James D

For sale a used caterham 7 jack and associated tools with vinyl bag - £15 exc. P&P

Thank you for your comments. I am after a bare chassis being powdercoated as well as a rolling chassis with panels removed too as a price comparison. A brief rub down and touch up is probably more appropriate. Kind regards, James

In the future I would like to have the chassis repainted but would prefer not to undertake the prep work myself. I understand there could be views of whether a full bare chassis repaint or rolling with engine in chassis repaint configuration. Would anyone therefore know of an estimate to have drive in drive out chassis repainted including panels coming off and on please? Either rolling or bare chassis, just want something to compare against please. Thank you James

My engine is a k1600 supersport. It did some 70 miles on track. Oil had been changed up to circa 300 miles prior as main use is on the road. I saw the mention online of track use calculator as 1 track miles equals 10 road miles. I would either change oil each track day which appears overkill to a degree or reduce / bring forward the scheduled service to compensate as indicated. This is quite a subjective matter I appreciate.

OK thank you, I have a braided SS line from the head of the engine to the top of the apollo tank with no sign of a valve. I had assumed as the oil level goes up when the engine is off, that the apollo tank returned the oil back into the sump due to forces of gravity, be it rightly or wrongly on my assumptions.

I have not viewed the anti cavitation tank system so please be easy with me, my query relates to the oil change procedure whereby the apollo tank is drained in conjunction with the sump. With this in mind if when the car is not running the apollo tank returns oil back into the sump, why would you then drain an assumed empty apollo tank too? Kind regards, James

Thank you for your responses, I had changed the oil and filter prior to the track day which was yesterday and covered 100 miles. Appreciating that the oil remains clean as a whistle and used circa half a cup of oil, I had such a great experience and was ever so lucky with the weather. It quashed my thoughts over possible upgrading but thought I would put the query out there as to change of oil and filter, I know my oil temperature was reaching circa 95 degrees or so on track, on the road it is usually 70-75 degrees. Kind regards, James

In short is general consensus to change both oil and filter after a track day session, say sub 100 miles worth, or await routine servicing please? Kind regards James

Thank you all, as the dipstick has no minimum level how are the tolerances defined? Typically approximately 1inch lower than the full mark is the minimum in my experience for generic dipstick? May opt for a pgm device or similar otherwise unless there are other suggestions? Kind regards James

Thank you, there is no minimum mark on the dipstick so not sure how that correlates to tolerances. Also believe to take readings when engine is running warm or turn off engine when warm but measure within 20 seconds or so. I trust both methods are going to provide very similar readings. Kind regards James

I have an android and do not know how to upload to another hosting service I am afraid, will research. Should it make a difference my car has a wet sump and Apollo tank.

I have a 96 k series with a solid yellow plastic dipstick with only a single notch denoting the full mark i assume. My previous caterham have been metal with a yellow plastic telltale. Do I have the correct dipstick? I do not know how to load photos from my phone to blatchat that show the dipstick. Kind regards James

A new starter motor was the cure with additional wiring as a Belton braces. Thank you all for your help.

Car is all fixed, it was a voltage drop caused by the starter motor that told the ecu it had 8v so caused the ecu to go into fault despite constantly turning over the engine.

Morning, I too had hoped the new battery would be the resolve as the garage replaced it recently (one month ago) which they told me solved the problem, but alas it has not.