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Don, are you looking for help installing the LSD in to the differential?

Brad, PM sent, Jim R.

Another great source is Redline Components in Caterham, UK they are specialists in all things Caterham Cars.

Well, it was a good weekend, we won both races but there was a serious crash on the start of the Sunday race, the driver of the car is OK but his race car is totaled, big time!

This picture is 205-50-15 front and 225-50-15 rear A6s

And the car that won SCCA Nationals this year in E Production is in that pack and one former podium finisher at Nationals.

Really! Oh didn't you know the SCCA changed their name to the Mazda Car Club of America, MCCA?

We have an SCCA Regional race coming at at Texas World Speedway this weekend and it could be our last race there as the track is shutting down next year. The property is being redeveloped and we will miss this track. Looks like at least two Caterhams are running in E Production. Here is a picture from a previous race.

I've just been through this, here is the correct sender: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VDO-323-057-300-deg-F-Temperature-Sender-/311043168321?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item486b9e1841&vxp=mtr Make sure the body has the ground lug attached when you reinstall it, the old spade lug fits right on the new style top, you just push it on with the split side down. Jim

Buy a team and get Alonso and Ross Brawn! Or save money and just burn $100MM and say you raced in F1.

Are you talking about the fill plug on the side of the gearbox, or did someone add a drain plug to the bottom of the box? If it is the fill plug on the side, that is not an allen in the stock form, it is a square recess in the plug. If it is the stock side plug use 3/8" square stock about 3/4" long and a combination wrench.

Not a bad showing at all for the Caterhams, given how severely handicapped they are by the SCCA!

Final Qualifying for EP at SCCA nationals: Pos Car # Name Hometown Year Make Model Sponsor Q 1 Q 2 Q 3 1 71 Matt Reynolds Boerne, TX Mazda Miata ReynoldsBros Rcg/JPM/VintageConnect 1:38.362 1:38.665 1:37.119 2 76 Jim Daniels Germantown, TN Mazda Miata WebLaps.com 1:37.973 1:38.639 1:37.863 3 34 Jesse Prather Topeka, KS 2010 Mazda MX-5 JPM/Mazdaspeed/Carbotech/Hoosier 1:39.738 1:40.433 No time 4 17 Josh Carroll Danville, CA Mazda RX-7 Endsight 1:40.941 1:41.787 1:39.954 5 5 Aaron Downey Rossmoor, CA 1976 Mazda Miata roundpeg.com/Mazdaspeed/Carbotech 1:40.135 1:40.775 1:41.147 6 89 Jon Brakke Fargo, ND Mazda Miata Margaret Peterson Bars 1:41.004 1:40.975 1:41.341 7 43 Bruce Qvale Palm Beach, FL 1973 Jensen-Healey Healey Huffaker Engineering No time 1:43.329 1:41.495 8 14 Roland Kamber Campbell, CA Mazda RX-7 Precision Identity Corp. 1:43.648 1:41.791 1:43.464 9 28 Anthony Jimerson Benicia, CA 1986 Mazda RX-7 A.T. Mechanical/JPM/Hoosier No time 1:42.155 No time 10 9 Rick Kosdrosky Granbury, TX Caterham 7 America Kosmic Enterprises/Hoosier/Summit 1:44.662 1:43.899 1:42.362 11 7 Larry Cooper Sparks, NV Datsun 240z Half Bald !? 1:43.406 1:42.650 1:42.362 12 75 Mike Halbrook Coppell, TX Caterham 7 America 1:45.742 1:45.406 1:42.406 13 42 Philip Royle Winnetka, CA Mazda RX-7 CureSarcoma/Electromotive/Hoosier 1:44.774 1:44.289 1:42.558 14 27 Jamie Blust Castle Rock, CO Mazda RX-7 Mazda/Hoosier 1:50.667 1:44.875 1:42.976 15 6 Joe Kelly Santa Clarita, CA Caterham 7 America CFF Motorsports No time 1:47.863 1:43.671 16 138 John Longwell Fallbrook, CA 1997 BMW 328is Achilles Motorsports/Hoosier No time 1:44.135 No time 17 09 Scott Graf Toledo, OR Nissan 260-Z Eat Fish/ Eat Crab 1:45.819 1:45.959 1:48.166 18 91 Steven Sacks San Francisco, CA Mazda RX-7 No time 1:49.725 1:46.682 19 19 Kale Swifts Surrey, BC Mazda RX-7 West Coast Hot Rods/Allan Autotech 2:04.967 1:49.025 1:46.818 20 79 Phil Mendelovitz Tarzana, CA Nissan SRL 311U Toptech Motorsports 1:59.847 1:49.517 1:47.647 21 74 Paul Pineider Colleyville, TX Caterham 7 America pfacpa.com/Pinnacle Autosports 1:47.905 1:50.236 1:48.524 22 3 Larry Svaton Alvin, TX Caterham 7 America Over Fifty Motorsports/Hoosier Tire 1:53.708 1:49.782 1:48.032 23 53 Guy Ruse Boulder, CO 1987 Mazda RX-7 BIG CHOICE Brewing 1:49.961 1:48.548 1:49.238 24 96 James Hagerty Santa Barbara, CA Mazda RX-7 Mariah motorsport/Hoosier Tire West 1:54.210 1:53.117 1:48.991 25 02 Brandon Droese Goleta, CA 1987 Mazda RX-7 Mariah Motorsports 1:56.321 1:53.706 1:49.929 26 188 Michal Karpinski Hayward, CA Mazda RX-7 Rotary Evolution/Wacky Wankel Race 2:11.425 No time 1:51.141 27 56 Matthew Insley Royal Oaks, CA 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT Pasillas Tire Serv No time 1:58.080 1:57.240

There will be an autocross at the Houston Police Academy on the 19th of October, I will be out in my Caterham and usually a Birkin shows up. It is the BMWCCA and guests and rookies are always welcome, last month we got 7 runs and the weather was terrific. Here is a link, if you register use Class X4: http://www.houston-bmwcca.com/?page_id=403 We autocross at the Academy every month except June, July, August so come on out.

OK, day 1 qualifying for EP: Jim Daniels Mazda 1:37:9 Matt Reynolds Mazda 1:38:3 Jesse Prather Mazda 1:39:7 Aaron DowneyMazda 1:40:1 Josh Carroll Mazda 1:40:9 John Brakke Mazda 1:41:0 Now all the way down in 16th: Rick Kosdrosky Caterham 1:44:6 Rick's car is nicely prepared and Rick is a very good driver, it is just that he is not in the SCCA's preferred car. What Mazda wants in the rules, Mazda gets...

I suspect that there will be somewhere around a 2 second a lap difference between anything Mazda and the Caterhams. The SCCA has pretty much given Mazda what they want and denied requests from Caterham owners for modifications that would keep us competitive. But then again Mazda pours money in to the SCCA, and as the say, "money talks and BS walks" In fact there was one Caterham in our Region who beat a National Class RX-8, so the SCCA just added 100lb weight to Caterhams with any SVT engine parts, oh and allowed the RX-8 to take out 100 lbs, nice SCCA, real nice!

Yes, SpeedCast on line, the coverage is OK, FP is Friday the 10th and EP is Saturday the 11th, here is the schedule: http://scca.cdn.racersites.com/prod/assets/2014_Runoffs_Schedule_9.5.14.pdf

This next week and weekend are the SCCA National Championship Runoffs, there are 5 Caterhams that I know of competing in E Production, likely some Lotus 7s in F Production. Although the rules create a huge disadvantage for all things 7 in the SCCA, it will be fun to watch, the races are webcast, usually.

Same pattern since the early 60s, I have owned various cars from lotus and it has always been the same pattern, good selling cars but no 'next' car that will sell in good numbers.

Wow, a vacuum booster, what does this car weigh? Seems to me if you size the master cylinder correctly you can get rid of the vacuum booster, could this be the issue?

A window net and arm restraints doesn't make a lot of sense, SCCA and NASA require one or the other on closed top cars and arm restraints on open top cars with a cage.

Unless you are trying to lighten your rotors, there is no need to drill with modern brake pads. We have never had a single issue with braking on the race car where we must run the small front rotors and solid disc or the street/autocross/DE car that has undrilled upgraded fronts. And we always out brake everyone around us. Just no need for slots or holes on these cars in terms of braking performance.

No is lobbying for Caterham except the people who race them and compared to Mazda we are round error!

Thank you for the heads up!

I welcome the update and the wider chassis, I just want to see that SCCA will allow the older chassis to remain competitive. It is not a perfect science but at least we need the cycle wings, wider tires, and maybe another point of compression to keep up.