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Thank you, I’m looking forward to it, I also own a 911 turbo stage 2 but in a strange way find it a bit boring as you can get away with murder in it, I really wanted a drivers car to remind me of my kart racing days!

Firstly what a fantastic forum this is, I’m glad to be a part of it now! Seems very friendly and a wealth on knowledge that’s formidable! im picking up my sport 250 from toy box on Saturday, it was a car built by Steve on this forum. I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited about a new purchase! im sure there will be many questions coming up in the near future thanks in advance stuart

Hoping the weather will be reasonable so we can turn up with a fully bolted on nose cone this time!!!

I'm going to have to stop posting these pictures.

It’s only a fair comparison Julie if you come with the roof up and the doors off like methink it’s only a few bolts and you’ll have them off

Thank you for all your replies. Although I am bearer of bad news I also have a remedy. The bad news is that there will be no action on the track, so it is a bit strange that the tea wagon is still there and the breakfast meet is still on, hopefully it won't put too many people off and there may still be some static cars to look at from visitors like us. The other bad news is that the current forecast is for showers so that may mean that we will be coming in the MX5 rather than the Westfield BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS that we can still have a little run up to our favorite cafe in Wetton afterwards, which of course means that cake is on! It will be interesting to compare a Mazda engine in both kinds of cars if Richard does come in his new Westfield and we do come in the MX5 though. I have changed the meeting time to 10.30am, otherwise we are likely to miss each other and it fits in with us Stephen. So it's meet up at Curborough as normal and have a chat and a brew/bacon butty, then for those that want to we can have a strange tin/rag top convoy up to Wetton. See you all there on Saturday

My Mk 1 engine mounts on my zetec install are not ideal as I built them to reach the welded on chassis mounts which are a long way forward.. (originally for cvh plus this engine is fitted several inches further back. I would have enough space to fit the Ford oil cooler if it was not for the engine mounts... new ones knocked up yesterday lunch time, and powder coated in Spax Racing Yellow today.. hopefully i’ll Get time to fit them tomorrow evening.

Westfield XI for Sale It is with some reluctance and sadness that I have come to the conclusion that I need to offer this well known car for sale. The car has been on show at the last 2 Westfield speed weekends at Blyton Park, and was on display in the WSCC marque at the 2018 National Kitcar Show at Stoneleigh. This is probably just about the best spec.'d Westfield XI in the Country, and just about every part of the car was either new or professionally reconditioned at the time of its construction. It was first registered in July of 2017, and has covered just 1104 miles since being registered. This is a rare opportunity to purchase an XI which is built to a standard which should enable reliable fun motoring, and is fast enough and with road holding capable of performing well on trackdays. The body is the standard Westfield body kit, with Le Mans driver's head fairing, in Westfield racing green, with crimson carpets, dash, seats and driver's head rest. The bodywork has been professionally machine polished. The dashboard is populated by a matched set of MG Midget instruments, all professionally reconditioned, comprising fuel gauge, combined oil pressure/water temperature gauge, rev. counter, and speedometer fitted (and calibrated) with an MGB dial so that it reads to 120mph, rather than the 100mph of a standard Midget speedo. The car has a factory optional tonneau cover fitted. Suspension incorporates the optional factory anti-rollbar kit, along with softer springs and Protech alloy bodied dampers which have been extended by approx. 20mm. to give better suspension compliance compared to the standard factory setup. Braking is by discs all round, using the optional Hi-Spec brake upgrade, with 4-pot calipers at the front. The engine started life as a 1275cc. Midget A series engine, but was totally rebuilt and upgraded by Peter May of Peter May Engineering so that it has an estimated power output at the flywheel of 110 bhp. from 1330cc., and revs happily to 7,000rpm, although the engine internals are safe to at least 7,500rpm, however the camshaft spec. is such that there is no advantage in performance by exceeding 7.000. Full details of the engine build spec with supporting documentation will be supplied to any serious enquirers, suffice to say that with all ancillaries (new alternator, starter motor, Ford 7.5” rally clutch, Aldon electronic distributor mapped to match the camshaft fitted, new 45 DCOE Weber carburettor and manifold, special shallow sump) the engine build cost was £6,435. The exhaust manifold is the factory supplied fabricated 3 branch manifold, but ceramic coated inside and out. Stainless silencer is a one-off, supplied and fitted by Custom Chrome. The gearbox is a Ford type 9 'box, giving 5 forward gears, fully rebuilt by Steve Perks of SPC, with uprated bottom gear to make it more usable, So this is an SPC Tracsport 'box. The back axle is an Midget axle, fitted with Peter May competition half shafts. The differential was rebuilt by Peter May and the crown wheel and pinion is the higher of the available Midget ratios. These cars are notoriously difficult to value as there are so few changing hands at any one time, so I'm open to offers, but my starting point is £22,000 which represents only about 80% of the cost of building the car to this spec., and standard, and with no allowance for my labour. The purchaser will receive a complete file of invoices for components used in the build, the original factory build manual in clean condition supplemented by a printed and bound copy of my WSCC boardroom build thread, along with a Haynes Sprite/Midget workshop manual and a Moss Europe Sprite/Midget catalogue.

From the days when you could actually see the driver at work https://www.goodwood.com/grrc/race/historic/2019/3/your-chance-to-own-jacky-ickxs-bt26a-f1-car/

A few clicks of a mouse is a lot easier than building a kit car

All cleaned and ready for the off in the morning

Hi Kevin, I'll give the quick short answer first and that is to say that yes, all kitchens to new build houses require extract ventilation to the outside, although I will correct Geoffrey slightly in to say that it doesn't necessarily have to be by mechanical means. Part F (Ventilation) of the Building Regulations and more specifically Approved Document F 2013 splits ventilation of new dwellings into 4 systems which i shall try to briefly summarise. System 1 - Background ventilators and intermittent extract fans System 2 - Passive Stack Ventilation System 3 - Continuous Mechanical Extract System 4 - Continuous Mechanical Supply and Extract With Heat Recovery System 1 is probably the most familiar to a lot of people as it is bar far the most common fitted to buildings whereby background ventilation for the management of fresh air and control of condensation is typically provided by trickle vents, whilst purge ventilation for the removal of odours and water vapour is achieved through the use of extract fans to all wet areas (kitchens, bathrooms, toilets, utility etc). With system 1 mechanical extract ventilation to the kitchen would be achieved either by uses of a fan rated at a minimum of 60l/s installed anywhere within the room or alternatively via a cooker extract hood rated at a minimum of 30l/s. System 2 Passive stack ventilation uses the natural pressure difference of air moving over the roof of the house to draw air out from the building through a series of passive ducts. Ducts with an internal diameter of 125mm are installed to all the "wet areas" whilst the infiltration air is supplied via trickle vents. I see this most often in social housing schemes. System 3 as you'd expect is a constantly running extract fan system comprising of a centralised fan unit with ducts to each of the "wet areas" although the kitchen may use its own extract hood rather than the centralised system. Ventilation to the wet areas is normally linked to humidistats so having a high/low extract rating. As with System 2 the infiltration air is provided by trickle vents. In 15 years of doing this job I can't recall ever seeing a system 3 install. System 4 is probably the second most common method of ventilating a dwelling and much more likely seen in more "high end" properties and flats etc where external noise can be a problem and it's less likely to be opening a window. I'd expect to see your kitchens going in more new houses with this ventilation system than those having system 1. With a system 4 a centralised MVHR ventilation system is installed running continuously and constantly changing the air within the building. The centralised system has both supply and extract grills to the outside of the building, drawing the fresh air in and then expelling the stale air back out again. The fresh air is delivered through ducts to the habitable rooms (bedrooms, living rooms), circulated through the house and then extracted from the "wet areas". Like system 3 humidistats are used to provide a high/low system but unlike system 3 the warm air being expelled is passed across a heat exchanger to pre-warm the incoming air. As the MVHR unit provides supply air there is no need to trickle vents with the system and this type of property probably also wouldn't require a cooker extract hood. Hopefully you're still following by this point!!! Which system of ventilation is ultimately installed will depend on a few factors; the clients brief, architect suggestion or a need to achieve a particular energy rating for the building so as to comply with building regulations. As a kitchen supplier is it reasonable to expect you to know which system the builder has been designed for? I would say absolutely not. Of the 4 different systems I outlined NONE specifically require an extract hood to be installed over the hob and only two of them would require a cooker extract hood to be fitted if the building ventilation system itself is not extended into the kitchen. IMO it would be the responsibility of the principle contractor or the project manager to provide their suppliers and subcontractors with sufficient detail about the design and construction of the building as part of their brief or order. It's not for you to second guess the design and make provision, particularly if as can be seen above it may not even be required. Sorry that explanation didn't end up quite as brief as I was hoping for

Same here, an event also! Ours has a small race battery, of unknown vintage, so sometimes dies before it will fully fire up and needs a jump. But starts easy with jump or when warm. The key is to get right procedure to prime the carbs. Easier if there is 2 of you and one person manually chokes the carbs. I’m guessing if I bought a new battery it would start easier every time.

You need to mechanically extract the kitchen to outside.

Starting the Xflow was always something of an event on ours. High compression (11:1), reasonably big static advance, old school starter and Weber’s required a certain technique. IIRC, it used to be harder to start when hot?? did have a small Odyssey AGM battery on it for a while, but the very low capacity (17Ah) did let us down once or twice.

Not a track queen I hope??! The s***ter they look, the quicker they go....

Die cast models of Westfields, with cycle or swept wings. Better yet, interchangeable wings (available separately) so owners can get a close match to their own car. Guaranteed seller.

dictates what sort of track car this is going to be

WANTED! Roll bar to fit a wide body westfield, RAC or MSA version with back stays please. Located in Kent ideally or prepared to post

Thanks all, will be attending Essex wscc meet on Sunday if weather is ok

Yeah, wanted a few bits and said there is roughly a 5 week lead time. He must have loads on

It'd be more expensive than buying one!

...........and finally my own car!