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Hi Guys. Some of our East Anglia group will be crossing the fen borders under the cover of darkness and visiting gbs for there cars and coffee meeting on the 9th march. If any of you want to tag along it would be nice. If you are a new member and not been to a meet before then it would be nice to see you also. 10am till 2pm. Would be great to meet some of the lincolnshire and midlands lads but dont shoot us for crossing borders 🤣🤣🤣 . Cheers martin

I've spent a bit of time on my new westy today .. Bled the brakes .. well what a task. Looking through the many threads on here it seems it's a bit of an ordeal, and not wrong. It's ford stuff how hard can it be? answer = flipping frustrating. In the end I cable tied the calipers to the rear springs to get the bleed nipples at a favourable angle, used my vacuum bleeder, and still haven't really managed to get it rock hard, but it's better than it was. Also slackened the handbrake cable, the lever arms were half way through their arc and the self adjusters don't work unless the caliper levers go all the way back. That handbrake cable adjuster is a pain to get to .. wish i had known you access through the top of the transmission tunnel before i put my new seats in! Would have been much easier with no seats. Also investigated more of the ecu stuff .. have made some changes to enable lambda correction more of the time (the learn limits were really narrow, no wonder the ecu had barely learned any adaptive values). I need to get it on the dyno and make sure it's performing well too. The throttle sensor was misaligned so at idle the ecu was seeing load site 3, so have corrected that so it reads load site 1 at idle. It also seems to be missing its ford coolant temp sensor, so the generic bosch one fitted was making the ecu read 80degC when cold, so cold starts and warmup running were poor. ive made a rough guess for the temp/volts table so now it reads a sensible value at cold, and seems to trim well up to 100degC. Also found out the rad fan switch doesn't seem to work, so will get a new one of those. Not sure if the ecu can switch a fan control output, but it's easier just to have it off a thermoswitch anyway. anyway that's enough playtime for a day .. time to earn some money now.

Fantastic talk, thank you very much @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO. Hopefully we'll meet on the Alps at some point 😄

A cracking night in, listening to @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO and the fascinating tale of the euro blats. Learnt a lot from that, and great to meet everyone on the call. Thanks Ian!

I wish I was getting royalties!- Bagg puss coin

Please find as an attachment the 2024 Speed Series Regulations, currently Draft until approved by Motorsport UK. To enter please visit the Forum Store. Key changes :- Classes match a lot of the Clubs whose events we attend during the year. Scoring has been made relatively simple and hopefully easy for Drivers to leave an event knowing exactly what they have scored. There are a lot of Club members who have other makes of Kit car, you can now enter the main classes of the Championship A to F and there is an Trophy for the highest placed driver not in a Westifeld, called the Challenge Championship Winner. Overall the objective is to hopefully increase the numbers of Speed Series Competitors out there having some fun and enjoying the competition. The SSOT spent a lot of time trying to get this right and balance everything, hopefully we have got close. Any questions please ask here or PM me. Have a great season. 2024 V4 WSCC Speed Series Championship Regulations.docx

Its being printed as we speak. sssssshhhhhh

@Martin Bell - (Bellyboy) Joint East Anglia AO have you got your group passport? 🤪

Perhaps someone may pick a Sunday morning at a place that sells breakfast butties and hot coffee and post it up? If it then forecasts rain, postpone it until the following Sunday? Just a pointer, it really would be great to see 🤞

Cheeky little meet up at Curburgring! I was tip toeing on the way due to the cold and damp roads, but had dried up enough on the way home to unleash the VTEC 😂

Managed to do over hour ride - first time with doors attached Its for sure less cold inside than with Lexan side wind deflectors. Warm from heater is like "keept inside cockpit" , outside arm and shoulder not frozen . And a little easier to talk with passanger. But.. soo tight! lot of joy gone 😕 And dont know why ? - more exhaust fumes smell especialy in passanger side (exhaust is on driver side) , strange.