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Hello from Poland! I am a new Member of Your Community. I was reading WSCC forum from long time, but became a member of WSCC today , so here I try to introduce my Westfield : Bought it as a "started project" from Belgium last autumn/winter. The car was not touched from 2-3 years by previous owner, except of painting the fiberglass panels. I was not allowed to start enfgine after such a llong period, I would not try . So I had to take it "as is" . I got with a car a second spare engine (for sure to rebuild - this one is now in the car) , some parts, wishbones, tyeres, rims etc. Needed to take apart almost all , and put together again, some investigation what previous ovner had in mind instalig this or that , in that or other way etc. But, in the end, with rebuilded engine etc. I had a chance to take it on track few times and it is amazing how it drives comparing to regular, even track prepared cars, but of few hundered kilo weight more. It is also more demanding from driver (I had not driven RWD cars from almost 20 years and that was an old fiat with less than 50 horse power engine I think ) And demanding in terms of phisical fitnes (a lot of work for me in this area ) too. Here is some info and photos / video : Westfield SEiW in Aerorace version (I Think it was previous Belgium Cup car from their Westfield Cup Racing series), track only, not road legal. Chasis looks not touched, straight, no rust. Engine - freshly rebuild Zetec 2.0 Blacktop, head porting in hands of one of the best motosport engine builders here in Poland (huge increase in flow on flowbench !) Grzegorz Kuśmierz, some more aggresive camshafts catcams , Jenvey 45mm ITB . Tuned on road , with results about 200 hp and 200 Nm , max revs set conservatively to 7200 as I am learning the car, not competiting yet. 4-1 Exhaust, KMS Standalone ECU and KMS wiring, coil, lambda, etc, MT75 gearbox with quickshift (there was an additional gearbox-oil radiator, not sure if this MT75 gearbox really needs it ? for now I detached it as I am cotributing on trackdays with max 10-15 min sessions ), Sierra 3,92 diff (I think its LSD) . Not sure what the gear rations in this particular MT75 gearbox are, and from what car this gearbox is. Car is LHD, starter is on the right side, clutch line on the left side. Helix 5 paddle clutch 240mm, with Sachs sport clutch cover, std not lightened flywheel Rear wheels with tyres 240/570/13 , front 200/540/13 both Michelin s412 slick (used) , Compomotive CXR rims. Some Team Dynamics rims with intermediate and wet tyres Kumho , but only 175 to 215 width, I think it might be to narrow for rear, not sure about it. I think I will try to find a pair of 13x10 or 13x9 rims for rear, preferably CXR Compomotive . Not driven it on rainy day yet, but some day I will have to ;-/ (not looking forward for wet trackday ) Suspension is widetrack , nitron R1 shocks, Front stabilisator, springs rates - do not know (front red, rear black, but propably it tells nothing) I set geometry myself with strings according to values in Aerorace Manual (front little toe out, camber front 1,5-2deg ; rear toe little in, camber 0,5 -1 deg). I made an DIY corner weighting which shows rather ok cross weigth and 40:60 front to rear (I sit maximum rear and my weight is 100kg , so partialy propably that is why, also there is a huge fuel tank in rear, which I intend to change for some 20-25 liters cpacity or smaller sport tank. Total weight without driver , with oils, and 20-30 ltr of fuel is 590kg Here are some video records from last trackday Well , there was a lot of work to make it driveable, especially as I am not an engineer and work with car alone, fiirst time taking engine and transsmision out, putting freshly rebuild engine in, rearrangment of all fuel lines (precedeor made it in such waym that there was no fuel filter after high pressure fuel pump, so two injectors was 10% less efficient ---> knock and destruction to engine (the other one, its a pity , that engine had a set of burton power larger pistons and special rods, special camshafts etc. But hope to rebuild that engine too . Lots of wortk with setting pedals, seat, steering wheel for my size (still have tro rebuild a gas pedal in some way to make posibble brake bias adjuster to fit and not interfere with gas pedal). But, for the moment now I can eventually say that Westfield is alive , is in shape I am not ashamed to introduce to such a wide an experienced Westfield Owners Community! For now I have lot of learning and getting used to the car , and having fun with it drivig or just working with it in garage as there is a long list of thigs to do in winter time . I am happy there is such a wide Westfiield owners community, forum with so much info and advice. Kitcars are not popular here in Poland, so WSCC is mine basic source of knowledge on this car and whole subject. Regards to All ! Andrzej

I guess that's probably what I should have done. I assumed I'd need to do it in the future but foolishly expected that it would be pretty well treated from the outset. Just crossed over into Sweden. Gutted the weather has been so changeable today. Went over one of the bridges towards Copenhagen and it was spectacular. The sun was coming out so I decided to pull over and take a gamble on taking the hood off and setting up the gopro. Then a few minutes down the road I saw a rather unhappy cloud... Before I could get to another exit to get the hood back up, it turned into a very unhappy, hailstoney cloud... I might complain about the hood, but for cases like that it's better up than down! Sadly this meant the hood stayed on for the Øresund bridge so I can only show you the stock Wikipedia photo for it: What a spectacular piece of engineering. 4km tunnel followed by an 8km bridge. The toll booth operators at the car side even offered me a cup of tea when I jumped out of the car to pay them!

My campsite for the night! Who says a westie can't go off road, eh?

Watergate Bay, Cornwall, on Sunday 8th Sept. Hillclimb was hosted there this weekend gone, was an excellent event and a good opportunity for a club display. One of my favourite places ever 😍

Such a beautiful morning to be out.

Sounds like you'll fit right in Chris!

Just bought this one!

On the drive after a productive weekend... Only owned her 3 weeks and the spanners are already out! Carbs rebalanced, earth leak tracked down and temporarily fixed, some tidying of wiring (work in progress), drivers seat runner modified to help me with legroom (being freakishly tall!) and fitted a new 55mm Coolex radiator (on new rubber bobbins with a modified fan mount) which has dropped water temps nicely. Hopefully get some shots out and about if this weather holds!

Lammermuir Hills, Scottish Borders today. With my front shocks leaking at 25k miles, and rears pretty rough, I contacted Tony aka Damperman and got new Spax fronts and rears spring/damper units. The old springs were 300lb fronts and 170lb rears, but replaced with 340lb fronts and 160-210lb progressive rears. Many thanks to Tony for his help and advice. .

Three of us Essex Boyz made the journey to deepest Norfolk. Light rain in the morning and dried out nicely for the afternoon.

Lunchtime run along the South coast - car needs a clean after yesterday’s track day at Castle Combe.

After 1 year and 11 days, I can finally post a picture of the Westy on the road!

You're probably bored of my pictures of me in Avon gorge. But on the off chance you're not, heres me early Sunday morning. Up through burrington combe (bit slippy) and down through the gorge. Was too much fun and went back up again. Hardly any traffic. Gurt mint drive mind!

My personal opinion is that you won’t need more than 195s with 200bhp. Dont worry about the wet either, traction control not required, westfields are fine with some confidence and practice. Even Nankang AR1s work in the wet if you drive hard and get some heat in them (as @AdamR showed me)

Thought I should probably put an update on here so nobody sends a search party out! Big couple of days finished. Made it to Düsseldorf last night shortly after 9pm. All was well except for the last half hour when I lost all of my Freewheel controls. Not ideal to lose your indicators on the autobahn at night time, but I got there anyway! Turned out just to be a wire that had been trapped by wiper pot cover which was shorting. Tidied that up and modified the routing slightly so all good again today. This morning around 10am I set off for Denmark. Rain was spitting and the clouds looked pretty ominous so I thought it would be best to try out the half hood I bought from SBFS. I think this is probably the first bit I'm not overly impressed by on the car. When I did the fittings in my garage, I remember being disappointed with the fixing at the rear using cable ties. Sure enough, as soon as I tried to tension the roof, the supplied cable tie started slipping, so I had to spend a half an hour getting stuff out of the way in a McDonald's car park to fix that. Even with new cable ties and the roof fully tensioned, though, it leaks. I expected some water to get through gaps around the doors etc. But not through the actual roof seams! Anyway, nothing to be done about it now. Waze reckoned about 6 hours of driving to get to my camping spot for the night in Denmark, but I have no idea what speeds it was anticipating me doing on the unlimited stretches of autobahn. It was pouring down rain for a good chunk of the drive, so having set off at 10 am, with three stops along the way for food, coffee and petrol, I arrived at the camp site around 8:20. Slightly wishing I'd taken a photo when I arrived, but it was very nearly dark and I wanted to use the little remaining light to get my tent set up! I'll take one in the morning though! Tomorrow I'll set off for Sweden. Aiming to be in Stockholm on Wednesday to meet a few friends I haven't seen in years so I'll just drive that general direction and pick a point along the way to pitch a tent tomorrow night! It'll be nice to be off the autobahn. Everything today except the last half hour was autobahn which is not the best for my car - especially with the front wheels toed out. At one point the next instruction on my satnav was to take the exit in 133 miles - to go onto the next autobahn... Exciting stuff. Anyway, photos tomorrow! Time for some rest now!

Alarm set for 4:30 this morning, loaded the car and set off at 5:06. Nicely heavily laden with tent, sleeping bag, air mattress, hiking gear etc. The drive down was cold and noisy, but it didn't stop me smiling like an absolute muppet the whole way! Had to resist the urge to wave at random cars as I passed them a few times! (before anyone worries, the below photo was taken using my phone in a mount, with a timer and the shutter pressed while stationary) The car is absolutely fantastic. I'm so happy with the little changes I made to deviate from the standard car - Freewheel is so good for night driving, being able to switch between dip and main beam mid corner without taking your hands off the wheel. The quantum suspension is just incredible too. I took my friend who drives an M3 for a spin yesterday and he said the Westfield soaks up the bumps better than his car. When I take it on a track too, I can just dial up the damping to wherever I want it. Very glad I asked JK composites to put heater pads in the seats as well. They really make a massive difference and they're so comfortable. A heater in the car would be nice, but wrapped up as I was and with heated seats, I don't see any reason I couldn't drive this car in the middle of winter. When I arrived down at the port, the security guard at checkin directed me into the lane to have my car searched, although I think he did it just to confuse his colleague who was carrying out the searches! "eh... Eh... Can we have a look under the bonnet?". He then proceeded to ask me a few details about the build rather than anything security related! All safely boarded on the ferry now. Car is up to 798 miles now, less than half way through its 4th day with registration plates, although, granted more than half of those miles are from the trip up to Carlisle for the IVA test! I've taken a couple of pictures but the WiFi on the ferry is pants and there's no signal in my cabin so I'll have to edit those into the post later tonight when I get to Düsseldorf! Edit: managed to upload them eventually!

Up in the hills between Durham and Cumbria

Beautiful morning to be out.

After life getting in the way, spent a bit of time and money and it is now running a healthy and smooth 130bhp after a carb tune. New tyres and tracking and now running great.

thankyou gave it a clean! Its actually 40 up through the Burrington "gorgey bit too" I "tend" to enjoy the scenery then as soon as I hit the cattle grids..... well its nsl ..cough!

Today on the BBC.. "Apple Irish tax case appeal heard by EU court" An EU court is hearing appeals against a decision to order Ireland to recover £11.5bn of unpaid taxes from Apple. In 2016, the European Commission found an agreement between Dublin and the technology giant was against EU law. It said the Irish government allowed Apple to attribute nearly all its EU sales earnings to an Irish head office that existed only on paper, thereby avoiding paying tax on EU revenues. (The EU estimated that Apple's effective tax rate was .005% ) Why socialists in this country want to campaign to remain in this Capitalist cartel is beyond me. The real reason for austerity, and the maths is inarguable, is: People are being paid less than it costs to live, so, instead of collecting tax, even from full time workers, the government is subsidising them, through benefits. Corporations are using the techniques described above to avoid paying tax, So, few people are net taxpayers, few if any corporations are net taxpayers, the government's only way to do the stuff it needs to do is borrow money, and we go deeper and deeper into the abyss.

Careful - you know what happened last time 😁

Sorry I've just read the previous posts ref costs. Thanks and see you there.

It may be worth starting a separate thread with a different title. I think more more people will find and follow it then. I for one am so looking forward to following this.

Didn't seem to bother these guys

Good evening all, I have just changed my wheels to a set of team dynamics and have the following set for sale. Sumo Firenza tyres, great tread all round. £200 collected - M24 Many thanks Brads

Its not a breach of data protection if i've told you i can use it pm sent

I thought I would try and get these published before I get the Reverand Everall on my back These retiree's are soooo demanding. Anyway, some good results, nice weather for it too, who'd of thought in September eh? Mira (R35) - Results Tiggs

Take ZERO notice of the PM of Luxembourg, one country that stands out as being at the heart of one of Europe's biggest economic issues. How? You ask.... Amazon, Skype, iTunes, Paypal and the like set up HQ's there to take advantage of what can only be described as devious but legal means of paying little or no corporation tax in the countries that you actually do business, and an effective rate of about 6% in Luxembourg.

Explain, please, how a party with 'Democrats' in their name can decide unilaterally to wilfully ignore the result of a democratically held referendum by saying they would revoke Article 50 without a further referendum? Especially as they raised the idea of a referendum on leaving or remaining in the first place!

Fixed £90 inc Vat for ‘recoding’. Can’t explain why😂

The biggest issue I find with this is consistency. Watching every f1 race I see some circuits where track limits are enforced others are not. Exceeding track limits needs to be enforced consistently at every race. I've heard the usual blurb from the FIA about they only enforce where the drivers gain an advantage. Nonsense. If there was no advantage to be had they wouldn't be out there. Rather than launching some poor soul skywards isn't the answer. What if someone was trying to avoid an accident or had lost the car mid bend. They dont deserve the wrath of the sausage kerb. Everytime a driver exceeds track limits with no real reason add a 1 second penalty. It would remove the advantage gained and it would stop it overnight. These guys are the best in the world (well apart from Vettel who looks like his heads gone) if they cant keep at least one wheel on the track then theres something wrong.

I was flying in this beautiful old Warbird this weekend having spent an amazing two days at Goodwood Revival. I'm in the back in the first pic, second pic is the closing display running in at Sunset at Revival on Saturday.

A positive lie in compared to Geoffrey ( Buttercup ) 😉

A great morning in Lancashire..... couldn’t resist a 6.50am start 😉!!!

So after 9 years she is off for checks and the final SVA.

Checking out the kitty litter at knockhill at the weekend Pictures rights go to flat out photography

One from my mapping session last week.

Lovely evening.

From our Essex meet this morning.

Don’t forget we need to do it again because both our GoPros failed 😭😍

Lancashire Area Meeting at the Green Man at Inglewhite at 7.30pm, all welcome, this is going to be a tough meet for me after an accident in my treasured Westfield ☹️😩😩looking like its unrepairable. Steve