Slonie

BTW if you do want to join ITC, you can sign up for two years at the register which is $45 (compared to $30/yr). That's what I did... Or you could just give them the phone number of someone who's a member

Airframe+ ? And it grips strongly enough so that it doesn't wobble on the lip of the scuttle? Looks like that might be the ticket ... (de-crufted amazon link here: https://www.amazon.com/Kenu-Airframe-Android-iPhone-Accessories/dp/B00LU5LWQK )

Hi folks, So I've got an issue that isn't quite the same as anything I've found via search (here and elsewhere) and wanted to bounce ideas. My turns signals work fine, when the headlights are off. I've previous had some variant of the "they stopped working until I toggled the hazard switch several times" failure, but hasn't happened too much recently. When I turn the parking lights or headlights on (i.e. first and second position on the headlight switch) the front turn signals/indicators under the headlights stop working. They actually might be flashing but extremely weakly. Like, need-to-remove-the-lens-and-stare-at-the-filament weakly. I've taken the hazard switch apart and wiped off the contacts inside, and sprayed Deoxit inside (although I have to admit it "looked pretty clean" inside, my car is only 25 years old after all). This didn't seem to change anything. I have not tried buying a new hazard switch. Some other notes and observations from memory, as I'm not in the garage right now. 1. I've recently installed both Just Add Lightness LED Taillights installed, and CaterLED repeaters in back, although I'm not sure if this behavior is new with those recent additions. I don't think it is (but I just noticed it when going over the operation post-install). 2. I'm using a new (generic) LED flasher relay, one of two that I had on hand (both of the above came with one and while they looked identical, they had slightly different behavior, I picked the one that flashed more slowly) 3. I've previously had woes related to the wing indicators / turn signal repeaters on the fenders that I've seemingly resolved by removing the ground wire and cleaning up the ring terminal and washers (and sanding a bit around the hole in the wingstay). In some cases they wouldn't work at all or were very dim on one side. I've tried cleaning them up on both sides and they are working fine right now. 4. I've noticed different rates of flashing between having the headlights on and off with the hazard switch. Nothing that bothers me that much but... 5. I've always thought my car's flashers seemed fast but I don't really have much to compare against. I think they slowed down with the LED flasher relay I installed recently. 6. The big connectors for (I assume) the front lights are missing the retaining clips on my car and can be pulled apart easily, but manually pushing them together more tightly didn't change any behavior. So, any ideas? Of course my suspicion is a bad ground somewhere, but I'm not sure how the front indicators ground (unlike the fender ones). Also, they seem to work okay as long as the headlights are off. Everything else seems to be working fine in the signal and hazard department. Thanks for any ideas or tips for where to trace!

That sale is about as good as it gets for this jack. As a HF addict, I can't believe I got scooped by USA7s on this deal Granted the jacking points on the Caterham are SO easy to reach that I haven't had a problem with my little 1.5ton HF racing jack that I picked up about 25 years ago (and still kicking, even being from the "bad old days" of Harbor Freight). My rear license plate is dented from the jack handle hitting it though, so I am severely tempted by this long reach jack (and it'll be handy on my other car). One thing that's less-mentioned about this jack is that longer reach also means higher lift. It may actually have the highest lift capacity of all the myriad HF floor jacks.

I don’t know if the OP is long gone at this point but now that I’ve gone back and read the top post I’ll weigh in with my four cents (many of which have already been reiterated here). If I were going into business making a new boutique car I would not try to copy a 7*. Could you make a 7esque car that’s “better”? Maybe. Would it sell? Who knows. With the OP’s background I’d go for more of a budget Mono or a budget Radical/sports racer than another 7 clone. *here’s my one exception to this: a domestic focused Locost style kit using a domestically plentiful parts would find a market. My imagination was captured in 2004-5 when Champion Motorcars cropped up and offered a cheap chassis kit for a Miata donor. That sent me down the Locost rabbit hole and made it seem possible as a non-fabricator to get my own 7. I eventually gave up on it (much like CMC seemed to go belly-up almost immediately—I wonder how many kits/chassis they actually sold?), but an affordable point of entry is a real selling point IMO. This kind of dovetails with the thinking that probably went into the Goblin — domestic chassis and plentiful domestic donor parts. I just can’t abide by how they look 😆

“Once we get lighter-weight batteries, it’s game on…” —me, always about the one real problem with EV sports cars. Now I realize Caterham literally said that in the screenshot I posted. They’ll do a real Seven EV when it can be light enough.

Well, Caterham Project V is moving along and has a driving prototype now (with more production-ready details compared to the roller showcar). The powertrain is being developed with Yamaha as a partner. I’ve been updating a thread about it every time I see new info… But If you’re talking about EV seven (circa 2023), that’s really only been a one-off proof of concept from Caterham. I think they’ll place the majority of their effort on the Project V first, but in the longest of runs I would very much expect to see them revisit the electric Seven.

Yeah, he seems to have written all these books and published them all this year? Lots of paragraphs ending in "it's not this, it's that" (a classic hallmark of AI writing). He also seems to invent a Mark VII separately from the Seven (now, I decided to google it just to see if there was something I missed, and this was as close as I could get, in any case even that Clairmonte special was never actually designated Mk VII so I'm not sure what they're on about)

TIL you can just call them up and have them make custom setup for you! Are they going to send to the factory for installation directly? The spec on your build from the other thread goes crazy, this is another great touch!

Oh wow you know what, the bulletin you received did mention that they were supposed to be used in the driver’s parade! Too bad it didn’t happen. I neglected to find out where the two cars in Monterey were going after the auction, although I guess we could ask Christian. FWIW the bulletin you posted said they’d be sold “by the US dealer network”, so presumably they’re around somewhere (perhaps some are at Walt Grace Vintage, being in Miami at all)

I made a new post for the story of Caterham at Car Week, here. As for my own car, well I really wanted to bring it to Monterey and that would have resulted in me spamming this thread for a whole week, but it wasn't meant to be. A continuing electrical issue* (that needs its own thread), and an aborted topside oil change** kept me from being road-ready, and the threat of being out in the sun all day every day and out after dark in a car with marginal night flying abilities caused me to chicken out. So no pictures of my 7 for now! *everything works except for my front turn signals when my headlights are on **turns out my topside extractor could only get about 2qts out, but I have anxiety over a possibly-stripped drain plug from the last oil change so I thought I'd delay the potential discovery of that by not undoing it right ahead of doing hundreds of miles of driving away from home...

So at Monterey Car Week, Caterham had a presence at the Bonhams Laguna Seca Auction. They had two representatives of the company (Christian and I think Ben), and I got to chat with them for a bit. They also brought two of the Miami Edition Sevens, which were in the tent and available for purchase (although not—as I had previously believe—on auction, I believe they are on consignment. Yours for $100-110k). Anyhow, in addition to a good talk with Christian, I got to looking at the souvenir program for the races, which had a previously unreported story on how the Miami Editions came to be. They were actually built for the Driver's Parade, with one car per team (and one backup). However, storms forced the start time of the race up by a few hours and the driver's parade was cancelled. Thus, they never got their moment in the sun. In any case, this explains why some of the hoods have team names on the bonnet! Additionally, Caterham had their West Coast demonstrator car out and about, a Seven R (also SV, like the two Miami Editions) Noting that it came from Hillbank, and that it has the new USA-specification "Seven R" [no number] designation. Plus the painted rollbar and headlamps, though no 620R-style nosecone. I saw it three times over the week, first at the auction, then out on the road, and finally right in front of me as I pulled into the track on Saturday. I had a lot of explaining to do to the global head of sales as to why I didn't have my Seven with me

Speak of the devil, I get back home and this is in my YouTube recommendations. Of course I immediately recognize from the thumbnail that it's going to be about the Proxes Sport R. I'm only a few minutes into it so I don't know how much they compare to say, other contemporary tires, but the R888R is an old design too

Parked at Laguna Seca and... Well, this is awkward... (more on this later though — Caterham UK had a legitimate presence at Monterey Car Week, as far as I know that's the first time!)

As I was watching this one... It seems they may have slowly been sneaking out — there are some sizes listed as available now at Tire Rack (as small as 15"), but the 13" is still MIA (and I did email trackdaytires.com and they said they had no idea when the 13s would come). Strangely though, for a tire that's supposedly out, I haven't found a single review or impression on it yet (on tirerack or otherwise). So we're still waiting to see if this is a step up down or sideways from the R888R for the street.