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@Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinatorHotel booked for Saturday and Travel lodge for Sunday .

Hotel booked for Saturday were in 😀 may travel back the whole way on Sunday due to work Monday unless we can organise it off. Got the monday off now so we'll be staying sunday night too, Travelodge booked ☺️

@Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator Booked holiday inn and travelodge. Looking forward to a long weekend in the sunshine.

Travelodge booked 👍 just got to let work know 🤣 and now Carlos Sainz and Sister Ali are coming as well 😜

Yeah will pause question now and move to the technical parts of the forum. Massive thanks to you (and all) for the basic education to help point me in the right direction on several topics! I’m not too far from Evesham so might see you out and about at some point…moved down this way for a job in Bishops Cleeve ~10 years ago but I live south of Cheltenham.

The Westfield presence at the Gold Cup is organised by the local area, Wirral and North Wales. This year it's being opened up to the wider areas. Unfortunately there are no local hostelries that we know of, or can recommend, as most members are local and commute daily. Easy for us. Google is your friend, good luck. It will be worth it, a truly fab event.

Quick rack from Rally Design: https://www.rallydesign.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=900_1332&products_id=7310 If you want to go wide at the front (and get some more steering angle) you can use the following kit: https://www.rallydesign.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=1375_1594_1600_1602&products_id=11845 That will allow you to retain your current coilovers.

Ok that looks like everyone who want to attend has got tickets so The fun starts at 6pm at the bar in the Lakeside Suite which should have a sign on saying WSCC Speed Series Awards. Your allocated table will be on display and I look forward to seeing you there. Dinner is served at 7pm. Remember to bring cash for the Charity fund raising etc Room check in is from 1500hrs

For reference, standard rack is 2.9 turns lock to lock, but if lock stops are fitted then the number of turns is reduced to about 2.7. Quicker racks from Rally Design are 2.4 & 2.2. Should be able to buy a full wide kit from RD as well.

...and the Greenbat...

Not me. Sundays are booked up till the 25/2. Clare’s poor planning. Written warning issued. She has promised to try harder.

A quick update. With thanks to AIMS Technologies I now have fully working dash 🤞 The gentleman there (Kevin?) was a great help, he remotely connected, updated my dash software, pointed me in the direction of a poorly connected wire, once made good then normal service resumed. Top service! A big thanks to everyone who offered advice. Much appreciated!

Sad to say, Avon factory has closed down last December. Not sure how many retailers still have them in stock. https://melkshamnews.com/historic-moment-as-last-ever-tyre-is-built-at-avon-ending-production-after-118-years/

I’ve had my first few goes with this monster, and even in fairly average conditions it is pretty awesome! This is a crappy iPhone shot through the eyepiece and it shows a huge prominence erupting from the solar surface. These are loops of plasma which arc along magnetic flux lines between sunspots. They can easily be multiple times larger than the earth, five to ten times the diameter, huge structures. The broad dark line across the surface is called a filament; this is basically a prominence but viewed against the hot, bright surface they are cooler, and appear darker. They move at hundreds of thousands of miles an hour, and sometimes you can see them change in real time; this happened to me at the weekend, I watched a prominence arcing over then dropping little plasma bombs back to the surface. Quite amazing to see.

I’ve not looked at ‘quick racks’ for the car, but ISTR that they are out there. I’d probably look at Rally Design, Retro Ford and similar for a suitable Mk2 Escort rack. I don’t have any input on what quality you’ll get though! There are threads on here about this topic. Before buying, do check what you have already though, measure rack travel per turn of the wheel, or alternatively, pop the boots off to check there are no rack travel stops then count turns for lock to lock as this, sadly, seems to be the default way of defining rack ratio. You might find you have rack limit stops to prevent the cycle wings hitting the tub. If so, given your use, it might be worth looking at widetrack so you can restore full travel. This has already been mentioned, but I repeat it here for clarity (I hope). We have the Silvertop on ours and a Dunnel (I think it was) modified sump. The good thing about the all-alloy one is they can be modified to retain the oil capacity, unlike the Blacktop design. Raceline seem to be the sump of choice, but not cheap as you say. Good luck with the engine hunt. I still kick myself that I didn’t buy a spare crate Zetec when they could be had for a few hundred quid. Not so much these days. Forgot to say, personally, I always prefer to take the engine out on its own, rather than engine & box as an assembly. While on the subject, I’ll add, to make things easier and safer, make a couple of alignment pins using spare bellhousing bolts with the heads cut off. Helps keep things aligned when removing and refitting. See my recent ‘winter tinkering’ thread in Tech Talk

I looked at the Travelodge today Julie and will def book it now I know there's gonna be at least one more Westy in the car park......

We have also booked the Travelodge, Berwick on Tweed for the Sunday night, at £56/night my Yorkshire born bones couldn't resist the bargain. Holy Island here we come, then the coast road, Alnwick, Rothbury and the A68 South, as suggested by @Kingster (thank you sir), feel free to join us anyone.

Hello everyone..! My name is Richard and I'm writing from Italy this is my megabusa 😎

Sadly, the century old event put on by Brighton and Hove Motor Club is no more. Brighton Argus My attendance as man and boy goes back to the 1950s - it will be sadly missed.

Brighton itself has gone to the dogs, unfortunately. I commented on the Argus webpage about my disappointment and at least a dozen or more agreed:

Sorry, its the Speed Series Awards do on Saturday night, and I'm off on a work trip to Barcelona on Monday, so I won't make it, damn, damn, damn.

Brill do! Wish I could do this, but clashes 😞