KnifeySpoony

Tank is spoken for. Will update if falls through.

GONE Just replaced my tank and curious if anyone has a use for this. The baffle is loose in the bottom of the tank. Ran a whole track season like this, but it fuel starves in long left hand corners on track. Fine for street use, or if you have welding skills, you could repair it. Just pay shipping, or come pick it up.

That's what we're all here to find out.

The footwell tank can be bought but would require other engineering/plumbing solutions that are already solved by using the Caterham setup. Assuming it fits in his imperial chassis, everything would be plug and play. Maybe I'm just lazy and I hate modifying stuff. But it seems any improvised solution can trigger a set of unintended consequences and further troubleshooting.

Why would you want to reinvent the wheel and engineer/fabricate a new solution to a problem that already has an off the shelf and well tested solution?

Nice work, newer blogs like this are helpful to future builders, as Caterham makes lots of small little changes over time so the older blogs can have some confusing/incorrect bits in them. PS I saw a mention of painted bolt heads to ensure they are tight on future checks. Many bolts go through powder coated parts and you can NOT trust a painted line. Just because the bolt hasn't backed out doesn't mean it isn't loose. Prime candidate bolts for this issue are the engine mounts into the block. There are others as well. Bottom line is, on a 7 you need to do proper spanner checks regularly.

I may be mistaken, but I thought the point of a spherical bushing swap was to create MORE flexibility/range of motion at that joint, not less.

Bay area of Minnesota?

Yes it is heavy but i like it. Not an issue for me but everyone who drives the car comments on it.

Here is a vid of my car on track (let a youtuber review it). Very representative of what the car sounds like when driving. Unless there's a wall to my right, i don't really hear the exhaust at all, it's all intake honk. The microphone is on the center console fwiw.

Yep, if you lose preload, I would expect things to go silent.

What was the price from Tracsport?

I think that is only a subscription-based feature.

Not many comps around (ie recently sold modern caterhams), but I wonder how much the used market will start to reflect the steep increase on new prices.

Yep, the Jack Web UBJ are great. Super quick camber tweaks without fighting and swearing.

I'm 6'1" and S3 fits me perfectly. SV is a grotesque abomination destroying humanity.

ya, besides roof comes off exige too...

Wow just watched and there is no way that is a 200hp car if my car has 200hp. That looked closer to 100HP tbh unless something is distorting my perception or the gears are crazy long, AND that minivan had it PINNED the whole time.

Having had a supercharged Exige (S240), and now a 420R with roller barrels, the 7 is much quicker. Much more immediate response and pulls harder. 620 is bananas for sure.

Will be interesting to see the pace of the ZZR compound they've settled on.

If you don't track consider the quaife atb. Zero maintenance/wear.

Given early failure probably had the carbon plates. Known issue as I assume you've discovered online. My 2020/2021 build presumably with sintered plates is doing well at >6000, mostly track miles. It has been very clunky at low speeds since day one, but still passes preload torque test with flying colors. All plated diffs are wear items. When mine gives up I will have to decide on Titan vs Tracsport for a rebuild/replacement. I guess depends on when it goes. I love the feel of it though. So much better than a torsen.

SV is a grotesque abomination and should be banished to the bowels of Hades.

Update: So I went to throw parts at the problem (new fuel pump), and this time when I pulled the pump out, I could see the broken baffle plate loose in the bottom of the tank. I guess the first time I checked it must've been on the far right of the tank so even peering over with a light I didn't see anything. This time is was sitting there in plain view. So the lessons are - yes these cars do have baffled tanks, yes they do need the baffle, and yes my first intuition was actually correct. Anyway, gonna order a new tank from CC and hope it is made better than this one was...

I guess if you know how to tune 3 way dampers, go for it. Having a 3 way is no guarantee of perfection though. Even though I know all the theory of damper tuning, I feel I would just chase my tail trying to set it up. Suspension can be a bit of a black art with cars to me. I had 2 way penskes on another car and felt like I never got the full benefit from them.