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Back on the dyno.

Had a great track day at Blyton, really good fun. It was quite busy with a mixture of Clio's, Honda's and a few special hot hatches however everyone was really great at letting others pass.. Good to meet James in his green zetec, he and his mate were going really well. There were another couple of westies there although not members.. (I did try and sell the benefits!) One of the guys had a supercharged Zetec in a smart red and black car. I was looking forward to som sessions on track however on his first time out the top rear suspension rose joint broke where the thread joined the body. Looks like it may have broken his drive shaft out universal joint.. shame as would have been fun with another Westy out on track. I did give Dan a ride in my car towards the end of the day and he was amazed how quick you can go with only 200 HP rather than his supercharged 325 odd... So a good day and car all ok at the end of it after another hard non stop day plus even managed to get the caravan tyres nice and hot and sticky.. still got about 5mm of tread despite trying to destroy them!!

A bit of a charge about topped off with lard and a sunset! Bloomin marvellous!

I am selling my Duratec Sport 2000 to raise funds to pay for ongoing home improvements. Unfortunately with a new kitchen half complete and the back garden being completely remodelled I need to release funds to pay for things. The car is a 2005 factory built Sport 2000 with 10k miles from new. The car has been clayed and machine polished by myself and looks extremely well. A brief spec of the car is: 2L Duratec with ITB's MTC75 gear box Sierra 3.9 LSD Nitron dampers Wide track AP Westfield brakes Golf Mk4 rear brakes 15" TD wheels with R888 tyres - or a choice of some 13” TD pro race wheels or some 15” Toybox style wheels. Buyer can choose which set they want. V8 bonnet V8 nose cone including ducting Carbon rear arch covers, front wings and mirror covers Full carpets Contoured dash Westfield Sport Turbo seats with yellow piping and on runners Westfield 4 point harnesses Lowered floors Removable steering wheel Heater Screen with wipers and washers Standard roll bar Full weather gear Boot box Price: £15,995 ono

First race great start but didn't manage to hold the advantage, until the aggressive little Suzuki went to cut the grass Race 2, start wasn't as good, serious warnings to not use the grass managed to hang onto the Peugeot, then the Go Pro Stopped . Again!!!

Nice evening at Dunster beach with a stop of in the pub at Blue anchor beach.

Missing the Westie in er, not so sunny Ibiza…. Fun watching the lightening! Nope I couldn’t get that on the iPhone!! 😛

Some pics as promised

What a fantastic weekend again. Its the most challenging and adrenalin producing track I have ever driven. Cant wait to go back

Lovely evening blat in bucks

Thanks Rick, it may smell of wood smoke, 😁 as it was packed and ready to go when my chimney threw up 😆.

Think positive. There was no fire

Sorry to hear of your woes, OldStager. I used to have an old Potterton floor standing boiler in my last house. It was old when we moved in back in 1977, and was still working well when we left in 2012. Every year I took the thing to bits (I know, naughty! But not actually illegal as long as I didn't charge for it and was competent.) and cleaned the burner and heat exchanger. I had been tardy one year and the CO alarm read-out began to creep up inexorably, so before it reached a danger level and screamed the house down with its siren, I serviced the boiler. The heat exchanger had sooted up because the burner was covered in grit coming down the open flue (lined with an aluminium liner) I suspect from high winds at the time. It hadn't happened before nor since. Anyway... The moral of this tale is to beware of vacuuming soot from the floor or heat exchanger. You've already discovered that it is the most monumentally fine particle size, but luckily for you your cleaner survived it. Mine didn't. We had a fairly new Panasonic bagless Dyson clone which worked well as long as the filters were cleaned after every use (what is a bag if not a big filter?) What I didn't realise was that not only was soot too fine for the cyclones to catch much of it, but that the filters were also too coarse. The soot got past the filters and because it was downstream of the whole system, the motor copped a load of it! Soot is carbon pure and simple, and carbon is highly conductive of electricity. Within five minutes of starting to Hoover the heat exchanger there was a noticeable drop in motor speed and a sudden smell of very hot windings. Sixty-odd seconds later the motor stopped - for ever! The soot had shorted the commutator segments on the armature and burned out the armature windings. Don't vacuum up soot! You, my dear sir, are lucky that your vacuum didn't go the way of mine!

Did you forget your lightning cable?

Yeah. Last minute change of mind last night so bunged em in.

yeah it's difficult - never been one to get attached to cars but this one sort of has me!

I knew this would happen.

I think you’ve made the right call. Having regretted my sale and very fortunately being able to get it back, I would advise anyone who’s thinking of selling to have a real hard think before letting it go. Hiwever I don’t think you need all those 13” wheels 😉😁😂

Been there - wish I'd kept it!

I could not sell mine either, there have been 2 or 3 times in the last 14 years where I thought I might have to, but always found ways to keep it. Sorry for those who were interested in yours but I know how you feel in wanting to keep it.

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managed to work on wheel alignment over the last couple of days. much happier with the balance of the car now.

Scorching hot in Wales yesterday! Had to take the bonnet off after a particularly fun section of road.

Well it started so well, today that is.. Then it just went downhill from there really. There is a moral to this ditty. Went to the supermarket for my weekly shop, in the Westy, no issues there - other than the obligatory car pulling out on me. However when I got back home and went indoors to off load said shopping, I was greeted by the whole of the ground floor full of smoke ( or so I thought) , it smelt of burnt timber - anyone who camps will know that smell well. Terrified my house was on fire I looked about for the source of this 'smoke' or flames !!!, to find neither. What I did find however was everything on the ground floor was covered in about 2mm of soot, deep black soot, it covered everything. A minute or so later I found the source of the soot... Whilst I was out , the chimney decided to empty the contents of its interior into my dining room, which in turn then spread throughout the rest of the ground floor.... NOT a happy bunny, to say the least. I thought I would get the worst of it up with the vacuum cleaner, which worked for 5 mins, then it stopped... Turns out every filter inside was blocked full of black powder, there are 5 filters in my vac, so I cleaned all these out and tried again... repeat this for another 3 times, each time lasting a minute or so more before stopping.... The dining room carpet is history now, just as well its a dark colour really, and once my dog goes I was going to replace them anyway, but might have to do sooner than that now. Taken 5 hours with damp clothes to wipe every surface down, and had to be done 3 times to get rid of it all. Anyway The moral Keep your chimneys clean folks, I didn't....