Susan S.

An excellent original example of De-Dion car, Caterham Red full paint with clamshell (flared) wings. Prisoner 15 inch wheels, brand new Bridgestone SO3s, FIA Roll Bar, leather adjustable seats with Luke Harnesses. Heated windscreen and hot air heater, full hood and tonneau cover. £9 000 ono Contact 01582 461 355

I am continuing the saga of tuning the carbs on my Super Sprint. It will not idle smoothly and backfires with quite a bit. I have a Gunsons colourtune and I cannot get it to be yellow on tickover - it just stays at bunsen blue whatever I do. It is sugegsted that theter might be a leak on the inlet manifold, a crankcase ventilation problem or a blocked idle jet. When I take it for a run (really bad performance) and come back it idles at 2000rpm, having been set to about 1000rpm at tickover when warm and standing. Any suggestions as this is becoming frustrating! Cheers Chris

I am in the process of trying to tune/balance twin DCOEs on my SuperSprint. I have a balancing tool and I have set the airflow of each carb to match each other and then set the idle to about 1000 rpm, having set the mixture screws to two turns open. However at this point the backfires are really quite bad and adjusting the mixture screws one at at time as the manual suggests does nothing alter the RPM. Is there any tricks to this or am I just being a Doofus?

I am in the process of trying to tune/balance twin DCOEs on my SuperSprint. I have a balancing tool and I have set the airflow of each carb to match each other and then set the idle to about 1000 rpm, having set the mixture screws to two turns open. However at this point the backfires are really quite bad and adjusting the mixture screws one at at time as the manual suggests does nothing alter the RPM. Is there any tricks to this or am I just being a Doofus?

Hi Do you still have the Xflow alternator - please let me know. Thanks

Merrick Can you reserve that for me then, I will give you a call over the weekend and sort out the details. Cheers

Merrick, let's call it around £60 and the deal is done! Cheers Womble

I will give you £50 for the Xflow alternator if it is in "as new" condition. Please let me know. Cheers!

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Please help, if I dont fix it, I can t get home for Xmas!!!!!

I have a standard SuperSprint (1700 X-flow). The ignition light (i.e the red light) this does not go out when the car has been started, sometimes if you rev it a bit it will go out and then when the revs drop it will come on again - but this does not happen all the time. Also the battery is losing charge. When I come to a stop at traffic lights etc you have to rev the engine to stop the engine from cutting out. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this as I hate electrics! Thanks.