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Plus, the car itself is one massive "air brake": just lift:).

The suspension is apart. Wow, huge damage, the damaged spline is permanetly fused to the 1/2 shaft, hub, disc carrier all banged up, disc gouged, nuts rounded off, etc. All will be replaced.

Thx! I contacted Tom and he was supportive/helpful. I had explained to landlord we were be going to talking to attorney, and were going to report him to Chamber of Commerce and Visa. Suddenly the landlord got religion and found us a better place and he ate the cost difference. So a happy ending.

Our long reserved and fully paid for vacation rental place for Sept 3-7 in Seward, Alaska has just been "cancelled" by the owner because he got an offer for the entire month. Any Alaska members here have an attorney to suggest who I could chat with, or a place to file a complaint (we are filing w/Chamber of Commerce, Visa, VRBO).

This is an eternal and unwinnable debate because each side has a point. Not sure why anyone feels the need to debate it or keep the pot stirred on a se7ens site??? The Supreme Court has, rightly or wrongly, mostly settled it in favor of open and ready access to weapons. And its opinion trumps legislation. But since it is here, I wld add that if one were to Google ''Debunk John Lott" there would be lots of info discrediting him. And if one were to google those results, there would be studies discrediting them, and on and on. I had a friend who was shot to death when he walked onto his porch and surprised a robber who panicked and shot him point blank and without warning when simply asked why he was there. My adult son was held up at gun point last month when he was suprised by 3 guys with guns who came around the corner. Even if my friend and son had been packing, the bad guys had the drop on them, any "self protection" was useless. And if my son had a gun and reached for it, he likely would have been shot and killed. I am bothered by the fact that 2/3's of all suicides are by gun (whose going to protect you from yourself?) and that folks living in a house with a gun are 3x more likely to die by a gun than those in a house with no guns. Still, I have best friends who own guns and family members who own guns. They arent stupid, we just see things differently.

Croc: All future memory cards will be well cleansed before each track day (that could have been a lot more embarrassing:))! I tried to do the ''trail-braking" technique our classroom instructor suggested (tho he didnt call it that) and, as a consequence, I was carring lots more speed into turn one and running off. It was a great way to practice the habit of trying not to jerk the car back on the track as soon as the wheels go off. I consider that lesson # 1 in the pantheon of important track-driving lessons. So many drivers' instinct is to yank the car back on track, the drivers' front wheel then catchs the edge of the track and around they go-sometimes right into the trafffic behind them(:.

Brilliant! I need to get that little horn I kept hearing:)! I started to cringe everytime I saw my car (now what have I done?). Excellent mix of sights and sounds. I dont want to think of how much boring tape you watched but I don't think you missed a single one of my misadventures. Where did you get the out of car video of us on track? I will send my $50 for the photo CD. Can't wait for 2014.

Soft pedal, uneven braking, hmm..... In addition to the car "self-steering", the right front brake kept locking up way early, and brake pedal kept getting closer to the floor (will do new brake fluid at same time that all wheel bearings are repacked). What brake fluid are people using? I put 16K miles on my 1st Caterham, wh/had 14K when I bought it and never touched the wheelbearings. Many, many track days as well on it. Just didnt realize this was an issue. I will give Ben a call (he still has my car listed for sale on his site) and then Cat UK, if I strike out. Edit: having read the links above, I mite need a new hub assembly, stub axle. Due to lack of mechanical skills I was unable to dx the extent of the damage but my amateurish dx was "what a mess". Everything was loose, grease and metal shavings everywhere. Hard to believe I didnt lose the wheel going 115mph down the straight and into a high speed right hander.

I lost my passenger side rear wheel bearing at today's track day at Putnam Park racetrack. Car was steering itself down the straight, some times right, then violent left, all w/o any help from me(:. Came in, and the wheel was very loose, too hot to touch. Pulled wheel and the hub/brake disc was very loose, I am lucky it didnt all come off. Anyhow, today's technical question is, what is the replacement for the wheelbearing? Is it from a VW?

This is an adjunct to my 13" wheel/tire thread. I am trying to find a 13" that fits my '03 Superlight. I have the bolt pattern as 4x108 and the center bore as 55 mm (2.16") and, obviously, the wheel size as 13'' (width likely 6-7"). Anyone know the offset? Tire Rack needs that to search their inventory. My Prisoner wheels had 21 mm offset on my original Caterham. The Mog site (only place that I can easily find that sells Caterham-specific wheels) lists various offsets from 21 for a 7x13 wheel, 9 for a 8x13 and 15 for a 9.5x13. Since the Prisoner wheels are 21, and the 13x7 are 21, seems like that is a safe offset # to use?

Bump, in hopes that the photos on the "before the rain" thread can be posted here as well.

These are definetly worthy of inclusion on the "best seven picure ever'' thread, which I have just bumped for ease of reference.

LS6 with a supercharger?. Sure sounded like supercharger whine (along w/sounding great). How much hp? Street tires (heard lots of squealing). What powered the yellow se7en ahead of you? It was the only car that cld run w/you. What makes or models were the other se7ens-you blew by them so fast I wasnt able to ID. Was this a se7ens only event? Who hosted? Looks like a blast (I like that you finished w/a flourish:))!

Regardless of quality, I find the soundtrack very instructive as trackday driving feedback. I can hear myself lift off the gas in the fast corner where I wld swear on a bible I never lift, hear the motor tail off way before the corner that I thot I was charging up to, hear myself get on/off the trottle in places where I shd be smooth. If I compare my "sound" to a fast driver on the same track, I can "hear" where they are faster.

Ya know, truth is an absolute defense against allegations of libel (written) and slander (verbal). Of course there is no defense against spending countless $ defending a meritless lawsuit against you for writting or uttering the truth(:. In any event, happy to hear you are not stuck w/a car of questionable authenticity.

Front suspension wishbone similar but distinctly different.

A buyer shd expect the seller to honestly divulge title issues. Sounds like they didn't and that this isnt a hypothetical question? Even if it was bought "as is" that mite not protect the seller who knowingly hid issues of questionable provenance. Or, they mite say they sold the ''real'' Lotus, the others are the imposters. And, that any issues of serial #'s that were discovered post-sale cld just as easily been discovered pre-sale on the Lotus registry, so it's on the buyer. Mite be worth chatting w/a local lawyer. Mite be worth offering to make the seller's ID public. This is a small community. A regular seller of Lotus items shd be concerned with that type of publicity. There was a very nice "authentic" Lotus 7 referenced for sale here a while back (I think via a link, not directly), where the seller was up front abt issues of authenticity, serial # and therefore discounted price accordingly. THat's the way to do it.

I have never seen a video where the driver sawed the steering wheel back and forth so constantly and violently. It really, really did not want to go straight. Looks like a great car, but what a handful!

A 9000 rpm anything is nice! Must have been quite the motor. I have had an X-flow, Duratec and a Zetec se7en. Each had its plusses and minuses. Probably liked the Duratec best, liked X-flow's sound best and, as far as I can tell, even w/more power in the newer cars, I was just as fast in the X-flow as I seemed to be able to use the power more easily.

Per a post on another Forum, Johnty just lost a year long battle w/cancer. His son, who posted, commented on how much his tours in his se7en meant to him. Tough month for the members on the US tour in '05.

Jezz, Croc, highly impressive effort. I dont want to think abt the time commitment it took. I was very happy with the sound I got from the way you set up the GoPro on my car at last NJMP w/mic under bonnet taped down by steering column. I was also happy w/my own earlier set up, where I put my self powered cheapo mic (since expired) in a large wool sock and folded into a ball and taped it to the floor of the passenger side of the car.

Doing the pounds to $ conversion, it looks like approximately $2K for car/track for a day? Not totally crazy. Of course it's $1-2K to fly over etc., etc. But any track day that incudes a trip to Europe is worth considering. Significant others mite be willing to buy in and go shopping/museum touring for a day by themselves whilst you race, in return for some time in Europe? Definitely not totally crazy.

I will be on vacation that week.

The engine sounds thrashy the whole time to me, even from the start. It's not the deep barritone X-flow rasp. Probly just the mic placement. Any reason to suspect the temp gauge is off? Anyhow, deep condolences, stuff like this drains you mentally as much as financially.

Yes, I have the 7 pin connector factory tow pkg so this "should" be easy.