Nigel Blandin

Just playing with the set up on an old hillclimb special. I have two sets of 300lb springs, one 8” and one 9”. how much actual spring compression is there per given length of spring? the dampers have 127mm of available travel, so approx 42mm droop and 84mm compression. I think the 8” will allow more set up variation than the 9” as there is more space to adjust with them, or am I the wrong way round and would the 8” bind up?

I bought a full kit for my BDR car a couple of years ago and I’m never going to use it! It’s a Reverie `Hockenheim/Daytona kit with collector, ducting and the nosecone side scoop. Includes every clip, fixing and hose. Cost £1800… £1000, post at cost or collect from Suffolk.

Everything but the cooler now sold. Thanks all. Mocal oil cooler. £35 All near Sudbury in Suffolk or I can post at cost.

…Check the T’s & C ’s first….

Looking for an old watts linkage kit- not for a Seven, so anything will do. Just for experimenting on a special. cheap as possible please….

Is yours a short, live axle chassis? Caterham seemed pretty fixed on motor position, so adapted things around the gearbox to suit. My BDR has a 35mm spacer to the type 9 box to get things lined up….I wish they had shoved the motor back instead- it is so tight to get in and out, I have to remove the bottom pulley to do this.

Getting a proper Arch chassis refurb will only improve desirability of the car. They built the chassis , they are the people to refurb it.

Out of interest, with all these bits heading to Caterham and questionnaires , I take it that they have sent you all a £50 parts voucher as a thankyou for your input and patience?

Good show!

I have always done mine with the engine out. Water pump is a definite motor out job. You may as well, then you can change the oil return hoses hidden behind the belt.

Could you call it a “Subservient component in the hierarchy of the clutch management structure” ?

Good point .

Yeah, we got a bollocking for using Master and Slave on temporary traffic lights!

Surely the layshaft is more a “ digger digga digga”, the crb would be a “ whrrr whrrr whrr”….