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Thank you for all your lovely posts and big welcome, i hope to meet you all in the future some time 😁 My daughter already seems very comfortable in it, hopefuly she will share the same passion and i can pass it on to her xx

Hi Im new to westfield, ive got a bit of a backstory to how ive ended up joining the westfield team. My dad Don Homer, some of you may know built his westfield i believe in 1993-94. It was his pride and joy and i have many memories going to car shows with him and portmerion wales in it. Unfortunately my dad un-expectedly pass away 2nd April this year. My mom has passed his keys onto me to carry on his journey, i am so proud of my dad for what he has done and achieved in his life and i am honoured to now sit in the driving seat of his car. I look forward to attending future car shows/events and the monthly meets when they are up and running again. Hayley x

Donington a week on Friday, rocking the caravan wheels and tyres 😆

Veery hot yesterday trackday start line. Westfield keeps runnig well after 80km of winding track, me tired but happy (as for the results could be better, but then - there is always something to modify and practice, so - there is a future ! )

A great run out this morning with No1 son. Stopped at Toolstation on the way home.

First run of the year.

Hello Hayley, welcome and your dad would be really proud of you. I hope my little one will do the same for me one day.

Oh, to have a driveway like this...

A bit of impromptu ignition map tinkering had a bit of an unforeseen consequence of a big backfire that blew my ITBs off! Of course it’s all my own fault - well with a little bit of influence from @AdamR 😁 Basically, my ignition map has a few odd looking sites where the advance is just way different to the surrounding sites. I had a conversation with Adam about this a while back and it’s always niggled at me. But every time I have tried to alter it, the car runs like a bag of hammers - and today was no different. Except that the consequence of the tinkering was to produce a backfire that literally blew the throttle bodies off! So I managed to bung them back on and limp back home and restore the original map. But it still didn’t run right and my afr was seriously lean at low throttle opening and tickover was just not happening. I figured the backfire must have knocked the bodies out of balance. After an hour or more with the vac gauges I just could not get no1 cylinder to show much vacuum at all and they just would not balance. I discovered that a blanking plug was leaking - bingo! Or so I thought. But no. Still the same. But it did lead me to look at what could possibly cause this. Turned out that the backfire had actually bent the butterfly on no 1 body! I managed to straighten it up and the result was much better! That will do me 😁 So the dodgy looking map is back, the butterflies line up, the TPS is set and the balance is fine. Running sweet! Back to exactly where it was four hours earlier! Missed the run out where I was supposed to meet @Nick - Joint North East AO to play with his new TVR though - weather was lovely too damn it! (courtesy of Nick’s drone) Moral of the story. If it ain’t broke...

Noooooooooooooo! 🤣

Nice recovery! But shouldn’t this be in Tech Talk? This thread should be reported to the Webmaster so he can move it. 😛

Just get rid of the horse, much safer and cheaper in the long run and no more space problems

Ready for first track day on Tuesday.. Just got to tidy garage and load up!

Providing restrictions are lifted , we would like to join you for the run, We have a motorhome and trailer so looking for parking close to Peebles so we can join in the social on the Fri /Sat before we head north for some more of what Scotland as to offer ! Jim and Julie

Hang on mate, I'll come down and let you in... 😂

I bought this at the start of the lockdown, sight unseen and obviously undriven. In fact, I’m still yet to see or drive it! But have joined the club this morning and hope to get the car next week. Looking forward to joining the Westfield fun!

Well - I've only gone and done it! The Westy is still for sale but I've now bought a mk1 MX-5 which has had a 3 litre Jag V6 installed courtesy of Rocketeer. It went in at the end of March and I got it home on Thursday - it's just amazing and under such difficult circumstances Rocketeer did an amazing job. The standard of design and workmanship is truly wonderful. Rocketeer's work is carried out in Hungerford by Bassett Down Balancing. I went down there with my trailer on the back of the VW, picked up the car and drove it to my brother who lives about 10 miles away. The drive there and then back to Hungerford on Thursday was truly memorable and will live with me for ever. There is a great winding road of about 5 miles down into Hungerford, the roof was down and the exhausts (courtesy of Cobalt) were just howling... Happy days!!

We've cancelled anglesey the 3rd of july, and seeing the calendar i can't see mee doing another trackday before this one so I'm booking tomorrow. The offer to stay @ mines stands for whoever travelling from too far, or for whoever fancy a BBQ.

oh god no! -Technonsense-

Here's mine!

Great news Hayley. I was sad to hear about your Dad. I met your Mom at Russell Hall last year and we chatted about him and the car. i am so happy that people get real pleasure from what was my passion all those years ago. ENJOY....say hello to your Mom from me Chris

Hi Hayley, sorry to hear of your loss. It would truly make my day if one of my 2 daughters also carried on my passion for anything mechanical..... One has claimed the Westfield and the other has claimed my Land Rover Defender (so they believe??) when they are old enough to drive.

OK, OK, I do know the rules. Car as bought Car back home Stupid exhausts Not off the trailer yet, because on Friday I had cataract surgery on my right eye. Not back to normal yet but someone has turned up the colours and brightness in my right eye x10. Been a busy week!

You ll be fine... remember to put more than two litres of fuel in the tank tho...

Just to not feel left out, I’ve not driven my car on track either.

I've been to cadwell twice but I'll have never driven my car on track. I drove it around my private estate for the 1st time since buying it today

You know. I started it in tech talk. But figured it had enough nonsense in it to qualify here instead 🤣

Way, way out of my league - clever bloke!

It's a long way to walk up to the top! Remember some of us are not use to mountainous areas like Lincolnshire!!

The Oulton day we have on the go is Aug 26th..there's a thread started with booking details further down the page. I'm also interested in a Knockhill day, Sep 14th? .. also a thread started in this section.. It's a bit of a hike up to Knockhill for me, so I prefer a full day if I'm making the trip. 🙂 Re Snetterton .. it's a loooong straight. (300 circuit) My Pinto powered car sees 120 down it screaming it's overweight nuts off! I could only guess a slippery XTR2 with a bit of grunt would see 130 plus? Some serious travelling you're planning. 😎

You're excused for having a proper car

Haha I’m still in bed myself... getting inspiration from the Tech Talk forum 🤓

You might need to wait until @Mark Redpath - WSCC Membership Secretary gets out of bed 😁

Sealey professional. I bought some after seeing Adrians pictures. They were doing some cracking offers on them last year

Do now!

Hi Hayley, you are very

Welcome to the club and wish you many happy and safe trips in your dads car, I'm sure he's looking down at you with a smile on his face...

Unsuccessfully tried to PM you, probably because you just joined today. If you’re happy to be contacted by email, please email me via: dorset@wscc,co.uk. Thanks

We were all sad about your father’s departure, but what a wonderful way to keep his memory and legacy alive. May you find many happy roads and adventures with the spirit of Don beside you.

Would you want to mix with this bloke? 🙂

More power to your elbow Hayley! I doubt whether my daughter would emulate you - my son would though, if only he was in UK instead of Oz! Commiserations to you and your family on the loss of your Dad. 😕

Using my daughter's my little pony to help remove my valve shims. 😁. Only magnet I could find.

We moved house a couple of years ago into a big place and on my list was a dream workshop to spend retirement when it comes. Of course now Im working more than ever. Its my happy place

It’s a superb example. Good luck with the sale, someone will get a truly unique pre-lit.

Here’s one from last weekend - we’re lucky to have some nice (mostly empty) roads up here! (and also need a proper mic 😁)

Addition to my previous post : a set of motion pictures from saturday with comprasion of effort on steering wheel without , and with Traction Control (low intervention of TC set) :

But would you believe - it actually RAN like that!!! Enough to get the car 20 metres to a spot where I could investigate 😳