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K Series Airboxes (Autoteknix/Scouse) news


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Hi all,

Bernard Scouse told me this morning he's sold the moulds and design rights to Eliseparts a couple of months ago and they will be in production with the full range of airboxes in the next week or two.

They are making the Caterham boxes, R400/500 and Jenvey body flavour.

Bernard's working closely with them and the first parts out of the moulds are of excellent quality.

Their email is sales@Eliseparts.com, contact there is Geary, the owner.

Cheers,

Roger

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Today Geary from Eliseparts came over and we did a trial fit of the new Caterham K series airbox kit to a Carterham I have here.

There were a few adjustments to be made , some dimensions to alter and some small parts to design and manufacture so it will be a few weeks before all the modifications that are Caterham specific are incorporated and a working prototype is available. The kits looks pretty good and some of the parts have been redesigned and are beautifully crafted.

I will keep you all informed of progress.

Oily

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Duratec airboxes.. It's unlikely as the molds are specifically for K series engine and Geary's main business is with the Lotus Elise, the Caterham airboxes are being made as the majority of the parts are common with the Elise airbox. I don't think that Caterhams and Duratecs are his area of expertise.

Oily

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The final incarnation of the new airbox kit for jenvey TBs will be coming over for evaluation next week with the intention of producing them for sale over the next 3-4 weeks (although as with all things there may be a little slippage). I will report back as soon as the airbox has been examined for fit.

Oily

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Had the final incarnation of the K series airbox kit here today, these should be available from around 4 weeks time.

The kit comprises

Mountings to allow retention of stock injectors, fuel rail and fuel pressure regulator and remove the need for replacement injectors, fuel rail and external fuel pressure regulator.

Cable hanging bracket to allow retention of stock cable and remove need for expensive linkage

Easy fitting backplate.

4 x 42mm or 45mm 90mm trumpets, aluminium spun with machined bases

GRP airbox made (which is nicely made)

Suitable airfilter.

The kit contains everything you need to fit Jenvey throttle bodies to your engine while allowing you to re purpose the entire existing injection system avoiding the not inconsiderable expense involved in replacing the injection system componentry. It is custom designed to suit the Caterham installation.

Recommended price £550.

Oily

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EP don't usually deal in Caterham installations so I think the preference is for them to be ordered from me as I have installed a large number of Caterham airbox kits in the past and can probably offer better after sales support.

Both kits are going out to customers who wil be in touch to ease the installations. As soon as I have an installation (Covid rules rather scupper that at the moment), then I will make a chronicle of installation to replace the existing one on my website, the existing instructions are around about 90% appropriate, but there are some detailed changes with the trumpets , the fuel rail mountings and the throttle trunnion.

Oily

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Sadly not available. Originally Bernard and I canvassed owners to see of there was interest and had a number of interested parties so some were made, by then most of the prospects had gone with Pipercross airboxes (some of which fell apart I'm told), as there were few takers the molds were not adopted by Eliseparts and the boxes are nor more...

Oily

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