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Hey y'all, I have just re-joined the club after not being fully engaged since around 2002 when i did a couple of years of the Speed series and had the best time. It was the days of getting to know: Comp Sec. Tom at Curborough 2000, and also getting to know John Loudon at the Boscombe, Mark Stanton at Llys-y-Fran and so-on: so many welcoming characters. Helpful when you're doing your first Wiscombe, Shelsely and Lydden. Really miss the Boscombe Down sprint. I bought my 1988 SE low-line in summer 1994 from a guy in Lewes, Sussex after returning from 4 years building a power plant in Africa. It had pretty common spec in those days: 1630 Chamberlain '155bhp' spec Xflow (244 cam, Hepolites, twin 45-DHLAs) with RS2000 4-speed box and 3.77 diff. A Westie was a fairly rare sight in the early 90s, and caused a lot of conversation. 15" wheels and SO2-Potenza's seemed to make sense at the time, but later 13 Revos made more sense. Encouraged by the Speed Series I scoured ads for good second-hand parts such as a SC/CR 'Rocket' box (with 2.39 1st gear) mainly to get rid of the useless 1st gear, and a 4.44 LSD. Simon Lepley in Notts came up with 2 superb units for 375 each plus an alloy RS2000 b/housing as a bonus. They are still in perfect shape after 16yrs use. The Xflow is now 'steel' and on 12.5:1 forged pistons. Great engine! Anyhow, after building another plant in Singapore (incl. F1 marshalling) and the Middle East I'm back and looking forward to getting back involved. By-the-way, Im also in the Brighton & Hove MC so if anyone wants info on stuff like the Speed Trials or their Goodwood events etc, don't hesitate.

Hi Folks I have done as much digging about as I can. At this point in time if you want to take part in the 21st May event at 3 Sisters please refer to the Longton and District Motor Club Web Site and click on the latest Bulletin Available box in the top right hand corner of the home page. This statement says all there is to say at the present time and it would be good that they have a good turn out if the event is not cancelled due to unknown issues. Thanks Graham

Would never condone Biker bullying - being a life-long biker! In this case, the bike cheekily pulled out from a side road in between two of our crew, then proceeded to ride in a 'spirited' fashion. He then realised we were perhaps being held up from our own 'spirited' jaunt and opted to pull over - but chose to do so in a very odd place (with a poor surface) and ended up trying to mount the embankment!

Mart - you surely have great taste buddy!

Narrow, low, x flowed and red..... perfect, but then I'm biased lol.... love the post and welcome back! mart.

Caught this on my Gopro but not edited it yet. @Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO the friendly biker who wished he hadn't give way!!!!!

I found this picture, definitely my dad's old drill...

Perfect, see you there!

9.00am at The East with @bquansah and @RichieF seems sensible?

Oh, you beat me to it. Mine is the same black/decker you have there, the orange and silver one and with the latest technology, wait for it -------2 speed . The Titan is popular with us lot I see.

Well the older generations didn't have iphones when they were teenagers, so we don't know how they would have reacted to such a disaster. Jen

It will be fine Andy. I've let the show organisers know they'll be around half a dozen westys so expect we can get away without needing passes. What time does everyone want to meet?

Cheers sparkymart. It's nice to get some praise :).... I'm no sales person, that's true. 20 years of damper design I hope to be qualified offer advise free of techno babble. Any advise I give I try to be impartial.... I'm a little biased so If anyone wants to buy anything that's a bonus which helps justify my paid up trader status. .

I fitted the new Spax shocks all round and Also fitted springs at the same time including the progressive rear springs. Not sure on what spring rate's to fit I went with the huge amount of advice I got from Tony @DamperMan and the results were night and day (Tony also powder coated them black instead of Spax yellow) , Tony couldn't have been more helpful and no point did I feel like I was just being fed sale's talk to get Me to buy . I've since had a full Geo done by Matt Seabrook ( ex south West AO ) in Bodmin and the car is like nothing I've ever driven feels so planted and positive even though I changed too nylon bushes the ride is not too firm . I know Tony is the MD at Spax but he's not just a bean counting pen pusher he's proper engineer and ex R&D ( if I remember correctly) And the way I see it if your going to develop And make a item to fit to your own car , with the facilities he has available you would make it as good or even better than you can already buy of the shelf.i can't say that the Spax shocks are any better than the others mentioned as a lot of people have them fitted to there car's And there are some excellent reviews on here about them from people more qualified to review them that I will ever be And I was going too go down the same route as it's often better the devil you know but I have no regrets with my choice.

Applecross campsite fire , Just spoke to the campsite and it is closed till this Friday, so it will be fully open again for the clan McWesty gathering .

There is not much to go wrong with a spring. As long as there is no loss of material due to rust or ! Grinder! Also unlikely on a westfield that the springs have been fatigued by over loading or excessive mileage. Theres not really a need to change the springs. Mostly people change them just to change rate or just to have new springs to match the dampers. The choice is yours .

Maybe you startled him with your noisy race cars? You know how sensitive these biker types can be!

Doesn't the oil leak out the sides of the tool roll... sorry

Did this in the end, to match my exterior.

Hi Stephen, I was about on Sunday sorry I missed you, we will be meeting next on Tuesday the 6th of June 7pm at the Black Dog Waltham chase . Welcome to a great club