Leaderboard

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.

Thanks @AndrewBClarke & Clare. Few Images from me.

@Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) you were very muchly missed and we wish you and your family all the best, hoping things improve soon. If it helps we will be out on Saturday next weekend if the weather is good, at the very least it would be wonderful to see you in the monster machine for breakfast, take care hunny XX Last year 5 Westfield's and a Tiger made the run out before the Christmas party, this year the weather stopped play for all but one little nutty Bagpuss. Well done to @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO for pushing the boundry and arriving in style. He still can't park straight mind you Herre is our leader @AndrewBClarke to whom we are very grateful to for organising such a successful event, plus his lovely and supporting wife, Clare THANK YOU X Also supported by the esteemed Club Chairman @Hedley Bennett (HB46443) - Club Chairman who we always love to have with us The rest of us Quiz ready, well done to Gemma for winning first prize Martin's secret came out in the quiz, the fact that he has a wardrobe full of rubber and leather, here he is admitting to it, so it must be true!! Billy Senior's wife, Sue was busy ogling the cakes with me, maybe we should visit here on our next outing just to see if they taste as good as they look Salmon and crayfish starter with a touch of melon, delish mmmm A range of desserts, all excellent as was the main Turkey dinner which I forgot to photograph, no-one went home hungry Xmas Pud the size of a brick So here we are, stuffed, having enjoyed another excellent Christmas Party. Lovely to see you all and let's hope Andrew and Clare extend their generosity to organising one for next year. THANK YOU x

Warning to all Westfield drivers!! If you don't come out into the Peak District on a regular basis you will end up with Bagpuss Related Bad Parking Syndrome, as demonstated perfectly here! we won't name names though😁 Thanks Dan for the photo Breakfast for 9 in Cupola Cafe. Excellent quality food, not cheap but defo not nasty. We were out of the cafe before 11 and off on our run out. It stayed dry, the roads were really quiet, I did a superb last minute left turn (proud of that, nearly missed it!), had to take my sunglasses off on the tops due to fog and we all landed safely at The Tea Junction, Hulme End. Rita We all had a Worzel Gummidge moment, here's mine Ian was in control of his hair this week, until he sat next to me that is😁 That's it, we were done in record time and on our way home at 12:45, dry, light and all good having had a fun day with not a word of common sense between us. It's @AndrewBClarke's Christmas Party next Saturday at The Bentley Brook, if the weather is kind I will be doing a run out beforehand, looking forward to it, see you all there XXXX

This little kit arrived today, looking forward to fitting it, although a little daunted by the prospect, hopefully shouldn’t be too tricky 🤞. It’s an 8 channel version so plenty to play with.

I just wanted to say hi, I have re-joined the club after being away for probably over 25 years. The good news is I still own my Westfield SE that I purchased 36 years ago, the bad news is it's been stood in a garage for around 23 years so is now in need of a full rebuild. Anyway pulled it out of the garage it was stored in and have relocated it close to my home, I need to find storage space for my other toy so I can get the Westy into the garage at home to start the rebuild. She's a 1988/1989 kit, narrow body SE with a 1600 xflow. I'm sure I'll be looking for some help along the way specifically locating parts or newer alternatives. Richard

Just a quick heads up to our fellow member @Rednop1. After thinking for quite a while, in May I've pulled the plug and messaged Ash to order a carbon bonnet and nose. It was a difficult request for him, as the lot needed to be shipped over to Italy, and I can tell you, it's not easy to ship such large parts outside the UK post-Brexit. He kindly agreed, and two days ago those beauties showed up at my house: They were packed like nothing else I've ever bought, could have been around the world a few times without getting a single scratch. He even messaged me a couple of months ago about my bonnet which was ready, however it showed a small imperfection, and he offered me a discount or to redo the part if I wasn't in a hurry. Top guy, top parts and top service. Couldn't ask for more.

Freshly arrived from Burton Power - a set of 4 pot callipers, bigger discs, fast-road pads and braided hoses. Hopefully this’ll make the car stop more quickly than it currently does, still running on the original Cortina callipers, discs and pads fitted by the factory 32 years ago!

I arrived at Paul Jnr house today. the house facing his was abandoned when it was just a concrete shell with a roof on. It was then bought and completed to a very high standard, to day I met Kasper from Denmark, the new owner. I will let the photos tell the rest of the story😎 I think it’s fair to say Kasper is into his cars. turn up the volume 😄

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 🤙🏽

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.

And just in case anyone happens to be a fan of old Lambo’s, my current ones are:

I have officially joined you all, very very happy new owner of a megablade, Im in kent and am hoping to get out and meet up as much as i can.

A bit nippy today!

Excellent to see Westfield chesil on the wscc forum .

Well popped down a deposit on a nice Blue Q plate at Toybox Cars... Went with a Ford RS2000 Pinto as I wanted something that was super easy to work on and lots of parts available and not going to cost the world for upgrades when I do want to play around with it a bit Think it will be a good first Westfield. Just waiting on them to finish up some work so I can go give it a test drive.. but they have done a great job on it and looks awesome.. So signed up as a full member here as well.

A breakfast on a sunday sounds very good! I only get some sundays free, but ill be sure to looknout for the mext one that im free on! And heres a picture from this morning

A great event again. Food and service excellent 👏 many thanks to @AndrewBClarke and Clare for arranging and being such excellent hosts. Thanks to all those who attended and made it a wonderful afternoon. a few pics from me :

Another smashing day out, thanks as ever to Julie & Glen. Roads pretty quiet and we had a fab drive up and back. A little foggy but all adds to the fun.

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.

We picked up our hire car this morning and headed north, En route i spotted signs for this place, it wasn’t planned honest 😉 it was 30$ each to get in Margaret wasn’t really interested (she’s followed me round loads of car museums) so I said I’ll go in you wait out there in the sun I’ll only be 5 minutes, the young lady at the desk said it’s ok it’s free today, she must have taken pity on two little old folks😂 so in we went, Margaret lasted 5 mins, I lasted quite a bit longer.

The steering wheel buttons can be back-lit, but only for night time visibility. The active circuits would normally use the standard dash telltales. You can fit an illuminated dash CAN keypad though, which does light up brighter on the active circuits (there can be up to 14 of those) Edit to add a reminder that WSCC members have a 10% discount on my products since the whole business came about through this great club 💙

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

Took it work today. Drove home in amazing red skys and ahem also kept a few cars honest 🤣

Winter tinkering just got serious - was a big “postie” van that brought this 🤣

Hi guys thanks for the welcomes ive not been active due to having no laptop and simply being useless with computers il try again to upload a photo 🤣 please let me know if it works

Good morning all, Hope everyone is well. We have had a number of people asking about the availability of the FW rear lamps used on the new Se.Na car so have now setup a kit of the lamps that can be purchased. Link below https://sapentia-fg-westfield.odoo.com/shop/3500120-2025-westfield-fw-rear-light-kit-13136?category=123#attr= Please drop us a message if you have any needs for parts or questions on here or direct to parts@westfield-sportscars.co.uk Many thanks WCL Parts Dept

Thank you all for coming. Without you braving the floods etc, the event would not have been possible. After a few teething troubles with the venue they certainly pulled together and produced a fantastic meal. Must say that was a relief!! You are a great bunch of people. Good fun. 🤩. Probably too early but HAPPY CHRISTMAS!! Here’s to a brilliant Westfielding year in 2026.

Hi from Penmaenmawr

I thought I would resurrect this thread as we are entering the time of year that see's mental health issues raise their heads again. Local to me a young girl hung herself after being made redundant which was the straw that broke the camels back from what others have said. Plus today a person has been hit by a train again near where I live, not clear yet if this was an accident but it was on a stretch not readily open to the public. I like many have had issues in the past and most of us may know people who might appreciate a friendly chat, so I know we are busy but that chat might be just what they need. Just a thought

Glad you all had a great time , must say though that last photo looks more like a chimps tea party 🤣 take care and see you all soon xx

Well it needs to be simple enough for me to understand it! Essentially, if you have a removable steering wheel, it allows control of things like indicators, lights, wipers, horn etc from buttons on the wheel. This is done via a battery powered wireless transmitter on the wheel connected to the buttons, and a relay box receiver (in my case) which generally goes behind the dash and needs to be fitted either alongside or in place of the various controls on the dash or steering column. There are more sophisticated systems involving CAN bus for example but my car is way too basic to need any of that 🤣.

I've had a short mainly foggy run into the Peaks to join the gang for breakfast only and an equally foggy run home. Roads mainly dry and dirty! Nice to be out! Almost a poppy for @Greenstreak-Andy D My Peaky 'Bat cave' A great turn out as usual

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

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!

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!

We’re ready!! But are you…..

mmm, I kinda agree with him though 😮😁 ooo ooo ooo

Keep going while the weather holds i had to go pet shop today to get a sack of grub for the koi of course such a large bag wouldn't go in my van so had to go in westie and go to the most distant pet shop out of 3 in my area.

I have machined up some new peddle bushes and set screws as I noticed they had a bit of sloppy movement, side to side. Now the clearance is 0.2 mm so hopefully all play now eliminated. Also sourced a lovely carbon gearknob form the WSCC and have made an aluminium bush to fit. Type 9 gearbox shaft measured 12.3mm OD for reference.

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.

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

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!!