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Address is Baldwin Plastic Laminates on Tallon Road, down a driveway opposite Rhino Showrooms Post Code cm13 1tg We'll try and leave a Westy/Red Golf parked on the road as its a little tucked away. Starting at 9am and finishing around noon followed by a drive to the Lodge in South Woodham Ferrers for the monthly meet. Tea and Coffee will be available and we'll try and do bacon rolls again to help with the fine tuning of the corner weights.

i don't think front plates look bad , as others have said i can think about a lot of better things to campaign over in fact most of the first few pages of the 10000 plus open petitions have a higher ranking in my world interesting reading https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open

I want to be that guy if that's one of his biggest concerns in life!

Just poped into Aldi & picked this up for £9.99 Not the largest but ideal to put in the footwell

Days 1 to 5... After 4 x 12+ hrs on the road finally time to get a post done. All 4 seasons experienced so far and a few photos.... more to follow and hopefully something in Westfield World Not looking too good Tour Badge Loading up on the ferry First sighting of Millau Viaduct Grand Canyon (French) St Tropez - wrapped up for Breakfast - 140Euro for coffee and omelette x 6

Since I bought my car in March, i've suspected that it runs a bit rich, when cold starting it would fire up just fine but idle was rough and about 400 rpm, slowly rising to 750 when hot, although still a tad rough. I wanted to have a health check on the engine and to give me confidence that the rich running (if it was the case) was not causing bore wash, and try to sort the rough idling out. On numerous recommendations and seeing results from other people I contacted NMS, when i described what i wanted they told me they would need the car for 3 days, and refused point blank to give me even a ballpark figure, nor starting price for the work, now call me old fashioned but I like to know what i'm about to spend and giving me an hourly rate that made me wince a bit didn't help, nevertheless i did book it in, but as things panned out i had to cancel due to work commitments. In passing i was chatting at the RV point for the run to Stoneleigh and AP Racing Engines Ltd were mentioned, and only 25 miles from where I live, rather than the 55 to NMS. I phoned them up and chatted to Andrew who sounded to know his stuff and quoted a price between £200-£250 which sounded ok for a mornings work. Roll onto today, car booked in, I arrived early and waited for Andrew who turned up, he explained that he'd had customers just drop cars off at the weekend for him to look at without being booked in so his garage was chockablock. As some were not willing to move under their power I helped Andrew shuffle them around and get mine in. Over a coffee he confirmed what i wanted and also I asked him to de-tune a bit to run on 95 ron fuel as getting super for me involves a drive that uses nearly 2 gallons, that situation is not tenable in the long run. So to start off out with the plugs and a compression test, the results ranged between 175 and 195 psi spread across both banks of cylinders, they were ok. Next was plugs back in, with a recommendation to change them as the external insulators where the caps fit were looking as if they were starting to break down, on start up Andrew commented that there was something amiss with the lumpy tick over, he proceeded to use a stethoscope to listen in the trumpets for mismatch in the TB's, tweaking the balance made a big difference to the running, it became much smoother and the tick over rose to about 900 rpm. The lambda readings were within expected values and remained so across all the consecutive and incremental power runs, so running rich was not a problem. Then came to strapping down and real runs. Andrew raised the speeds incrementally until there was a full power run up to 5500 rpm, where the power had levelled (hard cut off is 6500). Over a few more runs the power outputs were consistent if not earth shattering, with a flat peak of 320-330 bhp and 350 lb ft of torque, there was a bit of tyre slip on the rollers even with the "sticky tyre spray stuff" These figures although I suspect are high for a Westfield are not a lot per litre when you take into account the 5.l displacement, but bearing in mind it makes the engine relatively unstressed and all the power can't be used in the lower 3 gears I was content. Next came retarding the ignition by about 5% over the upper 3/4 of the rev range, Andrew advised that there wasn't much point taking it over the full range as the advance wasn't much anyway, at this point i put the filters back on, the next series of runs up to the cut off gave 300 BHP and 330lb ft torque, which was to be expected as the filters are in dire need of a clean, but more important the power and torque were not "peaky" with about 250 bhp available from 3000 rpm. Overall Andrew was pleased with the results and was grinning like a cheshire cat, he complimented the car and the way it delivered the power which was encouraging to say the least. I went on a test drive, all was good, could I tell the drop in BHP? Well, no, not at all. Taking it home afterwards, i really couldn't tell a difference in performance, but it was more tractable and sounded different, a bit more "barky" which isn't a bad thing as it is fairly quite. I can still provoke wheel spin in 4th as well...... And it used less fuel coming home so maybe it's a bit more efficient, or maybe just the difference in head/tail wind today? So I'm pleased with the service, with Andrew and the car, oh and the price, which was the bottom of the quote range. Andrew led me through the process, explained everything he was doing, and answered my questions fully. As for AP Racing engines, well i would say it is a competently run set up, if you want shiny floors clean enough to eat your dinner off then go somewhere else, despite lack of clinical cleanliness (apart from engine build area) the technology is there. Plus, there are lots of interesting engines in various states of refurbishment/strip down etc, and if you go don't think you will be languishing on the sofa reading a glossy mag, you will be expected to muck in and in doing so be part of the process not just a recipient of the delivered product. Cheers Ian

im in

bl**** hell thanks a bunch. £103 later, 2 dry bags, a chiminea, a parasol base, 2 sleeping bags and some cat food!

Humph, seems like too many Westfield drives don't wear the trousers in their house!! (what dear... nothing dear... no don't read that dear.... damn!)

Hi any one have a pair of clamshell wings ? , red would be good but any colour will do, would need post or wscc couriering as far north as possible, I am planning on coming down to Geoffrey's Keilder trip in august so could meet / collect then Thanks Gary

Hey Matt! I might be able to do the 10th July if this is suitable

Lucky you!! My wife has all my weekends booked until October!!

About a week too early to be expecting anything yet. MAC sent out the recent Anglesey stuff second class post on the Friday the week before meaning most got it the Monday before the event

We might head over and plan to go straight to show ground, back dependent...... Bored now!!

If the front number plate is below the nose at least the rabbit is stunned before it goes through the bunny slicer. A humanitarian reason to keep front plates a legal requirement for Westfield's with diffusers at least. Jen

That is a false and illegal plate! The bar code reader app on my phone couldn't read it. Jen

Thanks for the mention Julie....lol ...... To be honest I did take one step back but feel I have made progress today, can actually make a whole step or two lol

Me, me, me... ME.. ME.. yup, definitely me. Err, for sure, me. I'm in, yup absolutely me. I'll be there. Either is fine. Just let me know and I'll be there. Did I say... ME!

Had very happy Afternoon out with A P Racing last Friday & the old silver top Is purring like a kitten Nothing was a problem,even when u have the oldest ecu in the world!i was thinking the worse but Andrew Managed to start the old MBE up again after it locked us out. Andrew has so much knowledge of engines & tuning & it was a pleasure sending the afternoon with him. And i was very happy with the bill at the end.Value for money & will be going back for later upgrades. Thanks again Ben .

You get the feeling Evans is that bloke down the pub who spouts off about cars like he knows everything but is invariably wrong. Only with more money.

A short video of the last run with retarded ignition for lower octane fuel and filters on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJv7eaZ_hE8 Even get flames at the end