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Another fantastic day, weather was kind and the hill and venue were excellent even if I did rip my splitter off in the bumpy paddock. The event was well run by Kirby Lonsdale and Liverpool Motor Clubs resulting in 3 timed runs. Howard led the way to come 1st in class 2B (10th overall out of approx 90 cars) and so did shaggy nearly catching me up to come 3rd. Unfortunately Andy and myself struggled to make any headway in the afternoon runs both struggling to get around the hairpin, as can be seen by my final run below : https://youtu.be/VNtn7z-TuO0

Rhys, in my opinion it is a matter of cost. At the bottom end of your budget, the majority of cars will be running on carbs, and that is fine. However, in the upper half of your budget most cars will be running with fuel injection. In fact, it isn't so much fuel injection which is the advantage, but rather throttle bodies with the fueling and ignition timing controlled by an electronic control unit. There isn't any comparison in my opinion, if the engine is quite highly tuned. These days, with a properly mapped ecu, you can drive a car with virtually a full race engine at not much more than a fast tickover in top gear without a problem. So what you are getting with throttle bodies and an ecu is smooth tractability and drive-ability, despite a high state of tune.

Hi, I cannot be there but I was in Applecross on a road trip last week. See here if interested. https://youtu.be/aTVoILEqEvk also https://www.flickr.com/photos/argee4/18616153189/in/photostream and https://www.flickr.com/photos/argee4/18617477938/in/photostream There were no midges only wall to wall sunshine. Have a great time

Used to fly in Dakotas from Benghazi to the Saharan Oil field I worked at. The pilots where all old American vets from Vietnam who no longer could pass their US fitness checks. One had his own Constellation I think it was and was one of the last planes out of Vietnam when it went t*ts up and another was Bat Masterton the actual grandson of the US Marshal of the same name. All were barking mad and used to buzz the local watertower and also used to bring the supplies of brew kits to the camp to allow us to produce copious amounts of amber nectar. Remember being struck by lightning in one and another time the bl**** door opening whilst at altitude. Good job they weren't pressurised. The good thing was that they were so slow it was rumoured the local MIGs couldn't lock on but think that unlikely. Noisey messy but kept going. Bob

Hit a rabbit last year, girlfriend stopped and picked it up, walked through my parents door holding it, and proceeded to skin it and put in the freezer for them. Hardly a mark on it, just a tiny graze on the back of its head under the fur. Daniel

HI all so i have to work Saturday and Sunday but i will come for the drive north on Friday to the lunch stop so if i could be added to the list for lunch that would be much appreciated! After that i will probably head down from the Onich Hotel to oban and do that little loop before heading back to edinburgh! looking forward to it, fingers crossed for sunshine! see you all on friday

We ran 40s on our Xflow for years. They were brand new with the right progression holes for the engine, set up by a man who knew his Weber onions. Much as you say, started hot or cold, seemed to run fine. Any 'character*' was put down to it having a moderate state of tune and the folklore of 'it's a lumpy cam, it'll always be a bit rubbish below 3000rpm'. Fitted mapped ignition to help with the cranking (11:1 CR and 13 degrees of static advance can be demanding on a small bettery) and discovered it was a different car - having fitted the ECU, converting to FI was a simple step and a set of GSXR 600 TBs finished the job. It probably didn't make any more power on FI, but it was just so much better to drive and more economical too. The 'character*' just vanished. I think it's a case of carbs, even properly set up (increasingly hard to do these days) are always going to have more compromises than EFI. Badly set up EFI is no joke either - seen some epic fails there too. * 'character' defined as spitting, farting, popping, dribbling petrol everywhere, flooding if you didn't get the starting technique just right, pants mpg even if driven like a saint, perpetual odor of petrol.