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Just thought I would share what I've been up to these last few weeks, having decided to take a break from racing and do some more track days. The idea was to come up with something I could thrash without worrying, was cheap and faster than the race car. I set myself a budget of a grand and a month in which to achieve this... The story started exactly a month ago, with this 1992 UK model car - a good runner but out of MOT - picked up for £500. It immediately gained the nickname of 'The Red Munter': At this point it was 954kg, including some lovely cushions and a selection of CDs: Before I'd even collected it I'd sold the roof for £100, so that gave me £600 to play with. I also forgot that we run a weekend event in May each year, which took a whole a week of my schedule, leaving 3 weeks to do all the work... Fast forward to yesterday, exactly a month later, now 803kg and it was out on track And actually under budget by nearly £20! I've got loads of other pics and blurb which I can post up if anyone is interested, it's been quite a hectic month As I've said elsewhere, the idea behind this car is to show people that you can have a lot of fun for very little money, so if you ever see me out and about on a track day please come and introduce yourself so we can get you in the driver's seat for a few laps Cheers, Adam

Good modern carbs (which pretty much means bike carbs) can eliminate some of the traditional issues. However, finding tuners that are happy to work on them won't get easier! Injection is the future. To be fair, buying a complete car, you might pay a little more for an injected model, but it shouldn't be a huge premium - that cost is reserved for anyone doing the actual conversion from one to the other!

Have loved this thread, as a Scotsman living south of the border for ten years I now want to take the Westfield and do the northern tour !

I can see simba from the lion king or maybe a teddy bear at 10 o'clock

That was a tricky spot... now I can't stop noticing it

Love this!

I can see him too. In fact I can see 2 of em, and a whale and Mallard?

I can see him - good catch.

Great stuff from all those who took part shame about Sunday! Does make a difference when its a 2 mile hill Marto aren't you supposed to drive on the right in France! Well done all! Gluten Free

It wasn't very red at one point Edit: sorry for the short post earlier, had to dash off! Hopefully will get to 3 Sisters next weekend yep. Regarding Blyton... I have been earmarked for instructing all day as far as I know, but if there are enough volunteers to cover I'd love to bring it along and grab a couple of sessions. I can then leave the keys in it for everyone else to have a play if they wish

Caption competition time?

So you're considering sacrilege ? My car is an early SEI narrow, not a prelit, so what follows may or may not apply to your car. And yes, while ordering parts at Caterham, don't mention the make of your car. On my car, there is the scuttle and bonnet out of aluminium and the nosecone (plastic). The sidepanels and rear are handmade. Lots of pics and how-to on my blog: see link below). The most important changes are the following: 1) add height to the upper chassis rails by adding some aluminium braces. Thus you get the body lines correct where the scuttle and nose cone join the bonnet. 2) if you have a Xflow with two double carbs and a T9, you will have to put them a little back in the chassis, so that the holes in the bonnet match your setup 3) and point 2 then means that you need a shorter prop, and guess what? Psssst... there is a Caterham propshaft fitting perfectly. I think the suspension on a Prelit is like Caterham, so you will not face the problem with the nosecone having openings at the wrong places as with mine. Anyway, feel free to surf my blog, if you still have questions, I'm here Cheers. Jos

There are some big Boardroom changes on the way as part of the next phase of development; also in the works is a content management system to allow AO's to maintain local area pages with current, past and future info. However, we also go to great lengths to try and avoid fragmenting into individual Areas to much - that's why you see all the multi area events, so it's a balancing act between the two!

Ive had both, tbh carbs were crap, they smelt of petrol, had flat spots, thirsty, not many people can tune them nowadays. So fuel injection is far better, smoother crisper etc

ONE WEEK TO GO!!!!!!!!

Scales collected, bacon and buns next on this to to do list

I presently run Toyo Proxes T1-S tyres on 16 inch rims. I want to stick with Proxes and my options to replace them are Toyo Proxes T1-R or Toyo Proxes 4. Obviously. the T1-R is virtually identical to the T1-S but does anyone have experience of the Proxes 4 tyres? Thanks in advance.

One week to go and no countdown from Matt ..

After a good conversation at our area meeting last night, here's my suggestion for classes going forward: Make the Novice Championship separate from the overall Championship. Introduce an Intermediate Championship - A1, B1 (also separate). More prizes, trophies, awards etc available in each Championship to keep motivation high and increase long term participation. So a Novice doesn't place in the overall Championship - they can still be shown on Tiggers website but there are separate Championships at play. You move through championships once you start posting times within 'x' % of the next level (would need to sit down and work this out exactly, but for the sake of the example lets call it 2%). So once a Novice starts posting times within 2% of the Intermediate times, next year they move up. Once an Intermediate starts posting times within 2% of the Experts, next season they move up. Championship winners move up too. Times for each championship are more generous (again need to invest done time to this, but for now let's say Novice would be D plus 8%, Intermediate would be D plus 4%) to enable people to get closer to the times, feel the reward & motivation to keep going. Again, more reward for each level - perhaps small trophies or plaques could be sent to the relevant class winner after each event? Or as MAC do, a discount off an entry fee, store merchandise or club membership that can be stored up? Or a choice of the above. Rules for classes remain the same, the current stipulation by engine size and gearbox makes sense and means any car can come and be competitive in Novice or Intermediate. Then the current C,D and beyond regs apply to the expert or overall Championship. Formalise a 'buddy' system or make a forum posting where Novices and Intermediates can ask to be supported by someone with the space to bring along their spare wheels and gear, if they've got them, so more people can drive to events. More repeat events like MIRA where we can go to a venue twice a year, my votes for these are Rockingham, Blyton, Gurston, Three Sisters. I agree with Marto that the best events are the well attended ones so reducing events would support that, however I also agree that more events is a good thing and makes it more accessible. A good compromise would be to repeat events within a season so everyone can get to them. That's it for now, day off today! Cheers, Barny.

Thankyou Ross for the nice comments. I have had great fun doing the thread and it has been really nice for me to read all the comments and I am glad you have all enjoyed reading it.

I've got Westfield alloy uprights and the extended steering arms. Believe running a 2.5 rack, would like to buy an off-the-shelf 1.7 Titan one as the quickest I can find is the H/D Quaife 2.2 at the moment... just wondering if any of the kit-car companies sell the Titan ones off-the-shelf or made to order?

Marto- a fantastic write up- well done. This hill is certainly not for the faint hearted being very fast with bends that come up from nowhere-" a fast Llys y Fran on steroids" which is probably the reason behind the number of casualties and offs during the weekend! Certainly made all the more dangerous by the wet conditions on the Sunday. Thankfully my partner in crime will live to fight another day in the Duratec. Superblade, eventually survived and performed well. ......

Great write up, captured the entente cordiale and all being well, I'll be over to watch next year - any WSCC member wanting to stay a bit longer, in need of a camping spot / discount ferry / barn cover - just drop me a PM - I'm only about 45 mins from the circuit - been a few years since I last went to watch possibly the best hillclimb in europe

As a newcomer to this system and now having done 2 events I think it is a great way of scoring. It brings everyone's times very close together. It takes out the money, weight, tyre type, and power advantages out of the equation and enables one to focus purely on driving ability. I've competed in the speed series from the beginning, probably near to 20 years now. The handicap system feels to me very much like the early days of the speed series. We all had very similar cars, similar engines and similar tyres then. The sport was also much more affordable and there were fewer rules for the novices to get confused about.