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28 minutes ago, aerobod - near CYYC said:

Both the clearance to the nosecone and hose length may be solved by bending the brackets more at the existing fold lines to make the mounting surface parallel to the radiator mount. It looks as though the radiator would be about 15mm further back if that was done, increasing the nosecone clearance due to the taper.

In my case it didn't solve the clearance issue, but given production tolerances, it could for @Jonesy365.  My remaining interference is very slight; I don't notice it when fitting the nosecone, but the wear marks from the grill are clear and sufficiently deep on the right side to indicate it should be addressed.  The wear marks on the left are noticeably shallower but still present.  My guess is the two parts just touch; however, vibration and flexing while driving is enough to tighten that gap and wear away the softer aluminum radiator.  I'll double check all clearances and then either drill new holes like Jonsey or simply oval the existing holes by ~5mm. Either way, I want to do this before I blat on Saturday.

4 hours ago, SM25T said:

I have to say I don't like the angle of the bracket holding the bobbin. See attached

That was the before photo with the brackets as supplied by Caterham.  As I mentioned in that post, I bent the brackets to form a parallel surface to the radiator. 

6 minutes ago, Jonesy365 said:

Does anyone else have a 420R SV with new style radiator/brackets and 620 nose cone have the same?

Yes, me.  I recently discovered wear marks on the top of the radiator caused by contact from the vent screen where it bonds to the underside of the nosecone. I temporarily inserted pieces of excess rubber trim for the rear wings to stop the rubbing; temporarily because I intended a more permanent fix, and because the trim pieces fell out during the subsequent test drive 🙂 My plan is to slightly oval the radiator mount holes to drop the radiator by a few mm, but I'd love to hear what Caterham suggests.  

1 hour ago, Jonesy365 said:

By any chance can you remember where you found the nuts and bolts, I have the rubber mountings and found the metal plates. 

I don't recall those being hard to find. Have you checked the fastener pack for the cooling system?

Here are a couple of photos taken during my build that show the mounts in place.  As seen in the second photo, the factory didn't sufficiently bend the bracket to create a parallel mounting surface for the radiator, so that had to be done to fit.  It's a thick piece that took some persuasion to get right.

6 minutes ago, BigCol said:

Assume you have a standard rollbar…. otherwise, if you’ve a track day one, you won’t be able to get the bolts in as the diagonal will get in the way and *will* have to remove it!

I used slightly shorter bolts which just squeezed in under the diagonal but were still long enough to extend past the chassis tube by ~4 threads.  The bolts supplied with my kit were much longer than needed.

I fabricated a simple removable block off plate for the oil cooler to minimize its effect in road driving.  It seems to help, but it's still quite slow to warm up compared to my Westfield.  That car has a 230hp Duratec with Raceline wet sump, no oil cooler, and a much smaller radiator.  It's never had issues with high oil temps on the road, even in very hot weather, and operating oil temperature is also reached much more quickly. Factor in the Caterham's dry sump with extra oil capacity and the oil cooler, it seems overkill for the road.  The Laminova-style oil cooler, as mentioned in many threads on this subject, seems the best solution for road use.  

Really nice work!  Someone needs to sell that throttle cable adapter.  I tried to radius the edges of the factory opening to reduce the likelihood of snapping a cable, but this is a far better solution.

I had to place the throttle cable in a large figure 8 to run the linkage in the back but it's worked well thus far.  The lack of space in that area was certainly challenging, and it's even more so with your closer-to-stock setup.  Looking forward to seeing your final solution. 

I had trouble with the upper hose as well.  My set up is a little different than yours as I'm not using the submarine mount for the water temp sensor, the throttle linkage is on #3&4, and I'm using a different belt tensioner setup, but it might give you some alternate ideas.  The key for me was using a convoluted hose and printing a bracket to hold it in position.  Pictures and a few details are in this post:  https://usa7s.net/ips/topic/13992-520r-sv-build-has-commenced/?do=findComment&comment=134367

A similar question was asked and answered here on USA7s about the tachometer.  Based on the photos, it looks like the connector is the same.  Provided someone can confirm they are, you'll have your answer.

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On 06/12/2023 at 06:00, Jonathan Kay said:

I hadn't suspected Macs rather than iPhones/iPads and will follow that up

 

I did a little more digging and this is an iPhone setting that will transfer a photo in a compatible format when emailing or texting, which is another way of saying it will convert HEIC files to JPEGs given the former is not universally supported.  To enable this, go to Settings, then Photos, then at the bottom of the screen, set "Transfer to Mac or PC" to Automatic.  

2 minutes ago, Jonathan Kay said:

I hadn't suspected Macs rather than iPhones/iPads and will follow that up

 

Interested to hear what you find.  My sample size is small, so my experience is certainly not definitive.  

5 minutes ago, Jonathan Kay said:

Perhaps you could explain how to do that from a modern iOS device.

 

I'm not a Mac user, but a simple online search revealed the following.  Might try that and report back to the group.  In my testing, the HEIC issue is not present when using an iPhone.  Just as they automatically change an HEIC file to a JPEG when emailing the image, they also upload them to the forum as a JPEG with no other changes. I'm not sure if I've simply been lucky or if that is consistent across Apple's mobile devices. I will say that in every instance where I've seen an HEIC file uploaded, logs show the device used was a Mac, not an iPhone.

You can convert HEIC images to JPEG format on a Mac using the built-in Preview app. Here are the steps:

1. Open the HEIC image in Preview.
2. From the top menu, select File and then Export.
3. In the Export dialog box, select JPEG from the Format dropdown menu.
4. Choose a location to save the new file and click Save.

And since we know it's the title, if you further filter to search titles only, it is the only result returned.

No, I simply pasted the phrase with no quotes into the search bar, set it to Everywhere, then once I had the initial results, clicked on the phrase filter beneath.  I just tried it again and had slightly updated results:

When searching for "Banner Battery model is 053 034", then clicking on "The phrase "Banner Battery model is 053 034"" located under the search box, since I know I'm searching for a specific phrase, I get the following.  Three results with the most recent on top.  Pretty good.  The key is to use those additional filters based on your search terms.  Are your search terms a specific phrase with the terms in that specific order?  Do the results need to include all the terms in any order?  Or are you just looking for as many of those words as possible?  Invision also provides other search filters when you click on "+ More search options" that further help you clarify what you are looking for.  

12 minutes ago, anthonym said:

That dropbox link fix does not result in my image inline, when I can correctly guess how to apply it as the "?" is not present in my links 

dropbox links to a page where the image is displayed, not the actual image. Invision needs the image link.  As a workaround, I clicked on your first link, then right clicked on the image and selected open image in new tab.  I then copied the URL of the actual image from the new tab, then pasted in in the editing box and also tried it via the Other Media option.  Worked fine both times.

5 minutes ago, Purplemeanie said:

Are there any http sites anymore? It's certainly something I would be very suspicious of 🙂 

Yes, mine 😮  I've been too lazy to deal with it, and yes, you should be suspicious of me.

BTW image URL insertion via the Other Media option works fine for me.  

6 minutes ago, admin_JM said:

  what's not working about adding images from URL. Here's an image I inserted from my website...

 

This may not be the issue, but I'll mention it since others may run into it.  Invision requires links from secure sites.  If you attempt to use a link with http rather than https, it will fail without giving a specific error.

Windows 11 Dell Laptop and Dell monitor.  I tried both Edge and Firefox. I also tried an iPad and had the same results. Screenshot from the laptop below. The top item has been read and the second item has not.  I can empathize with the to-do list.  I moved a forum to Invision a few years ago.  

On my device, they are effectively identical.  But I'm sure there are a lot of other things on your plate that are a much higher priority, and this would get bundled in with any other theme changes you want to make based on user feedback over the next few weeks.  

The unread dot before a thread title in Activity Streams is showing correctly, however, read content continues to show in bold text there and within the Forum view.  Default behavior for Invision is to unbold read content, making it easier to spot unread posts, so I'm not sure if this is a bug or an intentional choice.

25 minutes ago, Alan Reeves said:

 When one hits a topic it opens the posting  below the last post on the topic so one has to scroll back  to find the start

of the posting to find out what the full question is ? The old version was the opposite so you read the heading and the topic message and thne scrolled down through responses

 

Is there a setting to adjust this 

Click on your username in the upper right-hand corner, then Account Settings, then Content View Behavior on left side of Settings page, then select Take me to the beginning.