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Hello Peter,

There is no way, that I can see, that this fuse cover fits. However, it seems rather pointless; there is a very good plastic fuse box already in place.

Maybe this is a Roadsport piece of kit.

Simon

Yes, I would be up for a meeting of 160 owners, if I am available.

The bits we forgot will be revealed...

Ah Ok, I'll give that a go.

I put the wings on my car this evening. I also dropped the nose cone in place - for the benefit of the fellow from PPG when he comes to measure up for plastic films.

although it looks nearly ready, I still have a fair way to go.

Thanks Ned, it was my car he was intending to measure up.

i just got a bit behind with shortages and having to earn money.

Are any of you interested in getting a plastic film to protect your rear wings from strone chipping.

Premier Paint guard are considering making a template for the 160. 

Ned,

yes I think your idea would work (except that you would need to ensure that the engine is supported on it engine mounts so that is is level).

i suppose another way is to make a dipstick to insert down the  plug.

i am considering just filling it with the recommended 1.2 L if the level plug gives me problems. My home made 3/8-cut-down-steel-bar-with-spanner tool looks fairly promising through.

simon

Hello Martin, you seem to be storming ahead.

A lot of stuff is a tight fit. My rubber dead bow hammer is been more useful than my expectations.

Peter's nightmare about gearbox oil came true...  

Simon

Hi Ned,

Now the tunnel top is in place, I'll add brake fluid, bleed the brakes and set up the handbrake from below.

I'm getting near the end, but there are still quite a few bits to do. I'm looking forward to turn the engine for the first time.

Simon

Another thing... I managed to wrestle in the knee trim panels this evening (harder than I thought - I found aligning the holes with a small screwdriver and pushing hard worked best).

peter: did you get to the bottom of the metal fuse box case in the end? I doesn't possibly seem to fit.

Has anyone else (I think it might just be me and you so far, Peter) got a unusual clutch set up?

i had forgotten about it for a while, but the cable lacks tension and the pedal is very high. I can't be right, and adjusting it does not help.

any one else find similar?

I have virtually finished the cycle wings now (one completed done; for the other I am waiting for IVA trim).

To get the repeater wire down through the wingstay, I first fed garden wire up from he bottom hole to the top. I then dragged the repeater wire back down the hole and out of the bottom (I had to bend the clip to do this).

Bolting the cycle wings is certainly a faff; and I can apprciate why many choose to bond them. However, I seem to have got through it with out any 'damage' 

Thanks Peter, I'll send you a private message with my email.

I have been working on the front cycle wings today and have virtually finished them. I have to say that they are quite a faff.

your back end looks tidy, if you don't mind me saying.

i hope to get a similar date for the IVA.

Would anyone be able to email me a copy of the part completed IVA form from Caterham. I rang the Crawley office today but they didn't seem to recognise the form I was talking about.

Any other pearls of wisdom about the sorting the IVA would be gratefully received.

I think that I might go for an IVA at Bristol. (It looks like Taunton no longer does IVAs.)

Does anyone have any clever (cost saving) plans about getting their car to the post build check?

Ah my bad, maybe I meant £145 for a year's tax. Anyway, I'd rather pay £30 if Caterham can register the the emissions, or whatever they need to do.

I don't think that I have the IVA form that you have been given... I'll ask Derek. 

When I test drove the car in feb 2014 the salesman told me that he tax was £30. However, all the evidence from tax discs etc point to it being £130.

I think that the Co2 emissions put it in the £30 bracket. I wonder what happened?

Congratulations Martin. I'm looking forward to hearing about your progress. 

I expect you might have the same things missing that we did (like the IVA bag etc). Unless caterham have corrected the bugs in the picking list. However, as Peter said, the bits come through the post as soon as you point out the fault.

Regarding posting pictures, here is Ned's advice from near the beginning of this blog...

For pics, hit the pic button on the toolbar above the message (13th one along), then hit 'Browse Server'. Once you're here, you can upload pics from your hard drive to your space on the Blatchat server. And then select the photo you want, and it should appear in your draft message. The format/size/shape can look a bit weird, but if you hit 'Preview' below, it should sort itself out and you can then Post. - See more at: http://www.lotus7.club/blogs/caterham-160-build-blog#sthash.AiGErwyY.dpuf

Peter, thanks for your advice. I better get on an sort my IVA then. I'm going to go for Taunton I think. I'll trailer the car up to Dartford for it's post build check beforehand.

Martin... Did it arrive today?

Another thing... Have you thought about how you will get your post build check and IVA sorted?

Great, thanks for this. It'll be a few days before I work on the car again but I look forward to getting the oils in. Have you started it up yet?

Another thing, did you have any problem taking the car off it's axle stands? I was just planning to put the Jack under the tow hook and lower it gently.

One other thing, that has been past onto me, is to consider plastic bolts for the rear mud guards. I'm told that if you nudge the mudguards when driving, the bolts give and there is less damage to the skin.

I think I will probably do this...

NB See my comment below the photos of the cycle wing hole positions. 8cm separation seems too wide.

Please note. When I fitted my cycle wings, I drilled the front holes 3” from the front. However, a width of 8cm seem to wide for the wingstays (they miss??). I made mine 6cm...

Thanks Peter. I might wait and see what the brakes cables look like once they are properly adjusted before doing anything.

My solution to the gearbox level plug access is to buy a square steel rod from ebay (I think it is 3/8") I'm going to hacksaw it down and the use a ring spanner on one end. That is the theory anyway; it has not been put to practice yet. I think my oils will come next week.

hey, I don't think you can fill the gearbox before lowering the engine in. Won't all the oil spill out? You (Ned and others..) could fill the diff before fitting the panhard rod though, I expect.

I have asked for more IVA trim too.

The other thing I did today was order a half hood and shower cap from soft bits for sevens. (With a L7 discount).

Peter: have you fitted the hand brake yet? If so how did you secure the cables? At the moment mine seem to just flop over the diff. I don't think that is right...

This is evening I have made a start with bolting on the cycle wings. After lots of double checking I drilled through the fibreglass and the wing stays. Seems ok so far. I'll blog about it shortly.

Looking good! I haven't made much progress recently. I hope to get on in the next couple of weeks through.

By the way if you are thinking of sill protectors. The ones I got from carbon mods seem pretty good and reasonably priced.