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It's the Tuesday evening Yorkshire area meeting this Tuesday night at The Buffers, Rakehill Road, Scholes, LS15 4AL from 7:30ish. If the weather's good and I get my exhaust back on this weekend, I'll be in the Westfield. See you there.

Hope to see you there, don’t think I need 50p to escape.

Yep. 🤪 Got to keep the rif raf out as they can’t afford the 50p entrance fee.

Thanks Ian, if you come to a club meet at the Clock I'll buy you a beer 🙂

Hello All, March is arriving and Westfield weather is getting closer, it's that time of the month again, the March Black Country meet is due to be held this Sunday. Hopefully this month we won't end up at the same venue based upon luck. Hope to see a few of there for a chin wag and virtual tyre kick. Thanks Rhett 7pm, 3rd March at the Dudley Arms, Himley. DY3 4LB.

Rearranged diary and hoping to come. See you there!! Unlike @Martin Bell - (Bellyboy) Joint East Anglia AO I don’t need a passport to get to GBS but I do have to pay the 50p toll on the bridge to get out of Lincolnshire!!

Overview The Speedsport was the model refined by the Westfield Race Division works drivers, to provide the ultimate in high performance and handling. This one is fitted with a Scholar modified “Formula Ford” type 1800 Zetec engine, producing a verified 175 bhp and giving a sub 4.8s 0-62mph. The car is a high specification factory modular build. It has a widebody and fully independent suspension. It was registered in 1999. It has been maintained regardless of cost and was a Westfield Area Organiser car. It has only been used as a road car. It has done 19,700 miles and is located just north of Lincoln. £12,995 ono Engine 175bhp Scholar Formula Ford Zetec Silvertop engine. Raceline dry sump system. Raceline water rail. Debadged, polished and chromed camcover. Raceline sparkplug cover, Magnecore KV85 HT leads. Baffled and part foam filled fuel tank. Full set of A&H aluminium tanks for coolant, screen-wash, dry sump tank and catch tank; all bespoke to this vehicle. Silicon & braided stainless-steel hoses throughout. Jenvey throttle bodies. Carbon backplate on air filter. Custom made stainless steel 4 into 1 exhaust. Xtreme lightweight gel battery with Accumate charging port. In 2022 the old MBE ECU system was replaced by Northampton Motorsport with an Omex 600 ECU; including full sensors, injectors and full remap. Cambelts were also changed at the same time. Body Midnight blue with lockable V8 bonnet and ducted nosecone. Carbon fibre rear stone-guards., removable rear arches. RAC roll bar with LED high level brake light. Side screens and roof included. Colour coded wing mirrors, windscreen pillars and headlights Wheels, Tyres, Brakes, Gearbox, Suspension, Drivetrain 15” wheels with Toyo R1R tyres (195/55/R15) all round, including spare. Wide track front suspension with rose jointed top wishbone and quick camber adjusters. Trakspax rose jointed shock absorbers. Front and rear anti roll bars. Nylon bushes all round. Wilwood 4 pot front brakes with polymatrix fast road pads. Drilled and grooved discs all round. 2.4 ratio quick steering rack with alloy rack mounts. Lightweight flywheel with AP Caterham CSR spec. clutch. MT75 gearbox with short shift. Hydraulic release bearing. Lightweight competition starter motor. Limited slip differential. Lightweight hubs and uprights. Uprated SBD engine mounts. Interior Adjustable Westfield sport seats with four-point Willans harnesses. Contoured dashboard with glovebox, double USB power socket and removable mobile phone holder. Self-cancelling indicators both on the dash and steering wheel. Momo quick release steering wheel in Alcantara with contrast blue stitching. Fully carpeted. Stack rev counter with programmable shift up light. Two speed heater. & demister. Floor mounted pedals. Fire extinguisher under dashboard. Optional floor mounted carbon fibre/Tillet style seats. I am 6’2” and prefer the extra leg room and lower driving position these provide. Service history Original IVA certificate and all onward MOTs and annual comprehensive service history are provided. This fills an A4 lever arch file and details every nut and bolt changed on the car. Overall the car has been maintained regardless of cost and is in excellent condition. It will be sold with a full MOT. Reason for sale & contact details I have owned the car for 6 years and loved every minute. However, I am now 60 and have taken up gliding. I am really just not using it as much as it deserves. Contact details: 07970 275103 glenn.cargill@rbsupportltd.co.uk.

I've spent a bit of time on my new westy today .. Bled the brakes .. well what a task. Looking through the many threads on here it seems it's a bit of an ordeal, and not wrong. It's ford stuff how hard can it be? answer = flipping frustrating. In the end I cable tied the calipers to the rear springs to get the bleed nipples at a favourable angle, used my vacuum bleeder, and still haven't really managed to get it rock hard, but it's better than it was. Also slackened the handbrake cable, the lever arms were half way through their arc and the self adjusters don't work unless the caliper levers go all the way back. That handbrake cable adjuster is a pain to get to .. wish i had known you access through the top of the transmission tunnel before i put my new seats in! Would have been much easier with no seats. Also investigated more of the ecu stuff .. have made some changes to enable lambda correction more of the time (the learn limits were really narrow, no wonder the ecu had barely learned any adaptive values). I need to get it on the dyno and make sure it's performing well too. The throttle sensor was misaligned so at idle the ecu was seeing load site 3, so have corrected that so it reads load site 1 at idle. It also seems to be missing its ford coolant temp sensor, so the generic bosch one fitted was making the ecu read 80degC when cold, so cold starts and warmup running were poor. ive made a rough guess for the temp/volts table so now it reads a sensible value at cold, and seems to trim well up to 100degC. Also found out the rad fan switch doesn't seem to work, so will get a new one of those. Not sure if the ecu can switch a fan control output, but it's easier just to have it off a thermoswitch anyway. anyway that's enough playtime for a day .. time to earn some money now.

Amazing what a bit of autosol will do. Before and after.

now primed, sprayed and laquered 😎

I'm still amazed cos my Zetec Turbo only fits under a V8 bonnet and then only just!