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#18, Tom, And when are you going into production and sale? I'll just take the side screen, thanks.

We do get a discount on UK Eyeware. https://www.lotus7.club/membership/special-offers-members/uk-eyewear

#10, Oily. Oh, cracking site, Oily. Thanks.

#6, Tom, please tell me more about that perspex side screen. Did you make it yourself?

T'rific video. Well done. Nicely paced. Very reassuring. Very encouraging.

I considered it for some time, then chickened out of the whole thing. I decided to buy a new track day roll bar with a car attached. And I'm only half joking.

Thanks for covering for me while I fall down on my job, Simon.

#8, SM25T, About this rice; it worked very well, but how do I now get it out of the radiator?

Oh, aye! Go down everyone's throats when they're being chummy, and only then do you stick your real name down! There's a Gulf opening up in this relationship, and I know whose fault it is!

Thanks Stewart. PM replied to.

Three things, following on. 1. Interesting to note that the bloke who ran the Get To Know Your 7 course I attended was Simon Lambert, Caterham's Chief Motorsport & Technical Officer, who starred on our recent webinar with Caterham, shortly to be available online, so I couldn't really ask for a better source. 2. If you are testing the pressure and don't have a whizzy bit of kit, I can recommend the RaceX 0014 tyre pressure gauge. Accurate to within 3%, inexpensive (£11.50) and small, so it doesn't take up much space in your boot. My predecessor in this role, Geoff Brown, wrote a piece about it in Lowflying, which is what prompted me to buy one. Here's the link for his article:- http://lowflying.lotus7.club/2016/2016_06_06_Pressure.pdf You can get them at Opie Oils, where you can also use the Club's discount, here:- https://www.lotus7.club/membership/special-offers-members/opie-oils 3. I had my car mapped at Northampton Motorsport after a Caterham did an "engine refresh" for me (which sounded to me more like a full engine rebuild). Troy at Northampton let me in while he did the Rolling Road run, and I noticed he had a nice thermal imager, so took the opportunity to use it to measure the inner, middle and outer rear tyre temperatures whilst it was on the roller. As their RR has a single roller, I assume it better reflects the heating you'd get on the real road. It was really interesting to observe the temperatures change at different points across the thread as the tyre heated up.

Thanks for that, Chris. I shall.

Right. Avon have come back to me. I had contacted Avon anyway about the service they can provide, so shall post about that in a day or so on a separate thread and on Member Benefits. What Avon have told me, however, is that for my CSR (fat and heavy), 22 psi (cold) all round would be the ideal. The reason they state higher pressures on the guide I gave the link to, is that they also provide ZZS for other, heavier sports cars, so the pressures are for them. Gulfie, yes, as stated, 18psi is what CC usually recommend as per the GTKY7 course, along with letting the pressures out if the heat generated on track takes them over 24psi. At the time I had an SV Roadsport, not my heavier CSR. In my notes from the day I've written:- "18 PSI fine for road. Track day when hot should be around 24 PSI"

Can you provide a link for that particular mesh, Stewart? It doesn't look like the sort of flyscreen stuff I've seen. It looks more like the material for proper pouches, fisherman's waistcoats, military webbing, etc.. Thought of going into business?

I tried Alastair about some graphics, towards the end of last year. All was going well in planning it, then he just stopped replying.

Thank you, Stewart, I shall refer this to The Boss, my curtains advisor. She's often talking about there being curtains for me, but I've never been quite sure what she meant. Stephen, she's tried the scarf thingy. Unless its clamped in place by the intercom headset, it only seems to work for Grace Kelly, driving around the hills of Monte Carlo at a sedate pace. Besides which, she only complains that I don't look like Cary Grant!

Interesting one, this. Here's Avon's table on this page with the tyre pressures they recommend. https://www.avontyres.com/en-gb/tyres/zzs You'll see they give different pressures depending on the tyre size. From my Get to Know Your 7 course at Caterham, they usually recommend 18psi (cold) all round.t Caterham fited a set of ZZS to my CSR when I bought it from them. My tyres are 245/40R15 on the rear and 195/50R15 on the front. Caterham said they should be 24psi (CSR's are fat and heavy by 7 standards). You can see from Avon's chart, however, that they recommend 22psi rear and 30psi front! So, I've emailed Avon to ask, got a phone call back from a nice bloke called Adam, who is looking into it and has promised to get back to me. In the meantime, I'm running at 23psi all round, 'cos at 24psi, the ZZR is so tight a fit, it scrapes the leading edge of the CSR front wings.

#6, Stewart, Yours looks like it might be more easily stowed away. Please could you supply more details. Does the screen have any curtain wire in the sides, or only top and bottom? I can't see from the picture how you used curtain hooks for the bottom. Are you able to provide close up piccies?

#7, Stephen, now your being silly! None of those scarves go with my (bloodshot) eyes!

Exactly. Not just a higher profile, but also fatty sidewalls - hence the concise technical description by we tyre technologists as "Ballooney".

Fatter.

When you do change them, just be aware that the ZZS is a bit more "Ballooney" than the CR500. When I first had new ZZS on I got a bit of some toe-rag's sticky snack paper stuck on the. I could hear it scrape on every revolution. You might have to do a little judicious 'persuading' if your present clearance is +/- 'only just'.

Welcome, Cedric. I hope you enjoy your new old 7 soon.

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