D Jones

O (oh) best find one of those now and the one you mentioned previously for the oil pick up in the bottom of the bell tank

Tomb, Mine arrived yesterday, thank you for letting us all know! Strange, the joy that can be derived from finding a specific piece and the weird look my wife gave me when I went straight out to the garage to fit it onto the dry sump and collection of parts on the bench in the garage last night. I did then start wondering why postage was free from the caterham eBay shop but £7 from the caterham parts store, but my happiness quickly returned as i fitted the screw cap.

TomB, Thank you for highlighting this, now purchased

The UK fuel distribution network is worthy of a separate post, but it is very simple. Taking Buncefield (yes the one that went bang) as an example, it is connected to a pipe approx 600 dia that flows from the refineries to Heathrow and other distribution points around the country. Each distribution point is known as a tank farm as this is where fuel is stored and separated, petrol tankers arrive from Tesco, asda, esso, shell etc. and fill up, they add their special product at the time they fill the tanker (this includes the red dye that is added to agricultural diesel) Fuel, be it diesel, aviation or petrol is pumped through the single pipe and stored in one of the big silver tanks you may have noticed, when the fuel becomes a mixture of petrol and diesel, the mixed fuel goes into a different tank and left to separate and the heavier fuel pumped to its respective tank, followed by the lighter fuel, ready for the next mixed fuel that comes down the pipe. So they may pump aviation fuel down the line on Monday and Tuesday with the majority going to Heathrow then on Wednesday morning a mix of aviation and diesel fuel comes through the pipe but by lunchtime it's pure diesel, friday morning its diesel and petrol mixed then petrol in the afternoon. Hope that helps to explain the process (I worked at Buncefield before the explosion) and no, it wasn't my fault ! The company that owned the pipelines was called BPA British pipeline association and the routing is covered by the official secrets act for obvious reasons, though I believe it's route is not very secret.

I think you will be able to fit at least one of the primaries through the existing hole. I think you will then find that the exhaust doesn't look right, the 90 degree bend after it comes through the bodywork will be too far away from the bodywork and trying to adapt it would be more hassle than selling it on and waiting for an S3 version to turn up. Probably not the word's you wanted to hear, but good luck.

I now have another job to do today!

Well done, I love the dust extract set up and the whole men in shed mentality.

The assistance in helping me understand the plumbing of the DS system is most helpful. Thank you to all for the online and emailed comments David

Wrightpayne, Do you (or anyone else) have a drawing of all the components for the bell housing tank or full dry sump system as i am trying to assemble all the parts for a future dry sumped engine. Where does the lower oil feed fitting go, is it in the bottom of the bell tank? I will have to get one ordered up whilst they are in the Caterham clearance section!

Can you confirm the mirrors are carbon fibre or carbon "look" please Thank you

Emails sent over the weekend, but no replies, if you are no longer interested let me know. David

I have a set of 5 hanging on my wall from the days when I was hoping to build a Prisoner style car, even had a frame made up to mount them onto the wall as a piece of man cave artwork, I can check they fit my SV car (assuming that is the pcd you require) David Jones

Exactly the same methodology as I used, when I changed from a peashootr to a air exhaus.t I used a dremel to cut the straight lines and a flapper wheel in a diy electric drill to blend in the radius corners. Set your primaries on a bench, align the manifold pieces, then cable tie the primaries together and adjust them so they are in their final position with the collector on. Measure the hole you require and then cut that hole in a piece of stiff card, check it goes over your pipes and provides some clearance (your engine moves on its mountings) number the primaries and the same on the card. This is you template! Now stick one of your new primaries through the existing hole and this will allow you to place the template. Keep it tight, then adjust and cut a bit more if required, you will become very knowledgable on how to replace an exhaust, but that is better than how to replace a sideskin. Good luck, great sense of achievement once complete, hope that info helps David

I have a set of carbon wings from them. I wanted to change from my orange caterham wings and couldn't justify Caterham prices for carbon. Nothing wrong with them, but they are not the same shape as the Caterham ones and will get replaced with original items eventually. David

Elie, Thank you and apologies for the spelling mistake caused by the spell checker. At that cost they are worth trying, where as the Caterham/tillet ones are are out of my ability to justify them to my wife!

Ellie, Do you know which model number you have installed in your SV as they look very good and a massive saving on the tillet cost.

Wrightpayne, I would appreciate a copy of the document you mention and will send you an email, i am slowly building the parts required for a dry sump (which already includes the bellhousing tank and swirl tower) if anyone has the top (dip stick?) for a k series swirl tower or advise where i can get one that would be brilliant. David

Forgive my ignorance, but what's a dragy? Is it an app or something that you tow?

I too went to Zircotec in Abingdon, good service and I think about £500 For the full R400 4 to 1 system in matt black approx 2 years ago. No deterioration in the quality or finish despite wet and dry use.

Kingsley, Let me know when you would like to collect by messaging and it's yours. I will send you my full address

I have a single lowered floor panel (right/drivers side) for a SV caterham available, complete with rivets and bracket, I can even advise on how to fit them, having just completed my own car (I will explain why I had 3 to the purchaser) £120 which is half the price caterham charge. Would prefer collection from High Wycombe, Buck's David

Obviously a rivet, not a river......... See if I can get the correction in before someone else comes along and makes a comment!!!

I have a 2004 sv imperial chassis (I believe, but could someone confirm when they metric please) which has a river into the chassis tubes at this location.

Very good, was the abs plastic from Amazon as well? Isnt it amazing the jobs we can find during lockdown

Because I'm relaxing and have considered buying some myself, I've just checked both websites Caterham price £190 a pair plus transport = £201 (in stock) Classic Carbon £150 plus £10 for clear coat = £160 a pair plus transport (unknown but assume £10 = £170 (though currently unavailable) So Classic Carbon are cheaper by £30 but they don't have any.............