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Welcome to my personal page devoted to my Westfield Sports Car Project. Please ensure that you read the disclaimer below for your own safety.

This is the first project of its kind that I have ever undertaken and it is also my first foray into the world of motor car engineering/maintenance. I have absolutely no previous experience in this subject, just a will to succeed and learn from the process.

Throughout the build process I was given tremendous support by the staff at Westfield and having now completed the project I would have no hesitation in recommending other first time builders to buy a Westfield kit. The experience and thrill of building my first car has been enormous and I still have the pleasure of driving my creation!

The following pages show my successes and failures which culminated in the completion of the car in time for a 'W' registration on 1st March, 2000 and in answer to all the visitors to this site who have asked me 'why did I decide on a Westfield?', please visit the Report page which will tell you the whole story.

DISCLAIMER

Please note that the construction notes shown here are an account of how I built my kit and it should not under any circumstances be assumed to be the correct way of doing the work. Any modifications that I have made have been entirely at my own risk and other constructors should not carry out similar modifications unless they have satisfied themselves completely that they are both safe and legal. Your safety whilst building and driving a kit car is your own responsibility and it should not be assumed that any of my methods or order of construction  are either safe or legal. No information on this site is a recommendation to carry out any of the work involved, it is simply a personal record of one person's project.

Car Specification

CHASSIS / SUSPENSION

• Tubular Steel cross braced epoxy coated space frame with aluminium sheet panelling.
• Spax TRAKSPAX rebuildable competition shock absorbers with coil overs. Fully collet adjustable for ride height plus 12 position ride adjustment.
• Unequal length wishbones front and rear with aluminium alloy cast Westfield uprights front and rear.
• Front and rear fully adjustable anti-roll bars.
• National Rod Ends TSMX8T Rose Joints
• RAC approved back-braced Roll Bar

WHEELS

• Team Dynamics Monza 6.5 X 15 Alloy Wheels.  Offset ET38
• Toyo Proxes T1-S 205/50/15 tyres

BRAKES / STEERING

• Disk brakes front and rear (Cortina front disk fitted at front - Escort MkIV front disks fitted at rear)
• 2.25 turn quick rack Rack and Pinion steering.

ENGINE

Ford Zetec 16V 1800L RQ with the following refinements:-

• Jenvey Throttle Body Fuel Injection Conversion
• Pipercross Foam Race Air Filter
• MBE 3D mappable ECU
• Raceline custom sequential 4 into 1 stainless steel exhaust manifold with stainless steel repackable 20 litre straight through box
• Raceline 5 litre cast wet sump
• 1 litre oil catch tank

The engine delivers approx. 155bhp @ 6070rpm and 143ft/lbs torque @ 5111rpm, however, since the installation of the new Raceline Exhaust System, it is believed that the power output will have increased by at least 8bhp to 163bhp.

TRANSMISSION

• Ford MT75 5 speed gearbox with quickshift and hydraulic clutch.
• Limited slip differential.
• Lobro CV Joints

INSTRUMENTATION

• Full set of VDO Vision Instruments plus an additional centre console with voltmeter, clock, ammeter, push button starter, aircraft style fuel kill switch and oil/water temperature gauge switch
• ECU controlled Shift Light

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

• Full wet weather equipment comprising hood, side screens and full length centre zipped tonneau
• Yellow piped black carpet and sports seats
• Cockpit ECU RS232 serial port
• Cockpit laptop PC power supply and data feed
• Fire extinguisher
• Four point Willans race harnesses plus inertia reel seat belts

POWER/TORQUE

SUSPENSION SETUP

Tyre pressures set to 20psi