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Which kid did you just buy, and from where? Oh right.... the car! My bad. Nice car, looks a bit of a beast! Enjoy

Its the car, she calls to me.

Brad and Diane will be there. As it involves a meal, I'll see if it qualifies as a 'date night'.

A video from the track evening at Teesside Auto drome on Monday night. It was fully subscribed.. 35 cars I think, with 15 on track at any one time. A busy one. Positives were, weather was perfect, I don't think there were any red flags, and it only cost £40. Negatives.. very bumpy in places.. and every time I went out I seemed to find at least one car without mirrors! Last session, Sun was setting, light a bit low for the gopro.. Trying to keep up with an MNR Mazda turbo. 😎

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

Villenueve was spotted in Canada by McLaren driver James Hunt who told Mclaren they should sign him up before someone else did . Mclaren tested him but decided not to sign him ! Enzo Ferrari recognised his talent and signed him up, mainly because he reminded him of the great Tazio Nuvolari . Viilanueve spent 6 years with Ferrari, driving an outdated car , the problem being the flat 12 engine being unable to make room for ground effect which was coming in . He won races with some amazing driving , you were not alone shedding a tear on that day .

Such a beautiful morning to be out.

Couldn't we all! Haha! Unfortunately I didn't take pics! My drivers seat wasn't moving back as far as the rear bulkhead, when I removed the seat I found a couple issues. The first was the carbon floor panelling my car has hadn't been fitting correctly to the floor... Removed, reshaped to give clearance around the steel floor mounts and refitted. I also fitted a small plate to make sure it didn't lift and foul the runners in future. The second was the runners... After a lot of measuring I realized I had about 10-15mm to play with. Looks like the floor straps are slightly further forward on the drivers side than the passenger side. Not wanting to do major surgery on the straps, I re-drilled the mounting holes on the runners. You may have to weld up the old holes to keep the integrity. Another thing I found was years of detritus under the seat and in the runners! A bit of cleaning and some silicone/PTFE lubricant and the seats run freely. I now have about an extra 30-40mm, doesn't sound much but with the seating position it makes a huge difference. Every little helps!! 😁

Just turn the radio up!!! See you tomorrow @LukeW

Hi yes I have one, complete with the number plate light and metal bar which slots into the rear holder pm me your email and I will send you some pics thanks Ian

Just bought this one!

Nice video Andrew

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 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 😍

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!

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.

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.

I think this would explain it all.

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!

Up in the hills between Durham and Cumbria

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

Beautiful morning to be out.

The biggest outrage of brexit so far. the lack of access to cheap beer that is