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A hard copy of my 'build diary' was delivered today - all 636 pages of it...! 😬 The result of many evenings of copying/ pasting and formatting.

More car p**n - finally decided to treat myself to some satin black 13” CXRs. Good service from R&R Alloys. Now I just need to get the tyres…

Bonnet mould having release coats applied, and between coats getting templates made up for the cloth layup. Thinking of doing a 0/90 spread tow for the scoop, and twill for the remainder. 45/45 biax mid layer, and coremat for extra stiffness. Haven’t done weight calcs yet, but should end up much lighter than the grp bonnet, and of course be much stiffer. Haven’t decided on vents as yet, but will make these separately and make them into a feature. Using the plug for my templates, and will be doing an infusion.

Had a little bit of pampering done over the past two days. Nothing crazy, just a good once over. There were a few super minor marks from prior to my ownership, and I like my cars to look as good as they go. Mission accomplished. Very happy.

Nice run out today with @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AOShame forecast wasn’t reality but still enjoyed the last run out of the year before the gritters get out!

Something non car related…. Just 3D printed a skull bowl for Halloween sweets, and a scary spider to keep the small person entertained during half term 🕷️🎃💀😊

£4 from temu... Worth protecting my rear end... 👍 😁

Thank you Bob. Yes, I copied and pasted every page in it's entirety directly from the forum (including comments) into a Word document, keeping my text in 'black' and changing club member comments to 'blue'. Tbh, it was an extremely tedious and time consuming process, but I wanted to capture everything. The final couple of pages show the emojis of all the contributors 🙂. After formatting to remove spaces between entries and to get suitable margins, I saved the file to 'pdf' (approximately 94 Mb in size) and sent it off to an internet company be printed. The printing cost less than £100, compared to almost £200 in one of the high street 'specialist' shops.

Bonnet under vac, infusing tomorrow 😎

Maybe last ride this year , golden autumn, only watching recording... I had to speed up the video to show what I actually felt while riding

Hi from Penmaenmawr

It wasn't as bright and sunny as forecast, but we had a good blat round and got my oil warm ready for the annual oil change!

A bit of a last minute one this, but I had a free morning and suggested a run down across Dartmoor, but had to be back in Crewkerne by around 12.30pm. The weather looked a little dodgy too, so in the end we opted for a meet in Cullompton Services with four cars making the trip, myself, Adrian, Colin and Gareth & Linda - that is, once I drove from the wrong service station to the correct one . Deciding to stay further East to stay in the better weather, we drove over the Blackdown Hills in the general direction of Chard, then wound our way down to Charmouth. Soon after Charmouth we lost Adrian to a worsening Throttle Position Sensor problem, and he had to limp home with a popping and banging car which has now fortunately been fixed. After Charmouth, we headed roughly along the coast via West Bay to the viewing point overlooking Chesil Beach and Portland, somewhere I often find myself in the Westie! Back to West Bay for a coffee, then I headed home in time to collect my ladies from the train station, and the others ended up in Dawlish for lunch. A great morning's run with some surprisingly nice Autumn weather, although looking at the last picture one might consider it more of a splat than a blat

I went to view a 450 Chimaera on Wednesday at Lowe Classics near Abergavenny. They have some very nice cars for sale, nearly all on sale or return. They don't seem to mind people popping in for a nose but if you want a drive you need to book. They also I think sometimes do a kinda cars and coffee type thing on weekends now and then. Next door is a large workshop who do all their maintenance on the cars, they are young guys who really seem to know their stuff as they have worked on so many classics and exotica. They have also had quite a few kits through here over the years. If you're local and are looking for someone to work on your Westfield or classic, they'd be well worth talking to. Here are some of the cars they had for sale, some very valuable stuff there! Classic cars for sale in Abergavenny | Lowe Classics https://share.google/eKRXGq6Gur8dCgRdc

Parts for my up & coming water rail fitting. Rail just ordered from Raceline, thanks Chris Smith, should be here next week.

Nice shiny new exhaust collected today. new seats ordered, new cycle wings, and much more. Posty or DPD every other day, lots of garage time.😁

Saw this and obviously thought of @ianali!!

Are you getting both cars on the trailer done.

Westy being kept company at the moment by a lovely Sagaris that's in for an engine capacity increase from 4 litre to 4.5 litre (already has in-house ported head and uprated cams and carbon airbox) . Two Great British sports cars, love them both.

Getting ready for a trip up to Siltech for some suspension works 😎

For the wimps out there, like me, who sorn there cars in winter, here’s how I do it. I have a couple of four wheel trolleys and with some strategical placed bits of wood I support the car so I can move it in any direction, to make most use of the limited space in a single garage. The timber supports the chassis and doesn’t allow the suspension to go into full droop. And here it is fully covered with old curtains and thick dust sheets under the Halfords car cover.

Fresh out the mould! Used a touch too much spray glue so the fabric didn’t slide too easily over itself under vac so a few spots with some bridging, but all in all quite happy 🤙🏽

And another blatant bump. Not sure how many I get before I get a red card....

Discussions on emission moved to location below to avoid thread drift on this for sale advert. Thanks Mod team.

that's nice spotted this one at a car show a few weeks ago check out the clear spoiler

Unfortunately, I’m the only one around here driving a Westfield, at least in this area. I really envy you for having such a great community! Maybe I’ll prepare my track-only Westfield for road use for the next season — then I’ll be able to go with one of my sons, or just enjoy watching both of them having fun with the Sevens EDIT : as for "you realize just how special it is to own and drive one" - here , with no other similar cars around it feels from that perspective even more special !

Also a Quad Lock mount for my phone that I’ve made a bracket for and mounted using the tonneau poppers. My suction mount didn’t like having the heater vent blowing on it, so kept falling off. Hopefully this one will remedy that.

Soft bits half hood and storm cap courtesy of Ben Robson. Just need to sort out some Velcro for the hood and we’re good ☔️

Never regretted buying my 13” CXR’s! I love them despite the limited tyre choice. I would suggest before you fit the tyres is get them ceramic coated, I used Gtechniq C5 wheel armour and the water still beads off of them 👍🏼

It's really clever how he's stacked one on top of the other with no apparent damage

Oh yes we have been packing suitcases, cleaning the house, doing jobs, it’s been great🙄 But tomorrow we are flying to the sun🌞😎 See you in 2026😍

You can get the option to have the light move like newer cars direction indicators do. The colours are different ie instead of just red on/off you get white reverse, stop/tail indicator etc then choose which you need

Yes I go with that i love going out on solo drives when I can really open the taps but then on the other hand we go out on as regular as possible on area club drives I don't know if you have many other westies near you on these drive outs we drive in a reasonably orderly manner but it's seeing a westie in front of you and looking in the mirrors and seeing more behind you realize just how special it is to own and drive one and to be part of such a great club with like minded members

Supposed to be dry, I can actually make Thursdays now so fingers crossed my first will be the last of the year, in the westie too if it is dry lol

As long as the weather and health hold up – gotta keep doing it! It’s not gonna last forever… But while you can – just go for it! This clip’s actually 2× speed,:) but it still shows what’s I felt and what is awesome about kit cars – it’s not about the km/h, it’s all about the feeling. But I am sure You know that ! Way more intense than in any regular production fancy car!

Anyone want to meet up tomorrow morning, 2nd November at the Motorist? Have a chat and a coffee if the queue isn't too long. The weather is looking good and it might be one of the last chances to get out this year. I'll be there from 11am.

Hello I'm luke rom north Wales a new member just acquired my first Westfield this week, must say i love it not surer why i haven't had one sooner after owning a variety of cars, i have joined the forum to gather as much information as possible as i don't know an awful lot. the car is a 2001 seiw in green has a red top engine and it goes really well i don't know to much regarding the engine itself i was told its had a fresh build a couple years ago with pistons etc.. and been told it has uprated cams but not sure as he didn't know and no receipts. i look forward to learning about the car and getting out in it next summer its a bad time to get one coming into winter but I'm very impulsive and once ide seen it had to have it

Welcome, I’ve got a red top in the one I’ve taken to replace my V8, it has had some work done but is having more done during the winter. It’s currently in bits and the engine builder is working his magic.😉 lots of other bling and goodies to add this winter.

Welcome! Yes, trial members need to use an external image hosting site, full members can upload directly to the forum - it's one of the (many) perks - and the storage space for photos is one of the things the subscription covers! The Redtop is a fantastic engine in a Westfield, I have many very fond memories of mine.

I can't pronounce it but it's beautiful! Awaits jokes....... It's pronounced west field Steve etc 😁

Yes, followed their instruction and used another product, not sure which one it was now, I think it was panel wipe but I can check when I get home 👍🏼

Hi Al. I’ll get one in the post to you (in exchange for some pics uploaded when you’ve fitted the cage) 👍🏻

to keep some green in the mix there is the 7UP or Falken Tyres liveries.

I think I need to retire!

You lot are soooooo funny, I love you all 😍🥰😁💌

Peak District AO here, you think that I would be in charge? no no, not while this lot are around. I was finishing early today because it's raining and going dark at 5, these nutter's tell me, 'these cars have light's don't they?' 'we need more cake' and that's on the ladies table!! We met at the museum, setting off in glorious but freezing sunshine. Glynn's Porsche sounded awesome. Andy Westwood's Westfield is called Precious for a reason!! so he donned his t-shirt and came in the SLK Breakfast in the car museum We came out of the museum to rain, we had already put our roof's on. I had expected everyone to want to head off home, but no, so off we went. It stayed dry so we went through Chatsworth, following the coach from hell, never went above 15 mph. Thankfully we turned up onto Owler Bar, round and to The Cow Shed at Tideswell, where it was now raining. More breakfast Mr Westwood, how many can you eat in one day? The BOY's table. The 'bella bella' table, I mean GIRL's table Him again, Mr Westwood with the first cake of the day A bit of smart parking from Andy Gilbert and Ian at the Cow Shed. Sun's out! Sun's NOT out! Forced I was, forced, to go to The Smithy, Monyash for cake, even though it was raining and already turning dark. The other Andy, Mr Clarke this time, with warmed Apple cake and ice cream, watch out Martin, someone will steal yours!! Mr Westwood AGAIN! more cake Cosy inside The Smithy Andy and Becky with their offering A fantastic day out, we had a laugh, wrote a romantic novel and travelled the world, thanks for coming everyone. For the SORN brigade, don't leave it until next March to come and see us, for the rest of you, see you next time XXXXXXX

Message to ones self. Never leave your phone unattended in the house. The parrot took some selfies

Some photo's from Becky, thank you darling x In Chatsworth At the museum

Set up for the week, kid free site😁