Shaun_E

Pictures here and here. I work in Maidenhead if you want to collect during the day or from Slough in the evenings or I can bring to Curborough this weekend. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

I've got one you could have if you get desperate. It's a bit tatty and the spherical bearing needs replacing (being lazy I bought a new wishbone instead of replacing the bearing). I'll go and take a couple of photos and post them up in a bit. Not sure what it's worth. Edited by - Shaun_E on 20 Aug 2008 21:02:16

Depends whether it is kit built or factory built. A kit built car only needs to pass an emissions test if it is post 1st August 1998 (i.e. passed SVA). For a factory built car it is more complicated and will depend on the engine that is fitted. Assuming the engine is from the same year as the car then any post 1st August 1992 car will need to pass an emissions test which requires lambda to be between 0.97 and 1.03 - effectively requiring a CAT. Extract from the tester's manual is here. There are exceptions for some cars - see this flowchart here but I have no idea if any Caterham is on the exceptions list. If it is, then it MAY only need a CAT if it is post 1st August 1995. Searching the VOSA website can usually turn up the information but the full MOT manual is not available on there and the flowcharts are not on the motuk website. There are also exceptions for engines that were not designed to meet the lambda test and again a letter from the manufacturer may be required. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Gill and I are planning to be there Friday night. Most likely about the same time as the Calverts so 8:30ish. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Have you got all the gravel out of the car from the last event? 😬 Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Number Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best Position 49 Darren Luke 58.02 56.62 56.62 1 47 Simon Rogers 60.48 59.69 59.70 59.69 2 46 Adrian Williams 62.37 61.24 60.95 60.95 3 43 Mark Durrant 62.22 61.46 61.37 61.37 4 48 Robert Margel 62.07 62.31 62.88 62.07 5 28 David Nelson 63.03 76.42 62.47 62.47 6 739 Martin Sargeant 62.85 63.07 63.41 62.85 7 45 Shaun Elwell 77.96 63.12 63.22 63.12 8 42 Neil Cavanagh 64.61 64.30 63.66 63.66 9 34 Grahame Wardall 65.39 64.00 63.70 63.70 10 732 Michael Calvert 79.03 73.65 64.42 64.42 11 38 Clive McCall 66.90 66.33 64.64 64.64 12 36 Chris Howard-Harris 64.95 65.60 64.97 64.95 13 24 Richard Price 65.81 65.47 65.29 65.29 14 41 Nigel Fox 66.03 66.80 66.21 66.03 15 23 Mike Sankey 66.56 66.20 66.26 66.20 16 25 Roger Cumming 68.31 66.23 66.61 66.23 17 31 Mark Gibson 68.14 66.98 66.27 66.27 18 22 Graham Howard 67.08 66.69 66.41 66.41 19 33 Tony Robinson 67.08 67.05 66.88 66.88 20 19 Malcolm Hickey 67.21 F/R 68.24 67.21 21 27 Paul Collins 68.01 67.56 67.78 67.56 22 21 Robert Spencer 68.44 67.58 68.57 67.58 23 29 Gary Frost 67.70 67.67 67.71 67.67 24 26 Stephen Herring 68.08 69.11 69.01 68.08 25 14 Jonathan Ward 68.33 68.11 71.74 68.11 26 32 Tamara Calvert 68.78 68.18 68.79 68.18 27 50 David Wingfield 74.78 70.30 69.45 69.45 28 18 Steve Unwin 69.63 70.18 73.31 69.63 29 15 David Lynch 70.81 71.05 70.62 70.62 30 731 Suzanne Gibson 73.37 71.22 70.83 70.83 31 17 Andrew Willoughby 71.43 71.40 71.28 71.28 32 39 Julie Sargeant 73.53 72.03 71.95 71.95 33 16 Neil Fraser 73.29 72.93 72.06 72.06 34 745 Gill Elwell 73.95 74.20 72.17 72.17 35 30 Mike Desmond 73.72 72.81 73.35 72.81 36 719 Judith Hickey 74.35 74.83 73.06 73.06 37 20 Greg Price 73.74 73.49 73.67 73.49 38 35 Lynn Gilbert 74.31 73.60 DNF 73.60 39 720 Kristy Price 78.68 79.65 80.76 78.68 40 726 Patricia Herring 80.67 80.12 80.43 80.12 41 40 John Caldicott Non-starter Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing Edited by - Shaun_E on 9 Aug 2008 10:19:31

David - my (226bhp) car uses the cream coloured ones which I believe are standard (at least on the 1.6 SuperSport). They are however running at close to 100% duty cycle at the top end. The green Volvo ones have been recommended to me by Track and Road - they are about £40 each and apparently are a better type of injector than the original items. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Or perhaps this is more to sir's liking - ooh suits you 😬 Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Next thing we'll see you in will be these. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Simon - I am sooo disappointed in your behaviour. Go and drive it through some mud! You and Adrian will be getting top marks in the Concours as well as the sprinting 😔. Thanks for getting rid of the de-dion though - with the price of steel these days it should have been worth a few pence at least 😬 Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

I gave up on RS15s as they just glazed over - deglazing with sandpaper helps but doesn't last long. I do over 5000 road miles a year and compete in the club speed championship. I think if you do a lot of trackdays or races then they are good but IMHO they just aren't suitable for road/sprint. Others will disagree and there are plenty of sprinters using RS15s. I switched to RS14s on the front and RS4-2s on the rear which seems to be working well for me. The RS14s need to be warm (at least one brake application) before they work well - I just left foot brake whilst driving to the start line. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Neil - NGK BCPR7E or BCPR7ES. £10 for 4 from Halfords (maybe even cheaper elsewhere). Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

The retaining channels should be secured - there should be 2 studs where they fit which pass through slots in the channel. 2 nuts then secure the channel in place. At least that is how it works on my 1997 chassis. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Just spotted this on the Caterham online store. I was looking for something like this a while ago but ended up buying the race half width screens. Anyway, I thought it might interest some people. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Video of my effort here. ☹️ Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

As we were packing up to leave, one of the motorbike riders came over to talk to us. He asked whether we were driving back to Slough in our car. When we said yes he said that he really admired people who drive to events just like he used to (he was certainly a good few years older than us ) and that we would be suprised at how much respect others had for us doing that. That really made my day! The rain on the way home was pretty grim but didn't dampen our enjoyment of the day. See you all at Curborough. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Cheers Martin. I'll be at Curborough so can take a peek then. Looked at Rob Margel's wings this weekend which are DITP items and it looks like 215s will just about fit. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Sorry about the sound - my microphone wires are a bit dodgy! I was taking Hall in 2nd, changing up to 3rd through Loggerheads and staying in 3rd for the corner before Triangle (Fletcher's Dellow), dropping to 2nd for Triangle, up to 3rd through Keepers and onto Cedar Straight taking 4th half way up Cedar and then dropping to 2nd for Fallow and through Museum then 3rd and snatching 4th just before the line. I had tried taking Fletcher's Dellow in 2nd but it wasn't worth the 2 extra gear changes. N.B. diff is 3.62 Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

The 200mph Sierra packs about 900bhp - see here. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

3 of my runs on youtube. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Thanks Martin. I have race stays on mine which put the wings pretty close to the tyre. With standard Caterham wings, fitting wheels with 185/60s is a bit of a fiddle. Please could you measure the width of the wings for me - at the widest part. Cheers. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Thanks - might well be a solution for me then. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

Click on the FAQ sticky post at the top and all will be revealed. Not much in the South I'm afraid. You've missed Goodwood. Curborough would be a good one to come to as it is a 7 club event and is fairly easy to get to (maybe 2 1/2 hours from Surrey). Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing

There are 3 cars that get driven to every event: mine and Gill's, Tam and Michael's, and Mark and Suzanne's. There may be others but most are trailered. Yellow SL #32 - member of Drowned Rat Racing