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Hi guys, I’m new to the club and look forward to meeting you at your gatherings. I’m located in Frome, just outside of Bath. I collected my first Westfield (Seight) from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on Saturday, it’s always been a dream car. Wow, what a machine!! 400 miles of pure joy and excitement 😁

Just an apology for absence really, some ( but not all) are aware I have mental health issues, well it hit me again and only this last few days/weeks have I begun to engage with the world again ( sounds stupid but that's how it is) I need to be somewhere that I am familiar with again, and here is really were I should belong. So expect more mayhem from me , lots of car changes have happened since I was last on here and I will post those as and when . catch you around folks. Regards Richard.

MOT done. Now for some nice weather.

After sometime away in others kits am back in a Westy and a model I have always wanted 😀

Not Westfield but 7 type still MNR Vortx CBR1000RR sc59 . Visited dyno: 192hp 128NM. Std sc59 honda engine , MNR exhaust , mine airbox intake Happy

Nice run out with my Caterham buddy

Sorry for the poor pic, don’t see many of these on the road.

Today's trip around

Dry run this weekend in the tintop to make any updates necessary to the road book, I had forgotten just how good this route is! you guys participating are going to really enjoy it, the scenery is stunning but I did struggle today with pictures 😅 a few better ones 😎

Amazing turnout @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO! We managed nine with no photoshop 😂

Wow, what great night and great attendance! Whatsapp live location being used to assist the convoy from Stoke ( @Russ Bridgewater, @David lear & @David Bennett) and picking up new member @andyjs on our way- A quick stop in Talke as we were early- @David Bennett's great Zenos E10S- The golden Pheasant Carpark was busy, preventing us getting all the cars nicely in a row- I count 13 @Rob Hunter - Club Secretary

Not us ☹️ working and then on airport taxi service for family 🙄 have fun and see you soon A&B Oh and I’ve got to clean the car !!! woodworking creates a lot of dust 🫣

Or if it’s for a number of days buy one rather than hire. depreciation on trailers is virtually non-existent so you may find that buying one and then selling again once you get back to Ireland works out cheeper than the cost of hiring.

It's back folks!

In a local pub car park while out for lunch this week…

Spotted this on the way home last night, looked it up and it is a CSR260, seems a very nice spec.

First outing with the her new shoes on

Meet at The Great British Car Journey, DE56 2HE for their car meet which starts at 10am and costs £5 per car to enter. Everyone is welcome, there will be lots of cars on show and the Filling Station cafe will be open for refreshments too. There will be a run out afterwards for members. Who is coming? https://greatbritishcarjourney.com/great-british-car-meets/

Firstly, how many of you have owned, then sold your Westfield, to then regret it and then up buying another one further down the line? You see, I'm fickle and an impulse purchaser of many different things in my life and my Westfield was no exception to that. 2 years ago I woke up on a Saturday morning and completely out of the blue and thought to myself. I wouldn't mind owning one of those Westfield's and the following week I bought the one I have now. I few other examples of past purchase history impulse buying. I had a lovely Mercedes, I really liked it and I took it in for it's service. On the way to the service counter I passed another one which looked nice, 2 hours later and I'm now the owner of different but perfectly nice Mercedes. Several years ago a friend of mine had a Jaguar XKR, he took me out in it, he turned the TC off, I strongly advised him not to do it and well. We ended up in a tree, the car was smashed to bits, BUT the car was brillent (before he put it head on into a tree of course)! Two weeks later I bought one myself for a weekend car. Supercharged V8 through a stainless steel system was such an amazing sound. My wife loved that car too, especially when she was heavily pregnant, because to drive, it was such a nice car for her to get in and out of and with loads of room. More recently (Aug 23) I woke up one morning at 04:30am, decided I wanted to buy a Mazda MX5 for the track and by 07:15am I was at a chaps house and now the the new owner of it. And just like all the many impulse purchases in my life, I got bored and sold them. The MX5 went last month, I did a few trackdays and got bored. The Westfield has lasted a while for me and I'm not......'bored' I just get itchy feet. I've driven it loads! That's another side to my personality, I get into something (whatever it is) and I just absolutely go full beans addictive at it. If I got into knitting, I'd make everyone on this forum a jumper within a week! It's a fantastic car, drives lovely, it's an absolute head turner and if I'm honest, I really like the attention and it sounds great too. Plus, I love the social side that it's offered, I've met some fantastic people and I've now got some great friends too. I'm not sure if I want to try something else for a while, but not entirely sure what. But this could be one I regret selling if I did sell it. So, back to my first line. Who's regretted and bought again?

I know plenty that have happily moved on to the next project. But they usually divide up into certain groups, the “I’ve developed the car as far as I possibly can” group, the very low use “it’s only got annual mileage to and from the MoT” group, the “I enjoyed it, but the novelty has worn off” or “I like it but struggling with health to use it” groups etc. Then you have the other side of things, the “itchy feet” group; often used to changing regular cars every two or three years, who do still use and enjoy the car, but have other car related boxes they want to tick. I understand fully the desire to try something else, if only to satisfy curiosity. Sometimes the grass is greener, but a surprisingly high number end up coming back to Westfield’s. - sometimes finding that they struggle to recapture quite the attachment they had to that first car! It sometimes takes a few goes to find a new Westfield that’s the right fit for them.

Winter fettling in the form of refurbished front & cooling system - done new wheels & tyres - done MOT - done Geometry - done & now drives straight - priceless Now can we have some sunshine - please?

Bought one in 1994, owned it for about 14 years, crashed it, sold it to a mate who did it up and he owned it for about 14 years. When he wanted to sell it, I couldn’t bear to see it likely disappear to France so I bought it back a year or so ago. Won’t be selling it again 🤪. It will hopefully go to my son when I am too decrepit to drive it!

Between my second and third westfield I went for a week without one, the garage was empty….. it was a horrible week 🥲

Probably not but hoping the Megabusa will tick all the boxes for sometime to come 😁

Built one then sold it ( regretted it) bought another and sold it (regretted it ) ,just bought another and loving it 😁

Warning do not wear Purple trainers! @Roger Allton

@AndrewBClarke the dodgy plumbing is at the father in laws pre war house 😵‍💫 all mine is good , it’s all nice and new as I stripped out all that old stuff you old boys use 🤣

What a beautiful evening for a meet! This was my 3rd test drive of my new ITB's so had left early to properly stretched her legs on the local B roads. I'd just pulled up when Glynn landed in his newly upgraded car making whooshy noises! The gorgeous fully forged Mazda 1.8 with a big snail. My new ITB install. Over the next 20 minutes we were joined by Steve and Gavin in convoy, quickly followed by James (at his first pub meet), Dan and Matt. James owns the lovely yellow MX5 engined car we had spotted at Curborough at the weekend so was great to finally meet in person! Emma, Howard, Alex, Iain, Hedley, Martyn, Dom and Ben had also come along in their tintops. Shortly after Claire and Joolz pulled in sporting huge grins after Claire's recent trackday at Donington. Sounds like you had fun!! As we were chatting, we get the amazing sight of a Westfield XI pulling in! Roger had come along to his first meet in his beautiful BRG A series engined car. Most of us had spent that long in the car park we missed out on food when we eventually got into the pub! 😂 Later we were also joined by Mark, our third pub meet newbie who had recently sampled the Peaks meets with Julie. As usual we had loads of upgrade talk. Iain is in the middle of an engine swap (that a few of us are helping with), James is collecting parts to supercharge his MX5 engine and Mark is already itching for a bit more power from his ITB'd Zetec. Malvern was a big topic of conversation, seems we have load of locals going along and quite a few volunteers. Excitement is definitely building! Lovely to see everyone, hope you all got home safely. Also, great to meet James, Mark and Roger, hope you enjoyed the evening and that we made you feel welcome 👍

Nope. Sorry. Going to Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre open day to see the first Lancaster Taxi run of the year and Spitfire fly past.

Just to close this thread off, it did indeed appear that their website threw a wobbly when it said failed, but now I have a green box on the checker website - yay. Matter closed.

Modern have Independent too. But I have read in that time Westfield need to do sth different to be different . And did that in good direction. MNR well I have to like it as I am building one but its not so smile realase desingn as Westfield's. Not metion so helpfull and friendly community as for Westfields! I am proud to have WSCC stickers on Westfields. And - You look at Westfield and just smile ! I love that topic just too look at all that cars . Powerfull antidepressant

@joolz the maps and other images are now back. I hope this and a good chat with Rob and the gang on Thu, makes things clearer and we'll look forward to seeing you there.

Heroic first trip! I think it took me two years to travel that many miles in mine. Only in year 3 did I venture onto the motorway, so was pleased to discover that as you say, the SEiGHT cruises quite happily there. (In my defence, there are no motorways in Dorset, so I have to go quite far out of my way to ever reach one.) I'm sure there'll be a convoy of Dorset/Somerset cars up to the summer meet and AGM at Malvern, so join us for that.

The roads from East Lothian to the motorways were epic, but once on the motorways it just cruised. I had a smile on my face the entire way 😁 and yes, the sound track is unmistakable. in the traffic jams on the M5 people putting their windows down to hear it burbling away and giving it a thumbs up. It’s always been my dream car and it certainly lives up to expectations 🤩

Welcome from South Derbyshire. That's an epic journey, I bet the V8 sound track made it a bit easier though!

That is the plan! There are some secret (🤐) discussions going on via PM with a member who has a Black set and may be able to get an orange set available. I hadn’t necessarily planned on buying them just yet but if they are hard to come by it makes sense.

They are rare these days as Team Dynamics no longer make their 1.2s in a 13” wheel. Apparently there wasn’t enough demand for them 🤷‍♂️ There is a set for sale on Facebook on the MK Sportscars page, not sure if you’ll be able to open the link. They are £600 with a set of slick tyres…..ET23 PCD 108. https://www.facebook.com/groups/mkindymarketplace/permalink/1876644649467463/?sale_post_id=1876644649467463 No affiliation to the seller.

Hello and welcome!

I would look at CXR's since they are still in production you can get them direct in almost any offset. I have: ET0 on the rears for my CXR's My ProRace 1.2's have. Spacer on them at the back I use my ProRace for the track and CXRs for the road typically ProRace CXR

Monthly meet for a natter and a pint, usual venue, The Crown Inn Bridport DT6 4AX from 19.30. Hope to see some of you there.

Great car. Reminds me of my first Westfield 20+ yrs ago. Wool pulled over my eyes with big end bearings goosed. Engine rebuilt with 150bhp at flywheel (Motorscope tuned carbs). Fantastic engine.

Ah I see, thanks chaps. So whoever buys it now is making a sound investment 😬

The car is not 30years old yet Ive run the reg and it was registered 1998 so its 4 years short at the moment

When I first started competing with the VSCC 25 years ago I never knew more than 10 days before the event if I had an entry. Fortunately things have moved on and the greater majority of clubs confirm the entry within a few days giving me the chance to organise myself. So far I have a receipt for my payment for the Blyton sprint, so I assume I have an entry. I had a talk with David Taylor about this at Anglesey and he took the time to explain the situation which I can understand to a certain extent. But I would have thought a club that is run as professionally as Longton would not have fallen into the trap of being dependant on one individual, and even if they had, would have recovered by now. I'm looking forward to the sprint, the best part of it is at 6.30am walking the track and seeing and hearing all the sky larks, I have never seen so many in one place.

Don't see many of those these days. A very good Caterham. More than 450bhp/tonne and handles superbly. Could apparently outperform an R500 on the road!

Its standard equipment in Alfa Romeos (at least in 156 and 166) . Great tool.

Coil packs finally arrived today, so waited for my oldest to finish school, he put them in and we took it for a test drive. It appears to be a successful result, super happy.

Oops! I seem to have lost an engine and gearbox… not to worry, new one being built by Richard Wragg at ProDev Engineering. Build thread to follow…