I can now see that after a period of almost 20 years after I last had a competion licence I have drifted into the wrong sport and the wrong forum. I blame Jim for this but I find myself continually at odds with what you lot are saying. Russ you say you are shocked to see people racing cars with twice the power they had in the day and accuse those who do so as having an excess of money. I put it to you the opposite is the case, those with money hate people like me and Bob and Jamie because we can do things they can't and will do anything to stop us. I am not suprised to find Amco does not enjoy his Mini, I'd be lucky to do a lap in a car like that at my age, solid mounted motor, nasty twitchy steering and all the rest. What he needs is a carriage with a little more decorum. For my self cars have always been the stars , why else why would I race the cars I have, with the exception of the Escort and that was not my decision,I have raced what I thought would be amusing. Or more to the point to prove some theory of tuning. Which is what the Blue car is all about. I have always been a student of air flow and power out put, particually of slow reving engines.Prompted by Phil Irvings statement that achiveing 100bhp /liter was very difficcult under 8000 rpm and that the Manx Norton was at the time the finest air pump known to man kind I decided to see if this was possibile with a Jaguar. The car is only a vehicle to test this and if this upsets the people that have to pay to have this sort of work done then tough titty