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Thursday night ducting night!

New toy to play with whilst out and about 😊

Nice little run out last night with some of the Kent section

You’re not yourself when you’re hungry.

Sadly, the actual joke was not reported.

With the nose complete it was fettled to the final shape and offered up to the chassis. An aluminium bracket was made to fix it to the top of the chassis and a Dzus fastener fitted. The bottom is secured in a similar way with a Dzus fastener through the floor. the back of the bonnet will be fixed with slide fasteners.

I have both, I had my tonneau made to measure to my spec and it’s great, when solo the passenger side is on all the time, thus making it easier when leaving the car to put the drivers side on. if I’m leaving it for any length of time and rain is forecast I put the hood up then the storm cover, that stops any pooling and everything stays dry. storm cover and roof on.

Yes, in fact I am waiting for a Half Hood from SBFS Wanted to order tonneau custom made not buy (from local sail and boat covers etc company here, good one) to choose good fabric I wanted, use clips I have already installed in car. Also SBFS has as I saw only two-part tonneau (one part for boot second for cockpit, and I wanted one-part. Also custom made would be faster than from SBFS. Also its a local company, I know them they repaired my windsurfing sails few times. But now when I decided I choose storm cap, and price of custom made and ordered in SBFS is similar, I added storm cap to my half hood order from SBFS. Sadly its 8 weeks of leading time... then custom , import taxes, VATs etc .

In pre Westfield days I had a car that I made my own tonneau for. I put a provision on for a removable vertical elastic strap up to the roll bar to keep the middle high and promote run off. It looked a bit naff but it worked. D

Old thread revisited… Sorry about that, Donnie.

The last major task is the nose cone. I must confess I’ve been putting this off and it’s been redesigned more times than any other part of the racer. My first thoughts were to fabricate from steel or aluminium since they’re materials I’m happiest with but eventually I settled on fibreglass since it would allow me to introduce sone curves. First job was to make a buck. As I’d already drawn the nose in 3D in Solidworks I made some prints of the profile at 50mm intervals to give the general form. these I then to roughly cut the shapes from 50mm thick insulation. Rye four layers of this were then glued together to roughly form the nose. Once the glue dried these were then cut to the final shape and then sanded to the finished profile. Onto the buck I then applied 2-3 layers fibreglass resin and chopped mat. I’ve not done much with fibreglass so the end result was looking somewhat lumpy but generally what I hoped for. Much like my skills at plastering walls it needed plenty of sanding to remove the high spots and then I gave it another light brush over with resin to fill any holes. the insulation was then cut out from the inside leaving the finished nose cone.

Although when travelling I always leave the engine in the car, rather than carrying it next to the car.!

Thank You, especialy having both, You opinion is very valuable to me ! As for trailer You might be right, might be needed some additional attachements, I thought about it as I have purpose -made cover for my track Westfield when traveling on trailer. But dont want so long cover on mask , affraid that wobbling etc will sand paint over time. Also its very large size after folding.

Hello everyone! I've been MIA for quite a while, other things have got in the way but the Westfield has finally moved back up the list and I'm keen to get going and finally finish it. I hope you're all keeping well, especially after the year we've had so far. I've got some catching up to do, is there anything new with Westfield or WSCC that I should know about?

I started my build in 2016....it sat unloved for a couple of years, but I did take full advantage of lock down and manged to get it finished in 2022...Good luck with yours.

Well that didn't work out as planned! Long story short, while lockdowns should have presented a perfect opportunity to work on the car, it was in my parents' garage, but I couldn't visit for a long time due to shielding reasons. I can't believe I wrote this post almost 3 years ago! I have been reading up for a couple of days now on what everyone has been building while I've been away, as well as refreshing my memory of where I had got to with mine. I've started putting together lists and a plan to get it finished - including some changes to get around the problems where I was getting stuck. I'll try and get over to a local meetup at some point, I'm sure that would also be excellent motivation!

It's finally summer in Montana, USA and race season is in full swing. The car is working very well giving great results. The handling has really gotten dialed in and it allows me to get very close to the cones (the closer you are the better in almost all cases) which in turn makes the course shorter....so precision is key. Good fun. dave

Finally getting some use now! Dropped my mates daughter at her prom on Friday: Followed by a meet yesterday that I forgot to take any pics, however I attended another local one today at the Renegade Brewery (Formally 'West Berks Brewery')

Well, it’s happened, she’s off to her new home. 😢