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Its taken some hours with the tooling on these but we have got there in the end Would anybody be interested in these ? These in the picture are straight out the tooling and will of course be clear coated

Having built one (kit from WF and new parts on age related plate) too I’d agree lots more thought and effort goes into a diy kit built car, after taking advice along the way on here and doing extra bits to make life easier later on, or learning from others “I wish I had done that scenarios”. If I was buying another car I’d look for a a well known car (probably from on here) and with a good build history and receipts etc

Westfield Chesil are in Hall 2, just by the door I believe. They should be easy to spot, as there may be a certain orange something on the stand..... 😁

My Zetec (ITB and cams producing 190+bhp) with a 13 row oil cooler with a 92 deg C thermostat spends most of the year with a blanking plate in front of the cooler only getting removed on hot summer track days that could be managed with shorter sessions on track. The increased oil capacity of a Raceline wet sump, remote oil filter and cooler means that in Autumn/Spring it takes a good 1/2+ hr run to get the oil over low 80s deg C for majority road car, with hindsight I wouldn't bother.

I came on here looking for some info about pedal boxes a couple of weeks ago. A conversation with a new work colleague about cars was the first time I heard about this particular car. His late father built the car in 1992, he inherited it but was never keen on driving it as being a narrow bodied car he didn't fit in it very well. He mentioned he was thinking of selling it and was I interested. Id first looked at Westfields at Stoneleigh back around the time this was new and still have the catalogue I picked up. I hadn't really considered buying one until this came up. It's been off the road since around 2014. It has a new windscreen that needs fitting and will need at least a new set of tyres. The brake pedal is very high but it looks like it had new calipers and master cylinder at some point so it might just need the pushrod adjusting a bit otherwise I fit fairly well. I have yet to pick it up as I don't have anywhere to keep it. Hopefully I can sort this out in a couple of weeks and he is happy to store it until I can keep it safe. The car is from Sussex area originally, someone may even remember if the have been in the club for a long time. There is a lot of history with the car but it would be interesting to hear if anyone remembers it.

Thanks for the reply. Something else to look forward to, a very special Westfield XI. I am wildly jealous that I am not going but I am sure Glen will take me next year. I am surprised more people are not going, unless, like me, nobody has quite realised what is on offer there.

or jump in my passenger seat (if you can handle the power 😅)

Phase 1 of my master plan to make some storage space. I have been using a garage tent but it isn't very dry. These are flat pack storage containers. I've got too many cars so as soon as these are put up the Westfield can go in the garage.

For anybody interested these are £400 each pair that for the shells without the bottom mounting hardware they will come clear coated This is a special offer price for the first 5 pairs sold

We should be there Sunday. Looked at train prices from Basingstoke. £75 per person and a longer journey time than if we drove... isn't happening. Plus we're bringing a car door home for a friend.... Will try to find my Westfield t-shirt.

With the greatest respect to the (old) factory - I don't know what the new one charges for a build, nor what the end result is like; buying a factory built car will get you a car of a known minimum standard build quality, that is safe, drivable and able to pass IVA. However, it will also be a car built as quickly as possible, with the least work required to meet those goals. It will not have additional finesse work, it will be built with care and passion for the marque, but it will not have the high level of attention to detail that just takes to long to achieve commercially, it will not - unless explicitly paid extra for, in fact have anything above and beyond the basics. That's fine, as long as you understand it. But you know what you're getting. A kit bought car on the other hand, (depending on age of course), if it's from the SVA/IVA era, then you know must have been built to a safe standard, sufficient to pass the (rigorous) test. Beyond that, it's down to the original builder. It is perfectly true, there are some absolutely shonky builds out there! But the average is probably what a factory build would look like given infinite time to refine and do things that bit better, whilst the above average builds take the car places the factory could only dream of, and would double or more the cost of the car, if they tried it commercially. So you need to examine a car more closely, and get a feel for what to look for and how to spot a good one. The thing that can throw a complete spanner in the works though, is that very few Westfield builds whether they're factory or not, remain static; a huge proportion of owners will modify and change the cars over the years, often starting immediately once IVA is out of the way. I've seen factory cars out there, where for one reason or another, not one trace of the original factory build still remains!

Great to hear. I am looking forwards to this and supporting our favourite car brand. Be nice to see others from this forum there too.

Forgot to say, shipped to an UK address, don't want to bother with customs and stuff for such small item. I'll send you a PM later.

Glen is going to this with his son, who was given 2 tickets as a birthday present from his girlfriend. Looking at the website it looks like the Westfield Chesil factory are displaying there, does anyone know if that is true? It also looks like the Great British Car Journey museum and GBS are there too, in fact it looks like a really good event to go to.