TBone1209

NMNA--- https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/160849/2025-caterham-academy-16-sigma-race-winning-c

Wow-some of those comments from the Superperformance S1 on Bat were savage.... https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2001-superformance-s1-3/

Seems awfully inexpensive for some lovely pieces. That nose cone looks like a well made custom piece. What's the plan for the car if you are getting rid of these? I'd love to see what develops....

Wasn't the Rocket a Gordon Murray creation?

This is the final assembly room with a few in the later stages of building...

I'm well aware. I've been waiting for 5 years for the build to start which it has. They build kits but they don't SELL the kits. They are only fully assembled. The SB process requires very specific information around self built or built by someone else. It's all about revenue at the end of the day. I've figured out what approach I'll take. The safe but more expensive approach but hey.... better safe than sorry...

@MV8 - LB no longer sell kits as of 2-3 years ago. LB only builds and sells either fully built complete cars ( to countries that will accept a fully built car) or turnkey minus which is the same fully built car minus the engine and trans. Every electrical and cooling system is complete and finished. Hence my earlier question re the statement of construction doc for the SB100 process. I'm not going Alfa because there's only a single year that Alfa exported 24 valve 3.2L to the US and to get any kind of power out of one of them cost a fortune and that's if you can actually find some old timer that still works on dual overhead cam Alfa motors. I'm taking the much more practical and infinitely more reliable route of a toyota 2grfe with some external and internal mods. They dyno at ~355 to the wheels NA. And you have legendary reliability of a Camry motor! Good enough for Lotus it's good enough for me.

Yea, I'm aware that CA will take their pound of flesh. Likely much more than a pound as the LB Stratos is much more than the Caterham...well perhaps the Caterham 620 might be getting up there but I went into it knowing it was going to cost a pretty penny. After digging some more, I don't think I want to mess around with claiming the car was imported as a kit (vs fully built minus the drivetrain) and that I built it as I'd have to fake receipts for the car which I won't do for obvious reasons. I'll likely have to show DMV the import paperwork which will show the cost and the tariff amount. The kicker is this ridiculous tariff of 10% (from the UK) and then the frigging 10% sales tax from CA. That's a big chuck of change. In for a penny, in for a pound as the saying goes. Alex- It's just money. Don't you get tired of looking at corn fields?

@KnifeySpoony @empti @Nocturnal005 @Slonie Hi everyone- I'm trying to get in front of when I need to get this process done and I had some specific questions regarding what to put in several of the fields on the assorted DMV forms. There are some parallels with how the pre-built Caterham are delivered and the car I'll be importing (Listerbell Stratos). I believe the term is "Turn-key minus" which is a fully assembled car minus the drive-train. With that in mind, what did everyone enter on Form 5036 (Statement of Construction) in Section 2 for the questions: This vehicle/trailer was primarily assembled: by me: for me by: Did you state that Caterham assembled the car? Or Section 6: PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION OF MAJOR COMPONENT PARTS Or Section 7: DELIVERY OF COMPLETE VEHICLE Did you select section 6 and say you built the car OR did you select section 7 and say the car was delivered complete? Thanks for any info you can provide! Tyson

Thanks for the replys. On the airflow question the sides of the engine compartment area has two large vents and the entire bottom of the engine bay is open. Regarding the size, it's pretty tight on top of engine. There's lots of area in the nose. The motor sits well behind the front axle. It's a well thought out clone. It already has a relay and a toggle which I just leave on 98% of the time. The waste gate does have a vacuum adjustment so it's runs from a stock 5lbs to 14-15lbs of boost when dialed up. My thought was to run a small 15"x 6" intercooler to cool that charge when on hard runs or at the track.

So I'm having a new(larger) radiator made for my clone and I wanted to get some thoughts on running a full fan shroud/ pull fan which I can have made at the same time. I've read anything over ~25-30 mph and the shroud/fan combo can actually reduce cooling effectiveness. Thoughts? Background: It's a Ford 2.3L turbo motor (88 Thunderbird turbo coupe) without an intercooler so the reason for the larger radiator is to run a small intercooler in front of a portion of the radiator. I tried an IC with the current radiator but it didn't work. IC blocked too much airflow resulting in overheating.

Does anyone know what these usually weigh? I love the idea of a 9k. NA motor in a 7. What are the suspension and brake details?

Yea, he was supposed to call me weeks ago but never happened...

Saw this on IG. Crazy would be an understatement. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2_9BwtIdCQ/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Not sure what it would take but it's obviously not selling here as a track car. Making it streetable, get it titled and registered and put it on BaT would be my suggestion. OR just put it on Bat at NR and get it gone. I think the limited market here has been tried and the multiple "it's for sale" - "it's not for sale" attempts have further exhausted the limited audience. Not trying to be an ass but it sounds like you aren't driving it and it's not going to get any easier as it ages and summer takes hold. Just my 2 cents!