The Car history
This Westfield has been build in 1992-1993 in the UK.
Second owner lived at Ormskirk. He drove this car for
approximately one year and a half. This was his third Westfield and he wanted
to change towards an other project. A oldtimer Porsche 911 or a TVR.
(Last update, it’s a TVR Chimaera and I wish him all
the fun with his new big-boy toy)
Myself living in the eastern part of Belgium did raise
some questions before buying the car.
After all, it
was 770km from home.
Within a week of e-mailing (a lot of pictures) back
and forth everything was arranged, the car, the trailer, the ferry, the
hotel...and off we went on a Friday morning....direction Ormskirk.
Finaly arriving in Ormskirk and seeing the car for
real... and YES!!!...it did look as fabulous as on the pictures.
The original builder did a fantastic job !!!!!
After a long search on the net THIS WAS THE CAR TO GO
FOR...I was very happy that we took the chance driving this far to buy a car (I
know...you must be nuts)
Within a day we (my father and I) arrived in Belgium,
and believe me, seeing it standing in your own garage makes you a very proud
man.
Like an English collegue once told me:
"I admire you persuading your wife to let you buy
this"
I was a lucky bugger at the time of the year since
there where still some nice weekends coming up with dry weather. My father
arranged me some garage-plates and boy what a fun I had those days.
Done with the fun…… Winter is coming…..
Now technical changes have to be done on the car to
pass the Belgium technical control and homologation.
Had to change the headlights for LHD-roads, change the
fog-light and the reverse-light, change the safety-belts because they need an
E-mark, etc. etc.
In the meantime we managed to work a bit on the
steeringwheel, we where able to locate it more to the middle and a bit higher
so now it is much easier to take fast corners & turns without tapping your
hand into your knee J
31/12/2003
Well, talking about winter and keeping the Westie
indoors…seems to be much harde then I expected. So the days around New Year we
had some snow in Belgium and I just had to try …I must admit, driving open with
a Seven along the snowy country-roads is increadible nice, there are no words
to discribe the feeling. With the propper clothing it wasn’t even cold.
But during this trip I came to the conclusion that the
enigine didn’t got very warm…didn’t even attend his temperature, so our guess
was that the thermostat was broken. So new worry’s for the future…
24/01/2004
Decided to open the thermostat housing to take out the
thermostat for testing…seems that there was no thermostat present at all.
That’s the raison why the enigine didn’t get enough
temperature and the heatingfan didn’t heat a lot neither.
Putted in an original CVH thermostat (Wahler) 88°. Had
some troubles keeping it in place since the retaining spring clip was missing.
At the Ford dealer they told me that this is a part that goes along with the
housing…thus: new spring clip = new housing.
Didn’t think so !!!
Went to see a friend to search for a solution and luck
was with us, we found another spring clip in his “archives-rack” Mounted the
thermostat in the housing and I could go on mounting the whole parts together.
At 22.30pm the engine turned, nice and smoothly,
climbing up to 85° - 90°.
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I will add some more pictures in the future about
meetings or trips, as well as an update on the little things I plan to change
on the car.