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I actually ordered a mega s2000 starter kit plus a few other bits. Before actually researching the used engine market. Schoolboy error. After trawling for an engine and seeing it was going to cost 3k+ for a 12-17 year old engine with 50k up to over a 100k I chanced my arm with Simon and asked could I swap to the ecoboost. He wasn't keen but he relented and I picked up an engine that was a couple of years old with around 10k on it for 1800 quid. Nothing against the honda engine by the way as they are probably the most suited higher power Na engine out there for a westfield. But I wasn't comfortable paying that for a used engine of that age.

That's Alfas for you...

Think from memory my initial Westfield Bill was around the 7k mark. That was starter kit. Uprights. Steering rack and column. Fw rear. Fuel tank and mounting kit. Chassis and engine loom. Rear lights and a few other bits and bobs. I did buy during one of the 10% off deals. I've then shopped around with bits from rallydesign, playskool, power torque, eBay, procomp and the for sale section on here to try and keep the budget in check. If you do go down this route when shopping for an engine try and get as much as you can. Engine looms and injector looms are usually pulled off the engines and sold separately and they are creeping up in price now. I paid around 130 for both. You will also need the map sensors. If you can get the 3 (one in air intake box, one in intercooler outlet and one in the intake manifold) it will save you £££ With regards the ecu. I would also look around at options before choosing. The ford kit is good value considering what you get and it's ready mapped and runs like an oem engine but it's also more expensive now than when I bought it as the dollar rate is crap. However if you read my issues with the cooling an aftermarket ecu would be easier to tweak. See here for example http://twinkam.co.uk/epages/191f6b26-60bf-483c-b021-755a0c9099c1.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/191f6b26-60bf-483c-b021-755a0c9099c1/Products/SC356&Locale=en_GB This would run a stock engine but if you wanted to tweak then a remap would be needed. If there's anything else you need info wise on the 250 just shout. There's loads of info from the very knowledgeable s2000 lot if you sway back to that option.

You'd be in heaven with a 250 then

Join the queue..

Brilliant Guys - made me cry with laughter! This all started when I took a friend on the Crooked Spire trip round the airfields of Lincolnshire last year. One quick look at the tulip route book and he declared that half way around the route, we were turning just past the Sex Shop in Saxilby. His nickname on here became 'sex shop Rob' so he could be quickly recognised. Julie wrote up the trip including Robs comments about the Sex Shop and as he isn't a Westy driver or member, I printed it out and dropped it round to his house. This was clearly a wrong move as his wife was mortified - turns out that neither of them have ever been in such a shop and it was all mouth. I would print out a copy of this and drop it round to Rob but I feel that the North Koreans want to be responsible for WW3 and not me.

Hi guys, you may have noticed quite a big difference with my details, links and banners. I want to let you all know, this is a GOOD thing! Last year A-Plan Insurance purchased Cherished Vehicle Insurance, we have taken on the business here in our Thatcham office. All this means for you is that we have access to more schemes, so better premiums and we have a central telephone number so you won’t get lost in the branch network system. Nothing else changes, for the last few months all of our paperwork has been dual branded and that will continue. We are still the same team, still the same office, still the same relationship with the club! If you have any queries regarding this please feel free to PM me. Thanks Clare

@Robert (bombero) - Scotland AO @sdh2903 @ziplob @Davep1 and anyone else from over the border - can you advise on a decent road from around Hawick to Dumbarton that doesn't involve too much motorway or too many wee toons to get stuck in? Here's a "beta" route plan - we are all familiar with the first bit up to St Mary's Loch area - but after that it's a bit of a lesser known quantity. Any suggestions welcome!

2 Westfield seats (black with white piping) no rips or splits £200 for the pair collection only

Results for Snetterton have now been published. Just fyi as somebody is bound to notice, but there are no "J" class times yet, they will follow shortly after a suitable interlude <Lift_Music> Insert boring song here </Lift_Music> J Class times now added, at no extra cost Snetterton Expert Results (Sat) Snetterton Expert Results (Sun) Snetterton Novice Results (Sat) Snetterton Novice Results (Sun) Tiggs

Is this what you meant Gary.

We will just invent some target times John so don't worry

There aren't any published target times for J so how is poor Tigger meant to calculate them?

I think Blyton is a good 'first time' track too.

Original breather system hooked up into inlet. Well mine is. I'm pretty sure the factory one is too. Suppose easy enough to convert to catch can should you start to get an oily intake. Standard sump not ideal. A. It's mahoosive. B. Its designed for transverse installation. C. Not a great deal of baffling. The one I got from power torque is designed for RWD. Baffled to suit and has a baffled chamber around the pickup. It also gives much more ground clearance. Very reasonably priced too. Ford also do a RWD sump pan for little money but does retain the standard ish depth. Cooling. Westfield have said their car has been on track a fair bit with no cooling issues. I suspect my coolex combo isn't quite as efficient as the radtec one and I will be ducting the rad soon. Tyres. If you have T1 toyos. Forget it. You will have great fun turning them to smoke but the 250 just has too much grunt for them. My r888r's struggle to get near all the power down even when warmed up. R1Rs would be a good road/track compromise tyre. As Dave said I would def consider an msa bar too. When considering your first day I was told to book an airfield day or a track with plenty of runoff areas in case you overstep the car's or your own limits. Good advice. You can explore the car's limits without thinking about stuffing it into the Armco. They are great fun though. Can't wait to get mine on track.

On the CSR type they are just longer on a 15" wing . Again this is similar on the Westfield ones but are slightly wider due to the widths on 15" tyres being wider than traditional 185' s used on the 13" . Yes some people do use 205 fronts though .

And if you need a brew or any running repairs/supplies providing am not at work am just here

Ouch!

You better stay in the hotel, pal .. .. your body is nowhere near beach ready!

Hi guys, I'm in sunny Spain now so probably won't make this. I get home on the Saturday so will play it by ear.

Julie ... are you happy with the new artwork you requested?

Sounds like Julie would have a start on the rest of us..............

You will remember Dave @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary reached 25,000 forum posts recently, the vast number of which were far more helpful than most of my blatherings. Dave's posts frequently and rightly get "liked", and he very recently also crossed over the 2,500 "likes" threshold, the highest grade of "like" - here it is, which you can see by clicking on his profile: We're doomed...

TEL's TALES 05/17 Snetterton weekend 13th/14th May 2017 Well I am just back from a great weekend run by Borough 19 at Snetterton where we had 13 speed series cars on the Saturday and 15 on Sunday so it was a good turnout and a well run event. I delivered another set of Force rims to Pete Goulding and also transported a nosecone. Despite the worry about paddock space due to a massive Mini/racing weekend on the outer track we were mostly on the tarmac apart from a few who arrived on Sat am or Sunday who were on the grass but found it ok if annoying that they were split from the rest of the Westfield crowd. Having arrived late on Friday a few of us walked the track to see if it was all still there…..and as usual Steve Everall spent most of the time picking up nuts, bolts, screws and washers of all shapes and sizes from the trackside and I pocketed the good ones for future use. There was some debate about whether John Hoyle could walk at all as he had damaged his knee at work and looked in a lot of pain walking, never mind driving. As he does not drink alcohol I could not offer him any pain relief. Sadly Derek Hodder and Gary Bunn had not made it as the engine repairs and clutch installation had not gone smoothly and the engine had to come out again. I understand they eventually found a broken clutch plate rivet jammed in the clutch housing behind the springs. Steve Carpenter and Roz Kennett only completed the install of the £180 replacement engine from ebay (after the Ty Croes big end problem) at 2100hrs Sat night but they did manage to compete on Sunday. Saturday Weather was good and we all passed scrutineering and got 2 practice runs and 1 timed run before lunch on a dry track which seemed a little lacking of grip early in the day. Simon Bainbridge had his son with him who was being very professional as pit mechanic and wheel cleaner/polisher during the weekend. I noticed Steve’s car had the end of the nearside bottom wishbone bent upwards so later we got out the big hammer and straightened it as he had forgotten to bring his spare wishbones with him but knew where they were in his garage! John Hoyle was quickest in practice but at the end of P1 Steve came with the oil warning light on and the oil pressure gauge reading zero but the engine sounded OK which was a bit odd. I checked the sensors were ok so it did not look good, however John Hoyle said he had previously had issues with a sticking release valve in the dry sump pump. So as usual the Westfield crew got stuck in and with John, Dave, Mick and myself and a clean bucket and trays we drained the oil and removed the dry sup pump during P2. I found a small piece of grit on the valve so we cleaned it and put it back in and the job was done with oil pressure now ok. Mick provided a massive industrial sized roll of blue paper towel son we mopped up all the spillages and all was good with the weekend saved by Steve’s mates. Steve has asked me to thank everyone! John may have been going fast but his timing strut was deemed inadequate and not sticking out far enough so that was quickly modded. In the timed runs Dave Cleaver was seriously quick and smashed the class target time/record with 88.24secs on his first run. John Hoyle was chasing him but it looked like the ZZR tyres could not deal with the grunt and power he has. Steve was so happy with his car repair that he was sideways for much of the time. Jason Brown was getting to grips with the track and eventually beat the target time by a good margin on his last run. In class G I had been having a good battle with John Loudon and was over a second up until on the last run lady luck appear for John. Mick Skidmore lost it on his run and went off meaning that John Loudon and Dave Cleaver got a rerun… so now maybe he had warm tyres and put in a great run to beat me by 0.47 secs. As a result I have now requested that he is renamed Mick Skidless! In class J2 the 5 competitors were matt Hillam, Steve Broughton, Carol Torkington, Pete Goulding and Paul Morcom in a wide variety of cars. In the evening there was a live rock group in the bar which most of us really enjoyed as we had a few refreshments. Mick Skidless, Steve and I were still in there at 2345hrs until they finished and once again I was reminded that Steve knew all the words to the songs but not necessarily in the right order as Eric Morecambe once said. Sunday It rained during the night and the practice runs were very wet and slippy with most of having an entertaining drive and a few slides and odd car angles as we got round the circuit. I think Roz Kennett had an off in P1 but the car was running well on its £180 engine. Steve Carpenter was trying so hard that he had an off in P2 so he would not feel that he missed out on anything Roz had done. Steve Everall had two big moments at the start line hairpin and Pete Goulding did a nice 360 deg spin for us. During the day John Loudon had to fix his alternator bracket alignment and then his alternator would not charge so he just used battery power. Once again Dave Cleaver set the pace and was showing us how its done and he only bothered to take 1 timed run as he smashed the target time and record with 88.16 secs. After T1 I was leading john Loudon by 0.04secs but in T2 he posted a very quick 91.24secs to beat my old record of 91.37secs and take the points. Jason Brown beat target again and Steve Carpenter also broke target time so the rebuild was worth it. A great weekend and I have only mentioned a little of what went on… The battle is now hotting up as Dave and John Hoyle are scoring big points but there is still plenty of time for others to challenge. Terry Everall Class G competitor .

Thanks for coming over for this guys, good to see you all and another good show! Loving the blue chrome wrap...added to the shopping list!

Screams of laughter here, but @IanK wait 'till I see you!! You are in sooohhh much trouble. That's Stuart, Trevor, Ian, form an orderly queue. So here I am googling 'sex shops in the Peak District' and there aren't any, so we will continue to meet at the toilets, don't forget your carrier bags.I'm off to delete my search history before Glen gets too excited.

As Adam said, generally speaking, just be road legal is usually enough. That said if you p,an on doing a couple a year or so, I'd strongly suggest going for at least an MSA roll bar. If you plan on doing lots, then give serious consideration to a full cage. Its very difficult to say otherwise though, as there's such a broad range covered by "doing a few trackdays", I would give a bit of extra thought to things like cooling though.

Great video, soundtrack takes me back! Should it be in the "track day" section though...

They both look fantastic, we defo want to see the Commado memorial.

If you like battlefields. This is somewhere I have always fancied a walk too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highbridge,_Scotland Its just near this memorial that I call in at every year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando_Memorial

There's always next year

I will have to have a scan of your itinerary would like to meet up for a few hours run. I'm near Glasgow so probably when you're a bit further towards the south

Yes, that's the one. It's better to take the pies away and eat them at the harbour or by the river. We usually go to Achmelvich beach, which isn't far away, and eat them there. It's a narrow road to get to it, but do-able. My favourite is Venison & Cranberry pie - it's a little deer, err I mean dear (groan, I'll get my coat!). Ali, are you travelling down from Orkney with Geofferey, or are you going separately? I've lost track of who is joining the party at various points. I'll meet you at the Battlefield anyway, whichever day you are there. Our astronomical observatory (Highlands Astronomical Society) is on the same site at the other end of the car park from the visitor centre. Afterwards, we can drive down into the Cairngorms.

Ummmmmmm. Pies http://www.lochinverlarder.co.uk/ is this the one Culloden Battlefield on our hit list if there is time.

Hi David. Not sure about Beauly this year. I did look on the map but not going that far over. I could always take a camping stove and if you can get the recipe we could make some by the roadside somewhere. I like the sound of the pies....perhaps that is why I am so overweight. More than happy to meet you at Culloden and already looking forward to it. Wonder if Les can join us.

I sent you a pm Geoffrey, but I'm planning on meeting you on Thursday 1st June as you pass through Kyle of Lochalsh on your way up to Durness. I'll be with you up to Lochinver as I have been requested to bring back pies from the Lochinver Pie Shop for the family. The pies are legendary, and the best you'll ever eat! (worth a look at their website). I'll also meet up on your way down through the Cairngorms on the Monday after your Orkney visit. I live about 7 miles from the Culloden Battlefield site, so if you're planning a visit there, I could meet you. Did you manage to fit in a visit to Beauly in your itinerary for your French Toast? David