Mirrors, Side Windows and Seat Ideas/ Suppliers. Can anyone assist ?

[MarkWestfield]

Hi All,

 

New to the forum and new to Westfields. Just purchased a 1990 Westfield SE narrow body with a Ford 1600 Crossflow. Can anyone give some pointers or contacts for the below ?

 

1. We want to change the mirrors as they don't give much visibility and rattle about. Want to change to a larger horizontal wing mirror and maybe a Le Mans style front mudguard mirror would be good. Any suggestions / models ?

 

2. We've head about and seen either acrylic or leather side windows. Just looking to stop a bit of wind blowing round the windscreen pillar. Any suggestions ?

 

3. Sharing the car with the missus, we could do with an adjustable seat. At the moment just a couple of seat swobs which we're packing forward with foam. Looked at a few fibreglass and aluminium seats with low profile rails, but our tub is only 38 to 39cm wide. Any suggestions, seats to loot at ?

 

Cheers.

 

Mark.

[dvd8n]

3 hours ago, MarkWestfield said:

3. Sharing the car with the missus, we could do with an adjustable seat. At the moment just a couple of seat swobs which we're packing forward with foam. Looked at a few fibreglass and aluminium seats with low profile rails, but our tub is only 38 to 39cm wide. Any suggestions, seats to loot at ?

 

Where do you live?

[Rusty Nuts]

Regarding seats JK composite used to do some that fitted the narrow body, unfortunately I don't think they're in business any more.

How ever I found the specification of the one I had from them - this should give you a good guide of what will fit.

[Flying Carrot Steve]

 

These are the rest of the JK Composites seats, but as you say, they are no longer trading. 

 

[Flying Carrot Steve]

 

Last time I checked on KitCar Direct, they had a few different grp seats. 

 

Seats – Kit Car Direct https://share.google/ibQ5Ra6gSmCC8IQrU

[MarkWestfield]

16 hours ago, dvd8n said:

 

Where do you live?

Manchester

 

[MarkWestfield]

12 hours ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

 

Last time I checked on KitCar Direct, they had a gew different grp seats. 

 

Seats – Kit Car Direct https://share.google/ibQ5Ra6gSmCC8IQrU

Cheers. Looks a good site that too thanks. Probably look for a low back seat so the rain cover goes over them.

[MarkWestfield]

12 hours ago, Rusty Nuts said:

Regarding seats JK composite used to do some that fitted the narrow body, unfortunately I don't think they're in business any more.

How ever I found the specification of the one I had from them - this should give you a good guide of what will fit.

Cheers that'll help

 

[dvd8n]

32 minutes ago, MarkWestfield said:

Manchester

 

 

Ah, that's a shame.  I've got the seats out of my car (standard westfield); if you'd been closer you could have tried them out, but I'm in Scotland.  The floor width in mine is about 390 so I think that they ought to fit but there's nothing like a trial fit.

[Flying Carrot Steve]

1 hour ago, MarkWestfield said:

Cheers. Looks a good site that too thanks. Probably look for a low back seat so the rain cover goes over them.

 

A rain cover will go over the high back seats no problem at all, they are generally not too high and lower than the roll bar for example.

 

When choosing your next seats, I'd put safety and comfort first and get the normal (high back) seats, it pays to have something behind your head in cars like these. 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

Seats are probably the hardest thing to source for narrows - they're just so narrow, and more modern seven style cars have grown some what over the decades, so not many makers produce anything small enough.

 

Intatrim might be able to help if you want a padded seat option. If looking second hand it might be worth seeing if Caterham S3 (the standard size car - effectively a narrow) might fit. However Caterhams tunnel is a bit narrower than a Westfield, I think, so even they might be tricky.

 

Fortunately, the screen uprights you have are the flat type, so pretty much any mirror with a base small enough to fit should be OK. ) I think mk1 or 2 Escort mirrors were what was originally fitted.

 

21 hours ago, MarkWestfield said:

a Le Mans style front mudguard mirror would be good.

 

If you mean actually on the cycle wings, apart from never being able to see out cause the wings move with the wheel, there's just too much vibration to see though the mirror. 

 

The same vibration issue could be a problem if mounted say, on the bonnet. The scuttle/screen uprights is the most solid, (by comparison) place to mount them.

 

The acrylic wind deflectors do work very well. Full vinyl side screens are also very effective, but again, finding a pair to fit an early car might be a problem - I've no idea if later wide body style would fit, they might do. Easy to try though if you get along to a club meet and there's a member there that will let you have a go with one of their side screens...

[MarkWestfield]

2 hours ago, dvd8n said:

 

Ah, that's a shame.  I've got the seats out of my car (standard westfield); if you'd been closer you could have tried them out, but I'm in Scotland.  The floor width in mine is about 390 so I think that they ought to fit but there's nothing like a trial fit.

Cheers for that, would have been handy to try some.

[MarkWestfield]

1 hour ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

 

A rain cover will go over the high back seats no problem at all, they are generally not too high and lower than the roll bar for example.

 

When choosing your next seats, I'd put safety and comfort first and get the normal (high back) seats, it pays to have something behind your head in cars like these. 

I was thinking low seats to keep the cover over the tub as in the below. You're right with head rests and was thinking of building some that attach to the roll bar.