ECU (and the f con mini piggyback that's in there currently), replace the main board with the ME221, download the relevant map and away we go (to the nearest rolling road, obviously!). I'm torn as to whether or not to fit the injectors now, or see how I get on with the stock ones - bearing in mind I'm not chasing big power. We'll see as to how carried away I get I suppose!! First up though is the exhaust, so next stop is over to Martin to see if he can work any magic and salvage the downpipe. At this point I'm somewhere between my usual state of hopelessly optimistic and thinking we can do something, and the reality that it's probably scrap. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

I got one off eBay for about £40 for the same purpose. Voila https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254239123177

It does - many thanks

CAR IS NOW SOLD Here is our wonderful Westfield seiw. It has been in the family since it was built by my father and I. It was first registered in 1994; and finished it the following year. We somehow managed to convince the Chester DVLA that it was made almost entirely from a Ford Sierra and was allowed to retain the donors registration plate. The original intention was to use the car for touring, so the interior was trimmed in red Connolly hide with green piping, the carpets are Rolls Royce green Wilton with red piping, whilst the dash is finished in Red Connolly hide. The car, a Wide body variant, was originally fitted with a Ford X-Flow bored out to 1700cc and fitted with 1300cc pistons, a Kent 234 cam, duplex timing chain, oversize valves and weber 40’s etc, that revved like crazy, this was matched to a Ford Type 9 five speed box. The removal of leaded fuel from sale meant that a change was needed and the current C20XE engine sourced and installed. The X-flow was sold on to a member of the WSCC from Chester. Whilst fitting the XE engine an SBD lightened flywheel was installed, the sump removed and the crank checked, all was in tolerance, but new shells and ARP big end bolts installed, these allow the engine to rev to 8500, but we always limit the engine to 6500, it originally ran on 45 Dellortos, these were eventually replaced with Jenvey 45 Throttle Bodies and the ignition system upgraded to a DTA E48 for both fuel and ignition. When my parents moved abroad, the car was passed to me and I have continued with the process of improvement, the seats have been replaced with more supportive racing seats, a Sparco demountable steering wheel and a Quickshift round off the interior changes. These were mainly to lower my seating position and enable me to look through the screen rather than over it. I also fitted an RAC roll bar and replaced the rear boot trim. I was never happy with the DTA ECU, so a Megasquirt 2 v3.0 was sourced from the USA, built and installed. This has revolutionised the driveablilty of the car, you can poodle around in traffic all day long, but press the loud pedal and the beast awakes!! Another unique feature of the car is the storage space, it comes with a lockable demountable boot box, trimmed in green Connolly hide (naturally) that more than doubles the storage space if touring. Easily removed/fitted with a single bolt fixing. Some of the many key points of the car are below, but it really needs to be seen to appreciate how wonderful it is. Rolls Royce carpets trimmed in Connolly hide Dash trimmed in Connolly hide Side panels as above Gearstick gaiter as hand stitched in Connolly hide Handbrake gaiter as above Detachable Sparko Steering Wheel Age related plate (non Q) from original donor car ARP big end bolts (Rev upto 8500) New big end shells fitted when bolts changed SBD lightweight flywheel Westfield side exit exhaust Megasquirt 2 V3.0 ECU LS9U Wide Band Lambda for ECU Autotune High efficiency aluminium radiator Jenvey 45mm DCOE throttle bodies & Trumpets Unique Alloy wheels, cast and machined by Speedline for my father Toyo Proxes T1R tyres - 195/50 R15, 7mm tread on the fronts and 6mm on the rears Westfield Quick Rack RAC Rollbar Quick Shift Custom embroidered roof bag Boot Cover De-mountable boot box trimmed in green Connolly hide (replaces spare wheel) Rear wheel arch protectors Storage Nets USB Connection in car for live tuning of ECU Willan’s 4 point harnesses Seats leather trimmed to match Connolly hide green & yellow stuff brake pads front and rear Removeable Sparco steering wheel We really haven't spared anything on the car; and it has been a labour of love as its progressed over the years with all work carried out to the highest of standards. The cars build began whilst my father was an engineer at Rolls Royce, hence the amount of work that was carried out by trimmers who worked there. It is with a heavy heart that we are selling it, but for family reasons I need to sell. It comes with 3 months MOT remaining; but it always sails through without any issues. I can if requested put it through to it’s MOT early and sell it with a full 12 months. You really will be buying a lovely car and you will not be disappointed. We have almost all of the paperwork records of MOTs etc. from the cars history. If you would like to hear it - although this was on the old DTA FAST ECU - not the Megasquirt which is a huge improvement, here is a video of an evening track event at Cadwell Park - I know it can go much quicker but never had the heart or ability to do so! https://youtu.be/XvRRuq1CttM Please email to arrange a viewing and test drive - reasonable offers considered on this rare gem.

Lunch and oh dear moment.

You need to try them out for fit and comfort. I tried 3 different seats before I found the perfect one, JK seats. These seats seem to be very similar to the JK’s and at 390mm wide would fit ok in all our Westfields, driver and passenger side. If you are of slim to normal hip width they will fit you ok. i do like the mounting brackets, plenty of adjustment for rake and height but not sure if they can be used on runners for multiple drivers.

I like to think of this as elite, rather than "very old and very cramped"... I like the idea.

Popped over to the Port Solent Car Meet in Portsmouth this morning, chatting to the Tiger and Caterham owner - Caterham at 40miles on the clock since IVA. Its a 420R model and the owner Martin let me have a sit in it, much bigger than I thought it would be, and just lovely inside and out, but also £42k!!

Nice shots Want to know what that vans got under the hood he going for it at 19secs 😁

Yes, no, can’t see why not. 👍

As we have discussed this is also my view - however Floyd’s Wish You Were Here is the one album I’ve consistently listened to right through the last 40 years since I bought my first copy (on the third now). It certainly doesn’t reflect my current “taste” as the rest of the stuff I listen to is as off the map as yours is!

Day 3 evening after some supper we nipped along to Dungeoness windy and misty and very atmospheric so did some black and white film photos of the old fishing boats and dozers on the shingle. Then it was time to fill up and head back for an early night as we get an early train in the morning. AND tomorrow France and foreign climes beckon

How about the narrow lowline? That has to be more elite.

Give Matt a call at Procomp (Birmingham). He's knowledgeable on Protechs fitted to Westfield and similar cars. I bought mine from Matt

I swapped to Protech as well. I can't remember what the springs are but I was guided by the Protech guys. Made a huge difference to the ride and handling. Luke.

Music for the Jilted Generation for me

Ive got a new cat on mine, next doors