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Good day today,met some WSCC members and did 202.8 miles on track

Fantastic day. Well organised and simply fun. Roughly 2 mm of tread 60l of fuel gone, very low single figure mpg.. a great feeling of glee that there was some seriously well prepared and expensive toys are no faster than a mondeo, sierra gearbox, some box and fibreglass. Pants filled on the first lap! ~ 110 at the end of hanger straight I dabed the brakes and the rear came out, my heart stopped, how i held it together I don't know. Feeling better now seeing cleggy go off without damage in the same spot. Where next to book!

Great day, good fun and camararderie. Some on board footage with @Cleggy the Spyder Man, sorry about the spin Best watched on youtube and change to 720hd

I damn well knew it...............

I'm moving back to Manchester if she gets her way......

Well my car has had its second coat of polish so if i get a move on it might be ready for Stoneleigh. But only might.

Well it's back and they have allegedly found a failed clamp on the turbo ( I didn't see owt wrong with it) and replaced the turbo gaskets. The health check didn't show anything as expected. On the drive home the car did feel different and a bit peppier. So I will run it and keep an eye on it. Lex have said they will reccomend a repair centre to strip and examine the car should it be required again (not an Arnold Clark dealership surprise surprise).

Well that was another great meeting with many regulars, including the slowly recovering Steve and two new visitors So a warm welcome to Ray and Leanne and well done on being the only other Westfield especially as it was short of a starter motor We had a nice drive over even though the sun had gone down but the stars were impressive none the less. A little bit of drizzle fell during the evening but it was a dry run home. As it was my birthday I had provided cup cakes and every joined in with a chorus of 'Happy Birthday' to start off. Later Steve explained how he had broken his tin top and replaced it, Ali and Gail gave us the low down on a minor mishap with a front wing/mudflap, Andy regaled us with his stories of red dust manufacture and was planning details of his imminent engine and gearbox removal and I finally manged get Geoff's forum account working so he can get onto the forum at last Nights will be lighter in April bringing out more Westfields. Sue and I look forward to seeing you all next time! Martyn

Bringing this thread up to date the whole lot was completed and emailed off to the MSA 2-weeks ago for their final approval and now I'm pleased to say that todays post brought me a pack containing the signed Homologation Documents. It hasn't been the easiest journey to get to here, and the process in total took about 3-months to complete. I'm sure a car manufacturer with experience in making applications could have done it in half the time, but I'm glad I did it as I now have a roll bar which to me is much more in keeping with the diminutive scale of the car than that which the MSA blue book would have required from me. Also and equally as important I have a bolt-on solution which other owners of JW4's can adopt for their own cars if required.

I saw this on a recent Car SOS show and thought it looked an interesting place to visit, a number of Warwickshire members agreed so I have booked a club pitch for the event on the 23rd April 2017, 9am until 4pm. It is at the former RAF Bicester site and is a gathering of classic cars and car clubs together with public access to specialist car restoration business located on the site. For full details check out their website http://bicesterheritage.co.uk/events/sunday-scramble-drive-day/ Discounted tickets at £4 per person are available to book online through the link below. You will need to add vehicle details and don't forget to scroll through the list of car clubs and click on WSCC so that you will be allocated to our pitch. There may be tickets available on the gate at £8 per person if you want to wait. Link to purchase tickets http://bicesterheritage.co.uk/events/ Hopefully members from other areas will join us but please add a post here when you have booked so that I can check on numbers attending. There is no upper limit as being an ex-bomber station there is a lot of space about! I will be arranging an area run down to the event starting from Tamworth if anyone wants to tag along, more details to follow. Martyn

No one broke anything, some cars just needed a few tweeks and done creative thinking. A very good day and a cracking little track

Yorkshire always win more medals at the Olympics as well!

No thanks. We dont need anymore psychotic bunny boilers down here. She's yours............ good luck......

George Osbourne is too busy with his new job as Editor of the Evening Standard!!!!

Someone selling a Busa tank on LCB: http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=208166

You can have sturgeon..... we'd be better off without the fishy power hungry one.

I skim read that post, and had to do a double take! First read was your wife was having an early night for Binky!

if i can sort my cooling problems out this weekend i may book this its quite a trip for me but then just watched some videos on you tube of the track it looks awsome

I might pop across to say hello in the atfernoon if the weather is good

Yep was going to discuss at the next meet.

@bunje Yes Ben, click on club member tickets and fill your details in, clicking on WSCC in the club drop down menu at the end.

Only if you promise

Haha does that mean I don't get the m10 helicoil??

Haha - how many times have we seen that statement before! I actually had a £5k limit when I first had the idea of building a kit (not a Westy) - but that soon went out the window!

I'm away tonight Perhaps I should cancel my trip

Just got my pride and joy insured with A-Plan. Great price with all the boxes ticked

b******* off Slingsby

Having successfully completed the simulation the next stage would be to have a roll bar made. To save time I actually took a chance and ordered this before Christmas whist MIRA were still doing their simulation, it was a gamble to take but I had confidence in my design and it also allowed me to save several weeks in the process. In fact Martin at MJS Fabrication turned this around in only 1-week for me. The final step once all that is completed its time to submit the application formally to the MSA for certification. The application document itself that needs to be prepared consists of 6 pages of details and questions. This includes various drawings of the roll bar structures from various angles, details of the attachment method, component weights, material specifications for the steel tube. The last two pages are reserved for a series of photographs of a fully assembled roll bar showing the bar fitted to the car at various angles, the different connections and attachments and also the location and details of the unique ID plate. As one can also never have enough stickers I had to get a stack of 80 metal stickers printed up for the ID plates (that being their minimum order ) That should leave me with a few spares since Johnny Walker only ever made 56 cars in total

The documents were duly submitted to start the process and once agreement in principle had been obtained the next hurdle would be to obtain a calculation report from MIRA for the proposed design. Sadly MIRA were not being as generous as the MSA in waving their fees but luckily my past experience as a design engineer came in useful here as I was able to produce the 3D IGS Models they need to undertake the simulation as else I would have been charged extra for them to model it from drawings. The 3D models are loaded into their stress analysis software and from this 3-loads are applied simultaneously in different directions to simulate the effects of a severe accident and impact on the crash structure. For a car of less than 470kg the loads applied are13.2kN laterally, 49.5kN Longitudinally and 66kN Vertically The MSA technical guidelines allow for a maximum deformation of 50mm and thankfully my design passed with a maximum of 13.5mm.

Stick them in the shop?