Vovchandr

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I want to thank Croc for your hospitality of allowing my car to reside in the garage while I arrange getting it back home. It drastically helps navigate resolution to the unfortunate mechanical problem. I also want to thank everybody involved in putting on this event, primary Tom and Mike but also the "hidden figures" who are involved a little more behind the scenes. It was a pleasure to meet everybody and it made for a very memorable event. Special shot out to my personal 1 woman pit crew of Paige and her "support vehicle", I likely wouldn't have made the event or gotten the car ready in time and definitely wouldn't have gotten back from the track if she didn't dedicate the time to come along :rofl: She also took a ~1056 pictures of everybody which will take me some time to edit, upload and share. P.S. Croc, your little quip about her technically being faster around the track has resonated deep with and provided material for ball busting on the long drive back up. Well played, well played. PS X2: I'll start uploading phone and other pictures throughout the week. Technical question to Croc or whoever. How do you get the pictures to not double up once uploaded? Do they have to go into our Album on the forum or is there another trick?

Checked in. See you all tomorrow to figure things out

Vovchandr@gmail.com I'm about an hour away right now from the hotel caught in the rain. Not sure if I'll be able to make it down to the track or the garages and the schedule in that regard. Will likely try to swap the belts in the parking lot unless the people who know better give me a green light to go elsewhere after the hotel

I printed the form by printing Crocs pictures of it. Were we supposed to get an email or something with the actual form attached?

Well maybe if any of them are staying at the Ramada maybe we can have a harness swapping party :banghead:

I don't think I have a choice at this point, too much money committed with no exit strategy. Emailed Chris at Redline about the miscommunication to see if there is any resolve that can come out with belts that I won't have any use for and a new belts from Stable Energies will cost me ~$400+ for driver alone. Alas everything is packed and it is what it is. I shouldn't have a problem swapping the belts myself in the parking lot of the hotel if everything goes right. Might have to research location for 2pt extra attachments but I'm sure there tech questions will be easily referenced with that many people down there.

I bought these 2 point attachments to the 4 point https://caterhamparts.co.uk/seatbelts-harnesses/1195-crutch-strap-plug-into-4-point-black.html This was the 4 point, I have LH and RH https://caterhamparts.co.uk/seatbelts-harnesses/4176-seatbelt-4-point-quick-release-black-lh.html

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These are all the writings I have http://www.usa7s.net/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=15595&stc=1 http://www.usa7s.net/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=15596&stc=1 http://www.usa7s.net/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=15597&stc=1 http://www.usa7s.net/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=15599&stc=1

Found the problem on the Caterham website Apparently the replacements belts I got are not FIA rated. Lovely oversight on my part I have the 2 point addition and the arm restraints but now I officially don't have in spec belts http://www.usa7s.net/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=15593&stc=1 Edit x2: I'm going to call the track in the morning and see if they sell belts and/or going to stop by this place on the way https://www.stableenergies.com/Harnesses/products/584/ and see if they have anything Edit x3: looks like I'm stopping by Stable energies on the way down to buy a belt on the way down. Called them and they said they should have something for me.

Probably a little late to be asking for advice here but a part I didn't expect to be a problem became a problem. The new belts I ordered from Caterham to replace my outdated ones don't have a date spec on them. I can only imagine it will be a problem during the inspection time. Any advice?

Croc, currently booked with Ramada by Wyndham and taking the half hour before cancellation period expires to look at other options. While I have your attention here, I registered by the price seemed off? I registered as a driver for $330 total plus $100 for passenger but the price should have been $250 a day? Double checking things on that end to see what I could have missed too Edit: Saw my mistake. I'm realizing I'm considered a guest driver so changed to that "Guest Driving Event Registration Saturday - Sunday" $500

I pm'ed you. Thanks

All the hotels are sold out. Any recommendations for other accommodations?

Currently the forecast looks good for Saturday with rain on Sunday :toetap05:

New pigtails ordered to fix the wide band. Will mess with this further after NJ http://www.usa7s.net/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=15590&stc=1

I came into this setup, car came equipped as it is. Seems counter productive to take the stuff off to be honest. Hard work of buying and installing has been done and it would only create more work to undo. Would I have gone for such a setup if the car came without it? Negative. Dumped the motor from the engine yesterday with the the accusump charged to 50kPa. About 5.3qt came out, so I refilled it back with 5.3qt. How would you fill/dump the lines to cooler? Disconnect the AN and fill and then blow air into it to drain? It would be good to have the data for how much that holds to eliminate guess work. Without starting it the oil line lined up with what appears to be some sort of scribe line. Must have been what the previous owners have done and this confirms it. It's faint but it's there. I'm sure the lines bled a little too so I'll likely be just a tad low once I start it but this gives me a good starting point compared to where I was previously. Hopefully I don't see the catch can filled again. http://www.usa7s.net/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=15589&stc=1

:smilielol5:Simon, noted. I look forward to it as well. Just to be on the safe side another question. I will only have to have the drivers belts in year spec/6pt/restrained since I'm not taking a passenger or will they give me a hard time for the passenger belt being out of year/4pt as a blanket rule to be allowed on the track regardless of whether I will have a passenger? I have second set of belts but I would rather spend my time elsewhere if I don't have to install them.

Thanks for the quick reply. 1 + 2 answered fully and well. Looks like going out as a passenger for a run wouldn't be a problem. Something I should know about Simon? :leaving: Yes coming from Albany. Comfort isn't a concern, I've done far longer stints on bikes in the past and Seven is a luxury car in comparison. Just did 3 hours yesterday to NYST and back, only issue was drowsiness. I have a trailer, but no tow car and it looks to be about $400 as a rough ballpark for me to get a truck rental for the weekend. Not sure if it's worth it just yet. Breakdown is obviously a risk/possibility at which point a tow back would be necessary. If I drive my only puzzle would be to keep the aeroscreen or to put the windshield on and put the aeroscreen on the passenger seat.

Double question. 1) This isn't just us on track that day, we are sharing it with other cars right? 2) How many instructor cars will be available to give a passenger a ride? I'm obviously not qualified to take on a passenger but the decision of my +1 hinges on whether she'd get to share the experience of going around the track as well. Edit: might as well follow up here, who has experience with renting tow vehicles and from what service? I'm on the fence about driving vs towing. I have a trailer I can use but no tow vehicle, so going to shop around now.

Again, thanks for the feedback. My point of confusion is that we are on the same page in regards to operational protocol but my math seems to be off. If you're also on raceline oil pan, and they say you must fill 5.28qts for a stock motor and then we add accessories such Accusump and oil cooler/remote filter which will add another 2 to 2.5 qt's, we should arrive at 7.28 to 7.7? Only reason I'm not trusting the stock dip stick is because of raceline directions, but I have no idea how far off the new level should be as I have no reference point due to my motor not being stock. I guess I could discharge all, fill with 5.28 and see where it shows without starting it or anything. Should be close to necessary reading. Either way it's not a bad idea for me to proceed with an oil change myself and start over from square one. I'll add that to my list of final things to prep before the weekend. At this point it looks like I'll be driving the car down and just taking it relatively easy around the track. Towing arrangements have fallen through.

Thank you Kitcat! Could I possibly bother you to snap a picture/measure from bottom of where your dip stick scribe is with the Raceline oil pan to give me a ball park idea? Maybe it will even match one of the existing scribes I have now and I'll know that I can trust it. Why do you say that if I add 5.28 quarts while accusump is full I'll have a mess? I thought the 2 quarts in the sump are supposed to be extra for the system not be a part of the 5.28 total? If I'm understanding correctly you have ~5.28 total in the vehicle with the sump, not ~7.28 like I have? From what I understand in my second post above from the Accusump website, the accusump level is additional not supplementary, so they say with system charged I should read full level on stick, once discharged I should read overfilled?

Accusump information So when properly operating and it's charged they confirm that it shouldn't effect the overall oil level on dip stick. When discharged it logically overfills the oil pan and level is higher.

Went to a shakedown track day yesterday locally to test everything and make sure I can get the car in good shape for next week. Discovered a bunch of issues and remembered one that was never well addressed since I bought the car. What should my proper oil level be? My car has quite a bit of pluming going on. http://www.usa7s.net/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=15581&stc=1 I have a 2.0 Zetec non SVT, raceline oil pan, Accusump system (2qt I believe), remote oil filter and oil cooler on radiator) If you're not familiar with Accusump here is a link https://www.cantonracingproducts.com/canton-24-126-accusump-marine-2-qt-kit/ Raceline oil pan > https://www.raceline.co.uk/products/part_section.asp?SectionID=40&CategoryID=2 Directions from raceline are pretty clear I have some misc marks on the back of my dip stick but it's hard to tell which one I should reference. I guessed before but this became an issue on the track yesterday. The logic is as follows 5qt engine with oil pan creates a new level on dip stick + 2qt for accusump which should not have much an effect on level if it gets charged and remains charged but then there is still margin of error for it being properly calibrated and plumbing. + oil for remote oil filter and lines + oil for oil cooler and plumbing. The reason I bring this up is because after troubleshooting a missing oil dipstick tube seal, I added oil to what I thought should be a proper level and on my return my catch can was completely full of oil and made a mess in the engine bay. Level was still showing high. No foaming so I dont think I had crankshaft whipping. http://www.usa7s.net/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=15582&stc=1 I dumped it, cleaned things up and did a few more rounds. Accumulation was minimal at bottom of the can but this event caused me to address the oil level situation as clearly I dont have it narrowed down. Any educated advice/guesses as to what my volume should be? Once figured out I'll scribe a new line. (5L) 5.28qt engine + 2qt accusmp + 1 liter oil filter/cooler? Put 8.28 quarts, charge/pressurize the accusmp and scribe? Or should I set accusump to not charge and scribe the line with it discharged?