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  1. Mike Bees
    "Your assumptions are based upon using shims from DVA" - do you know that or is it just an assumption 😬 Are the Arrow/PTP/Piper ones not as hard as they could be then? Does it matter (I guess not). Just stirring Mike
  2. Mike Bees
    Steve's right, running throttle bodies with the original ECU is a no-no. Some people do run hotter cams with the original ECU, so that's a possibility for the next step. Ideally you'd do cams & ECU, then next step throttle bodies/head work together or in either order really since both will give gains on their own. Air box isn't essential by any means. Mike
  3. Mike Bees
    I'd look elsewhere for throttle bodies then (and ECU possibly...), £1k is way over the top just for a set of TBs! Mike
  4. Mike Bees
    Adam - I only used the past tense 'cos I haven't seen it around for a couple of years. Mike
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    Any progress on this Bob? Did Caterham or R'n'R give any indication of if/when supplies may arrive? Mike
  6. Mike Bees
    IIRC Clive Kenrick's non-roadgoing hillclimb Caterham was powered by a mechanically-injected alloy-blocked BDG. Mike
  7. Mike Bees
    Raceline have them (ZF) in their on-line price list. Mike Edited by - Mike Bees on 19 Jan 2005 21:18:21
  8. Mike Bees
    Is that just a bit of weight adding jewelry which fits over the top of the existing cam cover? Very Max Power! Mike
  9. Mike Bees
    For hillclimbs keep the springs fairly soft - say 120lbin at the rear (some people run a lot softer) and 250lbin front. Mike
  10. Mike Bees
    A real Wheeler Dealer 😬
  11. Mike Bees
    £75-80 sounds about right to me too. Although I am aware that Goodwood is more like £90-95 these days and we still pay it (for just 1 practice run and 2 timed runs)! Hmm, actually your question wasn't "what do you think is about right" but "what's the most you would pay" - I think it has to be less than £100. A sprint at Cadwell would be fantastic (as long as it's a whole lap of the full circuit!). Mike
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    YHM.
  13. Mike Bees
    And if you're on List 1A tyres it means "Waheyyyyyyywwwwwwwwwhhooooooooooooops!!!" Mike
  14. Mike Bees
    According to a list of numbers I collected from who-knows-where some years back: 0 280 150 813 384 cm3/min @ 380kPa That would imply 299 cc/min is at around 2.35 bar. Mind you it depends what fluid you're quoting - worldwide standard is with N-heptane but sometimes figures are quoted for Exsol-D40 which is different. No idea how they compare to petrol... Mike
  15. Mike Bees
    Mine broke... the tube 'tore' where it meets the bit with the adjuster. Got it welded up by a friend and it's still doing service (well, sitting in the garage anyway...). Mike
  16. Mike Bees
    Yep, had a similar problem to Mick's with mine some years back. Became very difficult to select gears, and the car was really hard to push in neutral unless you declutched. Back to R & R for a complete rebuild. Mike
  17. Mike Bees
    Incidences of K-series head gasket failure in Caterhams is far far lower than in MGFs & Freelanders. Look at all the Caterham race cars running K-series... Mike
  18. Mike Bees
    Somewhat more than 160lbft you'd hope, my 1.7 makes almost that! Good luck Dave, can't wait to hear the results! Mike Edited by - Mike Bees on 17 Dec 2004 13:39:28
  19. Mike Bees
    I vaguely remember some discussion a while back about what it to took to convert a viscous-type LSD Sierra diff to take push-in shafts... but don't remember any details. I wonder if there's a connection? Mike
  20. Mike Bees
    The ones on EBay are 6-spoke (used Paintshop to brighten up the picture so you can more or less see what's in it - why do so many people put pictures on EBay which are so dark you can't see what's in them? Found a trailer on EBay today, pictures taken on a bright sunny day with the trailer in the shadows - impossible to see a thing). Mike
  21. Mike Bees
    Feck, Brum's gone up in the world a bit!
  22. Mike Bees
    Something fishy there - Chris's appears to rev to over 7300rpm which is surely way past the rev limiter for a stock 1.6k? Either he's got a Supersport ECU or the graphs have been overlaid incorrectly. Mike
  23. Mike Bees
    Yeah, like all the carbon fibre "jewelry" 😳 Edited by - Mike Bees on 9 Dec 2004 22:41:06
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  25. Mike Bees
    Take some of the balancing figures with a pinch of salt. Especially the 19.7 gmm at the nose of a K-series crank. The location of the damper pulley is so poor that just unbolting it and bolting it back on can give 40 gmm difference in the unbalance measured. Mike
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