wiltsathome
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Yellow and polished Ali Caterham. Early Caterham with a Twin Cam built by a great friend of mine, Bryan Wills. Mine was parked in Otterton and I walked to Budliegh S. Great afternoon out Wilt
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Thanks for your advise, I did get new one from Caterham, great service from them. Cheers. Tony
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Sorted the problem after much ferreting around with a multimeter and many cups of tea. Tracked it down to an inconsistent earth where the loom earths pick up on the ECU location bolt. Having cleaned it up and put a wire on the short run from here to the battery negative terminal directly it is fine. An inconsistent reading on the multimeter depending on electrical load was the only clue as it certainly wasn't completely dead. Many thanks to Ian, Revilla and Jonathon (and emailed wiring diagram) for their suggestions and help. Cheers Guys. Tony.
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Guys, Many thanks for your suggestions on this little problem. Looks like a have a couple of evenings work to poke around and if that doesn't work, sort a way of getting it to the local auto electrician who is a pretty capable guy with a good reputation Cheers Tony
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Thanks Ian, I have done a bit of wriggling anything that looks like a wire, more needed im sure!
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Thanks Johnathon, Battery is fully charged and spins the engine over no problem It has never blown an ECU fuse in my time with the car and that has seen 10.5k miles in 14 months, all faultless I cant imagine there is any water around the plugs after a couple of hundred miles on Sunday after its wash. But I will check to eliminate that one I didn't try starting it with the fuel pump hard wired, but wanted to hear that the pump worked OK an dwasnt the source of the isse. The test proved that it works, but isn't getting a priming signal I don't have a wiring diagram, but feel the need creeping up on me! Thanks for your thoughts and ideas
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Help and ideas please. I have a 2006 Roadsport with 1.6 K. Last Sunday it cut out and wouldn't restart. An hour later it did restart and I then did 200 miles in the afternoon without a snag. It cut out initially about a mile into a drive just after id washed it. When it eventually restarted I assumed something had dried out! However, I went to use it on Monday morning and it wouldn't start and still wont. Turns over fine but no attempt to fire. I have checked the following: Fuel pump doesn't prime at all when ignition is turned on.Hard wiring the pump proves it to be fine Bypassing the Inertia switch makes no difference Key fob battery changed in case alarm wasn't disarming Obvious wiring plugs disconnected and re connected Fuses checked Any ideas please??????
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Wow, really interesting to see the Elan and MX5 compared on these pages in the same breath. As an Elan Sprint owner since 1983 I cant believe they draw comparison, MGB and MX5 maybe. The Elan was just so far ahead of its time and dynamically will still kick the pants off an MX5 I'm at a loss to understand the comparison other than a few styling que's bigged up by Mazda PR rhubarb when the MX5 first came out. And yes, I have driven MX5's, complete with hat and sunglasses, such a limp wrist car! And after 34 years of Elan driving and competing I can only suggest that reliability issues were down to poor build and maintenance (mostly the latter!), once properly built they are jewels
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im looking for a K series Caterham wet sump please. If you have one for sale please let me know. PM or contact on 07714715029 would be great. Thanks. Tony
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Hi Dave, I noticed your correspondence on a K series wet sump pan, do you still have it please? Happy to receive email or text or call on 07714715029 thanks. Tony
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Spotted a BRG with twin yellow stripes drive thru my village of Ogwell, near Newton Abbot. Turns out the guy bought it near Bristol the day before. A Supersport with aero screens. Great to have another in the village!
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tidy looking BRG Caterham driving thru Warwick this eve. at around 5.30.
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spotted a BRG with yellow nose heading West across the Tamar Brige into Cornwall. I was heading into Devon in my Yellow Roadsport after a great Blatting weekend.
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These were the cars I spotted.
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Four Caterhams at Haynes breakfast club. Loads of cars generally yesterday, biggest turn out of cars I have seen there. Superlight 20, Superlight 300, an SV and an early crossflow car. Plus a Lotus 7 S4. Could have been more but I could only stay for an hour Mine wasn't one of them, I took my Escort Twin Cam for a bit of exercise, Id done 350 miles in the 7 the previous weekend and 110 so far today.
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Pm sent re outdoor cover. Thanks.
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Mid blue , heading west on the A303 with hood up. I was sadly in a rental heading the other way. No fun for me!
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pm should have reached you. If not, please let me know Thanks. Tony
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On the A38 at just gone 2.00 today, a vivid green with two black stripes heading East. I was heading West in yellow Roadsport, enjoying a 180 mile Blat from South Devon to North Cornwall and back, with a decent costal walk in between. Thanks for the wave!
