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I have the standard Blackbird package with the massive caterham airbox.See here and would welcome anyone to carry out some back to back tests wrt flow. Interestingly when I bought the car the previous owner had swopped the exhaust round to make cylinders 1 & 4 and 2 & 3 link together as he said the exhaust had been wrongly designed I have subsequently changed back to 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 linked as the reason being that bikes operate more effectively at the top of the rev range and this config is better(so several people have told me). As for 170 BHP, I am sure it cannot be far off this at the crank given the way the car goes 😬 I know the car is light but the grunt mine has seems faster than my old R300, although not by much. I think to get these cars to really fly you have to be fairly brutal with them on track and as I normally drive to track days I am always holding back slightly. I think the beauty of having the standard Blackbird engine is the fact that if and when it goes pop it is just a matter of getting hold of another and slotting it in. I have yet to do this but I am sure my time will come ☹️ This is not taking anything away from Julian and Ammo who are pushing the boundaries, but as with all car modifying eventually the day comes when you just want to get in it and drive, do track days etc with the minimum of hassle and getting 170 + BHP per litre is asking a lot of any motor. BTW, how much does a Busa weigh compres to the Blackbird lump? Nick Lava Orange Caterham Blackbird

Will I will check for fuse on mine tonight, not sure where the PGM-F1 fuse is? The main fuse for the starter 30A must be OK as you said it turns over. The PGM-F1 fuse is also 30A. Is this not next to the battery below the pedal box? I take it you are using the ECU and ignition from the new engine? Newer engines had different wiring to the older injection engines. Nick Lava Orange Caterham Blackbird

Will Checked my LT wires to the ignition coils and they are: 1 Yellow, blue trace 2 Blue, yellow trace 3 & 4 Black, white trace. Not sure how much of the Blackbird loom is used when the Caterham one is spliced in but look in the Blackbird Haynes manual for the bike wiring and try and suss it out from there as far as fuses are concerned. Nick Lava Orange Caterham Blackbird

Will I'll check mine in the morning before I go to work and post. Nick Lava Orange Caterham Blackbird

Julian Pretty sure Will's car is an injection, and the same with his new engine which is a 2003 version. Nick

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Keep looking at the pictures of the Reverie carbon airbox and I want one 🥰 for my car. This looks a lovely car for the money. Don't think I can justify have two though 😬 Nick Lava Orange Caterham Blackbird

Rob Had a similar experience last year with my Blackbird, I kept checking the oil and nothing in the tank so I kept adding oil and at Brands in Sept it coughed oil into my airbox by the bucket load. When I did an oil change 6 and 1/2 litres came out plus some I had already drained on the trackday so I had seriously overfilled it I put back 4 and 1/2 litres, and all has been fine since. Just difficult to work out how much oil has been used 🤔 Nick

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Stu Yes got it, replied. Should be OK Nick

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Changed both mine over to new ones as one was bent so have a spare older type, one with the two large holes. 1.5 deg for CR500s/radials. Fits OS or NS. £25 + P&P Nick

Will Did you get the Blackbird engine on Ebay form the Colcester based seller? Nick

Will I can confirm what Martin says, mine came up as visible smoke only last August, even though it has the emission figures on the log book . Best to conveniently forget to take your log book when you go for MOT . Nick

Neil Well done, another one come over to the dark side 😬 Nick

Steve Photos. here here here Hole size is 18mm Hole front edge is 18mm from lip of shell, therefore 27mm to hole centre from lip.

Steve Funny that this should come up today as I was looking for Fiat reeaters on the internet . I cureently have 7" lamps fitted with the Fiat repeaters but now have some new 5 1/4" lamps to replace them and was going to purchase new Fiat repeaters so I could sell the 7" lamps as a complete unit. If you are fitting 7" black headlamps then I could do an exchange if you are interested? If not then don't worry I will be removing my headlamps hopefully over the weekend so can take pictures if you need them. BTW, where did you order the repeaters from? Nick

Mike I had problems last year with my car overheating in traffic, fine when on track, normal road driving. Whenever I checked the coolant level the header tank(standard Blackbird one & rad) was topped up OK but the rad looked dry. I then topped up the rad and ran it only to find the header tank topped up above maximum. I bought a new rad cap as I thought a lack of pressure was not returning the water to the rad when it cooled but this did not seem to work. This past winter I have removed the rad, water flushed the engine, fitted twin Blackbird fans and a lower temperture switch(Suburu one) and a manual overide all through a relay and the temperture is indicating fine on the Stack but the rad is still dry when I open the cap up to look when it is cold . I have done a trackday at Croix and all seems OK and sitting in traffic is fine now, constant 80 degrees on the Stack. I think from my experiences ST Motorsport maybe correct and fitting the header tank higher may help things but as I have the standard BBMS airbox over the rad I would need to mount the header tank on the aft bulkhead to get the height. Seems like a good excuse to get the Reverie carbon airbox to free up some space 😬

Mine has a AP Sutetrac LSD and was built by BBMS. I checked it when I removed a half shaft not long ago. Nick

I have just put Castrol fully synth oil in my Blackbird but have yet to test it (weather ) so fingers crossed it will be OK Castrol now call fully synth Power 1 Racing, and semi synth Power 1 GPS for some reason Nick

I am fitting a manual overide through a relay. I have now got my new Suburu radiator fan switch so if I can get away from the decorating for a day I may be able to refit the radiator and wiring in rest

Brent, thanks for your kind offer. Luckily I have just had a reply from an email I sent to Intermotor who supply these parts to the motor trade and they have given me a part number of a Suburu radiator fan switch which works at 92-87 deg C and has the correct thread size Just ordered one from my local motorfactors. nick