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Hi Guys The Westfield passed its MOT today at Forest of Dean Tyre's with the well know @JulianE who does most of the Westfield MOT in the area 😁 Anyway, I'm now thinking of buying one of those car lifts, not a 2 post lift, but one of those portable/small garage ones (hope that makes sense) Any recommendation?? Cheers Everyone love a photo

Ha ha you lot thought the old sod has forgotten this thread.........wrong During the recent lockdown i've been digging out some old slides and photos and scanning them So here we go Silverstone 1991 I apologise if there's a lot of our Nige, but he was great Our Nige passing Senna on the hanger straight. Nakajima in a Tyrrell Berger This one would have been a cracker if i'd got it in focus And some planes

garage-equipment-group Great bit of kit, no compressor required and can be used at any height. It can even be moved outside if you have a nice flat drive and not enough height in you garage, I was lucky full height is about 50mm less that my RSJ beam

Stunning in every detail. Worth every penny. Thank you for rescuing it and all you put into getting it together. GLWTS

@Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO knows at least some of the part numbers

Beautiful car, just right. Best one I've seen from that era. Good price too. Crossflow, twin 40's, 4 speed, live axle, can't get any better.

The M240i is stunning. A complete Wolf in Sheep's clothing. As fast as an M2 (I tried) and will do tame all day long if you want (I do, sometimes), which the M2 will not.

@syman84 have a look for The paddock shop. On Facebook he sells 13inch pirreli

That's the route book drafted, subject to a check drive to concur the mileages and intersections/tulips, and to add a few things in for helpful references. After it's tested, and tweeked if needed, it'll be printed off into route books for the run.

i used to get mine from Dave @ Superslicks, not too far away from you in Tamworth 07414 863 657 and reasonably cheap.

Absolutely, if going under the car for any serious grunt type work, where will be pushing and pulling on it, I either use ramps, or if that's not possible, for suspension work etc, while the primary supports will be axle stands, I'll always have the wheels or something under there too, as a back up "life saver"; I've seen too many cars rocked on or wobble about on axle stands, to the point of near tipping, if the issue hadn't been spotted and the car pulled back. With very light weight cars like a Westfield, it's not that hard to pretty much lift them off a stand. As an aside to that, unless because of access it's physically impossible, I always, always, follow a lesson my dad taught me working on cars, (and that was applied more generally in university engineering lab induction sessions). - When applying force to any lever type tool, whether it's a spanner, socket wrench, breaker bar, even a torque wrench, brace yourself for balance, and always push down, never try and lift. If you push down, you're much, much less likely to lift anything off it's support - like axle stands, but also, equally importantly, if the tool slips off, for any reason, it will fly away from you. Whereas if you pull up, you naturally, for better leverage, tend to hunch forward over the tool, and if anything slips, gives, or breaks, the tool and any debris, tend to be heading straight at you, and often heading straight for your face!

Me too, I absolutely hate axle stands

I didn't, but Barny did (Marto) and the two lads next to us had driven down from Edinburgh that morning in the car together 😆 Found the limiter coming into the chicane fairly easily even on the road tyres. Didn't really enjoy the day somehow - Barny has a couple of little vids and some photos that I'll put in the Lobster thread when I have time

I was looking at one of these but wanted something a bit more portable so I then looked at the quickjacks But was unsure it would work under the westy with the tapered front end so I ended up with these I'm really happy with them but it comes down to what you want and for me how big my garage is, hence why I wanted something a bit more portable so I could easily set them up on the drive giving me more room to work around the car

Yes it uses 4 solid rubber blocks placed at the outer edge of the chassis

Are you swapping the blade engine for something with a little more torque?

I quite agree about axle stands; they're only fit for use as a safety back-stop. The Quick Jak ramps are quite narrow and tall though. Having all four wheels off the ground also means that the two grounded wheels as with normal ramps or even axle stands, if braked and chocked, add some stability. Two post lifts are a popular option and one that I considered but they also have potential problems unless they are very soundly mounted to a decent thickness of concrete. Concrete of a type that domestic garages rarely have. See the consequences if not...