Marius

Thanks for rubbing salt in my wounds.... The picture was taken while warming up the engine at Le Mans, first Le Sept track, and about 2 minutes before the engines oil decided to get engaged with the cooling-fluid.... ...argh.... But healthier than ever back on the track after Le Sept, already did 70 laps Spa this year, Hockenheim coming next monday, Le Sept in a few weeks already... woohaaaa.... 😬

I´m using the Mocal 1 litre since 1 year now, good design ! This is mine, fitted to the very outer edge of the bulkhead. here

Try the right pedal.... 😬

I can second that, never reached more than 88°C on track, no matter how hard/long you drive it. Measured with Stack, both oil & water. Drysumped Caterham.

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I´m selling my Vauxhall 16v camcover which is a modified one. The standard oil/air outlets are blocked, the top filling hole has been welded close. So this camcover is only suitable for dry-sumped VXs, where you can add oil via the oil tank. The only air/oil exit on the camcover is a weld-on Dash 10 mounting from where you can rout a hose back to the oil tank. I will supply a 90° dash 10 aeroquip with the camcover. The cover has also been modified to be run on an engine without the cambelt-cover, the front mounting points have been completely removed. The cover is painted in a special black crimple-colour, same as used on the Ferrari-camcovers (just to give you an idea how it looks like...). The plug-cover is a carbon-fibre one, from SBD Motorsport. The whole item is in very good condition, ready to fit incl. seal, 90° dash aeroquip and carbon plug cover. Picture here Asking price 100 pounds (a bargain for the effort put into it) plus 10 pounds shipping to GB. I´m situated in Germany, can ship everyday by DHL. Please mail to info@schneiderwind.de Edited by - Marius on 11 May 2005 10:20:03

Don´t know how to. Just read the FAQ and couldn´t find "instructions"...

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Sorry, didn´t mention that. Yes, they are all 13".

Picture of the wheels here This is a picture of another set I sold some weeks back. The wheels do come WITHOUT tires. Edited by - Marius on 10 May 2005 12:39:03

Due to change in tire-size I´m selling one more set of the original Mike Barnby R500 magnesium wheels. 2 x 6.5" front 2 x 8.5" rear The wheels are in brandnew condition, just driven for approxm. 200 miles. Look like fresh from the Caterham spare desk. The center is black powdercoated to prevent early corrosion of the Magnesium. Probably the lightest wheels on the market for the Caterham. The wheels have never been raced, I had a set of rain-tires on them and just used them once for an excursion on the road. Price: 500 pounds I´m situated in Germany but I´ll be at the Caterham Cosworth Masters at the Nuerburgring on the NEXT (!!!) weekend and could hand the wheels over to Hyperion who would bring them over to GB. So total cost of the wheels would be 510 pounds, 500 for the wheels and 10 for the box of beer for Hyperion... I could also arrange shipping to GB, but that would involve further costs of around 40 pounds. If interested please mail to: info@schneiderwind.de Thanks Marius Offermanns

WOuldn´t it have been much easier to move the wife into the garage and vice versa ?? 😳 😬

Check the alternator plugs. Mine had come loose once and when it hit ground (chassis) it started to misfire, felt like rev-limiter. But that was under cornering. Can´t see why it should touch ground at just 5k revs.

Bad image but great tire, nearly same grip as ACB10 but much cheaper and no tramlining. My experience.

No, just cheaper in the long term. Dismanteling, checking, new pulleys, new cam-belt, new bearings etc. costs me ca. 1k pounds, blowing the engine 10k++.... It´s only April and the engine has already done 75 more or less quick laps at Spa, thats close to 500km.... And it looks shiny and new after each rebuild..... 😬

I´m running the plastic-type pulleys and they work fine as long as they´re not used for much more than one year and average mileage. He replaces them each year with every strip of the engine. Some extra grams saved against the metal ones.... Alex, I´m doing Le Sept again this year as the car is now running perfectly for the first time since many years. Someone has to keep up the flags for the VX-brigade....

Give Nick Dinsmore a call, he supplied me with one of the self-bleeding tanks. This is one of the best parts I fitted for the last 5 years. No more air in the system (this occured also only at high revs on track with my car) and filling the coolingsystem now only takes 5 minutes: fill up the system, put the cap on, start the engine, let it warm up (thermostat opens) once, check coolant level, add a bit if needed, et voila, ready. No more radiator bleeding etc. I went mad during the last years with the bloody air in the system.

Did you already fit the engine or do you still have time to fit a steel-flywheel ? The original JPE is a turned down cast one, surely you remember the pictures of Joachims exploded flywheel, which was also an original JPE one. Please check that, I´d love to have a beer with you & Rebecca again sometime in the future... Good luck with further fitting.

BLING = McDonalds-Show-Faktor One of the cheapest possible ways to save 2.5 kg on a Caterham. I´ll get one for next season...

Fitted my thermostat yesterday, starts opening at 72°c, together with Nicks self bleeding expansion tank a lovely and troublefree solution. I vote for air in the system, too. Had a lot of trouble with that over many years.

Good to hear

BMW F2 engine, 10k rpm, healthy 300BHP+..... picture here

The JPE had a straight cut 5 speeder.

The Caterham six speeder has 6th gear 1:1. In a five speeder this is normally the case in 4th gear. So you´re reducing top-speed if you keep the standard diff (engine will probably hit limiter in 6th).

Has anyone already experience with one of these ? The overall weight is about half of the standard steel one. Nice gimmick to take 2 more kilos off the car and reduce drivetrain inertia.