What have we done?

[p k]

16 minutes ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

 

My first kit was a Q plate, paid £4800 for it, sold it years later for £6000! I'm wondering if it's worth getting a warehouse, buying up all the Q plates and sitting on them until they make MOTing kits so hard they'll be worth a mint 😂😂

 

 

Get a bigger warehouse and you can add the dated registrations that have note 2 on their V5CW as well for all the people suspicious of q plates

[Kingster]

3 hours ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

I'm not sure how long you've been around kits @Kingster, probably longer than my 12 years I reckon, but I can clearly remember Q plates being talked of in derogatory ways and attracting lower prices,

About the same time, but to my knowledge the derision was only ever from those that were looking at kits for the first time. Those that knew about them were not in the slightest bit bothered about letters on a plate, unless they wanted to display something that (to them) looked cool. 
 

I actually fought with the DVLA to ensure I got a Q when I registered mine!

[Kingster]

53 minutes ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

In the meantime I quite like this one.....

 

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/18612193

 

I know its listed on here too. Fab looking thing. Great spec but I know very little about those EcoBoost engines. Are they any good in a kit car? 

That’s a mate’s car and it us utterly gorgeous! Goes like a bat out of hell 😁

[Flying Carrot Steve]

1 hour ago, Kingster said:

 
 

I actually fought with the DVLA to ensure I got a Q when I registered mine!

 

 

That's looking like an inspired move more and more these days! 

[Flying Carrot Steve]

1 hour ago, Kingster said:

That’s a mate’s car and it us utterly gorgeous! Goes like a bat out of hell 😁

 

It looks stunning. Great spec list too. If I didn't already have one I'd be extremely tempted by that. 

[Tim (Sideways) Johnson - Club Treasurer]

We went for a drive today to drop off something at my BiL’s, which is about twelve miles away. Ended up doing just over seventy miles in the end 😂

Also I wanted to get a shot of the car in his garden, which basically overlooks all of Shropshire, but I forgot to take a pic, so here’s one of the Spitfire in the same place…

 

The Westfield runs great, but it can be a pig to start when it’s been sitting for a week or so. I almost gave up, but a quick squirt of Easy Start and it fired straight away.

This suggests to me that there’s an issue, but I’m not sure what 🤷‍♀️

Any suggestions from the crowd would be welcomed👍

[dvd8n]

Battery getting a bit long in the tooth?

[Tim (Sideways) Johnson - Club Treasurer]

1 minute ago, dvd8n said:

Battery getting a bit long in the tooth?

Possibly, but it feels more like a lack of spark/fuel at the right time. It's fine when warmed and run for a while. Yesterday was the first time I tried Easy Start (as a last resort) and it fired straight away 🤷‍♀️

[Euan Hoosearmy]

Sub-optimal cold-start map? 

[Tim (Sideways) Johnson - Club Treasurer]

30 minutes ago, Euan Hoosearmy said:

Sub-optimal cold-start map? 

That's another option, as I've no idea what sort of map it has at all. I'm thinking I'll change the plugs and maybe the coil pack and see if that makes any difference. Fuel pump is definitely working and once it's started from cold it runs and starts fine... 

[Euan Hoosearmy]

You wouldn't be the first with cold-start map issues.

 

see https://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/topic/166835-running-great-but-only-after-multiple-attempts/#comment-1660820

[Tim (Sideways) Johnson - Club Treasurer]

29 minutes ago, Euan Hoosearmy said:

You wouldn't be the first with cold-start map issues.

 

see https://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/topic/166835-running-great-but-only-after-multiple-attempts/#comment-1660820

Thanks! That's good info 👍