Vovchandr

I would like to report that after years of troubleshooting, discovery, fixing, tuning and I movements my latest calculated mileage is a whopping ... 11.8mpg Short trips end up eating up half a tank or more. With the wideband live reading the problem is sort of obvious. I'm extremely rich at most of my fuel map and the sensor pings out at the lowest allowed sensor reading of 10:1 for most of the drive. God knows how low it truly is, so I'm running very very rich. Next step is to rebuild the map and see where that gets me. Good old chatGPT gave suggestions. Time to have AI fix what human intelligence hasn't been able to figure out so far

Since when did this become an OR proposition??? Feels like it's been an and my entire time here

This needs to be the cover photo for a little bit somehow for the entire forum

Honestly I think tinkering with it is part of the experience that makes you connected to the car, but this should be more known/announced. I come from a world where tinkering on everything is standard practice so its not a culture shock for me or unexpected. Especially considering I bought mine used with a questionable and interesting history. For somebody who orders one new or pays top dollar for it, who has high expectations for value per dollar spent and expects high reliability from a $50k+ purchase and doesn't want to tinker or expect it, I can see how that can be an unwelcome factor in ownership.

Many words just to describe that @vovchandr is right.

Did you swap the flasher relay for an LED friendly one too? (JAL sells one I think but they are very easy to source anywhere)

I actually like that quite a bit

To you its THE car. To any regular mechanics its just A car that will be more pain in the ass, more scrutinized and pay the same or worse than others for the time invested. There's just no business sense for regular shops to care for special cars. Special cars need to go to special mechanics which will demand special pricing for special treatment which isn't a lot of people are willing to accept. I will venture a guess and say @Croc knows quite a bit about that with the amount of specialty vehicles he deals with and outsources the work on. This is why I do pretty much all my own work on it. You should hear the stories that real exotic car owners have to deal with. There are as much as 5 and as little as 1 person in the whole country who can do certain work and you have to ship your car to him and wait for availability. That's just the name of the game.

It was out!

The more I play with removing the headlights from pictures the more I agree with your assessment. Really takes the personality out of it. Maybe that's why pure race models never had a big appeal for me.

Sorry for taking the thread off topic, found the 7in lights picture. Those were wild

The minutia with good painting layers and color matching vs just letting a factory do it would be a no brainer for me to pay the difference and let them have at it. I've had enough trouble trying to get the existing colors to match from local body shops as is. I think we all here agree that 620 nose is certainly aggressive looking. Hard to pick favorite stripe style to go with it. Nose badge vs two stripe vs 3 stripe

You guys got me curious in the headlightless discussion I'm not digging it (with highnmount lights, might be even 7in here?) vs and without the top/windshield (when I had the high mounts 5.75 lights) vs

I have two standard and one 620. Yes mounting points are different, 620 needs L mounts on the vertical beam. I have not installed those yet.

Mine has been sitting unpainted for a few years now. I at least think its call that I'll have an option of swapping back and forth between different styles (I have total 3 nosecones)

This is like the Anti Christ to 7in high mount headlight people. I personally like the layout of the headlight and pod, just didnt like the high mount or the 7in

How Is This Car Even Legal?! (Caterham 340S POV)

Another attempt to get a set from overseas failed for me (seller wasnt willing to separate wheels from caps and it was the wrong wheels) Ironically the seller suggested that there are some US side ones being made on USA7's (IE this thread) so.... bumping this @Rosteri

@Oliver Let us know if you're ready for orders

I just noticed a center filler cap. Very peculiar. Not sure I've seen a lot of that.

White is best @BlakeJ

DemonTweeks and Westermann are your options I'd have to dig into receipts to see who I ordered from as I had orders from both By the pictures on their sites now, DemonTweeks also appears to be 0 degree (I thought I bought from them) https://www.demon-tweeks.com/uk/caterham-carbon-fibre-indicator-mounts-241853/ Westermann appears to be 45 degree (very pricy but I needed to order other stuff anyway so I did one big bulk order back in the day) https://westermann-motorsport.com/en/produkte/indicator-pod-carbon

Opt in for the CF pods. Minimal cost and much better experience and product. With that said I think 3rd party pods were better and I ended up ordering both and using 3rd party ones that were cheaper Caterham switched to vertical pattern on almost all of its CF products which I personally hate 45 degree CF weave is much better looking and matches the rest of my parts

Fixing link Fully Built 1999 Caterham 7 Superlite R Street Legal Track Car - Hemmings.com

A shop can likely dye it/paint it or otherwise it was offered in "CF vinyl" which is still black but gives it some visual texture. but yes all i've seen was black as well. Are you trying to have one color matched? Might look odd around black windshield and a black roll bar.