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Wow out for 11 hours today with John and Kermit. What a brilliant day, the forecast said dry with a possible rain showers but off we went heading to applecross on the west coast. Fuelled up and stopping for a bacon roll we headed north and then westwards, on brilliant open sweeping roads through the glens, a wee bit of iffy road surface just before strathcarron where it was refuel and a nature break, before heading over applecross pass where to our surprise we got a clear blast up to the car parks, brilliant. From here it was on to applecross and then upto shieldig apart from a bike holding us up a wee bit there was again very little traffic to impede our progress. On towards kinlochewe and some very courteous drivers allowed us to have some fun along the way…. Then disaster…… the cake shop is no more 😪 so we had soup and coffee before turning east and heading homewards. We did stop off in Forres where we had a chippy and ice cream to make up for no cake lol All in all a brilliant day out with a great mix of driving, scenery and excellent company, happy days

While the chassis is still U.K. the road waiting for the welder to return there’s not many jobs I can be getting on with but whilst tidy the garage today I tripped over one of the coolant pipes so thought I’d give it a quick clean up. like the rest of the car it has plenty of surface corrosion, the majority of which cleaned off quite well with the wire wheel, the a light sand with some wet and dry followed by a final polish. I’m not a fan of straight straight ends on coolant pipes because of the fear of them popping off but unfortunately I don’t have the luxury of a beading tool to add a swaged bead. A few years back on recommendation from locostbuilders I bought a plumbers olive setting tool in the sale from B&Q for a couple of pounds which enables a series of raised dots to be formed. that should help to keep the hoses and clips in place.

Its academic now anyway, apparently @Andy - a15cro has already paid via PM.

Cars are all stickered up for Steve 🙂

What are the dimensions please?

Made it to the hotel. The weather forecast was horrible, but we didn't meet much rain. Well done to @marcusb @shutty1971 @Rickyboy100 and Gary in the Cobra for braving it. I didn't.

We’ve made it to the hotel, managed to dodge most of the rain, bumped into @Geoffrey Carter (Buttercup) At the cafe who joined us for some of the run, so far we’ve had one broken throttle return spring, one flat battery and four nearly flat tyres probably last checked pre lockdown 😁

First stop NY 500 cafe for breakfast 🙂

After nearly 6 years of ownership the time has come to sell my roadgoing Westfield sprint / hillclimb / track day car. This is an opportunity to buy a truly ready to go competitive car which has been run in roadgoing classes (Westfield Speed series W2 and BARC equivalent) but easily has the pace for W3+ on non-roadgoing tyres. In my novice hands it has delivered class wins at Shelsley Walsh, Gurston Down, Castle Combe and Abingdon CARnival and has rarely been out of the top 3. Despite 270 HP it is extremely well set up and predictable, even in the wet. A recent outing at Castle Combe with an instructor, more used to Caterhams, left him seriously impressed with how capable it was. The previous owner purchased the car new as a factory build Sport 2000 and carefully upgraded the car for competitions using the best available parts and suppliers. It certainly is not a show car, with the bodywork reflecting a competition focussed vehicle. However, it comes with the following brand new items for the new owner:- - New Westfield V8 Bonnet (red) - New Westfield nosecone (Black) - New Carbon NV super lightweight carbon wheel arch protectors - New Carbon NV carbon composite boot cover - 10 Litres of Millers Triple Ester competition oil and other spares. Also included is a spare set of 13” Compomotive CRX wheels (like new) and Avon ZZS tyres fitted in April this year, with less than 50 wet track day miles. The additional items would cost around £3k if purchased separately. Price £16.5K to include all above as an ‘on the button’ roadgoing competition car package / amazing track day car. Chassis: Standard Sport 2000 – Registered on age related plate in 2008. Mileage 11,200. MOT until 21.05.22 Steering by Westfield rack, competition mountings, short competition steering arms. Suspension is standard rear wishbones, factory ‘Gen 3’ wide track front. Dampers are Protec alloy spec'd and supplied by Procomp Motorsport. Factory rear anti-rollbar, Playskool front anti-rollbar. Suspension setup by Procomp Motorsport. Westfield alloy uprights, Westfield competition brakes, with 4 pot front callipers and front vented discs. 7” x 13” Prorace 1.2 black wheels on the front and 8” x 13” Compomotive CXR wheels, black, fitted with 215/55x13” Avon ZZS all round (MSA 1b). Body: Standard factory Sport 2000 Post Office red bodywork, with Aerodynamix carbon fibre aeroscreen, carbon effect rear light clusters and carbon effect lightweight dash. Dash 2 electronic display (factory fitted). Dash mounted FIA cutout switch. JK Composite seats; double skinned, and a special order low back seat for the passenger. lightweight wing mirrors. Small headlights. CSR style carbon fibre front wings. CarbonMods carbon fibre lightweight nosecone, fitted with canards. Playskool Motorsport lightweight full safety cage (fully approved for MSA use). Engine: This is essentially the original Ford Power products Duratec engine as fitted by Westfield new. However the engine has been much modified, and its present spec is as follows:- 2ltr. Duratec on standard crank, but carefully balanced, and SBD keyway mod. Lightweight flywheel, by Raceline. Titan drysump kit, Carillo steel conrods, Supertec forged pistons. ARP flywheel bolts, crank pulley bolts, main bearing cap bolts and big end bolts. Cylinder head gas flowed by Simon Armstrong of Ultimate Performance, and camshafts also by Ultimate Performance, fitted with vernier pulleys. visit www.ultimatep.com after which I think you'll agree there isn't anyone better qualified for the job. The engine still runs on the KMS tapered throttle bodies, as used at the time by Westfield, and the KMS ecu. The entire exhaust system was built by Matt Simpson, Simpson Race Exhausts, to dimensions supplied by Simon Armstrong. Typically noise tests at 97-99 db. Engine was initially rebuilt to something like the above spec by Northampton Motorsport in 2011, and re-mapped by Troy Robinson. It subsequently had a precautionary engine rebuild at Northampton (when the dry sump conversion was carried out) in March 2015. In April 2015, the car was checked (following the March re-build) on The NMS rolling road, and was found to be making (at the flywheel) 272 bhp at about 8,750 rpm, and 181 lbs/ft of torque at about 6,400 rpm. Of more practical relevance, the torque exceeds 150 lbs/ft from 4,500 rpm right through to the red line of 8,950; and the power exceeds 250 bhp from 7,400 rpm through to approx. 9,000 rpm. It has been completely reliable, just changed the oil filter and oil very regularly, and only used Millers fully synthetic triple ester competition oil. Transmission: Uprated competition paddle clutch. Gearbox is based on a Ford type 9 5 speed 'box, but everything was re- built in March 2019 using full alloy casings by Steve Perks (SPC transmissions). It is a Steve Perks own design of straight-cut close ratio gear set, on fully needle roller main shaft and synchromesh engagement. The prop shaft is an upgraded Bailey Morris item. The diff is a Ford Sierra based diff. However, it has been rebuilt by Bara Motorsport with 4.44 crown wheel and pinion set and at the same time a ZF plated LSD unit was fitted. The combination of high revving engine mated to this gearbox gives amazing speed ranges through the gears and is key to the car’s competitiveness. 60mph in 1st, 84 in 2nd, 105 in 3rd, etc. and it had been timed at the Aintree sprint at just under 140mph and still pulling. Fuel supply is via a pair of small sprint tank made by Alloy Racing Fabrications, with a separate swirlpot, and 2 fuel pumps, so no risk of fuel starvation unless you run out of fuel completely.

Well done guys, big respect for this.

Taking place on Saturday, 3rd to Sunday, 4th July the Yorkshire area are having a weekend away in memory of @BugMan, Steve Pitt. We are taking over the White Horse Inn at Rosedale Abbey for the night. The day will start early meeting at 9AM to leave at 9:30 from Skelton Grange service station at J45, M1. The first stop will be at the NY 500 cafe near Pickering at 11:30 for a lunch break. After that, I'm not sure where. The route has been planned by @shutty1971, @marcusb, and @Rickyboy100 in a pub!! There is still a single room left if anyone is interested. And if anyone wants to join us on either Saturday or Sunday, please let us know so numbers can be arranged. Let's hope this is a fitting tribute to Steve.

Late birthday prezzie

That’s it I’m leaving the forum, such a sad state of affairs these days.

@Rush Motorsport all bets are off until you show a photo of both your grannies holding up a copy of todays newspaper...

@CraigHew That’s bang out of order I’m reporting you to the forum police.

Andy If you have not tried your HANS device yet you will benefit from doing several practices putting it and you helmet on as well as the harness Its a bit of a faff but most of us have mastered it now. As you are in road going class its not mandatorynto wear a HANS device but you might consider it has added safety. If you do use it you should take you helmet to the scrutineers and pay for a Motorsport UK sticker to be stuck to the helmet. Your Helmet will also need to be shown to a scrutineers to get a blue MSUK sticker attached ( £2.50)

Can I get my gran to collect it when she’s passing to see my other gran?

Thanks Dave, yes StephenH's old car. I am looking at moving into classic competition with a Midget / Sprite as my next step.

Guys I will have some MAKE A WISH charity collection boxes in my trailer and hope you can dip into your pockets please for the is great charity Maybe a fiver or more might be appropriate as you will have received a free T shirt. BUT anything will do Thanks and see you there

Just to present the alternative viewpoint, what is the point of a "top of the range" Westfield or Caterham, or similar? There really isn't a difference in principle. They all make the ultimate trackday car, which is also road usable. So if I'm a billionaire (which I can assure you I'm not!) then if I'm a motorsport fan, why not buy an ultimate Aston Martin (or whatever) for my trackday fun? In the same wy, if I'm a sailing fan, why not pay £x,000,000 for an ultimate sailing yacht? No more (or less) daft than you on your more modest income/capital buying a Westerham for your trackday fun. Oh, and you avoid the bee by using a full face crash helmet, just the same as I used to use when I took my Westfield sprint car out on the public highway for any distance.

Weather permitting, I plan on taking it to Stoneleigh and abusing parking privileges on the WSCC pitch

From this weekend at Croft

A couple of videos and photos of me playing tail end charlie

It wasn't difficult to make you feel welcome @Glynn Andrews, you bring us a supercharged Mega S2000, you are a really nice guy and your wife is called Julie Andrews, what's not to like😃 We have a lot of newbies at the mo and the whole group are just gelling together so easily, it's a different set of people each week, it's just soooooo faaaaaab, THANK YOU EVERYBODY XXXXXX

Hi Guys, great day out on Sunday in the peaks loved it, a big big thank you to Julie Hall for the organisation and to super Rob Hunter for introducing me to all you guys. thought I’d be out for a couple of hours, 8 hours later I got home😂😂😂Fantastic loved it👍 Thank you all for making me feel so welcome, can’t wait till next time X, Glynn A, Blue MegaS2000

John and “Kermit” arrived at 8.45 this morning and after a wee conflab we decided it was up to Beauly ( breakfast for the best melba toast with berries bananas, bacon and maple syrup) then up to Ullapool ( fuel) then we stopped at a viewpoint and back on some cracking single track road to Bonar Bridge, and over the Struie to Muir of Ord . Then homeward bound we stopped at the chippie in Forres to discover they did an all day breakfast 😂 then got home at 5.45 A great day out of mixed driving and fantastic scenery, and a big thanks to John for his company and knolage of some cracking roads up north .

...........and here is photographic evidence, just don't ask me for the route ask @Rickyboy100 😆

i cant make the show itself, but as long as things are ok at this end, i can meet at the roebuck and follow the short way up the a6 till the great eccleston turnoff gets me out of the house for an hour or so. ongoing pet issues keeps me near home this year.