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Blimey Marius, 740GBP !! It's easier for me not to eat so much apple pie. 😬 😬

Honda wouldn't sell Caterham (or JW) engines, the whole bike had to be bought. There were a few reasons that JW has stopped doing Fireblades, one was the difficulty in sourcing high quality parts in suitable numbers (the economics of having to have batches of parts made and storing the excess parts isn't good). Additionally, JW was finding that every time he took a car to be SVA'd, the examiners would find something else to pick up on, even though that particular set up had been passed as ok previously. It was just too much of a pain in the arse. As I understand it, there was no "Nod from Caterham", the whole project had Caterham Cars' blessing; although it is rumoured that James had to pay quite a premium to them for a Fireblade chassis. [edit: spelling] Edited by - Dipstick on 7 Apr 2005 07:35:39

I have a 22% rack, nowadays I use the car exclusively on the road. Yes it's a little heavier than normal, but I wouldn't go back to more turns; with the 22% rack you just think the car through bends. Anyway, 3 point turns are easy with a LSD 😬

which one's that then Peardrop?

Taken from Dennis Ortenburger's fine book "The Legend of The Lotus Seven"

That will be Simon Piercy and his fantastic BDR HPC.

a) I was lead to believe that the electric reverse was just as heavy as the reverse box, does anyone have any figures? b) As long as you remember that the chain in the early boxes was a service item you should be ok c) in what way "inefficient"? I don't think it's an SVA requirement, but I'm sure that someone will be along to correct me if I'm wrong. The electric reversers that I've seen have been starter motors that engage with a large spinning disc grafted onto the propshaft, certainly don't look as neat as the reverse gearboxes that I've seen. My 2p

you need to contact John Watson the Lotus Seven registrar: historian at lotus7register.co.uk

$299 what does that make my signed copy worth 🤔

Why do you think this?

You don't need a fast machine to be able to host GPL races, but it does need to be stable.

1) yes 2) yes, because they may have something I want 3) What "security issues"? 4) What rules? the guidelines above don't say that first time posters can't post in the for sale forum.

OK then Peter T let's open the debate: I have no problem with single posts, why do you? And what security issues are you worried about?

What a lot a self righteous pricks! What sort of "security and checks" do you want? This isn't a closed forum yet, what on earth do you mean by "security and checks" it's a for sale item, not a request for your credit card details and the keys to your house Obviously this particular plate doesn't interest you, if it had I'm sure that you'd complain because you weren't allowed to see it.

If John decides not to take them, I will. Barry

Anders, have a look at the bottom of this page: http://www.lotus7register.co.uk/regipage.htm

Chocolate Television, yes, that's pretty much exactly what I'm saying, but I may be talking b*ll*x as I have no experience of bike engines except simply looking at them. Most bike engines are used because they are light, cheap and have a gearbox built in to the engine casing. It's possible that the gearing may be changeable, but given that many of the BEC builders are looking for 3.14 diffs, I would guess that it's not as easy to do as it is with, say, a Ford gearbox. As for the V-twins, the ones I've seen generally have the forward cylinder inclined, but the rearmost is almost vertical, given that there isn't a great deal of clearance between the top of the Blackbird/Fireblade engines and the bonnet, I would think that a V-twin would struggle in this area. Furthermore, using an inline 4 allows all the carbs/throttle bodies to be in the same plane and to use a common airbox, I would think that the plumbing for a V-twin might be more problematic.

Choco, the bike gearbox gears the output so low that you need a 3.14 diff else you run out of revs.

Longitudinal v-twins will be too tall.

If you do want to use Dell, then go through the Small Business part of the site work out the spec that you want, and then ring them up. I've always spoken to Dell sales just outside Dublin, I've had good service from them, and you can negotiate the price downwards from the price you see on their web site. If you want to speak to someone whose first language is English after the machine has been delivered, you need to make sure that you purchase 'Gold' support.