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You're being too hard on yourself, that was a good couple of runs

I've just picked my chin up of the floor, OMG Pete, fantastic car control Don't worry Martin, give us a few years decades and we'll be giving them a run for their money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLo4tqT4a4&feature=youtu.be my timed run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9mapUzeVew here's mine

Do you think we can bribe Mark to make clamshells?

Would you go back next season? Look forward to viewing the footage and can't be any slower than mine

I've emailed the link to this thread to Black Country AO Don Homer

Found something yellow in there, had to google it and found out it was a Westfield .............. so yes, I FOUND IT!!!

And the speed series competitors

Did you find the car whist you were in there Paul?

6 months hard work and look at it

It's on the list of moulds to make how soon does it need to be Simon .

One other thing to note, on the engine swaps. Be careful assuming that just because the exhaust is on the same side that it will come out in exactly the same spot! It's by no means guaranteed, unless you have a custom manifold made. Carbs or throttle bodies too, if they exit through the bonnet, most likely won't be exactly in the same spot.

In the old days, when most head castings weren't overly good or well developed as standard, say those designed pre the early eighties, (roughly). The old Stage 1/2/3 thing used to mean more. As pretty much all production heads off non exotic cars responded to the same things; three angle seats, tidied up ports, stronger valve springs, etc all the way through to really opened up ports, bigger valves, re-shaped combustion chambers etc. Though the detail of sizes, and what material needed to come off from where, would change, all were much of a muchness. Engine design has moved on vastly though. By the end of the eighties, we had a production engine in the shape of the XE with around 150 bhp as standard, that could with the right mods be taken to nearly 250 WITHOUT head work as we previously knew it. Indeed, some popular engines now, actually have almost too large ports as standard. Others have long since had three angle seats. So while it's still possible to modify them for different levels of performance, there's no typical magic formula anymore, and the "stage" approach to naming mods has got very vague and variable engine to engine. Though ironically, Pinto's are one of the old generation engines, where you would, back in the seventies, early eighties, know pretty much what you were getting!

Sorry Peet the comment wasn't aimed at your engine, if it's 150 bhp it's obviously been fettled. What I am saying is that stage1 stage2 etc are very vague descriptions with no fixed values S1 may be std valves, cleaned up ports, s2 may be more porting and big valves, s3 full race etc etc but there's a dozen more stages from std to full race, never mind the quallity of the work .

Home after a day of ups and downs..... P1 - Cold and very very slippery after the previous day's and night's rain. Keith did a lovely pirouette between Karousel and Deers Leap; no damage to car but pride was hurt and his "drive of shame" all the way back to the paddock lead him directly to the cafe for an early bacon roll. Unfortunately James Spicer lost all his brake fluid between the paddock and the start line - luckily he discover "no brakes" as he was heading to the start line and not at 80mph in the Hollow. [Edited to say that I see from the times James did get to the Karousel and went through Hollow at 79mph - so he is very lucky to have brake failure where he did, the slowest part of the course.] P2 - Track drying and everyone put in some respectable times; all had smiles back on their faces. Keith even made it to the top of the hill! T1 - The weather was improving and we felt good in the knowledge that recent communications from Wiscombe Park confirmed they were encountering atrocious weather. There was talk of a timed run prior to lunch but it didn't happen. Early lunch and we were ready to attack the hill and build on our P2 times - just getting into our cars and the heavens opened turning a warm dry track into something that resembled a river with the grip of an ice rink! Everyone's times were slower except for Martin Watson who managed a very accomplished sub-40 run. T2 - After the squall that ruined T1 the weather improved again and we were presented with a dry (with damp patches) track and all put in some excellent times. Well done to Pete Goulding who took Westfield honours, followed by myself only 0.08 seconds slower! Also well done to Christian James who did well on his first ever event; coming away absolutely hooked and can't wait for his next event.

I'm thinking of drawing some upgrades for next winter maybe some Tillett seats, half doors, different wheels.... The list is endless