Modifications.

Steering wheel

The Steering wheel that the car came with when I bought is was a 12" Mountney leather wheel with a flat dish and this meant that the wheel ran very close to the dash, too close in fact, which meant that your knuckles would brush the switchgear for the indicators and high/low beam. Thankfully I had a nice old Mountney leather wheel with more dish and it was a slightly smaller diameter as well which gave nice bit of additional knee clearance as well.

Seat and seatbelt mountings

The seats had been changed from basic seat pads to steel framed seats that had runners on from a later wide body car. The trouble was that the runners raised the seats over an inch reducing the clearance from the wheel and worse the seatbelts were the wrong type for a Westfield and had eye bolts and quick release clamps for the lower fittings. Westfields should have bolt through fittings for the lower seat belt mountings so that the connection to the chassis is as flat as possible.

With the mountings changed and the seat runners removed the seat could be mounted as low as possible and moved back to sit flat against the rear bulkhead. And for the first time I could comfortably sit in the car.

Dash and wiring

Needed a general clean up to chop out some unwanted wires and move bits and pieces around so that I could recover the dash from red vinyl to some more appropriate black.

Pedal Box

To gain an extra bit of foot room which at a premium in the narrow I cut and shut the pedals from the modified Escort MK1 pedal box to give an extra 1.5" of foot room - a good mod and saves the need for floor mounted pedals

Radiator and fan

the car was fitted with a cortina type rad and an original fan and the pair weighed in at about 8KG - the replacement Polo rad and fan tipped the scales at 3.5KG so a considerable saving and a big improvement in cooling capacity. A few new brackets and a bit of additional wiring and the job was done - it cools so well I never had to use the fan switch even in warm weather and traffic.

 

Aeroscreen

Fitting an aeroscreen is the best perfromance mod pound for pound that you can fit to a car like the westfield - the aeroscreen I got hold of was a £30 glassfibre job of of e-bay and for the money its a great deal. It needed a bit of trimming and fettling as its taken from a mould for a fatboy westy but it fits nicely with a bit of work and looks very good.

 

There is less buffeting with the aero than there is with the main screen without the doors and the improvement in acceleration from 50mph upwards and the ultimate top end is quite impresssive.