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Still waiting for IVA. I don't want to get it dirty.

Been on my first track day at goodwood

Maiden voyage at Blyton yesterday.

Meeting Andrew and us in Sainsbury's were the Waterfall family, Chris Emm (2 lovely surprises as I didn't know they were coming), Becky and Andy, Bill, Richard and Tash. We sat drinking and excitedly chatting for quite a while until we had caught up on each others news. Bill sorted my phone out because he is good like that, thank you. Simon and the family with us We got back to the cars in Sainsburys car park just as the train came and Simon was good enough to photograph us all as we were ready for the off, hopefully he will put the photo on for us. However I did not get the train in my photo so you will have to make do with some Westfields instead I had set a route that was a lovely mix of A and B roads with many twists and turns in, a slow down and speed up kind of route allowing for much acceleration and fun. The route was slightly longer than normal so I factored a wee stop in at Millers Dale, it's actually just an excuse to get another photo of all the cars but don't tell anyone will you? Millers Dale Andrew took the opportunity to show his steam cleaned engine bay to us, he had used a wallpaper stripper and got a free sauna included. The first casualty of the day was Bill whose wing stay had broken on the weld. Glen helped to take the wing off, he is an expert at it now as ours broke last week too. All comfortable, we set off for the second leg of our journey, the sun shone, the roads were warm and dry.. As we pulled into the Stone Centre car park disaster struck and Andy ran out of petrol because his car was only firing on 2 cylinders, petrol was coming out of the exhaust pipe. Simon and the family had arranged to meet us here and it was Simon that was straight on his back underneath the car, what a great guy. Parked at The Stone Centre Everyone was hungry and we went for our lunch, Richard and Tash had a cake while they waited for theirs to arrive, now you can't knock that for an idea can you? Andrew had the beef stew, I have had this before and the beef just falls apart in your mouth, comes with buttered potatoes too. Bill sported his new T-shirt but did complain that on Number 5. they had spelt cake wrong All tummed up we had to come up with a plan of action and before we could work anything out I took Andy for some petrol while everyone kicked a tyre or two. Luckily Simon knew of a local petrol station that was not far away - you can come again Simon. Probably the best mode of transport today was taken by Archie Defeated, Andy rang the RAC who were going to be 3-4 hours, ever the optimist and with plenty of spare seats we all went for the cake stop down at The Fountain in Bonsall. Andy got to drive Andrews V8 engined car and Becky jumped in with Chris. Parked in Bonsall, 6 cars became 5 The cake arrived quickly and so did the RAC! but we were at a different place now, albeit on a few miles away. Sat outside The Fountain, Bonsall We wolfed the cake down, not difficult, then Andrew took Andy and I took Becky back to their car to meet the RAC Becky and I, or is it Thelma and Louise RAC man back at The Stone Centre Petrol was literally pouring out of the exhaust pipe as the engine was running, no wonder Andy ran out of petrol He changed the coil pack but that didn't work Andrew and I drove back down to the others at The Fountain and left the RAC man scratching his head. A tow truck was called and I am sure Andy will be calling upon this great club forum for some guidance on what could be wrong, at this stage is it the ECU? Back at The fountain Richard and Tash went on their way home and Chris and Andrew followed us towards Chesterfield. Thank you to everyone for the great company today, and Andy - everyone feels your pain, chin up

Can you change that photo to black and white so that we don't actually have to look at the reality, please Adam

Only a small update as I've been back on the DIY for the last couple of weeks. There's not much left to do now but one of the jobs was to fit the chain. This was on the list to do a few weeks ago were it not for an ebay seller who let me down by promissing a 2day delivery that in the end turned out to be 6weeks! Suffice to say I cancelled the order and did what i should have done originally and bought one from the local motorcycle shop. Even after finally getting a chain the problems didn't end there as it wouldn't fit the sprocket! No problem as I have plenty of alternative sprockets but I'd obviously fitted one in error that had the wrong pitch. With the engine now in the final position and the chain adjusted correctly ita time for a brave pill and cutting the engine cover. The position of the cut out was marked from the underside by drawing around the cylinder head and then the corners of the cut out drilled with a hole saw. the straight cuts were then made with a fine saw with a file and sand to finish. A quick clean and polish then the roundels were applied. a race car needs numbers so 67 seemed a fitting choice since this car would have first been raced in 1967. j

A few other interesting cars:

Maybe a bit pop-arty?

Thanks to the Speed Series competitors for taking the time to chat about hillclimbs etc. and taking the opportunity to pose for a photo. Hope you've had a great weekend on the hill. Clips of their runs: @jonjh1964 thanks for adding your photos

I managed to meet up with Adge, Dale, Malcolm and Ian from the Dorset Area at Wiscombe today for the 2nd day of the event. I could only stay for the practice sessions and managed to get some photos of the Speed Series competitors.

This might be more what Mike was thinking!

Well I ended up buying a mondeo Estate. 2.0 diesel. Bit boring but it does what I need and its massive inside

I've now fitted my Carbon NV carbon tunnel cover and scuttle cover and I'm pretty chuffed with it Seeing how the forum loves a piccy (also showing the new FreeWheel steering wheel buttons).... Check out how the weave matches on the join just behind the gear lever - well pleased I'll get a photo of the scuttle later, complete with new battery cover and much tidied wiring

Hi, I just wanted to say hello as a new Westfield driver! Ive just co-purchased a Megablade with a friend! Kris

Packhorse flight case. 400 x 300 x 250mm No keys. All the sponge had gone a bit funky so it was removed but there is a load of foam to go back in if you wish. £20.00 Clarke machine polisher 230 Volt. £84 from machine mart. https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-cp185-sander-polisher/ Mine is the CP180 which is basically the same but the CP185 has a slower bottom end speed. Comes with two sponge mops but one would only be used on a red car. Wool mop and three lots of polish. Over £130 worth if bought separately. £50.00 I would prefer to bring these to Stoneleigh so it saves on postage and gives me some money to spend on crap that my misses doesn't know about but could post for extra.

Sorry to hear you’ve had troubles mate, if it’s any consolation your car looks the absolute nuts though!...hope you get it sorted soon, I’m planning on joining one of the next runs out 👍🏻

Evening all, well to say it’s been a different day is an understatement!!!! I’d just like to thank a big thank you to you all, but special ones go out to Simon Waterfall ( 1st man under the bonnet)😷 Julia Hall ( petrol delivery driver)😘 Andrew Clark ( picking me up main man , letting me drive his V8 😍 Chris ( taking Becky for cake)😂 it wasn’t too long await for the the truck of shame, let’s hope it’s a simple fix! Let’s all have a lookCan you smell petrol? colour coded break down van The truck of shame!! Take care folks see you all soon I hope love Becky and Andy

Brilliant day thanks. Hopefully letting Andy drive my car was a little compensation for his being broken.

This carbon fetish is dangerous - I also appear to have bought myself a nosecone.... Condition isn't amazing, but the intention is to paint almost all of it body colour anyway, leaving just a bit of bare carbon showing at the front edge Bonnet next....

Grabbed a shot of the new carbon scuttle and pedal box cover - note the nice neat battery wiring - previously, there were about five earth leads flailing around, but I've joined them all behind the scuttle, so there's only a single beefy earth cable to the battery for the chassis harness. I also tweaked the fuseboxes, so that they were both fore-aft, as having them at right-angles to each other offended my OCD....

I have more clips of some of those including all the other sevens that ran. That new exige sounds tasty. Will upload when I’m back from the track day at Combe.

I'm using mine to keep under bonnet temps in check, and not for coolant temp, so mine is clipped to one of the breather hoses high up in the engine bay. The analogues gauges are never right, but you'll also be getting an error from having the sensor in open air. In your case I'd either try to get a sensor that's plumbed into the cooling system, any 10k thermistor should work, or failing that i'd bond the sensor to the radiator so that it's getting as accurate a reading as possible. Seeing as you've got a W1209 on my recommendation, here's a little advice/help. Be really careful with the min/max setting, it's supposed to be the min/max temp setting that it will allow you to enter, but on some W1209 (probably copies) it triggers the high temp alarm and actually stops the whole thing working. Also P5, this is a delay time between operations, and probably a bad idea in this application. Hysteresis probably wants to be 5 degrees or more, else it'll keep switching on/off every few seconds.

I will be there.

Welcome you devil....

Not full, Julie, in fact I've just deleted several conversations which I don't now need, and it is down to about 8% used capacity. So no idea what the problem was.

Thanks for organising this Tom. I will be attending

Breaking and Entering?

Apologies @Julie Hall - AO Representative, Peak District AO - it’s still raining here and as a confirmed fair-weather Westie driver, I don’t much fancy being cold and wet. hope everyone has a good day out - see you at Stoneleigh next week