A brief history of my first Westfield - a SpeedSport. After a visit to the Westfield stand at the Donnington show in 1999 I booked my factory visit. A couple of weeks later and the order was placed for a modular build SpeedSport. I decided early on that my first kit car was going to be all new parts as I had just about had enough of cleaning up old parts after owning two ancient v-dubs. I started building the car in November 1999 and in all it took about 6 months of evenings and weekends, usually 2-3 evenings and Sat or Sun morning. The car is Post Office Red with dark blue vinyl interior. The interior also has red piping on seats and red carpet edging. I think the colours worked pretty well together. I would have gone for black interior originally but Jo convinced me to go for blue - well done Jo. If you're wondering how much it all cost, I'm not telling so you can ring Westfield and work it out for yourself. Don't forget to add on a LSD, contoured dash, tonneau and boot lid! The main subject of this site - my V8 build - hopefully will cost a little less. But then the SpeedSport was all new parts. The basic spec. of the SpeedSport I don't think has changed much since I did mine. It is a standard SEiW chassis & body with a tuned Zetec 1.8 and uprated suspension. The tuning involves the usual side exit stainless exhaust with 4-1 manifold but with 'throttle body' fuel injection. I think the throttle bodies were from Jenvey and the ECU was an MBE 956. Suspension modifications were standard on the SpeedSport, including front and rear anti-roll bars, AVO adjustable shocks all round with 2.25 springs.