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Ok here goes still a bit of a nooby at photos as they all seem too small but here goes size isn't everything. Lets see what they are like Bob They seem ok, showing rear brace attachment then the new base and corner support. Clansman like the choice of style and colour for the pads , same as mine.

This seems a good deal, and a few of the North Oxford Posse have already booked Not the full circuit, but £150 for some decent Tarmac sounds good to me. So, I will start the list of people already booked. 1. Gary Lucas 1.8 MX5 Westfield 2. Simon Jones Zetec Westfield 3. Luke Reeves - SEiGHT Westfield

Thanks Santa Si!!! (Budslater) They're just what I always wanted!!!

I still have one good kidney i can sell. But i do need one of these.

MHR guys hope you all have a great day

Yes, National Link here http://www.trackdays.co.uk/track_days/silverstone.htm

Already sky+ This is the only Christmas tv I want to watch

Thanks for the replies boys and girls. My plan b is to go in the Bmw and sit under the railway viaduct arches and still have the dinner If you image search for Glaisdale bridge then we are going to sit by the river on a stone.

Campbell, Matches my sleigh, yep you need to get them fitted before they are reallocated. I do have a thin spacer between the runner and the seat base I recall that was to allow the sliders sufficient clearance to move, a little trial and error will confirm and depends on your runners. Fitting the seats was a bit of a faf as everything is out of sight and with very little clearance either side it takes a lot of setting up over the range of travel and then checking before drilling the holes in the wrong place. I guess its a place into position and mark the datums so that a template of the fixing bolts can be used. As someone else said earlier I also had the floor fixing bolts from the runners welded into the runners to stop them turning and give me something solid to work with. I have to admit to making the cardinal sin of introducing additional weight by having strengthening plates under the dropped floor so that any flex in the floor is not amplified by the movement in the seat due to loading. With the new rear bracing this hopefully becomes pretty much unnecessary. When you consider the strength of the seat is required when cornering and accelerating, if you have to hit something all the load would go onto the seat belts unless you go off backwards of course lets hope that never happens. Cheers Bob

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Indeed. I can say I have power in mine but that's it. Wish I had a double, or that size! Think the floor needs a good bit of paint to clean and brighten it up. I don't see a stereo or unsuitable poster.

LOL I would have had to eat those hub caps first

Mine waiting to be fitted before my son nabs them for a gaming seat!! Going to fit OMP runners for both sides.

Your plans sound brilliant to me and I hope you both enjoy your day. I hate Christmas, visiting, shopping, yuk. Last year was the first year that we didn't go to North Northumberland and hide. We went instead onto the High Peak Trail and went cycling on an empty track. We had fruit cake and a flask of coffee at lunchtime. Another couple also came on cycles and sat on the table next to us, laid out a Christmas tablecloth, got out 2 wine glasses, filled them and shouted over a cheery merry Christmas to us. We did go home and have a full turkey dinner at tea time though. Not everyone's idea of a normal Christmas but not much of my life is normal.

My Westfield this morning. My Westfield this afternoon Sorry, devilment got the better of me.

Why? Do you have sheep?

Makings of a proper Mancave there. Needs ceiling boarding out, painting, fridge , sofa and probably more stuff I can't think of now, although I'm guessing you've already thought of these and it's work in progress.

Are you expecting snow ??

So I went for 4x Twin 5ft HF Daylight Fluorescents with reflectors, Grand total of £125 all in, excluding wire as I already had that. Really pleased with the outcome, plenty of light and the right colour too. Dean

My first sprint event with the electric Westfield was at Croft. This is quite a long circuit so I wondered if one charge could last for a whole days sprinting? I also wondered what sort of reception the car would receive from the authorities. The MSA Blue Book has nothing to say about electric cars. In the end the scrutineers were diligent and helpful if a little bemused but they gave it the OK. On the way to the circuit for first practise all cars line up for the noise test. When it came to my turn, the tester looked around the car and asked “where’s the exhaust”. Other marshals, standing nearby, helpfully explained that the car was actually a converted hair dryer and didn’t need an exhaust. He wrote down 0dB. The electrical power systems performed faultlessly and the battery lasted all day. The handling on the other hand was a real handful. The car’s weight, including me, was 975Kgs (885+90). On the track it bounced and wallowed around the circuit. The under slung batteries gave it a ride height of 50mm so it hit the ground several times. Obviously the springs were too soft and with no anti roll bar the car leaned like a ship. After returning home I consulted Westfield and they advised that the very similarly weighted iRacer used 600 lb springs on the rear and 500 lb on the front! I duly fitted the recommended springs and set off for the MIRA sprint. MIRA was wet! My first lap was a disaster. A combination of rain on both sides of the windscreen and a motor cut out meant that I missed a red flag and had to report to the headmaster for a lesson in humility. Subsequent laps were better. The new springs transformed the handling and my times were comparable with the other Westys, mainly due to the extra traction afforded by the car’s weight in the wet. Mine was the only Westfield not aquaplaning – result. The windscreen was worse than useless so before the next event I resolved to remove it along with all the interior trim and fitted a new GRP seat and a 12V lithium battery. This saved a total of 35Kg. Car now weighed “only” 850Kg! After a summer holiday I returned to MIRA with a lighter and more aerodynamic car. Again it was a wet start but the track dried in the afternoon. After P1, I started to adjust the damper settings and tyre pressures, seeking advice from fellow WSCC competitors. Everyone was very helpful. In the end my best time was 59.16 seconds with a top speed of 101 mph (according to my GPS logger anyway) – the slowest Westfield in the dry - but not too bad. After a good run at Curborough I called it a day for this year. Only four events but all fun and I learned a great deal about the car and myself. I need more track time and the car is basically way too heavy for competitive sprinting. It’s clear I’ll need to reduce the number of batteries in the car by 50%. This should save about 200Kgs but it’s a big technical challenge to reconfigure the battery to get the same power from half the cells - but that’s another story.

I really should make the effort but there are so many of you I can't think where to start..could give you a talk on racing from 1965 to 2004...did it for NSCC last year...?