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That's pretty much how mine looked too. Mind you, it's as much testament to the additive packs in modern synthetic oils I suspect. Many years ago, I pulled the original XE out of my Westfield ready for a major rebuilding. To keep the car on the road, I picked up a spare. My low line sump and powder coated cam cover went on the spare prior to dropping it in the Westfield, the engine looked normal for an 80/90000 mile XE, I ran it like that for a year, using my usual Silkonene Pro Race synth oil. When I took the sump and cam cover back off, it way way, way cleaner! In fact the aluminium head now looked much like the picture of the sump did, above. All the normal lacquer build up and staining that had been there a year earlier, was gone! Mind you, all similarities between the inside of the XE and the F20C end there! It's like opening up a giant pocket watch when you look inside the Honda, every surface seems to be either beautifully machined, or flawlessly cast.

I couldn't think of anythingI was expecting as I watched him walk up the drive with a little parcel. Then I spotted the Playskool return address on it. Yippee, from the size and weight I knew what was in it - my custom length lower harness straps had arrived, excellent, I can finally bolt the seats in now and cross that one off the list.. But better still, the anodised drop links for my new front anti roll bar had arrived too. And sad as it may make me, I've got to say, for something so simple, they're a thing of beauty! I know it's taken a while, but Luke has really surpassed himself on the ARB kits now - I had the earlier sets, which, being generous, needed a certain amount of fettling to fit etc. That to me though seemed perfectly fair enough given the price Playskool were able to do them for. An absolute bargain. But these, for not much more cost, with the anodised black fittings and the special paint finish to the bars, plus the new design bushes for the saddle blocks look absolutely fantastic and go together a dream. The bar itself is already fitted - I'll grab some photos when I get the drop links on over the weekend. I love little detail stuff like this though, where you can feel and see the quality. Ta Luke

You got It bad Dave, getting excited over Droplinks, Get a Grip.

Will you be joining us in the Spyder? :p

Stoneliegh 2021 here we come

Hi Lawrie, The email that John (theprisoner) refers to is what was stated in the 2014 MSA Blue Book (at the time of his email) and as the 2014 Blue Book does not have the List 1B tyres asterisked then they have to be listed in 1B for 2015. The MSA give a years warning that the tyre listing may change by asterisking the specific tyres. As you say in the 2015 MSA Blue Book they have *'d all the List 1B tyres and mention the introduction of List 1C as they do not yet know what they are doing for 2016. By *'ing all the 1B tyres the MSA are giving themselves the option to move any number of the existing 1B tyres in 2016 to 1C. The WSCC Regs have a rule that allows any tyre that has been listed in 1A and 1B in the last 4 years, so from a WSCC regs perspective you are covered for a good number of years. Where it becomes complicated is the class you can enter "on the day" where we are invited to other club's events. It is down to the local regulations of the club running the event but makes no difference to the class you are eligible for/entered in the WSCC series. So for example if a 2016 event ruled out List 1C tyres for roadgoing classes than it would push your car into a Modified Production class and you would be up against non-roadgoing cars shod with slicks. However for a WSCC scoring perspective your time will be compared to your WSCC Class target time to calculate your WSCC points. This also sometimes happens at events with aeroscreens, but not so often these days, where roadgoing classes require a full height windscreen - this also pushes the car out of roadgoing and into Mod Prod for the event but not for WSCC scoring. It is simpler than my explanation but it was the best I could provide

magnifico - although I am sad that the mighty spirit has passed to the other side....

Kingster No worries about your colour choice, I have been a big fan of JK for some time as you could probably detect in my posts, fitting can be fiddly getting them in exactly the right position but once done I can get my seats out in less than 5 minutes and that includes threading seat and crotch belts through the holes etc. The new solid rear mount has stiffened the seats up no end and is a big bonus. Need to lose 3 stone to reduce my 0-60 time as well. Bob :d

Great work guys

wow, thanks Ian, I'm convinced...