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Haynes Breakfast Club on Sunday - very 🥶

Winter power upgrade

Total was £1928-10p Quite an amazing total for one night!

Put me down as attending please @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary

Tash and I will be decorating ourselves and Kiki for a trip out on this mad adventure. Do you take in any children's places on the way as I have lots of no longer used toys I could wrap and donate on the way?

@Steve (sdh2903) it will be interesting to get a Scotman's opinion of the whisky too @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO does the flask belong to @OrangeCrush? or is it where you first met Tango Man?

Didn't we have a great time. Lovely evening.

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I had another attempt at a pic.. I think the camera has focussed on the foliage in the foreground.. it's a bit fuzzy.

Getting some good pass overs atm, just passed lovely clear sky dropped out of light just after the half moon, I phone not good at autofocus 😂

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As it's the meeting before Christmas, we'll be having cake tonight!

👍 Believe me it works, we have the window closed whilst showering, but then open it about 50mm , it stays like that all day if we are at home, when we go out we leave the window locked on the vent setting that's about 10mm, we never have any mould or damp showing, the bathroom paintwork looks as good today as when the house was new 20 years ago.

Hard to believe but its the last meeting of 2019. We are meeting at the usual venue "The Crown" at Bridport 20:00 Hrs this Thursday 5th December. Brian has once again organised the Christmas meal it is at the Saxon Arms for the Friday 13th December. Hope to see you Thursday

No problems using paypal for yonks now , both buying and selling . although I haven't used them for some time, I usually have advertised stuff with 99p starting price and let the sale find its own value , that way ebay dont charge any insertion fees Paypal is also my prefered method of payment for all goods bought online outside of ebay .

Lots done, got all the bits just needs final assembly before I can get it back and put it in the car. Ive not been too precious about timescales because @Lionel was taking up the workshop space, and I don’t fancy a winter TD in the Westfield now I have an alternative with a heater!

Well. Most of you will have seen that I've been sending quite a lot of cars to Spain lately. I've done that free of charge to help fellow petrolhead friends in spain and our club members, avoiding the hassle to have to sell overseas... All this cars, along with some other friends got along in a trackday in calafat. A very nice and technical track in Tarragona, 120Km south of Barcelona last weekend, and I was invited to share cars with all of them. See a video of myself in a flying lap 6 years ago... Once there, Old friends got excited to see me there, and I ended driving **** loads of cars, some of them quite impressive, and maybe, is worth to share the experience and some pictures... Lotus Elise S1 Sport160- This was my courtesy car while I was there. I got to drive it for about 300km, and I enjoyed every bit of her. For those who know the car, you will know is a special car... a bit in a dodgy way. Cam profile is very agressive, and lotus did a rubbish work to tune the low load and idle correctly, therefore you have to love the car, and is really unconfortable to drive steady and in traffic, however its responsiveness over 4k rpm and its handling, was FANTASTIC. This one, was only driven on the road and some spirited mountain drives, and it was awesome. Caterham S3 275R- This one was driven hard in mountain roads and in the track. Surprisingly, I enjoyed every bit of her. Out of the box, felt SOOOOOOOOOOO much better than our average Westfield (sorry guys, I'm a sinner) Ergonomy, and pedal feel was just outstanding, and I felt really confortable in her despite its narrow chasis. On track it felt somehow pretty agreesive. The weight transfer front to back was almost inmediate, and that meant that you could have the car understeering and oversteering in a few different occasions during the same split second. I think tyre pressure were a bit too high. Regardless of that, felt really good for its little 140hp. Westfield SEIW XE, 190hp former WSCC member- This is one of the cars I did sent to Spain... and Its been a great surprise. It does lap much faster than expected (about 3 seconds faster than my former MK in the same track) and given its "roadgoing" setup, its a car with shaitloads of potential. Balance on it was very very very good, feeling very simmilar to my current westfield, and alowing going fast with confidence and really compilant when breaking grip in the rears. Westfield SEIW 2.0Zetec, Ex TKM_Dave. This has been the great surprise of all the cars I did sent to spain. A car that I almost bought and I did discard it in favour of the Canary... And now i really regret. (well, not really... but is really good, and the build quality is one of the best I've ever ever seen). This car was the third fastest of the day, behind Myself in a KTM X-bow, and an Atom... so.. Yes. REALLY fast piece of kit. Its allegedly only 180ish HP, but the gearing is sooo good that would chase easily other westfields with known 220hp. Really enjoyable car. Really Dave... you made a huge mistake. That kit was a keeper. Westfield SEIW 2.0Zetec with 4 weebers. Purely a road car. well. I made a mistake, I was offered to drive it on the road... where is lighting fast, compilant and confortable... but rejected it in favour of thrashing it on track... and on track it track was... well. Enthusiastic would be the best way to describe its efforts. you could drive it well over the limit without having any scary moments... SOOOOO forgiving, but unfortunately, not fast and not too responsive. Westfield SEI 1.6XE . This car is also a former's WSCC car, and the one we bought with more perspectives... as, in paper was a fantastic piece of kit. Light, fast, reliable, not too expensive and with a propper Motorsport heritage that should warrant a decent setup and development. In truth, the car will need A LOT of development, as the handling is currently quite poor... and also broke the flywheel doing a bit of a disaster in the drivetrain. Its been a hughe disappointment as I did vouch for the car really badly. However, it does have so much potential... that i think once we have sorted all the gremlins, she will be a proper fast car. Time will tell. KTM X-Bow. I want one. Period. It feels like a Golf, Handles like a S7ven, and it has the power of an space shuttle. Really fast and Easy to drive. I know that track really really well and in my 4th lap I was lapping consistently faster than Any other KTM in the day, and taking the luxury to slide the rear like a mad man... Absolutely great piece of kit. The price is a big Pitty... as I really can't afford not quite justify it, but I'm wondering that I could sell the beemer, the westy, my dog, and Ana's mini, and maybe I could buy one to have in the garage. What a fantastic car my good. Gineta G50 Long Race Speck. Well. I can't really analyse this car, as is the most propper race bit I've ever driven. It was wild, amazingly quick, and easy to drive when in its sweet spot... but if you under drive it, or Over drive it, you will get bitten really quick, ending in a massive spin. Apparently I did it very well because I didn't quite spin, only a few big moments that I did solve with solvency, and impressed the owner. Not my cup of tea as a trackday car, but definitely, an amazing piece of kit and one of the most intensive experience I've ever had. As you could see in the picture, we needed about 3 people to make me fit in the cockcpit... really small and narrow. Well That is it!! hope you have enjoyed the write up, and the pictures!!!

Located on some of East Cheshire's/West Derbyshire's finest driving roads, the Cat and Fiddle pub sadly closed in 2015. It is due to re-open in Spring 2020 as a pub and a single malt whisky distillery. It's remote location at 1600ft, up in the hills above Buxton, is undoubtably magnificent and worth a drive to regardless, so let's hope the pub will be good too. Glen and I will be giving it a go and if it passes our rigorous testing we will be leading a run out to it. Look out for it next year and try to pop along yourselves or you are welcome to join us. In 1813 the Cat and Fiddle was built on a new turnpike road Charles Rolls tested his cars with Mr Royce there As the pub closed in 2015, Forest Gin was born. A local family built and now run a gin distillery, Forest Gin, in Macclesfield Forest near the Cat and Fiddle pub This family will distill whisky and run the Cat and Fiddle pub The conditions in the cellar, 1600ft above sea level, will provide perfect conditions for the English Single Malt Whisky to mature

Sorry, ignore that…….just seen the last page. Numpty.

All this Christmas partying and food Mr Tango man has decided to squeeze into a Christmas cracker and have a power nap.

If the only source of the steam is the shower, then fit the extractor fan grill above the shower. Even if it already is, also try to seal the shower screen right upto the ceiling as its the gap above the screen / curtain that lets the steam out into the room. If the steam remains in the cubicle, the fan will extract it and minimise the moisture in the rest of the room. Special bathroom paint on the ceiling does help.

November 16th, 2019 Spend: £10.00 Winter upgrade time! After cleaning the car last weekend, today I finally made a start with replacing the damaged nose cone. Part of the hesitation to do it 'in season' was that I wanted to go from 2 bolts holding the nose cone down, to 2 dzus sliding fasteners. I had @Ben (bunje) create two M8 to M4 reducers which would allow me to re-use my rivnutted M8 mounts on the chassis. But once they've been screwed in, there would be no unscrewing. But I shouldn't have feared the job, it turned out to be quite simple! Now I just need to fit a new stripe and grille November 23th, 2019 Spend: £13.99 It took some effort to get the stripe on neatly (I'm not a sign writer!), but it does look tidy, even up close November 30th, 2019 Spend: £10.00 I bought a nice badge from @marcusb again, but it has no fixings on it. I didn't want to drill screw holes in it, so I got some JB Weld SteelStik and improvised. And then I 3D printed some fixings that will hold it into the grille I bought from @Steve (sdh2903). Last month: £ 9402.26 This month: £ 33.99 ----------+ Total: £ 9436.25

Well done Simon A few years ago I started to do the Tel's Tales articles which eventually developed into the magazine articles as well as my Blogs on this website covering the speed series When I suggested doing this Bob Green was a keen photographer following our speed series the paddock and offered to provide photos for the articles. Alas after about 6 months Bob died from cancer and his family donated the award and presented it at a our Awards do.

Heater, roof, doors? Nah, it's only -2.0° for goodness sake!

A trip out to see Santa on Sunday

Nice day at Classic on the Quay in Hythe Hampshire on Sunday. 230 cars all shapes and sizes

Just swapping the spark plugs..

Didn’t have enough time to get to the Peak District today but managed a good 2 hrs out .The mudguards I made up the other week are proving a great addition ,a nice dry arm again with no doors.

Managed a quick blast before sunset... Moody skies over Bristol last Friday

The Prisoner(s). Behind bars! Well, big gates, at least.

Nothing to see here... Just a guy, casually walking his cow, next to a gold topped building in Ukraine while I drive my Westfield past...

Sunny morning in Somerset, couldn't resist a short run. King's Sedgemoor, Somerset Levels.

Happens all the time out here in the sticks, staff approaches to getting to a rural high school... Gary

Here y'go (Not my picture - apologies to the original photographer whoever you are!)

A very bracing drive to work this morning.

Tour of the Cambrian Mountains 2019

Driving to Sunk Island.

motorist new venue Sherburn airfield near Selby august/ sep 2019

A morning well spent, I'm liking the look of the new stripes.... Worth at least another 10bhp! 😂

Finally got around to taking some proper photos of my own car in the ‘paddock area’ at Curborough last week.

Be back on the road tomorrow after 14 years!

MOT test time - my local garage decided that it was better to use a Tapley meter to measure braking efficiency as light cars tend to skip on their rollers. John and Lucy the owners squeezed into my narrow SEi for the brief drive. Lucy is, er, 'solid' while John is 6'5". It was not the best of fits! But the car passed, which is the main thing. 🙂

Two toys...

These were taken a couple of months ago. The car is currently on jack stands with the engine, transmission, and parts of the interior removed, so not quite as photogenic at the moment. -John

A mooch about the hills today