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Daughter lazer cut this wasp / jasper for me a while back, I was worried the car wasn't conspicuous enough.

New MOT and tax today, so first run out of the year. A joy.

Had a little run out through Wolsingham and Stanhope and on the north Pennines

Thanks to everyone who replied. Very fortunately a member who lives close to me saw this post and ended up selling me his Westfield! I am the proud new owner of @RX05s 1800 zetec. This car is a credit to its previous owner and is immaculate! So thanks again Hoping for many happy miles in this over the next few months 😎

The time has come to part with my Mega S2000 and let somebody else have some fun! Owned this vehicle since 2017 but a hectic life means it has spent the last 20 Months parked up in my garage. Well known vehicle amongst the WSSC peak district area members. Vehicle Spec Engine Honda F20C The Engine was fully stripped and rebuilt to the following Specification with all brand New parts. Oversized Carrillo High compression forged race Pistons 87.5 (compression ratio now 12:5/1) Block was bored from RFB to steel liners to take oversized race pistons. 16 x New Supertec race valves. Crank, checked for journal sizes, polished and balanced. Rods crack tested and balanced. Cylinder head was fitted with 16 new race bronze guides. Skim to clean, 3 angle valve seats cut and pressure tested. New Genuine Honda timing chains. ARP Head stud kit fitted. Multi-layer steel head gasket. ACL Competition race bearings for mains and Big ends. Stock Honda throttle body. K&N High flow Air filter. Mocal Oil catch can Remote Oil pressure sender. Oil Temp sender Baffled Sump Carbon Exhaust De-Cat pipe (Standard CAT as spare for MOT) Odessey PC680 battery (New in 2023) OMEX 610 ECU (Unlocked) and can be tweaked via MAP4000 on your own PC if you have the knowledge. Produces 276 bhp & 178 ft lb torque. All Engine work was carried out by AP Racing Engines Ltd @ approx. 2500 miles on the odo. The engine was run in and dyno tuned on AP Racing engines Ltd Premises. Drivetrain Honda S2000 Gearbox. Lightweight billet steel flywheel Stage 2 paddle clutch. 7” 3.62 ratio Quaife ATB LSD Braking & Suspension Protech adjustable Shocks. Westfield Wide Track Front end. Westfield Big Brake Upgrade. “Playskool” Front & Rear ARB’s (Soft) All suspension components polybushed. Aluminium Uprights Hi-Spec Calipers Front & Rear with Ferodo DS2500 pads. 15” Team Dynamic 1.2 in Gloss Black with Toyo R1R Tyres (Almost New) Spare set of 13” Team Dynamic 1.2 in Gloss Black with Toyo R888’s (Low tread, used on track days) Full suspension & geometry setup at Playskool motorsport after polybush install Exterior Real Carbon front cycle wings (Carbon NV) LED headlamps (New in 2023) Full roll cage by Caged. Heated windscreen Carbon effect rear stone protectors. FW bodywork with V8 Bonnet in two tone Blue/Black. F1 Spa style wingmirrors. Interior Westfield Sport Turbo seats with blue trim. Race Technology Dash2 Pro. Longacre wide view mirror. Carbon effect dash Momo quick release steering wheel. Westfield lowered floor pans. General Info Fresh MOT until May 2025. Car is in excellent overall condition & ready to drive away. This car is a real head turner. All fluids (Engine, Braking, Coolant, Gearbox, diff) replaced approx. 300 miles ago and has only ever been filled with Fuchs Titan Race oil. RPM is set at a conservative 8500rpm but engine is capable of 9500rpm Gearbox is excellent but one of the gearlever springs needs putting back on as the lever does not return to centre on one side and I dont have time to repair it myself. No tyre kickers please, genuine buyers only. Im sure there are things ive missed so please ask if you have any questions. Car is Located in Nottingham. £20,000

Aha - synchronous posts! The icon looks the same on my phone, just in a different place!

Fitted the new pipe and it appears to have fixed the problem. So dropped it at my local MOT station and happily it passed (as expected). Now I can tax it and take it for a spin. So happy days are here again.

Motor factors might not be the best place .. many still seem to be selling that generic hose that fails within a year of e10 use. Bite the bullet and go with cohline or gates ethanol proof if you can ?

Great!- We're still crazy 😁 Sadly the few train dates in and out of Austria mean we won't be in Italy over a weekend- As you can see we leave on the Sat, but you could drive on the Sat morning with us? It's only about 2.5 hours to Innsbruck from our Hotel, so we can go Pass Blatting on Saturday morning too with you. Passo Giau is on our list as well as - passo costalunga, Passo Falzarego, Passo Fedaia, passo Gardena, Passo Monte croce, Passo Sella, Passo Stelvio & Gallerie Passo San Boldo

The 390 actually had 397 hp, apparently. 3.8sec 0-60, so fast, but not crazy. About the same as a 5 seat, 2 tonne electric SUV these days.

Bet that shifts! 😱😱

In good company at Goodwood 100 Breakfast Club this morning. Great turnout and varied selection of cars and bikes.

With retirement and a change in priorities (currently converting a Mercedes Sprinter into a camper) so time has come to sell my beloved Westfield. Built by myself (qualified engineer), first registered on age related plates in 2006 with the ultimate plate F1WSC currently assigned meaning no need to be concerned about emissions come MOT time. I kept the specification pretty much as first built until lockdown happened and in need of a new challenge and project I decided to focus on the Westfield and carry out a major transformation as detailed below which cost almost £7k nett after selling removed parts. Focus was on transforming the handling by fitting Siltech Racing suspension all round after meeting with Dennis and Andy and seeing the brilliant parts they have designed and manufactured, simply the best out there. Specifcation: 2.0 Zetec on 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, Emerald M3DK ECU and custom mapped by Dave Walker at Emerald achieving 165hp Engine is correctly registered with DVLA as NON cat with the obvious benefits this brings Dunnel Racing reduced height baffled sump MT75 box Reconditioned 3.61 LSD Siltech superwide front suspension using aircraft specification T45 steel Siltech billet aluminium front hubs Siltech drilled front discs Siltech branded 4 pot Willwood callipers Black Hawk ceramic front pads Siltech front ARB Siltech micro adjustable rear suspension Protech shocks Rear uprights replaced with new Westfield parts including bearings VW Golf rear callipers, new discs and Brembo pads New driveshafts and CV joints (4) New quick rack with Superpro silicon mounts Full suspension set up including corner weighting by Northampton Motorsport Compomotive CXR 7J ET30 graphite grey Toyo R888R 205/60/13 Factory spec ZK bodywork V8 bonnet with black powder coated grills Carbon NV aero+ cycle wings Carbon NV rear arch protectors Standard width rear arches treated with Wunderseal. With the Siltech superwide front suspension and micro adjustable rear, track difference front to rear is just some 20mm Factory supplied powder coated chassis RAC roll bar Custom made leatherette saddle stiched tunnel cover and matching gear lever and handbrake boots Westfield sports seats on adjustable runners TRS 4 point harnesses OMP Trecento steering wheel Half doors USB LED lights all round including replacement CBS headlights all correctly E marked Self cancelling indicators Glencoe E100 compatible fuel pipe throughout Autocom intercom Fuel tank impact protection bar All receipts from new plus build manuals etc.. etc…… Car has been serviced annually regardless of mileage and kept in an Air Chamber. Road use only. Number plate is extra, however will be offered in the first instance to whoever buys the car. ** MOT till 8th May 2025** REDUCED PRICE £13,500, plate is extra

Firstly, how many of you have owned, then sold your Westfield, to then regret it and then up buying another one further down the line? You see, I'm fickle and an impulse purchaser of many different things in my life and my Westfield was no exception to that. 2 years ago I woke up on a Saturday morning and completely out of the blue and thought to myself. I wouldn't mind owning one of those Westfield's and the following week I bought the one I have now. I few other examples of past purchase history impulse buying. I had a lovely Mercedes, I really liked it and I took it in for it's service. On the way to the service counter I passed another one which looked nice, 2 hours later and I'm now the owner of different but perfectly nice Mercedes. Several years ago a friend of mine had a Jaguar XKR, he took me out in it, he turned the TC off, I strongly advised him not to do it and well. We ended up in a tree, the car was smashed to bits, BUT the car was brillent (before he put it head on into a tree of course)! Two weeks later I bought one myself for a weekend car. Supercharged V8 through a stainless steel system was such an amazing sound. My wife loved that car too, especially when she was heavily pregnant, because to drive, it was such a nice car for her to get in and out of and with loads of room. More recently (Aug 23) I woke up one morning at 04:30am, decided I wanted to buy a Mazda MX5 for the track and by 07:15am I was at a chaps house and now the the new owner of it. And just like all the many impulse purchases in my life, I got bored and sold them. The MX5 went last month, I did a few trackdays and got bored. The Westfield has lasted a while for me and I'm not......'bored' I just get itchy feet. I've driven it loads! That's another side to my personality, I get into something (whatever it is) and I just absolutely go full beans addictive at it. If I got into knitting, I'd make everyone on this forum a jumper within a week! It's a fantastic car, drives lovely, it's an absolute head turner and if I'm honest, I really like the attention and it sounds great too. Plus, I love the social side that it's offered, I've met some fantastic people and I've now got some great friends too. I'm not sure if I want to try something else for a while, but not entirely sure what. But this could be one I regret selling if I did sell it. So, back to my first line. Who's regretted and bought again?

I didn't know it could do that, cool stuff thanks. Yeah I tend to use the PC for all pic and video editing, mainly it's because I understand the tech and also because the screen is bigger, I realise that phones have taken over from the PC a bit, but I can't let it go, lol. I'm not a luddite, I just enjoy "old school" things.

I must admit, I don’t often (ever!) view things on the PC, I do everything on my phone. On the phone you can edit which image is used as the key image, or convert it or copy it just as a still. This little video shows me editing a Live Photo I took of a bird flying into its nest this evening to choose the best image from the sequence, all done on my phone.

Interesting day today heading home from Dartford to Crewkerne. Two McLarens spotted, one identified as an Artura V6 PHEV S-A from the reg, didn’t see what the other was. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_Artura Nearer home, an Ariel Atom which are fairly common near me given the location of the factory.

saturday 06/07 will be fine! of course I will reach you in the morning 😄

The live mode is actually quite handy at times. The phone is clever and picks the best frame from the video as the still. For instance, if taking a picture of someone, it will pick the frame with their eyes open generally, or you can manually choose it. Batteries last longest when you run them down all the way before recharging. Constant recharging from half full reduces the capacity more quickly I believe. It should last pretty well on the new one, and you can also enable low power mode which helps it last longer by turning off certain non essential services. It’s in the battery menu in settings.

Hi Richard - the clips are called "live photos" - to turn them off go to the camera and click on the second icon from the left (the icon is a dot surrounded by a solid ring then a dashed ring). I would take a photo for you but I need my phone for that! Sorry, can't answer your battery question.

Richard, You need to switch 'live' off tap on the circle on the top rhs, tap again and it toggles back to live

A pleasure doing business with you @Warhon3. I hope you have as many enjoyable enjoyable years with it as I did.

Indeed Steve, I purposely built the pond just for frogs, never had much luck with plants in ponds. Although it's a bit disconcerting when on a damp dark night I go out to the garage and have to dance over the many frogs on the paving. Thankfully, never hit one yet...

Have you tried Shiply@Stuart Davis (fatblokestu) AO - Devon & Somerset? https://www.shiply.com/

If it helps I sent a set of wheels and tyres with DPD recently, each were boxed individually and it worked out a just over £10 a wheel.

As someone who hates doing the same job twice, agree with @joolz, my last lot of of unbranded "supposed" Ethanol proof pipe lasted 3 years... Yes the named ones are more expensive but thats's for a reason - they work.

It’s reached the stage where it’s largely impractical to avoid having our personal data spread far and wide and risk being hacked. Even the most supposedly safe and secure places clearly aren’t either of those things. My former employer got hacked a while back, along with a bunch of other big players, due to one of their contractors getting compromised. They gave me a free account on Experien so I could see if anything nasty happened as a consequence, but that was it. I’m still waiting for Experien to get hacked Any additional presence increases the risk, but I’ve pretty much taken the view that the ship has sailed and there is no going back. Doesn’t stop me being as careful as I can be of course, but I don’t let it get in my way.

They do a Cup 430 too! 😳

Nice Exige 390 Sport on the M3 this morning. I don’t know there were versions with this much power.

I'm pleased to advise the car boarded the boat and it's on it's way to sunny Greece! @I H Freelance Services @Toybox Specialist Cars

As requested by @tuonokid58 below are some recent pictures of the car 😎

Car show at The Griffin, Swithland. Great fun; cars, beer and pizza. What’s not to like? Car ran faultlessly too, super happy after all my wintering tinkering.

Forgot to mention it's on Gaz shocks and just noticed I put on an older picture, here is a current one. 🫣

Nice little country road blast in the sunshine.

Sorted. Just need to change the oil filter and fill him up and we are good. It was an almost perfect fit, just had to adjust a couple of the brackets. EDIT Just found the invoice for the original and it was 23 years old, so hadn’t done badly at all!

Very funny and abolutley, relatable. So many purchases i've made have been impulse. Or I've needed to itch the exciting itch of what ever it is before i can move on to normal stuff, only then to not actuall use the item just ordered as by the time its arrived i've lost interest. I'm not very good at selling stuff as i hate the though i might want it at some point so best keep it. I have a room full of bikes and garage full of stuff i'll never use. Its been suggested to me I may have ADHD, i've no idea or care really.

Lovely car @Westygav, there have been times during my ownership ( since 2008) that I had thought about selling it, as money was tight that year etc, but just could not bring myself to do it. As I know full well if it went, that's probably the last time I could afford one, besides which the time and effort I have put in during that time is just a distant memory, not to mention probably never recouping the cash back. Above all else though, I can't see anything else matching the experience of driving a 7. In fact to commit myself into keeping it, I wrote in my will about gifting it to my most trusted friend ( also a car geek), so that's it now - for life.....

Hi, I am looking to sell my Caterham 420S. £41,990 new with £5,340 of extras. Currently on Auto Trader for £36,000. I want upwards of £35,000 for it. Specification includes: £1,000 Ballistic Orange Paint £150, Painted Grille £400, Decals £600 Orcus Alloys £250 4 point race harness £200 Momo quick release wheel £400 Carbon Dash £500 Carbon front wings £900 Carbon rear wings £150 Carbon indicator pods £250 Black pack finiish £90 Clear Lens pack £300 Trackdayroll Bar £150 Sidescreens & Arm Rests In addition to both full weather kit including Heater plus Caterham half hood The car has 7,500 miles done and the last service was a full service (£885) which included full alignment, adjustmentment.

Started the Westie for the first time in about 6 months. All seemed fine for the first minute or two, while I let it warm up whilst sat on the drive. But then it spluttered and stopped as I noticed a big pool of fuel under the front of the car. Off with bonnet, fuel everywhere, including sitting on the top of the engine. So I assume a leak from around the carb. Something to look at in more detail tomorrow. Hopefully just a broken clip or split pipe.

In an incredible act of automotive sleuthing 🕵️‍😉, I tracked down an oil leak which was from one connection to my oil cooler. After an equally fine piece of diagnosis at our meet last night, Malcolm @Wessex pronounced ‘Stu, your oil cooler is f****d!’ 🤣 ‘Nuff said, replacement ordered and hopefully will be fitted this weekend so I’m up and running again.