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I am approaching sixty and have owned and driven many classics, hot rods and sports cars. It is the anniversary of my Westfield purchase in 2018, so I thought I would celebrate by writing this. I was looking for a "classic" car but the purchase price, poor handling, inherent corrosion and poor performance had put me right off anything that fit my budget. In desperation I purchased my "project" (wreck) of a 1990 Westfield SEIW (Q823 DSA) because for the money, I believed it to be the best British sportscar I could buy. Today, after a complete body off restoration I am still of that opinion. And when I say "best" I don't just mean the driving experience. As opposed to most classics, the Westfield is a delight for the home mechanic to maintain and modify. For a Crossflow engined Westie the parts are cheap and plentiful with great support from this forum and vendors alike. The Westie is really easy to set up for everyone's individual requirements. I have lightened mine to a shade over 500Kg and changed the springs at both ends several times (because there cheap) to achieve the most delightful ride. Adjusting most of the suspension settings takes just a few minutes with a basic toolkit to achieve the levels of grip and handling "feel" you desire and that surpass nearly all moderns. I have also modified my Westie to look "older" replacing all the black plastic bits with chrome items together with using older style lights and instruments. I was at my mates body shop Friday night and someone had asked him to sort out his "restored " MGB Midget, which he was selling for £7,500. What a coil of dogs mess! Apart from the wheezy 1275cc "A" series and live rear axle on cart springs, the panel gaps were the worst I have ever seen! And I won't even mention the corrosion bubbling up under the terrible paint job. 30 year old Westfield SEIW with Crossflow - when all things are considered, easily the best British classic sports car for the money!

They will work fine in their default settings so don't worry. As Rhett says a managed switch is one where you can add virtual networks (VLAN's) and other services or features. But for a home network these can be completely ignored. I am an network engineer by trade. My home network looks like this... well it did. This was a few years ago. I've added some more to it since then, mostly telephones and a couple of different firewalls that I'm working on... Yes, I live alone 😄

Hi there. I owned a Westfield for about 4 years but sold it about 13years ago due to a divorce (lost the garage). I’m now back in the market and will start looking once lockdown is finished. I’ll have between £8k -£10k. If I need to save, I’ll wait. I’m based in Plymouth and wanted to say hi. I’m very excited to be getting one again after all this time. Attached it the picture of my old one just in case anyone has seen it. I look forward to the meets I am seeing in the north Devon area. Pity the kitcar show is no longer in Exeter, as that was a good meet. great to be a member again. Best wishes Lloyd

I'm no network expert but had a quick look and it does say the switch is plug and play so I susepect you can use it out of the box like an unmanged switch. Without looking the documentaiton I suspect what you can do via the managment sotfware is set up Vlans, port prioritization, quality of service etc. The sort off stuff you may do in a corporate network when you want different devices on different virtual networks.

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She's finally here. Taken her out for a quick run but my god it's cold, she looks great and sounds even better. Not given her the full beans yet. What's everyone's favourite valeting/detail products?

If it's source direct to screen then yes. The minute 1080P or 4K hits an ethernet interface or it's an interwebs stream, it's compressed by one of the devices in the traffic path so that it fits. Most AV devices that I am familiar with have 100Mb interfaces, and that includes the latest 4K Gen 4 Apple TV's. So if a 4K movie is streamed from any network source, like a MAC mini or a Plex server or whatever it may be, via the Apple TV, it's being compressed. And remember lots of times at least one device in the chain will be wireless... not all the time but often enough. And I've lost count of the times I have solved VOD issues by ditching wireless devices and adding some wires, even using homeplugs on a few occasions. I try to avoid wireless for VOD systems at all costs... I've done LOADS of smart-home installs for high end clients and on superyachts and believe me that up until very recently I could move all the video around on 10/100 switches without so much as a blink. What changed recently was Crestron coming out with NVX. A complete b****rd of an invention that soaks up bandwidth like I do custard creams. And for the avoidance of doubt, NVX works very well indeed, but it add significant extra cost to the network equipment as well as placement of devices. The minute you have to distribute more than four (two Tx, two Rx) NVX across a link between two switches you either need a pair of links in an etherchannel bundle, or 10Gig ports. My biggest NVX deployment so far has something like 46 NVX devices spread across 3 comms rooms... but I digress...

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Welcome! Good luck with your search. There’s quite a few members around the Somerset & Devon area and so hope to see you at some point once we are all allowed out to play again! W

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Welcome back! Sad way to loose what was a great looking car. But, you'll have a great new one to look forward to, once you find it!!

Welcome back Lloyd , good luck with your search and hope it’s not to long until your out and about enjoying a westy again

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... and then coat them with acf50. It's a bit messy but it's very good.

wash and polish all the wishbones etc as the salt will get them

Lovely looking car! I used to annoy the hell out of my valet mate by threatening to use cilit bang to degrease my old 7 after a run!! I even did it once to wind him up! 🤣

Beautiful looking car. Save the full beans for better weather. 😉

Very nice!