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Finally got to pick the car up today and got it home on one of the only dry days we are going to have for a good few days lol Thanks to Toybox Cars Its a 2.0 Ford Pinto with dual 45 webers, hopefully in the new year I shall start playing around with the engine a bit more, maybe a nice new head and cam from Burton power and then see what kind of power I can get from it. But for now will enjoy it as is well when we get some decent weather haha

All the best for a great 2026!

A nice but chilly drive to and from the Ace Cafe 'Cold Turkey' meet this morning. Plenty of bikers, some classic cars and some good chats. The XI started up well without a choke and ran faultlessly.

It's been a good white since I've shared any photos of my car...so it's time I guess! This photo was taken by my wife and while I was autocrossing in a local church parking lot. I like how the big, wide and sticky tires distort under the heavy cornering loads. It's winter here now and snow covers the roads and the Westie is tucked away warm and safe in the shop waiting for the sun to melt the ice. dave

So finally had a chance to get into the garage to sort the worn bushings out and try the tool i made. I made a couple of modifications including adding clearance where it butts up against the wishbone as some have larger welds than others, and also to make a custom nut with a very long thread to try to avoid stripping threads. This also makes it easier to use as a socket no longer needs to fit in. I can confirm that it worked - I knew two of the bushings were worn, but ended up replacing five as I found some of the others were worn. This was all I had to hand and I haven't even started on the rear suspension yet. Photos are the tool with modifications, the tool in use for removal, and the end result with the removed bushing on the tool. Installation was easier than removal. I changed the front upper bushings on the car without removing the wishbones so it ended up being relatively easy. I don't know why this worked when others have needed so much force for removal, but there was no significant rust at all so maybe that made it easier?

Santa bought me some heated gloves, for winter Westy fun 🤩

Meeting at Cupola, some of us arrived more toasty than others didn't they Mr Westwood? A table for 10, we had a few wonderful surprises today, with @Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO and @aeg and Becky, even Bagpuss making a last minute journey in his little Santa hat, sat there on the bonnet. In the car park at Cupola. After a hearty breakfast we had a good journey around the Peak District, not too busy and roads in a somewhat dry condition, good for December anyway. We soon arrived at the Cock and Pullet (stop laughing) at Sheldon, which is near Bakewell We were eating a little bit lighter today as we were stuffed full of Christmas cake, this sentence does not apply to the Westwood's who might have had a full on Sunday lunch Thanks Becky for the photo's on the move and thank you to everyone for making the day wonderful, see you all in 2026, kiss kiss.

Christmas present from me to me - pointless engine compartment bling: Who knows when it'll get fitted though, probably not until January or February.

not exactly delivered by postman but just been to collect this for my megablade so lucky to find such a clean used cage local came with a nice set of carbon mirrors as a bonus 😀

Notice of Correction – Lakes & Dales Tour 2 Please note that the Lakes & Dales Tour 2 advertised in the Westfield World Winter Edition 2025 magazine contains an error. The dates listed as 22nd–23rd June are incorrect; the event will in fact take place on 15th–16th June. In addition, One day remains a tour of the Lake District & the other a tour of the Yorkshire Dales, not the Peak District as previously stated. We apologise for any confusion caused and thank members for their understanding.

Big shoutout to @Westfield Chesil Limited, after UPS managed to lose my first order of front hub grease caps, Ed and Jason managed to sort me another pair in time ahead of my track day tomorrow. Cheers lads!

Well, the challenge is now officially over. If I'm being honest, I'm disappointed that it didn't strike a chord with more members and take off the way I wanted it to, but that's the breaks sometimes. Anyway, I'm a man of my word, so congratulations to individual winner @Paul Baker and to local area winners @Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset and his members. A small, cheap but personalised engraved trophy is on its way to you - enjoy!

Thanks to the generous support of the members. I am currently boxing each mug or mugs ready for safe transportation. Hoping to have completed this by the end of the week having sold them much faster than anticipated. Monday Tuesday deliveries I would expect. ATB Hedley.

A great day out as usual and thanks to @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative keeping us on nice lightly trafficked roads. Good to meet @DannyTGS today. How were my new DLR's in your mirrors today? I've often thought about taking this pic as I pass it in and out of the peaks. Today I remembered and made it happen. As I was taking a Selfie. @Darren Harvey (not in his Westie) stopped to ask If I was Bagpuss! Stay tuned to find out how I replied! Have a great New Year All!

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a new year full of reliable, exciting, memorable trips out in our beloved pride and joys! 2026 will be a blast im sure!

Snap, my Xmas delivery

nice turn out of westies for a December meet for the essex and north kent group

Santa was there, but I didn't get chance to tell him what I want for Christmas. And I made it out in the damp for possibly my final run of the year, mot runs out tomorrow.

I went to a neighbor's house and spotted this on their patio can't help thinking it reminds me of someone on here especially when I threw down the garden for the dog and it was flying

New 9 inch puller fan plus brackets and controller from Revotec to go onto the XI's radiator. Should work more efficiently than the awful bracket that the kit comes with that blocks 30% of the surface area. Brackets not fully fitted at this point - just positioned it all on the rad for photo attention.

Testing the waters to see if there is interest in my XI, sad to say am selling because getting in and out is proving to be a major problem and so driving hours have been much diminished. I will get some additional photos and details in a few days, but its fully running, managed to do a single Track Day this summer and the car is fully sorted and comes with a bunch of spare parts. Materially upset about taking this course of action, but I don’t have a Museum and none of my kids drive a stick shift. Purchased off BaT in 2021 and got it sorted and ready to track and drive on nice roads. Will probably put it on BaT in the New Year if I can’t sell through the Forum. Would like to get $42,500.00 for the car. Send me a pm to discuss or reply here and I will get back to you.

More to follow @Naranja_Al

Great turnout at the East Anglia christmas meal. We had a good third of our group there. Roll on 2026 and In the meantime Merry christmas

Great to see everyone tonight and as Scott said, great food too!

Ignore the red tape, Didn't have any black, But ill thread it through loom corrugated section once I get some from work, but now I have reactive brake lights lol And while I was at it, little extinguisher install

Great meeting up with everyone and thanks Julie for a organising it. Lovely spin around the Peak District with a great group of friends. Have a great New year and hopefully see you all soon in the new year.

Please may I wish each and everyone one of you and your families a peaceful and very merry christmas. Please be careful with the brussel sprouts and your release valves. Stay safe and I hope you all get the presents you wanted. Cheers martin and emma

Merry Christmas everyone. It's always a good day when you can see your club chairman on a photo with a turkey on his head. Have fun all !!!

Combined DRL/indicator units for nose cone indicator pods conversion.

Good luck 🤞

Our regular meet day falls on New Years Day this year, so we've postponed it a week, to the 8th Jan. As usual, the Golden Pheasant, around 7pm if eating, else 7.30pm PLEASE NOTE: Tonight's meet is cancelled due to the impending weather issues and difficulties getting to and from a more rural pub like the Pheasant.

Received refurbished shocks for my track Westfield from https://www.thunderlane.eu . I bought the car in 2018, with a few years of history before that, and I think the shocks had never been overhauled. They got new bearings, thinner valves for a lightweight car, new bump stops, etc. They were dyno tested (I don’t understand those diagrams at all 😕, but I was assured they were matched in pairs). I’m really curious whether I’ll feel the difference. When they were “new” ( I mean after few seasons in Westfield Cup NL , and on some endurance challenges (got few broken wishbones with that car ) , even on the softest settings the car was quite darty. Hopefully this effort and the expense — will be noticeable 🙂 Edit – oh, and I had my springs measured: front (RED) 60 N/mm, rear (BLACK) 40 N/mm. Not sure if this is right or wrong, but at least I now have a baseline if I learn which way to go softer or stiffer at the front or rear in the future.

@DannyTGS well done for fixing your brake lights after @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO commented on them on Sunday 🤣 he will be pleased to know I’ve put new bulbs in Becky’s car as well 😜 so that just leaves @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative !!!! Has Glen fixed them yet ? I should hope so …. his got more time on his hands than the rest of us 🤔

Was a great day, the batteries in my gloves died literally 1/4mile from home so couldn't have timed it better, I have a link cable to run from the car battery so will have to figure that out next time, Socks worked a treat too ♨️ The DRL's looked smart, I've LED headlamps to fit too but i need the buckets for them but mine are budget non DRL's haha

Additional dash printed, painted and fitted.

Hello... Yes plug an AP into each switch, set the SSID and password to match what you currently have and it should be all done... Choice of AP is entirely personal, and my personal choice is to avoid Ubiquity, which I am sure has come up. And of course budget is often a deciding factor. I find TP link to be acceptable most of the time, and I try to avoid home systems that have a "controller" like Netgears Orbi. I have no experience of TP Link Deco unfortunately. With regards to speed, wifi 6/6e and 7 speeds are theroetical. Most switches have 1Gb ports so that's the maximum speed possible. Most phones have just a single antenna so can NEVER get the full speed from wifi 6/6e and 7 because the speeds are predicated on both AP AND host device having multiple antennas so the data-streams can be multiplexed. I could talk about this for a long time. Most phones will see about 500Mb/s depending on all sorts of boring things that the adverts never mention... Oh yeah, forgot to add... 99% of wifi problems I see are not network related, they are user device and user-not-understanding-how-wifi-really-works related...

Merry Christmas everyone.

I could be simple about this… but where’s the fun in that? I’ll bore you instead. I checked backstage yesterday, and there were four different addresses on your account. Only you can explain why, but I’m guessing that you’ve moved once or twice in the past. There are two different possible addresses on each account, a billing address and a delivery address. That’s because sometimes someone will buy a membership for another person at a different address. That’s where I think it went wrong backstage. You correctly updated your address in your profile, but the system retained your old addresses for billing purposes. Why? Eff knows. I also tried to remove the other three addresses yesterday and the system refused to let me, so I did the wise thing and walked away to get a glass of red wine. Today, they’re gone. No idea why, but they’re gone. So glitch gone as far as you’re concerned, which I will take as a win. Off for a glass of breakfast…

Merry Christmas to one and all have a great time🎅🧑‍🎄🎉🍷🍻 and now…..

Happy Christmas!

New Nob 😁

THE FORECAST IS RAIN SO THIS IS CANCELLED IF THE WEATHER IS FAVOURABLE meet at Cupola, Stoney Middleton, Hope Valley, S32 4TF on Sunday 21 December, 10am. You can dress festively if you like, but this is not the usual santa run and we won't be particularly dressed up. The usual good spirit and lots of laughs will accompany us, I can assure you. We will head onto the great Peak District roads for a jolly good drive round, have lunch, before finishing early afternoon so you can get home in the light. Members only on the run out please, keep it fair for those that pay. Fingers crossed for good weather, I will update this post nearer the time. Who's joining us? CANCELLED

Thak you gentlemen, much appreciated. @Captain Colonial 19 is both my mental age and my IQ...

no idea mines full of nuts and bolts in the garage 🤣

All set for the Christmas meal tomorrow. Looking forward to all the Christmas jumpers and of course the food!!!

It seems bonkers that you can buy an epic Westy like this and have enough money left over to also buy a lovely baby Aston to keep it company, for less than the price of even the cheapest new Westy! This is amazing value for money. Good luck with the sale

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