Recent snap of your Westfield

[Captain Colonial]

On 23/09/2025 at 09:31, Kenner said:

 

I randomly drove past that air field instead going main road way around. Also to break trip up and I wanted to be nosey at planes and couldn't believe they had Vulcan airplane there.

It’s fully functional but not airworthy.  They occasionally do full power engine runs and fully powered blasts down the runway, which are fantastic to experience.  They did have a mishap several years ago during powered taxiing when the hydraulic brakes failed and the plane crossed the grass and sank into the turf, with its nose almost pointing into the road.  Took some time and effort to extract it!

[Captain Colonial]

Article on above:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-62930756

[Andrzej]

Okay, I might be bombarding you with my MNR Vortx CBR 1000RR onboards, but here’s one more – finally with proper speed and G‑force data from Racebox mini, and the sound actually works I’m sharing  these because I’m thrilled that the MNR I built in my garage handles the track so well and just works.

 

Still open diff 3.38  - Inside wheel spinning on exits (waiting for Gripper LSD  plate diff 50/80 ramps , 40 Nm preload fitted to 3.62. F+R slick tyres 200/540/13

 

 

[mega ade]

It will be interesting to see the difference when you have fitted lsd the car seems to handle better than I thought it might with open diff you should have loads more traction coming out of the corners less wheelspin but maybe a little more sideways stuff going on which is typical of rearwheel drive with lsd and lots of power and no traction control. 

[Flying Carrot Steve]

15 minutes ago, mega ade said:

a little more sideways stuff going on which is typical of rearwheel drive with lsd and lots of power and no traction control. 

 

I'm obviously not pushing hard enough! I like a bit of sideways action 😃

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

15 hours ago, Andrzej said:

Okay, I might be bombarding you with my MNR Vortx CBR 1000RR onboards, but here’s one more – finally with proper speed and G‑force data from Racebox mini, and the sound actually works I’m sharing  these because I’m thrilled that the MNR I built in my garage handles the track so well and just works.

 

Still open diff 3.38  - Inside wheel spinning on exits (waiting for Gripper LSD  plate diff 50/80 ramps , 40 Nm preload fitted to 3.62. F+R slick tyres 200/540/13

 

 

 

That looks great fun and sounds amazing!

 

@ben1975 has a bike engined MNR and it has an amazing chassis.

 

Such sad news recently about Marc Nordens passing, hopefully the company will carry on in his memory

[J D]

Not everyones cup of tea.

Thought I'd share a number of pics of my 2003 Sierra SDV, bought a couple of years ago, IVA'd this year and registered in Aug. Having had its mot at the end of august, now out and about, and loving it.

[Stuart]

Lovely car. How come it needed an MoT so soon after IVA? 

[J D]

10 minutes ago, Stuart said:

Lovely car. How come it needed an MoT so soon after IVA? 

Hi Stuart, thanks.

Just how I intepreted the rules. Easy enough to get an MoT even if not needed at least it shows on the gov site as MoT'd.

[DIY-Si]

3 hours ago, J D said:

Hi Stuart, thanks.

Just how I intepreted the rules. Easy enough to get an MoT even if not needed at least it shows on the gov site as MoT'd.

 

Whilst its entirely up to you, you're now ties into yearly MOTs. Once registered, a new car doesn't need an MOT until it's three years old.

 

Car looks lovely in green!

[Quinten]

Final clean of the year

 

 

And then safely tucked away in the AutoPyjama cover I was kindly given by @Nemesis

 

 

[StevieG]

Keep seeing this car locally, and even parked next to it today at a car meet, and still haven't managed to see you and say hi yet! Hope you enjoyed it too.

[Flying Carrot Steve]

3 hours ago, StevieG said:

Keep seeing this car locally, and even parked next to it today at a car meet, and still haven't managed to see you and say hi yet! Hope you enjoyed it too.

 

 

Separated at birth those two cars!

[StevieG]

28 minutes ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

 

 

Separated at birth those two cars!

Side view shows a few differences. They weren't actually the same colour either. The other one was more of a cornflour blue in real life and mine was a fair bit darker.

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Today at Darley Moor 😎