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Sorry for the double post…I posted this to @Randy Flowersfirst thread. Mount a third brake light; the cross on your roll bar looks like a perfect spot. Super simple to wire up. I went overboard because the number of clueless idiots texting and not paying attention on the road scares the hell out of me. I used an FIA rain light and wired it up so that it flashes when I use the brakes. Super bright and obnoxious, but I’ve had police cars behind me and not been pulled over yet. I got mine from Pegasus. The front markers and tail light bulbs have been replaced by LED’s (cheap). Another thread on here tells about an incredible deal from Toyota on 7” replacement H4 headlights and I got a set of those waiting to go on, but I seldom drive any distance at night so it may take me a while to get around to it. Just drive really defensively with the assumption that everybody around you is oblivious and doesn’t see you and you’ll be fine. My heat shield seems to cut down a lot on the temp, but I haven’t tested it with a bare leg. Watch your daughter getting out and she should be fine. Almost forgot to say, why would you worry about anyone stealing your doors? What would they do with them? Enjoy!

Mount a third brake light; the cross on your roll bar looks like a perfect spot. Super simple to wire up. I went overboard because the number of clueless idiots texting and not paying attention on the road scares the hell out of me. I used an FIA rain light and wired it up so that it flashes when I use the brakes. Super bright and obnoxious, but I’ve had police cars behind me and not been pulled over yet. I got mine from Pegasus. The front markers and tail light bulbs have been replaced by LED’s (cheap). Another thread on here tells about an incredible deal from Toyota on 7” replacement H4 headlights and I got a set of those waiting to go on, but I seldom drive any distance at night so it may take me a while to get around to it. Just drive really defensively with the assumption that everybody around you is oblivious and doesn’t see you and you’ll be fine. My heat shield seems to cut down a lot on the temp, but I haven’t tested it with a bare leg. Watch your daughter getting out and she should be fine. Almost forgot to say, why would you worry about anyone stealing your doors? What would they do with them? Enjoy!

@Davemk1You make a fair point, but I actually think that a test drive really isn’t a fair test. All of what you are saying about being small and vulnerable is of course true, but you definitely get used to it and you hopefully develop a defensive driving attitude. Roads and situations that are at first daunting, you quickly forget about as you automatically know what to do to avoid being in people’s blind spots and stuck in traffic etc. The fun of the purely mechanical and completely connected with the car and road experience, even on short drives, are a pretty good way to wipe out the frustrations of daily life in my opinion. There is only so much time to clear bucket list items and I’d say it's better to say “tried it and it wasn’t for me” than regret not having even given it a go. @Randy Flowers, take this however you choose, but I say “go for it.”

@Randy Flowers This is not meant to be a criticism, but you are way over-thinking this. You have gotten great assurances from others about Josh at Rocky Mountain, and he owned the car after R&T and it has been driven a bit since then, so what else is there to worry about with the build and car itself? You have 2 sources of help with repairs and maintenance and you can easily see that Caterhams hold their value pretty well as long as they don’t have horrible histories of wrecks and if you have an accident in it you probably have more to worry about than re-sale value. Buy it before someone else does as you’ve said that it checks all of your boxes as if you ordered it yourself. You will not regret taking ownership off of your bucket list.

Following this as I’m looking too. The small pipes make getting something easily difficult, especially so if you can’t weld yourself! The collector pipe is 1.625 OD. What I have on now is 36” from collector pipe to end. The muffler itself is 19 1/2” long and 2 3/4” diameter. My guess is that a good exhaust shop willing and able to make something is going to be needed. Could be that if there are a couple of us looking a couple could be made up but shipping could make that plan not worthwhile.

I have a new spare nosecone that I bought years ago and have never used. If you can give me some measurements of what you have and what you are looking for I'll check it to see if it is what you are looking for. It's yellow like in your photo and looks similar. It measures about 26 inches from front to the back of the shelf, 24" from the front to the front of the shelf.

Thanks. I came across that info once before but couldn’t find it again.

Does anyone have a recommendation on where in the US to have Weber DCOE’s rebuilt?

I have the B6 Caterham cut seats in my S3. With the tunnel cover in my car, they were still a bit wide and I needed to grind a bit of additional material off of the sides for them to fit. I find them comfortable, but my wife and son not so much. Perhaps I have more built on padding. They will be a little lower in the car if you skip using the adjustable rails and bolt directly to the floor which I would recommend as moving them forward and back isn’t very easy anyway once the rails get any grit and stones in them and the actual range of movement isn’t much.

@theDreamerAt the risk of getting the Seven Club folks offended, I wouldn’t get overly worked up over waiting to join the club. If you’re not in the UK and are unable to attend their events and drives, you may not ultimately feel the benefit of their forum and newsletter worth the cost. There is some older stuff in their forum relating to the Vauxhall but nothing earth shattering or that you couldn’t get answered on here or in the C20XE group on FB. Good that you got the original HPC nose badge as I think they’re pretty hard to find now. Congrats on getting your car - you’re going to love it.

Here’s another thought…Perhaps just buy the hardware and then get some plexiglas and you can do whatever shape, size and hardware position works best on the car. Thinking shaped for a windscreen mounted mirror or differently for a scuttle mounted mirror. Also gets rid of the Cobra embossing.

Thanks! After you get them mounted, posting pics of how it works out would be really helpful and appreciated. Interestingly, my car has some holes drilled in the windscreen probably from having something like this mounted in the past. The guy I bought the car from bought the windscreen from someone and didn’t know any details.

I’m curious, can you post where the sun visors are from?

Wow. That is an incredibly well thought out set-up. Who makes that? I’m sure it costs more than I’m willing to pay to replace my standard top, but it looks like a great way to go if you need to buy everything.

Check, if I remember correctly you can put some washers or spacers in to move the brake pedal a bit further away from the gas pedal. I could be wrong though, haven't fussed with it in a while. I left a comment on BAT during the auction about being interested in the spare wheels and extra transmission and that remains true. Enjoy the car - for sure you're going to love it. My car is a Vauxhall also, on carbs.