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Heads up , first of a three parter starts tonight at 9pm on 4. I really enjoyed the India one, so hopefully this should be good,

October 1st, 2016 Spend: £1500.00 What's the best way to speed up the Mighty Crossflow? You replace it with a Zetec I bought this last month from another WSCC member after he took me out in his car with this engine in it. Complete with ECU, manifold and as much ancillaries as he could spare. 180BHP on the Northampton Motorsport rollers. October 2nd, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Cleaned up the garage and moved stuff about so the engine can be stored for a while whilst I take my own engine out. Borrowed an engine crane from Lewis and placed the new engine on a trolley for easy manoeuvring. October 3rd, 2016 Spend: £0.00 As the car is off the road for a good couple of months, I am also going to take the live axle out so it can have the bearings replaced as it is leaking on the nearside. Also taking the opportunity to replace all the rear bushes and the rear suspension. The fuel tank needs to come out for that, so made a start with emptying it and removing the fuel tank straps. October 6th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Took the fuel tank out and removed the rear lights. The rear lights need to go back to the manufacturer as they have condensation inside. October 8th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Time to crack on Removed the radiator, all the coolant hoses, spilling a lot of coolant on my drive in the process. Also drained the engine of oil and removed the tunnel top and seats. Disconnected the engine from everything and left it only on the engine mounts. The pile of parts is steadily increasing October 9th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Well, that was easy! October 15th, 2016 Sold: £500.00 Who knew old oily Crossflows are worth a pretty penny? Did some small jobs on the car whilst waiting for Andy from Sheffield to collect my old engine. He's going to drop it in a Mark 1 Escort... The Circle of Life! October 16th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 After I struggled last week to disconnect the prop-shaft from the diff in the tunnel, I discovered that it is much easier to remove the gearbox first, then slide the axle and diff assembly backwards so it would all be accessible from the boot. Did not realise that the gearbox would dump all its oil when you lift it out though, so spend half the afternoon cleaning up the drive with degreaser. Doh! Took the angle grinder to the diff flange bolts but it remained firmly connected to the prop-shaft. Time to call it a day. October 22nd, 2016 Sold: £20.00 Finally. Now the cleaning can commence. Also sold my old 15" alloy wheels. October 23rd, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Cleaned up the engine bay until I ran out of cleaning products. Also removed the dash/scuttle by cutting a slot underneath the column. This was something I wanted to do for a long time, as I can now remove it all in one go, for easy access to the electrics. October 24th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Dropped the axle and gearbox off at Martin Harvey for bushes, bearings and seals. October 25th, 2016 Spend: £20.00 As I am relocating the filler neck to the boot, I picked up some carbon boot side panels and carbon fuel cap cover from Mark Russel. October 29th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Trial fitted the new engine to see if it would actually fit or not. Turns out the answer is maybe... The alternator is awfully close to the chassis, but as I do not have the engine mounts yet, final confirmation will be once I've got the gearbox back in and the mounts measured up. October 30th, 2016 Spend: £29.10 Continued with cleaning. Felt I needed a little victory so fitted the carbon filler cap replacement and the new Hella high level brake light I bought to replace my half working Ebay Chinese special. Had hoped to remove the rollbar so I could easily get the wire inside it, but seems like the original builder likes his adhesive fixings, as it is glued on with some stuff that I could not yet undo. Will continue with that next week as I need to slide my boot lid sides over the diagonal. Last month: £ 2312.52 This month: £ 1069.10 ----------+ Total: £ 3381.62

Forum Software Update - Please Read This! On Sunday 27th November 2016 at 14:00 we will be upgrading the Forum software to the latest version. This is not just a quick patch and requires a large number of old threads to be "indexed" by the new system - what this means to you is that the Forum might not work 100% as expected for a few days as it takes a very long time for the software to transfer everything over and make it all searchable again. Therefore, please bear with us until it all settles down and expect some odd behaviour for a few days afterwards. The new forum will not look too much different to the old one - it's a bit like adding some new pistons and cams to your engine, it doesn't appear to have changed, but will still need bedding in and remapping! Chris King Webmaster

Hi Quinten, Like the blog,loads of good info , one question I have a xflow with a 4 speed gearbox. I would like move the gearlever further back from under the dash. From your pictures you seem to have some sort of extension plate on the back of the gearbox. Is this something you have made or bought etc. Looking forward to the next installment. Thanks Peter

You mean you didnt spot the cable ties and gaffa tape on the back of the P1?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/owner-of-safe-storage-for-cars-stole-50000-porsche-while-owner-was-abroad-a3400676.html

I confess Clegg, it was me,

Does this mean we will be able to upload photos without using Photobucket?

Excellent night, very pleased the brilliant caricature artist didn't do me! John's speech was wonderful, quite a few lumps in throats around the room and a deserving winner. Well done all.

Or go and drive your car

Wish I'd have known Gary. I would have joined you! It would have made a nice break from decorating the bathroom

Porn - as usual. Thanks in advance to Chris and Ade for getting this update done

well here we go again , bored , its sunny a wee tad chilly..... ok brass monkey chilly, still if i wrap up so coffee at cairngorm sounded good at least in my head ..... mmmmm so off we go a wee bit of freezing fog en route had to stop and de ice the screen, other sane humans pointing , laughing and waving at the village idiot driving an open car still I dont care it was great and the soup and coffee up the mountain (it was -5 in the sun ) was just what was required, a very strange look as I filled up in aviemore and then headed home. It really was great to be out, carefull steady driving was the order of the day and my cheeks were a bit numb ...... but HAPPY DAYS the loch in the picture was half frozen over !!!!!

Yup, saw the Westies... I was in the pits standing behind the camera man when they were filming that - car looked superb and took me back to a 12 year old when I first saw an Elite at my local garage and the salesman let me sit in it - loved Lotus cars ever since and bought my Elan 8 years later.

Hi Jon Nice yellow car that, I wonder who could be the owner?

Everyone who won an award last night should have taken their photo with them, but if you would like to order any more then please follow the link below. http://www.eventphotos4all.co.uk/view-your-pictures/pet-shows-family-fun-days--more/wscc-awards-dinner-november-2016/ You will need an access code to view which is WSCC26 Some great pictures in there.

Looks like next year will be interesting then!!

I can cope with weekend outages but what am I supposed to do during work time??!!?

A splendid evening -- and I echo all the congratulations to Nick, Tel, John and John. A little off-piste, I thought it was very good to see Alan Smith (very experienced Clerk of Course who serves us at Blyton) and Richard and Jane Usher (Blyton Park owners) joining us to celebrate the club's 2016 series. Also, on behalf of Borough 19 MC, a big thank you for the appreciation in voting Snetterton "event of the year".

Just to add it is likely the board will be ofline completely from Sunday through much of Monday. However to ensure you have access as soon as possible we will be providing access as soon as we can and then you will have to live with us doign the remaining steps during that week.

Excellent night with some great banter and special thanks to Nick and the rest of the team for putting on a great evening. Special congratulation to John Loudon. Superb speech, you had a few of us pretty choked mate. You really deserve the win, now let see you defend that title.

I have done over 5,500 miles since putting the new engine in (April) - going around the Alps always helps

Mines just done slightly over 7000 miles now. but then I lost most of last winter while the car was back and forth to Omex, and I also had the Speedo back at Stack for a month, (during which I actually did about 400 miles, not that it shows up anywhere!!)

I made the switch a few years ago. Discovered lecky razors give me unbelievable razor burn no matter how careful I am and no matter how much or how many pre or post shave moisturisers I used. And as noted, even brand new the dry electric never came close to a wet shave. I was back to the best wet razor even made, the Gillette Mach 3 in a little over a week

Because you probably suspect what I'd probably suspect - flash gits are rarely happy even if on the face of it they appear to be quite pleasant people

Just shows, fit flared arches, and the buyers will come flocking in!!