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I bought a professionally built Caterham designed for endurance racing. It has an oil cooler mounted behind the radiator, in the space before the engine. Roughly 6"x1"x2". Also have a remote oil filter. I will try to attach a photo or 2.

Sounds like a plan to me. Tech ends at 8:30. I will be there 6;30-8:30 , depending on traffic. I leave Fredrick, MD @ 3:30-ish after a grandson visit.I asked my son if my GS , who is 14 months , cld say Caterham yet and he said yes, tho it sounded a lot like dee-dee. Close enuf! What a prodigy:)!

Locked and loaded, car, SUV, trailer, all is set. Discovered huge alighnment issue w/ driver side rear: my basically new tire is corded on inside, so I will be running on rain tires, shd be interesting.

Croc, yes, I drilled a hole in the plastic case (you'd think that mite have occured to GoPro to do?) and used it last year at NJMP and got great sound, now nuttin. Still playing with it, we shall see, hoping it's the mic.

I will let Tom handle the reply here:).

I think the Porsche badge is a $10K bump on the diesel-it is very nice! I bought a VW demo with 5000 miles and saved $5k. I have added abt 50K miles thus far in 2 years. Not a single problem (on a car that Cons Rpts says is the "worst of the worst" as to reliability).

Croc: My external mic is not working, I will troubleshoot it tonite but it wld be nice to have a back up. Self tech: I did my nut and bolt ck yesterday, will finish today. Never knew the car had so many. Most, but not all, were tight. Unsurprisingly, the impossible to reach ones were loose. I decided to skip my trusty mechanic when the purchaser of my Birkin advised me of the many loose bolts on the car, incl in rear suspension (wh/could be hand tightened) and engine mounts. So, I have adopted the "Best to pack your own parachute" philosophy, at least for something this basic.

Croc: VW Toureg comes in midnight blue. Same car as Audi S7, minus the $5K Audi badge. Get the TDI and tow up to 7700 lbs and get 35mpg highway, 22 mpg city. I have the base model but you can go upscale if you need a bit of luxury to offset your spartan track car. Even the base model is pretty lux. Very comfortable seats, great visibility, quiet, comfortable ride, excellent handling-I'd love to do a few hot laps in it on Lightning. I guarantee it wldnt be the slowest car out there in the intermediate group, excluding the se7ens, of course.

Suspect the Sadev is a bit more $, than a T9 tho?

My e-mail from Track Daze says the tech of cars on Friday is 7:00-8:30 p.m., which gives folks like me who are making a long trek a better chance of making it. Congrats on the 4 offs Croc: it ties my record for NJMP, but I needed a whole weekend to do what you did in a single session!

At the momemt, the weatherman is cooperating: 10% chance of rain Sat, Sun, Mon, June 22-24.

How do you know what the oil temp was? My se7ens have all had oil pressure guages, and water temp guages, but never a oil temp guage. My X-Flow had a small oil cooler mounted in front of the radiator.

Fellow attendees: YellowSS and I are bringing a few bottles of our favorite reds for the 2nd annual "Impromptu Wine Tasting". Feel free to bring your own favorite bottle(s) and we'll see who wins the coveted "Not bad" first prize (With this group,the competition isnt limited to the track:)).

My Brink built '09 Duratec also suffered an engine failure at the track. Dick said, oops, ya need to modify the Raceline wet sump with a trap door or you get oil starvation on cornering. Worth ckg into if you plan any track work. With so much huge, flat power, I cant imagine needing more? You are running abt 100 hp than mine made and I thot mine was scary fast. Mine weighed just over 1100lbs which contributed to it's speedyness. Car is beautiful, esp like the carbon fiber dash and the color combo!

Since I am such a regular guy, NJMP has sent me a notice of their pricing special for the trackside suites for the time our group will be there: $80.00 a night. Of course, this excludes people (like me) who have planned ahead and already reserved a room (A mere $150 a nite). Anyhow, for you procrastinators, this is an excellent price. The rooms are pretty bare boned but the location cant be beat.

WTS2K: Rik was referring (humorously) to the last cmt by Dean G that we all look good in our se7ens. Don't think Rik actually owns a se7en, tho I mite be wrong.

Great site mrm-never knew it existed.

Everytime you stop, even at a traffic light, be prepared to answer the following questions: What is it, how much does it cost, how fast does it go, who makes it, what engine's it got, it's a kit car isn't it? Over and over and over and over.....It just blows peoples' minds. I cant imagine a flying saucer would generate any more curiosity:).

Lovely car, but it sure reminds me of a Lotus Evora. I look forward to reading the road tests tho, like JohnK, from a financial standpoint, my interest is purely theoretical.

The car is a beauty, let the fun begin!

Great turn out! I will likely be there Fri eve: 8:00-10:00? Will advise Tom G if plan changes drastically. And, tho not part of the official weekend gathering, I am also staying for the Monday trackday as well. As is Croc. Anyone else up for the Thunderbolt experience?

Fond memories, nice to see it so shiny!!

I always used foam ear plugs and ear muffs when I drove my '97 X-flow Cat. If I still had it I wld substitute headphones and my I-Pod (keep the foam plugs and crank it up). Also had the side benefit of eliminating my perception of all those worrysome rattles and squeaks coming from everywhere:).

Phew! Any theories on why, with no gasket, it started leaking 30K miles into its life? And, onward and upward: what's that new hp bump like? Is it a rocket ship? Any dyno comparo's before and afte, better power curve, etc.?

The Focus forum called focusfanatics.com has several dedicated forum sections on the various iterations of the Zetec engine and how to get the most hp. They are active and inforamtive tho talking smack seems to be part of the posting ethos there, unlike here. Klassics car was helped along by one of the top posters there, aka TurboTom, who also posts here occasionally under 1Turbofocus. As his handle suggests, he belives adding a turbo is the fastest way to reliable Zetec power. But his tuning skills helped Klassics naturally aspirated Zetec, per previous posts.