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Ok Dave I'll have them at £100 if thats ok with you? It's kind of what I thought used cams are worth. Unless you are letting them run on the eBay?

I think the vhpd cams are probably a bit too much for a small valve ported head as I have currently, will have multi throttles eventually but not as yet.

I'll have to buy shims from you to convert my followers as well. 

Ok Dave I'll have them at £100 if thats ok with you? It's kind of what I thought used cams are worth. Unless you are letting them run on the eBay?

I think the vhpd cams are probably a bit too much for a small valve ported head as I have currently, will have multi throttles eventually but not as yet.

I'll have to buy shims from you to convert my followers as well. 

If Andrew doesn't want them as they are mechanical I would be interested, depending what you consider a reasonable offer.

If you convert hydraulic tappets to mechanical do you need to swap the spring retainers? Obviously you do for the 'proper' mechanical tappets but never thought about what you do with the converted ones 

I'd clean it all up. Check the breather has a bit of tube going up and looped out of the way or even to a little catch tank. Check the level is about right. Then take it for a good drive to get everything nice and hot and see what it looks like.

As said it's not that bad a job, although not much fun, removing and refitting the diff. 10 hours labour seems a bit excessive though. 

If it's not that your existing dampers have had it and you just want wide track why not just fit the little extension pieces. Better than someone else's used units really 

From what I can remember from the one that was from my old car circa 1996 it was a calibra/cavalier leather gear knob to look at. 

As you are going to measure them when fitting verynears I would measure beforehand and see if one or two offset dowels will cover the task for a few pounds rather than a couple of hundred 

The system probably cant cope with anything but 'normal' cars so anything that has a registration date post EU4 introduction is just assumed to be ok. Its probably not worth the effort to update it for the few cars this allows to escape the charge. 

No uk caterham has a CoC. This is for type approved vehicles only. 

Are you just after more power or want to stay with the xflow? Xflow tuning is expensive. You could almost drop a 2.0l zetec in and get that power easily and for less. Can either keep the xflow for the next owner or sell and recover some costs

I'd just be grateful they registered it tbh.

A UK car has no co2 figure as it wasn't tested. If there was an equivalent EU version to yours back then that's what someone has used I expect. Or as said above they couldn't find anything recorded and went worse case which is still better than a 'no you cant register that'.

There's a reasonable one on Facebook. £21k

Was hoping to have saved enough up for this after we talked about it last year. Never mind 

Material costs have gone up. Demand is high. Somewhere in the contract it probably has a caveat about it being a deposit and not setting the final price until it goes into build. They will return the deposit rather than build at a loss I expect. Someone, in Japan probably, will take the slot

Alastair Westle is your man for decals. I'm not sure if he bothers with this forum anymore but you can find him in the Caterham and Lotus 7 FBook page

Fuel pump inertia cut off switch

The main load path is through into the frame not onto that little tab. If for some reason it’s cracked then the flex is something more to be worried about. You would be able to have it welded up 

That’s obviously annoying. As in it’s native use the hole is just a clearance then 0.2mm is of no concern. My standard rover crank when I built my engine up was f tight to the sleeve and bearing. It is what it is 

Is that £30 posted? If so I’ll have them to refurbish as spares

Not trying to jump in but I might be interested Nick if it’s unlocked or on Vodafone 

You can get new belts at any number of places. You do want them to be compatible with any location tabs etc in the 7. I’d dismantle the car and get part numbers off them then google is your friend. Or go to caterham or redline and just buy them

As long as you remember these were done as a visual trim item to get a larger hole into an air box than the teardrop hole then they are fine. The flange is to make it easier to hide the cut edge and was originally for a bond flange. Someone later decided to fit some bent ally brackets and screws to hold it on. The naca detail was taken from how they should be but had to be tweaked to fit the bonnet shape. Don’t read too much into it being a naca duct proper 

Well that video seems to suggest they might well do something  Giving it a go cant hurt can it? 

That is where the electric throttle pedal bolts to. Used anywhere the eu spec went to rhd markets, Australia, Japan etc and with the 160/170 everywhere 

They never did a low rhd pedal box as far as I know. If you have metric then it’s all unboltable anyway so if you got a lhd one I’m sure it could be made to fit.

That duct will only extract under bonnet air like that? Not going to send anything into the footwell?