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Just made a dull exhaust shiny

It’s an SEiGHT. A car you buy for the sounds, the smells, the torque, the grunt. An absolute weapon of a car. I’ve never looked back at mine and thought about things such as panel gaps. I’ve only looked back at it and thought - wow - that’s awesome!

Yep, you’d be amazed at both the breadth of their engineering knowledge and manufacturing, not just in the kit car market place and just how wide a variety of vehicles they work on. The in-depth factory tour a few of us did over there a while ago was a real eye opener!

We will be there too! There is a possibility of my Westfield making a re-appearance too...........well, it's a definite maybe!

Back at the Autosolo today, in glorious sunshine 🌞 Happy with my 8th in class and 15th overall, out of 26 cars.

GBS, Ollerton invite you to a meet up in any car on Friday 30th August, 5pm - 8pm. Tea/coffee and cakes are provided, plus fresh pizza is available for purchase. The factory is at GBS, Ollerton, NG22 9ZD Glen and I unfortunately won't be able to attend because I am on afters that evening, but I hope the weather is good and you make me very jealous with lots of lovely photo's of your cars. Please post on here if you are going and then your friends know you will be there, enjoy!

Medium, fine and very fine abrasive wheels. Finish with felt mop and white polishing for stainless, all powered by the trusty angle grinder.

So the next meet is on Sunday 8th September. This is going to be our yearly weigh in where you’ll be able to see how heavy your cars are. Mike @ Kitcar electronics is very kindly going to be hosting this event. I’m hoping we can meet for a run first, before arriving at Mikes at 10:30 ish for bacon buttys. Kit Car Electronics Limited 01621 892445 https://g.co/kgs/f5X931T https://maps.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47d8e3694643eb75:0xb98bffc23567bed6?entry=s&sa=X&ved=1t:8290&ictx=111

They also built and IVA'd the first two MST escorts in their workshop too!

Said hello. All tucked up nicely 😁.

In good company at Brooklands this evening….

We will be there!!

I think @AndrewBClarke and @Chris Emm are also going. Are any members from the East Anglia area going @Martin Bell - (Bellyboy) Joint East Anglia AO? Sorry we can't be with you, have a super duper time, weather is forecast great 🌞 and please put some piccies on here for everyone to enjoy x

Hi all - I owned this car from 1997-2006. Going through a box recently I found a few old photos (can try and upload) and thought to ask if it‘s still out there somewhere. I was a WSCC member in that period too. It is / was a yellow SEiW with an SBD XE Vauxhall engine. I bought it summer 1997 with the earnings from my year out at university, and sold it to a guy who came from East Sussex. It did a huge mileage with me, high days, track days, Nurburgring etc. Many happy memories and I just thought to ask from pure nostalgia what it‘s up to nowadays. Best wishes, Mark A

We are heading to the Superbike Factory at Castle Donington tomorrow morning for a coffee at the Factoryheads Cafe. We will aim to land about 10am, feel free to come along

I’m old and on! 👍

What did you use?

It won’t stay shiny long 🫣 peaky cow muck sticks well!!!

On. One stray pebble. Unlikely but not worth the risk IMO

I'll Haud ma wheesht, in future then.

How did I know you'd be first on the uptake @Craigieboy 😂

On, your not 18 anymore...

Cam sprocket cover ON or OFF? Votes please 😁 Sadly this is about the only angle you can really see the blue Verniers 😖

@Martyn Vann - Warwickshire AOand Sue are coming!!

You have PM.

Still on the road, taxed and MOTed recently.

I knew it looked familiar, my dad had a Singer Gazelle but also a Hillman Minx! Ah, happy days

Make sure that it's not going into the oil. Check inside the oil cap for mayo. D

In my experience, if a block has become porous or has a crack, it leaks after it’s warmed up as the block / crack expands. A core plug will expand as it heats up, getting tighter in the block. While changing a core plug is generally not difficult and a core plug is cheap (plus cost of fresh coolant), it rather depends on which one it is (there’s more than one) and what might be in the way of accessing it to change it. You might well have to remove an exhaust header or ancillary, or need access to a ramp, in order to get at it. Well done on doing comprehensive research before buying.

Jez, that's interesting 👍

No - correct maker but wrong badge. It is a Hillman Minx which was later known as a Hillman Hunter but in that model year only the 1725cc model was dubbed Hunter and the 1500cc one was a Minx which was a model name long used by Rootes Group in the Hillman marque. The code name when it was being set up for production was Arrow and it was Rootes' attempt at competing with the Ford Cortina.

Registered as a 1972 VW Chesil Speedster

Spotted in Biggar, out a run for lunch and a beer 🍺

I didn't realise that they had a workshop and did work on other marques. I'm quite interested in their plenum for my Zetec

Say hi to my car if the workshop is open! I’ve taken it up there for a full check over, mot and fitting a new oil catch tank and starter motor. Really impressed with the guys at GBS

I've been pretending not to notice this on mine for over a year now.

Went to a local multi make car club this evening, furthest I have driven it so far and came back in the dark, another first !

Bulbs grow in gardens 😉 That's why I suggested lamps units!

They already have LED bulbs mrK. What you referring to is the side light bulb 😛

100% I’ll be going. As long as the weather holds out.

That was an eventful days racing........ First race run didn’t go to plan with an ‘off’ that caused some (understatement…) mechanical issues that weren’t fully apparent until we’d pushed back up to the top: Broken spoke Broken rear mech Bent chain Deflated tyre Still, she’d managed to complete the run to get a time on the board. So with not much time to get the bike fixed before the second race run the team (me a mate & his wife!) jumped into action! With Darren sorting a tube out for the deflated tyre (spoke through the rim tape….), Alison gave me a lift home to fetch a spare rear mech, cable and other bits if needed – I didn’t have a spare chain though… So with tyre fixed, rear mech fitted and chain straightened as best we could, she made it just in time for category start – great effort, thank you so much guys!! Second run went a lot better but still taken as a ‘safe’ run due to the slightly dodgy chain and ‘roughly’ set up gears. Still finished with a 2nd place, but a fair way back due to the cautious run. So this week I will be mostly buying new parts, some spares and fixing a bike.......

Nice. Like the hexagonal pattern.

Standard fuel gauge readings: Full = full Full with a twitching needle = 3/4 full 3/4 full = just over 1/2 full 1/2 full = 1/3 full 1/3 full with twitching needle = 1/4 full 1/4 full = look for fuel 1/4 full with a twitching needle = look for fuel NOW Under 1/4 full = what are you playing at?!? Avoid roundabouts and right turns to prevent fuel starvation 1/8 full = you’re out of fuel and have time to post in the “Sharing what you’ve just done. Not questions. No comments required.” thread

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