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My lights don't mount that way so I'm afraid I can't be of much help. 1995 Caterham Sprint.

I have the wedge-style mounting point on my tailshaft. I got a new rubber mount from RD.

I'm being uncomfortably reminded of discussions surrounding the oiling system in my M96 (Porsche 996) engine...

Heaven help that carb tuner.

@JohnCh I agree, not ideal. @IamScotticus perhaps a new poll is a better solution?

6T, 7T, whatever it takes.

Poll won't let me vote twice -- that's downright un-American!

A bit of a hike for me, not to mention we're having a guest that weekend. But it sounds like fun. Good luck, free bump.

My understanding is that if Copart doesn't get the bid they want, they just relist the car again. Another youtuber (the "I do cars" guy) had high bid at the same amount for the same car 3 different times before Copart finally relented and let him have it.

This is coming along handsomely!

JAL and a black SJEVEN here, pleasethanks.

I'm tempted but afraid they'd be total overkill for my 135HP car.

Repeat of a 2020 auction on BaT: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/caterham-super-7-4/

That sounds like an expansion tank that's not under pressure.

I need it in yellow. Oil stains be damned!

I finally bought a toolbox big enough to hold my metric tools as well as my English stuff. Picked it up yesterday. I swear they packed it to go into a war zone. Shipping weight 302 lbs., toolbox weight 199 lbs. That's a lot of protection. Good thing too, because someone bashed the pallet up pretty well but failed to make it through the layers of plastic, particleboard, cardboard, and air that surrounded the thing during shipment. To my great good fortune it was at the perfect height on the bed of the Taco to slide right over onto the bottom box. Never had to try to lift the beast. The next big challenge is going to be remembering where I put everything...!

Domain name squatters. *spit* I snagged my family name many years ago and "squat" on it just so this can't happen.

Even though the car only has a couple thousand miles on it, it's still a 1995 vehicle and the rubber bits show signs of drying out. I'm preparing to replace the rubber suspension bushings and wanted to pick the community brain here on whether to go with rubber or one of the more exotic-colored alternatives. If the latter, what have folks had good luck with? There have been some polyurethane bushings used in BMWs that have literally crumbled into pieces in a frighteningly short time, so I want to be sure that if I go that way I get proven good parts. Are polyurethane kits even available for imperial solid axle cars from the 1990's? Or maybe I should just get a kit from Beachman and stick to the original material? And so on. Thanks in advance for your input. In the meantime I finally got tired of not having proper storage for my English sockets and wrenches. Up until now I've kept them stored in a box on a shelf, and rolled them out when I'm working on the 7. The problem with that is they take up horizontal space in the garage, which is already a precious resource. So I bit the bullet and found a larger top tool chest that should give me a place to keep them all handy. As such projects often go, the bigger top box also means moving a whole bunch of stuff mounted on the wall next to where it will go, and I even have to move the entire toolbox setup to the left by a couple of inches so that the new box doesn't cover a wall outlet. Not a big deal, except that the toolbox butts up against a workbench and the workbench is bolted in place into the concrete. So the past few days' tasks have been pulling stuff off the walls, filling holes, and fabricating a piece to fill the gap between the toolbox and the workbench. The law of unintended consequences is having a heyday in my garage!

Ooh! I should have mentioned the location -- a Porsche parts warehouse and training facility. They even had folks from a nearby dealership on hand to take parts orders and pick them right from the warehouse inventory, which I took advantage of to pick up a large item that would have cost a fair bit to ship.

Not my cars exactly, but one of my other cars did get me the invitation! I went to Porsche Club of America event last week, "Tech Tactics". It was very entertaining and informative. Here are a few pics of cars and/or bits of them. This was our greeter at the entrance. Some of the stuff they use to train techs. GT3 with Manthey Racing kit added -- $67K just for the bits, not including installation! They demo'd stuff to us using this car such as the Manthey wheel alignment rig you can see attached to the hubs. A modern Porsche flat six. I don't think the belt can even be changed from above the vehicle. It really looks like a service nightmare.

Maybe it WAS. But look at that chassis.

Whatever else you do, please be sure the type of taper on the lug nut matches the taper on the wheel. (Ignore the "compatible" mentions on the image -- it's just here to show the difference)

Those SU's and stacks are, I dunno, disturbing. Cool, but disturbing.

Wh-wh-whaaatttt?

What is it and how do I rent it?