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Everyone Just moved from a rubber mount to the aluminum Westfield mount on my Seight. I was concerned on an increase in harshness for road use but can report it doesnt have any significant impact on this, just much improved feel and more instant response which is exactly what I wanted, cheap and worthwhile change for me

I'll be there.

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Thanks Rich, enjoyed the chat. Bars sound great, but will leave them as we agreed....another bump!

I would like to have attended as a relatively new member but have other stuff planned. For those that are travelling remember the Forth road bridge is now closed, so you'll need to go via Kincardine Bob

I guess, like me you have a pre 1990 registered car

Hmmm - might not need to go and buy one

Thanks a lot for the warm welcome. Very nice to meet you too. Bentley? who is working there? And yes... the weather... lets say that is not the best thing of this area... but I'm getting used to, and by the moment, the overall is worth!

Great to catch up with everyone last night, and welcome Maurici - given that I was stood there in the pub with Westfield/WSCC logos all over me, (well, coat and shirt at least), probably be best if I didn't tease you about the Bentley coats, even if I did wonder if you were wearing the entire range at once! I think we were all impressed by your petrol head commitment to move from Spain and warmth/sun to what can only be described as, ahem, Crewe, and a rather chilly, wet North West England. Well done! Another great meal from the Eastern Revive, but my word, was the noise level high when they were at their busiest.

On a kit car?

So we are all about to go and buy pre 1990s Westfields then. I didn't think the MSA were allowed to be ageist with their rules!!!!! At least they appear to have read part of ECE regulation 1222 but not all of it.

Just seen this post I'm in Carlisle and I'll be coming across to Newcastle on Sunday if that's any good you can get me on 07703597401 Cheers Mark

North East area........... so that must be Aberdeen area!!

Travelodge at Sixfields and bus transfer into the circuit?

Right, time for a final season update. A little later than planned, I’ve been off in Iceland for a week doing this: Anyway, back to the Westfield. Cadwell Park was the last sprint of the season, and allowing for the end-of season awards do the Toyota guys were holding it was being run on a Saturday. Having already had a mid-week panic with the cracked manifold I was still feeling a bit disorganised and out-of-sorts when I headed up the M40, and a traffic-ridden 5-hour drive to the hotel didn’t help much. Still, it was a lovely clear night when I turned up so I had high hopes for a dry day’s racing. I was woken up at 3am to the sound of rain crashing off the roof of the hotel lodge. Bugrit. So, off to Cadwell in the rain – we arrived fairly early but the paddock was already quite full, and unloading the trailer on the rain-soaked grass wasn’t much fun. I finally managed to get off and through to scrutineering, whereupon I measured 108dB on the noise test. ****. A bit of jiggery-pokery and we managed to get through with a barely-on-the-track-limit 105 and I was waved on my sheepish way, protesting cries of “I’ll get a new exhaust!” meeting stony-faced expressions from the Cadwell scrutineers. Oops. We finally headed out onto the sighting laps, my first time at Cadwell, and it was still soaking wet. There was a lot of standing water along the start/finish straight, and even more along Park straight. Plus there were a lot of leaves on the track through the woodland section. My tyres? R888s that are almost on the wear limits. Fortunately I had actually done a bit of homework this time round and had spent a fair amount of time learning the track on YouTube, and of course everyone else was in the same boat (almost literally!) as me. My first two runs I managed to keep pretty tidy, and when the timing sheets came out I was very surprised to see I was leading my class – ahead of a Duratec-powered Westfield and a Caterham on wets. My confidence started to build (despite aquaplaning at 100mph down Park a couple of times!) as the track started to dry, but this meant the more powerful Duratec car could get his power down and he ended up knocking a couple of seconds off my time which I couldn’t claw back. Still, I was happy with steady improvements in my times until the rain started again mid-afternoon, at which point I knew I couldn’t beat my best time of 1:50.45. My last two runs of the day were me taking the opportunity to explore the limits of the car in the wet a bit more – leading to a void run after over-steering over the kerb at Mansfield, and then on my final run carrying too much speed through the Gooseneck and cutting off the apex…. Still, you’re not trying hard enough until you fall off, eh? I ended up runner up in my class but down in 11th overall – not my best result but given that the Westy struggles to get over 100mph on track (@ almost 7,000rpm in 4th) I tend to be less competitive on fast tracks. I was also very chuffed to be awarded overall class runner-up for the season as well So that’s it for sprinting until March (probably, depending on Javelin’s calendar next year). I’ve enormously enjoyed my first foray into competitive motorsport and will definitely be running in the series next year. I’ve got a few bits to keep me busy over winter though – after cracking the manifold and, apparently, blowing all of the baffles out of the silencer it’s time to invest in a new system. It has always been a bit noisy (apparently you could hear me going round Cadwell from the main road….) and it has got steadily worse this year, so ideally I’ll be after a system that will see it comfortably under 100dB. On top of that I need to experiment with raising the gearing a bit – the 13” track wheels I have are currently running 185/60/13 R888s all round and one pair are pretty low, so I might try a pair of 205/60/13s on the rear to raise the gearing slightly (this would match the overall diameter of my road wheels, so I’ll try these on a track-day and see if an extra 5-10mph at the top end is enough). On the other hand I think my diff could do with a rebuild, so it may be worth biting the bullet and getting it rebuild with a different final drive. Some head-scratching to do there I think. Other than that it will get some routine servicing and another alignment check to make sure everything’s in order, and hopefully we’ll have some nice sunny winter days so I can get it out and about!

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