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Chilly but a lovely night for a run out.

Our first time back at Curborough in over 2 years and it was great to see you folks there and have a good old chin wag. Ian and Ali's car, ours and Rob's Rob's car and ours Burton Car Club Gary in his Zetec engined MEV A WSCC member on track Gary's MEV We travelled there down the M1 and A38 to try out our new half hood, which was a bit unsuccessful as it lifted at the near side corner and I had to stop twice, once to push it back into place and a second time to take it off. I don't use doors and I think the consistent speed was too much for it. The press stud at the front is not the best fit either. The route home was through a dry Dove Dale and on to Wetton Tea Rooms for lunch, afterwards we came out to a couple of spots of rain so we put the half hood back on and then proceeded in driving through a rainy/slushy Matlock Bath, it was freezing too. Car looked like it had been rallying by the time it got home😂

Well, I'm a definite 👍 We have a small convoy (4 cars so far) leaving the A50/A38 services at 915am if anyone wants to tag along

I will take a run out.

I’m hoping to get across to this one all being well with the weather. See you tomorrow

Well that was a good way to spend a Saturday morning. Good company, excellent breakfast sandwich and being pelted with hailstones on the way home.. my face hurts!

Thank you so much for helping @HB46443 into his booster seat 😉 Please come and see us again or set up a meet at your place of work. Here's the Harry's Garage video we discussed!-

Well I have got this far, thanks to some YT videos, more to do - I will call that a small victory after an evenings work, yes all simple stuff for the experts out there but this is all brand new to me 😬 and its bedtime now.

Well at least you didn’t have the pain of the hailstones.. Ali and me have lost several layers of skin from our faces. Ali Says that’s adding this to the pain from her ankle, has her wishing she had taken up the offer from Glen, to become her drug supplier 😁

Just a reminder; you have until the end of Tuesday, THIS COMING WEEK, to get nominations in! We still need a new Club Secretary and a new AO Rep! Anyone standing for those roles will be given the help and support they need to get going, and make the position their own. Now is an excellent time to take an active role in the Club, and help guide it's future. Please see the nominations thread in the Members section of the forum.

Price: £15,000 Location: Nr Maidstone, Kent For sale is my Westfield SEIW Aerorace 2.0l Blacktop bought from Toybox 2 years ago. I have enjoyed ownership but realistically with three children and a nagging wife it isn’t the most practical of cars for me to own and the time has come for me to pass on this great car to its new owner. Spec:- - 5000 miles - Genuine Aerorace chassis - Extra wide rear arches - Flat floor - Full rear diffuser - V8 bonnet - Anti roll bars front & rear - 13” mini lights (JBW), 9” deep dish to rear - R888 tyres - Hi-spec Westfield brakes - Lifeline extinguisher - Full roll cage (recently stripped and re-powder coated) & fitted with S/S Pro-bolts - Webcon throttle bodies - Lightened & balanced fly wheel - Maxx Mini ECU - Odyssey battery - Powerlite starter motor - Repackable exhaust - Type 9 gear box with uprated internals (so Toybox tell me) - Dash 2 digital dash - Spa Alcantara removable steering wheel - Raceline lowered sump - Westfield diamond stitched sport turbo seats - Carpets - Carbon fibre dash board - Carbon fibre gear knob - Mick made carbon fibre headlight bowels & bezels - Carbon fibre front wheel guards - LED headlights - LED front indicators - Ctek charger mounted on dash - V8 bonnet - Baffled fuel tank with built in swell pot - Sabelt harnesses - Wilwood brake bias adjuster - MOT expires 26th May I have the original front wheel guards, gear knob, indicators etc that can go with the car and happy for the purchaser to have the Ctek charger also. PM me if you are interested or have any queries.

You're doing great @Richard (OldStager) I built my own dash controller using a Mega 2560 circa 6 years ago and it's still going strong. I'd planned to improve the design over the first winter but just kept on driving and it kept on working! I had help from @Kit Car Electronics to use one of his excelent Freewheel units on my wheel to communicate with it post IVA. You can see more of it here- You can find example sketches in the Arduino tool, under the file, example sketches menu I prefer to use https://uecide.org/download to edit/upload to my device I also like https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ as my editor as it's search functions are more powerful and it lays out the code in an easier to view format e.g. The colours are automatically assigned by notepad++ e,g, Green denotes my comments Just ask if you need any help and I'll look forward to seeing what you implement with it.

Q#1 guess what I did today? 🤔 Q#2 guess what i did today? 🤔 . . . . . . . A#1 taxed the Westy 😀 A#2 filled up with fuel 😮 see you all tomora 👍😀

Not made of money Andrew

As titled meet at Curborough for breakfast with Rob's Rabble and Burton Car Club

That's a great way to learn though; just pick coding appropriate for your level - as you are doing, then as you progress look at, try and understand, and build up with trickier code and concepts.

Weather looks good and the westfiled is running well so I'll head on over and see you tomorrow! Charlie.

Good to see you today, thankfully I dodged the hail! 😂

Thank you Ian, my goal for last night was to output what I saw on the monitor to the LCD, however half the coding was a default pre-written one (that was on the CD that came with the kit) and the other half was written by me following a guy on YT, I followed his code perfect line by line, but there was a conflict between the two types of coding I now had when I tried to complile it. I got as far as the Hello World, but trying to then add the readings from the DHT it crashed out. Will give it another go tonight. Not keen on these wires that come with the kit, they seem quite poorly made to me, and dont fit into the breadboard at all well ( loose) , I am used to working with veroboard and that perhaps is the way I go once I prove the coding, and this is the bit that's all new to me ( the componant side isn't an issue) so I will try and take it line by line as to what it is trying to do and hopefully help me understand how coding works as it were. I was still pleased to get far last night though, I was put off this coding lark many years ago after another freind attempted to teach me assembley langauge for pic chips, I still have all the software and programmer but got lost with it all at quite an early stage. So hoping the Ardunio stuff is a bit more to my level of understanding and one day perhaps I try assembley again - who knows 🤨

Richard The issue is you need min two entrants in each class on the day to score more than 100 points! Glutey

Thanks Ian was great and good to finally make it to a bmw owners area meet 😀

Are you still banned from ‘Pulse and cocktail’ then ?

Definitely this ^^^ The non-assisted brakes will work well, but you really need to put your foot into it to get maximum braking force compared to your daily driver. You’ll get used to it but until you do, give yourself more space between you and the car in front of you. On the fuel tank bit, plan ahead. As has been mentioned, the fuel gauge (which has the following levels: full, still full, suddenly half full, still half full but twitching needle, suddenly almost empty, and five miles later empty) is mostly for entertainment and is not to be trusted nearly as much as the trip odometer. You must plan to fill up by 110 miles under normal use. If you push it much further than that, try not to make hard right turns or fly around roundabouts as you may get fuel starvation as the remaining fuel sloshes to the left side of the tank, and have the engine die under you. I did just that going into a petrol station and luckily had just enough forward momentum to coast to the pumps, hopping out with a “yeah, I meant to do that” flair…! On that front, don’t get in a hurry when filling up. Actually, let me put it another way - you won’t be able to fill up quickly. It’s just the way it is, I’m afraid. Go slow to avoid frustration and just live with it, because TADT - They All Do That. You’ll know when you and the car are one when you develop a method of sliding into the car without the seat rucking your shirt up your back as you do. There is, however, no elegant way to extricate yourself out of the car. DO NOT use the windscreen as a support getting in or out, and ensure your passengers don’t either unless you want to spend lots of money replacing it or fixing the damage to the scuttle. Lastly, after showing off the engine, ensure the bonnet is properly secured, lest you become a member of the Flying Bonnet Club. The site of an expensive piece of GRP suddenly departing at 70mph and sailing majestically over your head to hit the vehicle behind you or get run over by a lorry is best avoided. These are all just pieces of learned wisdom, none of which should detract from what you’re about to enjoy. Wishing you many years and miles of happiness together.

Seaside trip - just before COVID paid me a little visit!

300 Miles this weekend

Went out for a quick blast this morning as weather looked good…… came back three hours later only stopped once! (small bladder!)😃

Have a great day @a4gom & @XTR2Turbo 🍺🍺🎂🎂

Went to High Force but didn't stop.

Not for me, sadly. I'm on a day out to London with the 'outlaws' by train.