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For a number of us its Castle Combe a week this Monday 27th March. I think there is one place left with only a max of 30 cars

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've got a BJ Minno twin axle with the fold up hitch and fits a single garage with ease.

To be fair I'm pretty good with the lawn tractor.....

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@SootySport

I think i have a set of these somewhere. I will have a look tomorrow and drop you a pm if so

Hi All Seen the posts, that you are meeting at the Red Kite, I needed somewhere for breakfast this morning so tried it out. A good breakfast, with quality ingredients, freshly cooked. I will be at Harewood tomorrow it is a practise day, with c 80 cars competing, if anyone wishes to come along afterwards it would be good to see you, I am running as car number 63

Yes it looks like it might be raining tomorrow. I'm keeping an eye on the weather forecast, but I'll be there. Probably have the roof on for the third time. And if it is raining, then I blame Julie.

The trouble with most solutions is unless you are rigourous about maintenance, they will do a Fawlty Towers fire extinguisher job on you every time you need them, so don't forget to allow for that aspect. A battery based UPS is fine in the right scenario, as is a backup supply. You don't appear to need sustained power, just a backup, so I think I'd probably favour a generator as well TBH. At my last place we had a range of solutions for various systems. Most critical had dual battery UPS fed from A supply that had flywheel UPS to hold up supply while the generators fired up and stabilised (two redundant systems of same), less critical had battery UPS on a different single generator backed supply. All systems got checked on a regualr and routine basis, fuel reserves were montired to ensure they didn't degrade, replaced as required. It can get expensive.

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

correct - you need about 40 years of practice :-)

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

As said about the generators, when I used to look run up generators for banks, we used to drop the incommer supply to allow the ups to hold the servers , while the generator kicked up to speed and within 30 secs , the generator was on line and supporting power until mains was put back on. I dont think we had more than 5 mins ups support before we were in problems .

@finkangel I think you're looking more for a standby generator than UPS.

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

They opened the bonnet this time then?

ha ha, that could be a plan Nick.

Yes & it will be road worthy, but it will never be finished.