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Reader’s Car – Westfield S2000 54Bill Bourne has built an amazing Honda VTEC engined Westfield. Here’s how.

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Westfield secures new distribution network in Asia estfield Sportscars Wis a consistently forward-looking and proactive kit car company, and its latest announcement has been the securing of a new distribution deal for Asia, with 100 cars to be exported – and that’s just an initial order, with the likelihood of more cars to follow. In 2014, Westfield approached UK Trade and Investment to conduct an Overseas Market Identification Service. The tangible result of that process is a deal with General Dynamics Aero Technology (GDAT) of Shanghai to distribute fully-built cars. A signing ceremony took place in Shanghai in October in the presence of The Right Honourable Lord Maude of Horsham and John Edwards, Her Majesty’s Consul General in Shanghai. Peter Jiang, President of General Dynamics Aero Technology, said: “GDAT is and ranges as being aside at Westfield’s Kingswinford MD Julian Turner. “We have delighted to be working with very complimentary.” The fact factory to assemble the first 100 lots of similarities and both Westfield because of their quality that the cars are British-built cars. companies are passionate sports car range, their advanced was also seen as a major appeal “Westfield is delighted to be about the Westfield product. materials and technology in the in the Asian market, and a working with General Dynamic There is genuine technological vehicles. We see our aerospace dedicated area has been set Aero Tech,” said Westfield and advanced manufacturing

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Westfield secures new distribution network in Asia

crossover between the aerospace relationships with Chinese that will come from Westfield in and sports car sectors, and universities for collaborative R&D the coming months. There’s a lot both Westfield and GDAT have a projects. You can expect to see more going on behind the scenes fantastic reputation in their local more coming from this export which we’ll be able to tell you markets.” deal. about very soon. Westfield is also forging This isn’t the only big news www.westfield-sportscars.co.uk

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The Westfield Mega S2000 is the best Westfield we’ve ever driven. Adam Wilkins met Bill Bourne, who has built one in his garage at home.

hen Bill Bourne was familiar with the kit car market and car for a Dutton. Although he built it up came to building knew exactly what he wanted from his to the stage where it could be driven his Westfield Mega next project. around his parents’ farm, it was sold S2000, he knew In fact, his first foray into kit cars as an unfinished project. It would be a Wwhich kit car he wanted to build with was even longer ago. When his first good couple of decades before he got very little research. Already a veteran car, a Mk1 Ford Escort 1300 GT, had back into kit car building with the MK. of an MK Indy and other Westfields, he expired, it was cannabalised as a donor Aside from cars, Bill’s other

Below: Mega S2000 is Bill Bourne’s third Westfield. Below: on stands, where it stayed for most of build. Below: Chassis redesigned to set S2000 engine well back.

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Above: Suspension on. Front was upgraded to wide track front wishbones during the build...

Above: Fitting aluminium panels was the first job. Above: ....and aluminium uprights were another upgrade. passion is motorcycles, and he has the Westfield factory. I knew all along from Westfield in a modular package. won numerous trophies in trials I wanted to build the S2000. The “That’s the joy of a Westfield,” says Bill. competitions. It’s motorsport that engine and gearbox combination is so “Everything is available off-the-shelf Bill enjoys more than road miles and, good it’s daft not to use it.” As well as and just fits. I don’t mind making up in 1995, he bought a second-hand liking the high-revving 2.0-litre Honda brackets and fabricating things – in fact, pre-litigation Westfield for sprints and engine and its associated 6-speed I quite like it – but it’s not necessary hillclimbs. Once that had gone, he went gearbox, Bill also really liked the way with a Westfield.” back to bikes for a while before building Westfield had engineered the car That doesn’t mean there’s not scope a Honda Fireblade powered MK Indy in specifically for the package. to change things, though. “As the build 2003. Things got increasingly serious The chassis has been redesigned progressed, I decided to get the wider with hillclimbing, and the MK was to allow the engine and gearbox front wishbones, bigger brakes and sold to make way for a purpose-built to be located well back in the car. aluminium uprights. ‘Upgradeitis’ set in competition car in the form of a Jedi. When you look at the engine bay before it was even finished!” As with the It came with a Honda CBR600 engine, photos, it’s clear to see how the top cars that have gone before it, the Mega which Bill swapped to a Yamaha R1. of the bulkhead has been changed. S2000 will be used for sprinting and His next kit car would be another It means that the front of the engine hillclimbing. “I’m not that into blatting,” second-hand Westfield, this time a is well behind the front ‘axle line’ for says Bill. “I prefer competition.” 2003 model powered by a Red Top optimum weight distribution. None It was September 2013 when Vauxhall engine. Sticking with the of this was lost on Stent when he the chassis and other parts to get Vauxhall theme, the car went to make tested the Mega S2000 at launch (April the car rolling arrived, followed by way for a VX220 Turbo, which has only 2013 issue) and declared it the best the bodywork the following spring. recently been sold now that the Mega Westfield he’d ever driven. Inbetween times, Bill sourced the S2000 is on the road. After a test-drive with Westfield’s engine and gearbox. Bought from But we’ve got ahead of ourselves. Simon Westwood at the wheel, Bill was eBay, this is one of the few things for “I wanted to build something also convinced of the same and placed the project that didn’t come directly upmarket,” says Bill, “so I went to his order. Almost everything came from Westfield. Already stripped from

Below: Protech coil-over dampers fitted all-round. Below: Wiring isn’t a job Bill relishes... Below: ...as you can tell in this photo!

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Above and below: Differential in place.

Above: Honda S2000 engine and gearbox sourced from eBay. It would be some time before Bill heard it running!

farm, Bill has access to a sizeable when the engine and gearbox went in. Tech spec workshop – but that’s not where he While there’s loads of space in front Engine: Honda S2000, 240bhp. put the Westfi eld together. “All the of the engine, towards the back of the spanners in there are AF, so they’re engine bay it does a pretty good job Gearbox: Honda S2000 6-speed. no good for working on cars,” says of fi lling the available space. “It’s not Suspension: Front – Double wishbones (wide track), Protech coil-over dampers, aluminium uprights. Rear – Double wishbones, Protech coil-over dampers, Bill. Instead, he built the car in the heavy but, being aluminium and having aluminium uprights. single garage, which came with its a lot of webbing, it’s quite a bulky Brakes: Front – Vented discs with four-pot calipers. Rear – Discs. own compensations: it’s easier to keep engine,” says Bill. Wheels and tyres: 13in Pro Race alloys, 206/60x13 Toyo warm and is closer to the house. “That Prior to fi tting the engine, Bill Proxes R888 tyres all-round. made it much easier to do a couple of thoroughly cleaned it up to make it look Interior: Sport Turbo seats, digital dashboard with lap-timing capability, hours during winter evenings.” as shiny and new as the rest of the car. Mountney steering wheel. With the chassis on stands, the fi rst As part of that overhaul, he had the Exterior: FW rear bodywork, V8 bonnet, MSA approved roll-over bar, Honda job was to fi t the aluminium panelling. rocker cover powdercoated blue. The badging, aero fuel cap, carbon fi bre exhaust silencer. It was fi nished in black powdercoat to company he took it to recommended match the fi nal blue and black colour that he removed the internal baffl e, a Honda that had suffered a rear-end scheme of the car. The car stayed on which was rivetted to the rocker cover impact, the engine could be turned over the stands as long as possible to keep itself. They required drilling out, and with a spanner but in all other respects things at an easy working height. The then the holes needed tapping so that Bill had to take the seller at his word panels were followed by the brake it could be screwed back in. It was one that it was a good runner and handed lines, suspension, differential and fuel of those jobs that turned out longer over £2200 for the engine and gearbox tank. Bill reports no diffi culties here: than planned, but the result is worth package. “I was quite relieved when I true to expectation, the Westfi eld it. By luck, the powdercoat is a close came to start it two years later!” bolted together easily. colour match the blue gelcoat of the Now running the aforementioned The chassis was still on the stands Westfi eld’s bodywork.

Below: It’s a snug fi t! Not heavy, but it’s a big engine. Below: Chassis still on stands when engine fi tted. Below: Body shutlines set remotely before being fi tted to car.

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Above: Windscreen fi tted; starting to look fi nished! Above: Engine plumbed in and car now on its wheels. Above: Digital instrumentation can measure lap times.

Bill lined up the body panels away although there’s no heater. “I can’t see from the car before fi xing them myself using the car much in winter, and Useful contacts permanently to it. “The shutlines are even if I do there’s enough heat from the Kit: Westfi eld Sportscars, Kingswinford, West easy to get right, but if I did it again engine,” says Bill. That said, weather gear Midlands. T: 01384 400077. I’d spend a little more time on it. The could be added at a later date. E: info@westfi eld-sportscars.co.uk bonnet isn’t quite right, but only I Pretty soon, the car was wired up W: www.westfi eld-sportscars.co.uk see it.” Bill chose the FW bodywork, and the interior was in. Bill admits to although for the Mega S2000 that getting a pro to help with the former. sharp edges. The factory also changed only applied to the distinctive rear end “Electrics aren’t my thing,” he says. a seized wishbone bolt. It was a styling. At the front, the height of the “Give me a big spanner any day...” worthwhile exercise, as the car passed engine means that only the V8 bonnet, Once the car was on the ground and IVA at the fi rst attempt. with its tall air scoop, fi ts. running under its own steam, in the “I went to Kidderminster, where At this stage, the car was starting to summer of this year, Bill booked it in the Westfi eld factory takes its cars, so look fi nished – despite the fact it was still with Westfi eld for a pre-IVA checkover. they were familiar with the car. But on the stands rather than its own wheels. The list of jobs was short, and centred they were very thorough – which I was The windscreen and wipers went on next, mostly around adding trim to remedy pleased about,” says Bill. That was in mid-June, so he decided to wait until Below: Now fi nished, and on its way to the IVA test having had a check-over at the Westfi eld factory. Finished car will be featured next issue. September before registering the car so that it would receive a 65-plate rather than a 15. “At one stage, I spoke to the DVLA on the phone and they read out a 15-plate. When I told them I wanted a 65, they said I’d have to apply after 1 September. I knew that wasn’t right because regular cars are ready to go on 1 September.” In the end, he did get the 65-plate he wanted in advance of 1 September, and had the numberplates made before the day. Unfortunately, the car hitting the road coincided with good weather. For most people, that would be good news. For Bill, it meant a very busy time on the farm so the car has covered under 100 miles and is still in need of a rolling road session to get the engine running right. That might be a job for next spring, but you can see the fi nished car in the next issue. DON’T MISS PART TWO in the January 2016 issue. On sale from Friday 11 December www.completekitcar.co.uk December 2015 Issue 108 | 57