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A combination of Dorset, Devon and Somerset cars at breakfast ahead of the Dorset Tour on Saturday morning.

I agree with the comments that our area was very well presented and the most professional club presence of the show (at least on the Sunday when I was there). I glibly suggested to my son that we must redress the balance of no XIs at the show (apart from a photo on the Westfield stand) by camping overnight with ours at next year's show. I'll need to pluck up the courage to drive up the M1 in it though...😬!

Man in black “Is this guy one of those TiccyTockers” Looney ”Meow wha meow Honda meow”

...well, I actually joined almost a year ago but since then have been looking for my first Westfield. A couple of days ago I bought a nice 2004 Seight, so I guess I have now really joined. Absolutely fantastic car. At the weekend my son and I took it from the south coast to Santa Pod and back (260 mile round trip) and it was flawless. Absolutely love it!

We tried, but even the RSPCA wouldn't help.

My car is in there somewhere 😂 Great weekend, huge thanks to the organising team for making it such a great event! Apart from a touch of self inflicted "beer flu" Monday morning it was an amazing couple of days 👍

A couple of weeks ago, I drove down to Guildford to go watch For the Philistines in the room, Nick Mason is the drummer from Pink Floyd. The tour is performing a lot of early Pink Floyd pre-DSotM songs and the band includes Gary Kemp (from Spandeau Ballet) and Guy Pratt. Anyway, great night out and tickets still available, I believe Manchester next on Saturday. My ears were ringing for two days afterwards - result: One of the interesting things about the evening (besides Nick Mason still being brilliant at age 78) was the crowd standing at the front. Most of them were in their 70s, 80s, and a few in their 90s, all with silver / white hair and definitely having a blast. 😎 Just shows that age is only a number 👍

Indeed I did, but mine were Sierra SDV uprights. However the theory is the same.

Sorry, just need to add that I hope we don’t see the follow up photos - if he’s a real cat, he’d be flexible enough to lick his own ball joints and tailpipe.

Just to add I have a TranX box on my car and it is brilliant despite vigorous track use.

Reported… 🤮

Had a big shift-around on the driveway and in the garage this afternoon, and we've extricated the Westfield - hopefully she will behave herself on Saturday morning (same goes for the Westy too).

Westfield avenue 2022 sorry about the vid I'm still learning

Agreed. Coming from someone who has first hand knowledge of Stoneleigh, well done to the organising team and all the helpers. Here's to next year.👍

With @marcusb.

Great bank holiday weekend in sunny Kent

Absolutely.... There's been many times I've been 'moshing in the pit', then look around and think "bye 'eck, I could be their grandfather!!!!"

Only the second time for me. Last year I made it in my (new to me) SEight. This year found an oil leak 3 days before grrr still to be fixed... Stand looked great though, a real credit to the organisers and volunteers. Stood out from all the rest. Great turn out on Saturday despite the weather not being stable as well. Managed to speak to few of you, mainly to ask inane questions about rollbar types. Were to leave my contribution to the auto jumble. Chat about cars You may have noticed me staring closely at some of the SEight's... It's not a fetish, just looking for inspiration and answering my own questions, hope you owners didn't mind lol.

👍 try it

@Stu Faulkner

@Kingster did this with his...

Definitely. The rear aluminium uprights for drums, do not as I understand it, have mounting lugs for disc callipers on them. However plenty have converted to discs over the years, typically it involves having machined aluminium mounting adaptors made up, that bolt to the upright. But a post in Tech Talk should get much more info back.

As stated in my build thread (below), I'm after a pair of RHD headlight lenses. Doesn't matter if they're a bit scuffed up, as long as they're good enough to get me through the IVA test. Can swap for a LHD pair if desired. Cheers Paul

The casing has the bearing carrier though the front to support a heavy duty layshaft bearing. Making the the base gearbox ford's latest heavy duty V6 type 9 and the strongest of the lot.

…to the rescue…

No worries there, I was too busy poking my own eyes out!

...it was like being stalked by the pink panther in a prison uniform! perhaps we needed Inspector Clouseau!

Save something for the magazine though... which gives me an idea. New thread landing shortly...

This will add atleast 35bhp straight away russ get it fitted !

Huge thanks to you all for organising the stoneleigh pitch. Really gutted we could only do the Sunday but we had family to see that we haven’t seen because of the pandemic years.

I have permission 👍

Welcome, love the car 👍

looks very nice

Great engine choice. Welcome to the club. 😃

Welcome, Best colour too 👍🏼👍🏼

Thanks again for all the thoughts and advice received regarding my grubby white Westfield. It was great to be aloud to display it up on the trailer in the marquee. (Not sure how to post a picture 🤔)

Welcome !!!

As always, an excellent event. Many thanks to all those who did the great prep, organising and hosting. Thanks also to all the members new and old that turn up and make the WSCC pitch, the place to be. Great to catch up with old friends, meet new ones and meet virtual members face to face @Yorkshire_Pudding @Geezergs @Hadz @RJRWesty @IainCameron for the first time. I still can't believe @Ali Jones - Retentions Officer sold me some brand new carbon cycle wings for a tenner! Thanks @Paul Aspden (MoFast) for such a generous donation to a great charity. Let's do it all again!

This was the view we got!

Of course! £8.5k for a 200bhp car is a bargain.

did you find your Worcester Sauce @marcusb?

So who do I see about some carbon wheel arches?

“Hello, I’m Bagpuss and they’ve given me an orange hi-vis vest so I can stand out and be seen!” ”Yes - and for some reason, I was still unable to avoid you.”

... have requested a (WSCC branded) human hamster ball for next year 😁

With the clutch fitted I could finally move on to fitting the engine. Despite the sales brochure for the car saying that it had been designed so the engine and box could be fitted as a single unit my trial build last year showed that this definitely was not the case, not least because the clutch fork needs to locate one side of a chassis rail whist the slave cylinder and the casting it mounts to on the gearbox is the other side of the rail. I forgot to take a photo of this so I’ll try and remember tomorrow. Not wanting to damage the paintwork the chassis was liberally wrapped in corrugated card and the the gearbox could then be slotted in to position. This is the originally gearbox from the car and this is the first time since 1972 that it’s been in the car as I used a scrap box for the trial build. The big job came next of lifting the engine in, this needed to be stripped of all the ancillaries to stand any chance of squeezing into the engine bay. The mounting flange on the engine for the box is actually larger than the aperture in the chassis so to lift it in the engine has to be orientated vertically with the crank pulley pointing up and then once through it needs to be laid down horizontally. Once in the engine mounts, water pump and starter motor could then be fitted before finally bolting it up to the gearbox. This whole process took the best part of two hours to get the engine and box in. At this stage one job I needed to do was make a nylon bush to support the gearbox. The original got destroyed trying to get it out when the chassis was stripped for Powdercoating and I’d not made this before as I needed everything assembled in the chassis to work out its length.

Finally some progress and a long overdue update. After an extended wait as my engine builder was busy preparing for the start of the racing season the engine is finally back together again. first job is fitting the new clutch. As the engine came with a flywheel machined for an F3 clutch when i bought it, I decided it would be a sensible upgrade for the standard imp clutch that the car originally ran as these are a known week point. I didn’t however factor quite how expensive this upgrade would be! The AP clutch also meant that I’d need a custom made clutch release bearing to suit and some minor mods to the gearbox to fit a spring to support the bearing and stop it rubbing on the unit shaft.

Got to include some cars back into this, part of the rally championship theme tune music , I give you -