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Finally succumbed to German engineering, my two brothers in law have a merc slc43amg, porsche boxter and a z4 so I had to go the Audi route and got this but then I saw the childs version and bought that as well for the grand kids.

Some of mine

just downloaded some pictures out of the camera, the first one is the falls at Gullfos, the second is the road by the lake at Kleifervatn, the third is the geyser at Geysir, the fourth is a great sweeping corner that the wife nearly got in the way of and spoiled the picture and the fifth is one of the churches in Reykjavek that looks like the space shuttle on steroids.

My mum went once, she was impressed.

I have owned this car for nearly five years and I’ve gradually turned it into the car I’d always wanted...high power NA engine, lightweight space frame chassis and sequential box with close gearing! It’s great fun to drive, and with the current setup it’s surprisingly easy to lap extremely quickly on track. I am by no means the next Lewis Hamilton and I’ve managed a 1.33 round Croft on a track day with road legal tyres, so there is potential to go a lot quicker. Unfortunately, the time has come where I’ve decided to try and get onto the property ladder and my dad has decided he’d like to buy a toy of his own to occupy his garage space where my westy is currently stored(how selfish of him?!😅), so the car has to go! 2006 Westfield SEIW zetec road/track/race car 565kg Fully road legal 2.1 dry sumped 250bhp zetec, forged pistons and rods, 86mm bore silver top block. CNC blacktop head and custom cams. Quaife 26z 5 speed all alloy sequential gearbox with geartronics indicator. Regarded as a very robust unit in the world of rallying and substantially lighter than the 60g. It was Installed by PlaysKool along with a new raceline alloy bell housing which had additional machining to make it fit. Super light flywheel and 7.25inch clutch, a new clutch plate was fitted when the gearbox was installed and it’s only 2 track days since then. 7” gripper plated diff 4.44 ratio, geared perfectly, made a massive difference installing the 4.44, this was done by bara motorsports and has done 150 miles max Full cage Wide track with Westfield alloy uprights and hubs with new nylon bushings etc. all installed 150 miles ago Twin MC brakes with bias adjustment Bosch 044 fuel pump, facet lift pump and alloy swirl pot Fully flat floored from front to rear, with removable piece of carbon to change gearbox oil, quick release carbon nv diffuser at the rear Front and rear PlaysKool anti roll bars Lightweight lithium battery 9” cxr’s at the rear 7” at the front, Avon zzr tyres. Spares package included: Complete ST170 cylinder head inc. inlet manifold 2.04 1st gear ratio. It’s currently fitted with a 2.2 1st. Standard wish bones and front roll bar Spare 7.25 clutch plate Brand new standard black detachable arches Few other bits and bobs There are a couple of things that require some attention: There appears to be small oil leak from the diff, surprising as it cost a small fortune to have it rebuilt not long ago with all new seals, by supposedly the “best in the business” at dealing with the 7” diffs. The car currently requires 24v starting from cold with a slave battery. I believe this is down to a dodgy starter motor dragging excessive current from the battery, and therefore the voltage drops below 10v when starting and the ECU won’t let it start unless it sees more than 10v. As it’s been a track car I have just put up with the 24v starting but if someone wanted to put it on the road it’s probably advisable to get it sorted, unless you would be willing to carry a slave battery around with you. *edited to add 19/1/20 - brand new powerlite hi torque starter fitted* All in all I think this is a fantastic package for someone who can spend a bit of time tinkering with it and tidying up a bit. feel free to message/ring on 07949834634 price is £11250

The doctor is forecasting light cloud, moderate beeze and 10 degrees, meaning the remedy is to chuck a sickie, drive your Westfield and eat cake. Is anyone joining us next Tuesday?

My day's report.. As I said, above, my car just didn't feel like starting first thing. It was pretty cold 2deg? Plugged in the big battery, and even jump leads off the tow car failed to get it running. After a failed bump starting too, I swapped the plugs for some nice dry ones. Brrrrraaaaapppp! There'd been a rallycross meeting at Croft last weekend, and the track from Clervaux through to the chicane was basically mud! The circuit staff had a sweeper running first thing, but I think spraying water on it didn't do much for grip. So most of the morning the circuit was in two halves. First bit slippery as hell, and the rest pretty much OK after the damp patches dried out a bit. The day was fully booked, but tbh, didn't seem too packed on track.. queues were fairly short, and I didn't notice too many red flags. It really thinned out in the late afternoon, and I got some decent lappage in. My car was going fairly well, but a couple of times when I got back in, there was a bit of coolant blown out of the header tank. I've been suspecting the head gasket's got a slight leak, pressurising the cooling system for a while now, but I think it's pretty much nailed on now. Will have to get the head off and investigate. I tried the last session restricting the revs to 6000 and it seemed to hold its water, so the day wasn't ruined. Was well jealous of Chris's flame show. Unfortunately the gopro pushes the action away a bit, but I'll try to include some flameage in a vid at some point. Hopefully the photographer may have caught some flamey shots. 😎 It's hard to freeze the action just as it pops!

Or it could be that the people involved in the process have realised that achieving any sort of successful brexit is not only almost impossibly difficult, but also massively damaging to the UK? Personally I think it's stunning that despite decades of complaining about the EU, it is quite clear that none of the prominent brexiteers had the slightest idea what to do if they actually won. They've now spent years arguing what brexit actually means, damaging their own negotiations, misinterpreting just about everything, and then resigning left right and centre when they didn't get their way (or realised that what they had promised just wasn't possible). We finished off with Boris Johnson stating that his deal was exactly what people had voted for, followed immediately by Nigel Farage stating that Johnson's deal was just another form of remain. I then heard a radio caller complaining that Farage was just another remainer. No wonder everything has gone the way it has when there is no agreement on what brexit even is. Staggering. Bring on the election. At least then each MP will have a clear mandate to argue for or against brexit, and act and vote accordingly.

Tedgi crater and surroundings

November meeting at the Bun Penny, Lee on Solent. Thursday 7th November. It would great to see you there.

After Bobotov Kuk we planned to move on to Croatia next. While we were packing up the tents the next morning, two farmers came by, herding their sheep. Only one of them had a little broken English, but they stopped by for a chat anyway, talking about the cars before wishing us luck and carrying on with their day. There was a petrol station 8km away, so that was the first stop we needed to make. Chris had it on his satnav and I almost had a nervous breakdown when we drove past a station that was closed for renovation. Fortunately, it was one 500m down the road that we were aiming for anyway! We fuelled up, although I definitely paid for at least a litre that went on the floor. In a lot of the countries we've been to, the petrol stations have attendants who insist they fill the cars. A lot of the time they either don't understand when I ask them to fill it slowly to stop it from spilling, or they just don't believe me and try to crack on at full speed. This was one of the latter, and the self stopping function on the pump seemed to be broken so dumped a lot more on the floor than usual! With full tanks, we set off North. We had another busy day planned, but no hiking this time. Unusually, we were trying to do two cities in one day - Kotor in Montenegro and Dubrovnik in Croatia. It was always going to be reasonably tight trying to get both in one day, but we hit some roadworks after about half an hour of driving. After 30 minutes of waiting, Chris walked up to the front with the driver of another car to figure out what was going on. The road workers told them the road would be closed for the next 2 hours. The only other route around we could see on the satnav was back the way we came and an extra hour and a half of driving so we had to cut one of the cities out. We had both enjoyed Montenegro so much that we decided to keep Kotor in and cut Dubrovnik. It's easier to fly there in the future anyway! So off we set to find some twisting narrow lanes around a big lake. The roads then took us into the mountains... ...and eventually ended up giving us a beautiful view of Kotor, which foolishly I forgot to take my phone out for a photo of, so the best I can offer is a gopro shot! From this point, we carried on down a narrow road with about 30 switchbacks to the level of the town itself. This would have been great fun if the road wasn't so busy with cars, buses and cyclists! We parked up, had some lunch and took a wander around the old town. It was beautiful, but a little hard to get a good photo of as it was mobbed with tourists! The walls from the fortress run the whole way down the mountain and surround the old town. I can imagine this place was pretty easy to defend back in its day - probably why it's still in such good condition now! We didn't buy a sim card in Montenegro so didn't have internet, so we figured we'd get across the border into Croatia before figuring out our camping plans for that night. It wasn't far to the border anyway. When we got through border security, we pulled over and had a look at our camping options. There wasn't much anywhere near us, and you have to be a little careful around Croatia as there are still quite a few minefields around the place, so we decided our best bet was to drive on, through Bosnia and back into the next bit of Croatia, before camping there on a beach. I still don't really count Bosnia as a country I've visited despite having been there twice, as I've literally driven straight through it in less than half an hour, but I'll count it for the car's purposes! The coastline up Croatia and Bosnia were beautiful, but we were driving into the sunset so there aren't many photos that came out well from the gopro.

The bottom line is a Westfield is environmentally friendly. Recycled parts from the past. A great philosopher (bob the builder said)... reduce, reuse and recycle. reduce.. use cars for longer reuse ..... make westfields from broken sierras and mazdas recycle... what’s left of the Sierra to China so they can send back something better. back on topic..........sorry midweek weissbier....... The bottom line is it’s the youth which are the problem....

She should never have been born in the first place.

Sadly, an election will only do one of two things. Leave the same bunch in power, or replace them with another bunch of equally feckless, dishonest a********s.

Some of us have to work for a living you know.