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Had some quality time with the toy 👌

Time has come to part with my road legal track car. The megabusa is a fully sorted track weapon and no expense has been spared with it. Its not a show car but has been used on track so has a few associated marks and some gravel rash. The car was originally built by the owner of mistral and was his own car, there has been no expense spared on the build whatsoever. It has a very linear power line and produces a very reliable 222bhp from the fully forged engine. The spec of the car is as follows: Westfield Megabusa VU02 WRL Road registered Chassis:- Nitron race shocks all round wide track front end wishbones Quick rack steering Twin brake master cyl with bias Straight through Bailey Morris prop Quaiffe internal Sierra diff 3.14 & heavy duty output drive shafts 4 pot billet front brake callipers Translogic digital dash SPA Oil gauges GRP seats (not tillett as per the photos) Race harnesses Full Caged roll-cage Momo steering wheel with racetech quick release 24v Starting Simpson full race polished stainless exhaust manifold and silencer just re packed and additional Simpson rear exit add on exhaust for super quiet track days like the caterham ones. Engine:- Full race Mistral 1500cc Hayabusa motor Gasflowed cylider head Race camshafts and vernier wheels Race valve springs and Titanium retainers Decked barrel and skimmed head Arrow stroked crankshaft Arrow forged con-rods Heavy duty gearbox output shaft Raised 5th and 6th gears Billet selector fork shafts Billet clutch hub centre Race clutch springs and new clutch stack SBD Billet clutch slave cylinder SBD dry sump installation Larger fuel injectors & Dynojet Power Commander SBD Highflow air filter kit Davies Craig water pump Davies Craig Water control system Coolex Aluminium radiator Engine set-up and mapped on Road & Track dyno (sheets available) Wheels and tyres:- Image 8" wheels with Nangkang AR1S tyres 185/60-13 front and 205/60-13 rear The engine and gearbox have undergone a full strip and refresh at a cost of £3500.00 at Mistral, it has done one track day since. just had new clutch installed and has done zero miles since. The Nitron suspension was fully serviced and revalved by Coupa Motorsport. They also done a full Geometry setup and corner weighted the car. The Westfield is extremely quick, capable of well under 2.10 at Snetterton and 51s at Brands This is a full package that could esily be raced and very competitive in Mag 7s series. Its unlike other bike engined cars that it can be driven in higher gears due to the power and torque of the engine, it does not need to be screamed to produce the power. £18500. You will not find a quicker fully sorted car better than this!

Cooling after another short run out today. Brisk to say the least.

Well a sad day for me , the final pic on the Wirral, ready for its run back home. Bit windy on the M6 but got home in one piece. And back home

Westfield Megabusa For Sale It is with great regret I am having to sell this well sorted car set up for fast road and track. I am selling purely on health grounds and am hoping to be back with another Westy in a couple of years. Westfield Megabusa Registered in 2003 but only lightly used then stripped and dry stored until previous owner bought it in 2018 and reassembled it with 75% new or as new parts onto the original frame which is still in perfect condition. I bought it in January 2020. Spec includes - standard Hayabusa Gen 1 engine with undercut gearbox, Power commander 3, Rolling Road set up at RLM showing 169 hp, limiter set to 10k, 3.14:1 Sierra LSD, Westfield Reverse box with modified breather system, SBD dry sump system with gear upgrade and with braided oil lines and a large oil cooler, Bosch electric water pump for cooling, Protech double adjustable shocks and springs with rose joints, Suspension/Geometry set up at Radical race workshop, Rear anti roll bar, Ford rear discs and big Hi-Spec ventilated front discs and calipers, Wide Track front suspension, alloy uprights, short steering arms, Westfield exhaust manifold and silencer (only just repacked) with bolt on additional silencer and a modified Suzuki air-box to keep the noise down for track days, Mechanical paddle shift and conventional gear lever, Westfield race seats on sliders, 4 point TRS race harnesses, Digi Dash and Racetronics gear indicator on a carbon effect dash, extra wide rear arches (gives the car a great stance) and Carbon effect front cycle wings, Carbon Aeroscreen, Carbon cold air intake, carbon boot cover, RAC Roll bar,, Wheels 13” Compomotive CXR approx 9” rear 7” fronts running Toyo R888 all round, 225 rear (only covered around 100 miles) and 205 on front, LED lights all round. Momo 270mm quick release steering wheel. I have done 5 track days and around 1700 road miles, oil has always been warmed to 60C before revving, it has normal wear a tear for fibre glass apart from some starring on the rear arches, and a slight mark on the bonnet (don’t ask!). The speed and handling is great on track but also very user friendly on the road. Odometer 2160 miles, MOT Due 17-03-23 £14,500. If it sells for the right price I will include brand new H/D clutch and springs (nothing wrong with the current one), spare set of extra wide rear arches and brand new carbon CSR front cycle wings which I have not got around to fitting, Black boot box. I will also be selling a low loading trailer, first refusal will be given to purchaser at a price of £1,500. Depending on distance I would also be willing to deliver for diesel cost. Located in Exeter Tel Nick 0-7-7-6-8 8-8-0-2-2-8

Just in case you hadn't seen it in the current magazine.

Hi All, Up for sale my 1800 Zetec Silvertop Injection 130bhp Westfield. Body in excellent condition, never let me down. Full service, Cambelt and battery last year after I purchased it from a friend in his 70s who had it for 21 years. MT75 Gearbox. Drives spot on, New Bluetooth Radio just fitted. Have Doors, Tonneau and Wet weather hood. This is a virtually totally original 96 build, with massive build file, only changes are the new headlights I recently fitted and Carbon Rear Stone Guards. Only thing I was going to do was replace the underslung exhaust which does limit ground clearance but I have a Westfield Manifold ready to convert to side exit, just not had the time to do it. Excellent first step into a Westfield. Private Plate also included in the price. £6995. Tel: 07795 183172 based in North Essex.

Still plenty to do to be ready and would like to get a test day in before, still needs to be mapped but booked in next week, hoping I should be ready

Hi Mark. Many thanks. The pack came yesterday and I am enjoying reading it. Love the key ring. Cheers martin

Hi Martin Your membership pack was put together on 20/8/22, if it doesnt arrive in the next few days please let me know and I'll send another on out.... Thanks Mark

For those familiar with Loton Park you may be interested to hear I got the Westy sub 50 secs. Official time 49.68 sec. New record at the last event there this year.

Oh and the old WSC Ltd drift days were really, really good. If the "new" Westfield starts doing them, I'll be back! (Think I've done three now!) You definitely don't use your own car for these! They used to use a pair of specially prepared cars. Both had Quaife gearboxes with long first gears, so you'd pretty much do everything in first, with no need to worry about gear changes. They then used nice grippy semi-slick tyres on the fronts, with van tyres on the rear, inflated to the max - somewhere around 50 psi from memory. It meant the cars would drift really simply and safely at low speed, so you could learn to steer and modulate the go pedal with minimum risk.

I've done both skid pan training in the hydraulic exo-skeleton cars. (They can control not just which end lets go, but the degree, and also even drill down to individual wheels), and the Westfield based drift courses. I'd say the two are completely different disciplines really, and it depends what you're looking for. The skid pan course was superb, really, really good at teaching you how to recover from, as quickly and safely as possible, the various types of front, rear, or total slides. The drift courses on the other hand was almost about throwing that out of the window, and concerned more with provoking, holding and controlling slides. I know the first time I did the drift school, poor Russ from WSC Ltd was both amused and frustrated by the previous skid control stuff I'd done, as I was reflexively steering out of the slides I was supposed to be doing! Took me a little while to adjust my head into holding the slides!

Today’s Bin Lizzy:

Thanks, I was tempted to go topless (so to speak) but the weather forecast did predict rain at some point, this proved correct so the roof up was a good idea despite the temps in the car at some points being rather warm, ( glad I took my jacket off first ) . Not a fan of motorways in the Westy but needs must and although the speed restictions on all but two motorways were a pain , the trip back wasn't too bad, glad to read you got Winston back as well 👍

We'll hopefully be getting entries in for this

Wow 10 days since I lasted posted on this thread, well quite a lot has happened, not least I am currently sat at home in Lancashire again. But yesterday spent an enjoyable day at a local car show, the first of what is hoped as many at WaterWorld in Neston, Wirral. Far more cars arrived than was expected and the management did at one point have to limit the pubic's entrance to the venue, since there was no more spaces for cars to park. It's not often that I am the only "7" at a car show but I was on this occasion. With the car show scene winding down for the year, I too deceided it was perhaps time to return home, so with a sad farewell after almost 2 months I said goodbye to the Wirral and headed home. An hour and three quarters later I arrived safe and sound back where the car really belongs Huge thanks to the Wirral group without whose help I would be stranded with a bust diff and leaking exhaust gaskets, thank you all for your help and support , and great to meet just a few of the members down there. 👍. There maybe chance to return, but alas without the Westy. That will now be SORN'd for the winter and get some of those jobs sorted out I could never get done during spring/ summer. Thank you all once again and hope to catch up with the Wirral group again.

Me to as long as no mishaps at Anglesey I am looking forward to seeing the results of all your hard work Simon quite enjoyed reading your posts that you have submitted, Dave

Welcome . Lovely car and love the wheels.

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Welcome from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 cracking looking motor...enjoy.

Ha, you get one type of token for the large lunch and one type for the regular lunch, my advice is not to leave your token within grabbing distance of 'naughty tractor followers' because she will swap it while your attention is diverted. It's what she does in the absence of Ian Kinder's steering wheel, which also get's grabbed at every opportunity. The carvery tokens

Welcome, a cracker of a car!

Welcome from South Derbyshire, lovely looking car 👍

Hello, and welcome to the club and the Yorkshire area. I hope @barry peel told you about the club and the local meetings. We have 2 monthly meetings, the Tuesday evening one at the Fox and Grapes on York Road, A64 on the first Tuesday of the month from 7:30ish. The next one is on the 4th October. We also hold a breakfast meeting on the 3rd Sunday. At the moment this is moving around to take in different venues. Details of when and where will be posted in the events section of the forum. We also have regular runs out, again these are posted on the forum. Hope to see you around and good to see Barry's car still in the club.

Parked up ready for the Peaks meet this morning.

Sorry, one more thing.... I asked Mum to take a picture of me when I set off..... this was the result! 😜

Our journey through Matlock Bath

13 cars, 13 unlucky for some but not us, we had an amazing day and on it goes with @AndrewBClarke @Andy Westwoodand their crazy daft photo's🤣. It's a good job @Si.Dalziel took a decent photo at McD's because mine are a bit rubbish, but here we go. McD's car park Parked with some of the Honda Boys Glynn's and Andrew's Short's were worn on this not so warm day Others turned up later Not the fastest of runs, we had the challenge of overtaking the cyclist's before finding the non-overtakables (is that a word?), a tractor run. We followed them to the junction, saw which way they went and we went the opposite way! I wanted to take the road that passes under The Roaches, but no way was I following them. As it happens I could make it that we went that way for the next leg of our journey, so all was not lost. I had a table for 18 booked at The Rudyard Hotel, where the carvery is excellent. Dave was quick to tell me that you only come here to wear your 'party frock' on your BIG birthday, not just an ordinary birthday, so we will let him off. Here is a photo of the last time we came here on @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO BIG birthday, just in case anyone has forgotten. Today folk were dressed more normally The dinner is still as good still as big anyway, Back in the cars, BEANO looking great as usual Having not eaten enough 😮 we had to go cake hunting next. Our Cake Meister suggested we go to Wetton which has a reputation for serving large slices of homemade cakes, good choice there Andy. Also it meant we could divert up to the Roaches road. We shoehorned into the car park Hello Ali x Andy hunted down the last slice of Bakewell cake, leaving the marzipan covered fruit cake for Andrew, no fighting boys. Watch it, the 2 Andy's are at it!! My small offering of coconut and raspberry jam cake We got snapped on our way through Matlock Bath again, I will put those photo's on the next post. Thanks everyone for making today a fabulous day out, I hope you enjoyed the roads and the driving as much as the food and the company XXX

Well what a great day we've had around the Peaks and Staffordshire Moorlands. Great company, fantastic roads and the great food. Thanks Julie/Glen for yet another fantastic day.

Snug. Mission accomplished 👍

222 miles of fun. Absolutely fabulous. Thanks everyone.

How does our esteemed leader stay so slim?? First course - Followed by -

Thanks for another great run in the peaks. There was a really good turnout. I think the tractor drivers enjoyed the Westfield convoy behind them too.