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A cop, who happens to be a blonde, pulls over a speeder, also a cute blonde. She says: " "Let me see your license." The driver has a huge purse and fumbles around in it for awhile, completely confused. Finally she asks: "Officer, what does it look like?" The blond cop says: "It's rectangular and has your picture on it." The driver returns to her search and finally finds a rectangular shaped mirror, looks at it, sees her face and hands it to the officer. The officer stares at it a minute and says, "OK, you can go." The driver says: thanks officer, but if you dont mind my asking, why?" The officer says:"Well, I didn't realize you were a cop."

That silver bullet is quite a car! I think the amazing thru-shot of the avian shows a Great Blue Heron, BTW.

Am looking forward to pictures as you move this interesting project along.

What could go wrong:)?

Thx for the ride-along! What fun. Your brake pedal vs his accelerator pedal:). I liked your lines a bit more tho will try his next time, esp thru 5 wh/he early apex-ed to death and pinched off the exit there as well. Impressed by how well everyone played together, not just you two but pretty much the whole field.

I am adding poor shifting to the long list of mysterious X-flow maladies caused by bad engine mounts. Don't recall cost but maybe $10-15 each? My recommendation is replace them every 5K miles, they seem to get beat up fast.

Yeah, the Honda driver won, but it took a team of drivers to beat you:)!

Good job: time to turn pro:)? Passing in the grass, top outta 57, not bad. Rain is the great equalizer: results are much more in line w/driver talent than driver $. Thx for keepin the se7en race-torch burning!

Nice to see some empirical data. In all honesty, I am surprised it wasn't faster, not that I wouldn't kill for those times out of my Cat.

XCarguy: I think the crowning touch would be for you to bungee Suave on top of that Lotus badge. You drive a Storker so, Own it:)! (BTW, my spell check says "Storker" is not a word. What do they know?)

Didn't MigetRacer hit 187 mph at the backstraight of VIR in his V8 Stalker? He started this whole V8 in a Stalker trend. That was with lotttsa wing as I recall (and a pretty wimpy roll cage, at least to my fading eyesight). I know 120 in my Caterham feels like 200 mph!

The "Tail"is just one of many twisty limited access, drivers roads in that area, all are wonderful. We did many of them as a club back in '07. I have done the Cherohala since and it was wonderful, scenic, curvy, etc. It's fun to do the Tail, tho there are lottsa crazies on motorcycles blasting along. Assume they will be headed toward you, in your lane, as you round every blind curve.

I get a new word a day via e-mail from Dictionary.com. "Sweven" is today's word. It means a vision or a dream. Mite make a nice license plate for someone's se7en? Almost as good as mine (K8trum7:)).

Given the Stalker's almost unlimited power, but real world cornering limits, it seems to me (expert that I am:)), that adding grip at the expense of speed isn't much of a concern for that particular car. For our little 4 cyl Caterhams, etc., it is easier to achieve a balance between our above average grip and modest power. And adding grip isn't worth the hit our modest power wld suffer. For them Stokers tho....

BD: I dont think anyone here is offering sympathy to ISIS supporters. We all loathe beheadings, stonings, and death sentences to those who disagree with a particular religious point of view. We understand that complete intolerance for any one's point of view but one's own is unacceptable. ISIS is a ebola-like virus that seems to be spreading at an alarming rate. But, your post seemed to raise the legitimate question of: How is support for extremists/terrorists possible? And people here are responding to that-not to show support for ISIS, but to participate in a discussion of a topic that you brought up. Speaking of which, I dont see how boycotting products from a country where 93% of the population shares our mutual loathing of these despicable killers punishes the 7% who are simpatico. And for what its worth, I sort of agree that a car-enthusiasts' website mite not be the best place to discuss incendiary political issues. So maybe the lesson here is it's best to stick to car stuff on this forum?

Interesting how many of the signature design points of the S2 are carried over in the current Caterham/Birkin. Ron: lets see some Pix! Tom: If you hadn't corrected your post, I wouldn't have noticed, I had to go back and reread it(:.

Cranky: As mentioned, I think you have the identical symptoms as I did. Mine wld slip right on, it just would not lock in place. It doesn't look like the bulkhead is interfering. I dont think you are doing anything wrong in your technique (when everything's working right, a 3 year old could do it). I think something is wrong with your hub.

I love the way amazing looking se7ens keep popping up here! The S3 Birkin was a tight fit for me (5'9"), dont know how you got in (or back out). Apart from fit, how do the cars compare? When it was running, my Birkin was a lovely, light dancer and a wonderful track car.

As I recall from my endless search for this part last year, Caterham modifies (shortens?) the front CV axles from a Sierra. No idea what the dimensions are. I know I bought a Sierra front axle (passenger side) and it wasn't close. If you want it, I am happy to send it for cost of shipping. Anyhow, once the modified part again became available from Redline, I replaced the broken one with it.

Congratulations: someone got a beautiful car!

Dont know how they measured it, but the guys who built my car said the addition of the cage dropped the top speed considerably.

Who is Caterham's SCCA lobbyist:)? I get the impression that Mazda has one.

Pretty car AND wheels. I forget, it's a Westfield? Seems to have many "trick" features. What abt some more pix?

Bitterness aside:), Dave WAS very competitive in his S1. As I recall, it was pretty much even between him and his car and me and my track dedicated Zetec-engined Caterham Superlight.

Guys: I am impressed. You appear very receptive to this possible change, even tho it would seem to make your carefully prepped Cats obsolete, or semi-competitive?