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Thanks for the info. Please clarify the pinion shaft measurement. Is that from the end of the tie rod or the end of the rack housing? Do you know the thread size and pitch? Thanks again.

Think about a Toyota Prius with Corvette sound track! I drove an all electric Peugeot 206 in Paris a few years ago. Had to watch the peds carefully as they would step off the curb in front of it because they didn't hear it coming.

Snookwheel, Did you happen to take some measurements of the Chevette rack? I'd like to know total end to end length and where in that length the pinion shaft is and roughly the angle it exits the rack. Very clean installation. I'd like to add it to my Caterham SV.

The Lotus XI I dream about. If only I could afford it.

I was writing a reply on the Caterham model thread an hour or so ago and it stopped accepting keyboard inputs in the text field. The lower left tray was telling me the forum was not responding. After trying a few things I bought up the task manager and Firefox was not responding. I ended Firefox and restarted it but it wouldn't bring up the forum's tab automatically as it is set to do. Killed it again and started again, same result. I rebooted the computer and tried again and got Firefox's "Now this is embarrassing, we can't seem to restart one of your tabs" message which lists the tabs and lets you unclick the ones you think are the problem. Another reboot of the computer and Firefox started without tabs and I was able to get back into the forum and redo my response to the Caterham model thread and this one as well.

Check the Ebay stores. There were several un-assembled models available in the Buy It Now $225 range with shipping from Japan at about $50 -60. That is as cheap as I have seen them in the two years I have been watching.

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/pts/1421880164.html It's in Kansas City, $2,500 for the engine add $1,000 for the trans and clutch, 35k miles. I just spotted this looking a CL, I know nothing about it. Thought someone on here might be interested.

Highest I've seen an un-assembled kit in a box go for is $325. Un-assembled kits are worth more than one already put together. Most of us want the fun of doing it ourselves. You might be dreaming. There is a new kit on ebay ending in a few minutes with a bid of $215 and no reserve. Edit: It sold for a little over $221. There are at least two more kits with buy it now prices of $225.

Mazda, It is working for me now. Thanks!

An un-assembled kit still in the box sold for $150 a few weeks ago, I was #2 in line. I'd like to build my own but I'll start the bidding at $100 for this one.

Now that is strange. When I pressed the submit button I got a message saying I had to wait 30 seconds between posts. However I had only clicked it once. I see two identical posts listed now. I also got the syntax error message when I tried to see whether the post had been made. Edit: I got the same 30 second warning when I tried to post this one but only one copy made it in.

It has happened to me once yesterday. I have also found when using the New Posts link that recently it doesn't show how many replies have already been made. It just shows 0 but there can be several replies all time stamped before I hit the New Posts link.

It has happened to me once yesterday. I have also found when using the New Posts link that recently it doesn't show how many replies have already been made. It just shows 0 but there can be several replies all time stamped before I hit the New Posts link.

It takes a lot to get me mad and far more for me to snap like that. This had been going on for over a year and she came in screaming at a really bad moment. I'm truly glad I missed her with the wrench. I have been informed that what I originally posted was actually written by Peter Egan. It came to me without attribution in an email so I will leave it up to our moderator as to whether it should be removed.

Here is my personal story about the Son of a Bitch Tool. In the late '60s I worked part time in service station repairing cars on a commission basis, I got half of the flat rate and half of the markup on the parts I installed. The owner's wife was a dingbat who didn't have two brain cells to rub together. We called her Single Cell. She also did the books on the service station and every month they would not balance and she would come storming into the station and accuse me of stealing from them. My buddy was the manager and would have to spend hours going over the books to find her errors and explain every time that it was impossible for me to steal from them since I had no access to the money or the books. One time I had had a particularly bad time with a fuel pump on a Mustang. Two new fuel pumps I installed were bad and I had to eat the time. The engine was also a grease ball and hard to work on. Single Cell comes blasting in and starts yelling at me from across two service bays. I had a ratchet in my hand and suddenly I snapped and threw the ratchet at her full force. It missed her head by several inches and the butt end of it punched a hole in the cinderblock wall next to her ear. It remained stuck in the wall. She never spoke to me again. I don't recall just what I screamed at her but it might have been...

I think I use the last tool more than any other. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "Oh, shit!" SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short. PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle... It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.. TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity. Also proficient at shortening fingers. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper. BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads. STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use. ( Also used on fingers and knees to determine that you are out of Band-Aids. Alternate solution, masking tape and a small piece of paper towel) SON OF A B*TCH TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling "Son of a bitch" at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

Compare the R500 in this video to the one with Stig on the Top Gear track posted elsewhere in the video section. I get the impression that the 'Ring driver is catching/correcting the car when the rear steps out where the Stig is deliberately hanging it out and holding it there. Much smoother transitions into and out of the drift. Of course there is much more room on the Top Gear track to recover if something goes wrong. Still, a great demonstration of driving skills from all three drivers.

The Ebay ad says it is one of three ali frames produced. This one is new old stock. Makes you wonder how well the other two survived and why he never sold it back when it was produced. There must be a reason why he didn't continue with the ali frame.

An aluminum framed Se7en, now that's adding lightness.

My last encounter with one of those strange basins was in a Pension in Rome where I filled it with ice to cool a bottle of wine. I saw something similar to those tubes on the truck wheels during my marathon trip to Roanoke a couple of weeks ago. They appeared to be keeping the outer hub from spinning with the wheel and tire although these with the levers on them make me wonder if they are how they actuate the brakes. Can you get some closeups of the hubs and where the tubes attach to the truck body?

Happened in Denmark. Link is to a Miata.net forum posting. http://forum.miata.net/vb/showpost.php?p=4156428&postcount=1

Makes you wonder if there are two cars out there with the same serial number.

Probably master shut off valves for the plumbing. F & P may be the Portuguese equivalent of H & C.

Hi George, Welcome to the USA7s forum. I saw your emails on the subscription list and hoped you would find your way here. Both of you should come on up some nice day and go for a ride in my Caterham. I live in Erie. Call me to arrange a time. 303 661 9914 Here's a link to my build page, different than the pictorial essay linked in my signature. I bought the car as a rolling chassis so I didn't get the pleasure of building the car myself but I did choose a different drivetrain and that was a small challenge to work out. http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2175152 Near the bottom of the page is a link called Engine Installation that takes you to the nuts, bolts and wires of the install. Glad to hear we are about to have another Se7en in the area. We've had a few small gatherings with 4 - 6 Se7ens showing up. PM me your email and I'll pass along an invite next time we do it. We also have the advantage of having Nathan Down living in the area. He was the designer of the SV and worked at the factory for some time before crossing the pond to work first for RMSC (now Caterham USA) and currently for a small race and vintage car restoration shop in Boulder. He probably knows more about Caterhams than anyone in this country and he is willing to share his knowledge when problems pop up.

From the Bring A Trailer folks, an early 911 Targa with a 300 hp Mazda turbo rotary engine up for sale on the Lotus Talk forum. http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/f162/fs-75-porsche-911-13-b-turbo-78726/