slowdude

Hey All, Coworker has an S4. He got a taste of my weather gear and is now looking to prolong enjoying his S7. Trouble is, we can't seem to find anything about weather gear for the S4. I was able to track down some stuff on blat chat about AUS/NZ built S4s having weather gear ready cowls, but nothing really after that. Send him to soft bits and have a custom half hood made, then figure out some sort of windscreen surround for the half hood? Doors are hard to find and no one will make them?

Went through the wiring diagrams for a 1995 S3 from blat chat. No luck. Went through the wires with my dad (who was a MASSIVE HELP. Love ya Dad!) and was able to get the following wiring for the JAL LEDs when you do not have a plug. Sharing the below in hopes it will help someone else with a Rover K series Mashup. The car being a 1.4 and then having a 1.8 dropped into it must mean I have a wierd loom - I didn't have a purple indicator wire like Revilla on blatchat has outline. Please, if anyone needs help with this, don't hesitate to reach out.

Exactly. I was going to buy a reconstructed one in TN. Insurance companies were difficult.

I won't give up my secrets!! Or safe street parking spot on the UES. Maybe over beers at the NJMP event though...

Those were separate, I think now it's a McLaren dealership? Motorcar has been trying to get into the car sales game for a while now. Last I checked they were a BaT partner. Long Island traffic is gonna be brutal in the summer. Lot of sunscreen for that traffic.

Matt @ Motorcar Manor is great, puts you right near bear mountain for some good driving. Hagerty is in Bedford NY, I believe. You'll have to deal with a lot of new money wanting to be old money if you go up that way. Its a wierd scene, I prefer the money isn't a thing and let's drive our cars scene. Parking in nyc is crazy expensive. Our building is around $900 a month for a midsize SUV. Plus you have clowns who will ride your clutch moving it around etc. Side note, I'm echoing everything @Croc says about living with this type of vehicle in the city. I had a motorcycle as my only mode of transit (doing reverse commute) for two years. Even on a tall motorcycle, you'd get idiots who don't know how to drive. Oddly I feel safer on my GSA than I do driving the caterham sometimes. Do the research and find a spot that makes sense. Even some of the bigger car collectors in NYC store their cars out in Jersey. Prices are better and public transit isn't too bad.

Reconstructed title 3x. I wonder what happened. Will watch this closely. If it remains high with a bad title, then there's hope for us clean title people.

Ya, I couldn't justify the 400$ or so for the direct swap ones. Turns out it would have been wasted as I have bullet connectors. Will take my time and test voltage due to red/green colorblindness, but it wasn't too bad. $5 metal drill bit later and some music in the garage. Ahh this is a good idea, always pick up a thing or two from you @MV8, appreciate it. I will need to do the eyelet trick on one of the front screws. Trying to replace all tired hardware when I can. Did you need to primer anything before using the reflective paint? The reverse lights are reflective, only the wierd "fog hazard lights" have that matte, I'm wondering if it's to dull the running lights in the back? I don't really understand the purpose of it.

Rear LEDs came in today. Started with the reverse and rear fog lights, as they were just bulbs. Got 3 out of 4 done... it's clear these haven't been changed in a very long time. I have screws in one rear fog which are completely disintegrated. I figure I'll need to drill them out? Worst case I bash the cover in and Dremel out the old screws as replacement covers are relatively cheap. JAL rear clusters I'll try and tackle this weekend between some house projects, looks like I have a fried ground from water ingress.

Exactly what I think, wrap should be a bit easier to get to as well.

Heh. I am hoping to get a motorcycle track day on the new track in August, if possible. Will try and take as many notes etc as possible.

It's on my list after the de dion bushing gets done. High temp paint the headers, then cure them. Then wrap headers. At least for me it makes sense as the K series has a habit of trying alternators.

With Scotticus. Bringing low vol uk car back to UK will be easier than bringing to Germany etc. Did some research (exploring expat Euro assignment). My wife's macan would need indicators and emissions tune to pass Tüv. They're slightly more lenient if it's returning to the homeland. There are shops in Europe which help with legality etc. It sounds like you're going to the UK? MOT shouldn't be too bad, and caterham definitely has some dealership which knows an MOT testing station which knows these vehicles. Reimporting to the US might be ok as the car was originally delivered.

Blocked work calendar. Can I camp by the garages like a normal event?

Once they're on the way I'll take some photos and do a sticky etc. Classic car LEDs for fogs etc as it's cheaper overall and doesn't get used. I went the cheap route and got the LED board I need to mount to the caterham backing plate. Seemed like an OK amount of work to save $300 or so. I almost backed up into my daily due to these short new england winter days. Definitely need it a bit brighter at night! 😅

Setup the 3D printed mirrors and installed new spa mirrors. Setup new RAM mount on dash from Ebay so I can have GPS. Currently waiting for powerflex to get new center De dion bushings in, and the new A Frame is sitting in place. JAL LED rear light clusters ordered, along with rear LED fog and reverse lights. The rear light clusters came with an LED flasher relay, but doing some research it looks like I'll need a diode due to the draw on the dashboard turn signal indicator. I'm hoping that's an easy install as I am pretty bad with electronics. Excited to get all new (brighter) lighting in the car + making it more daily drive-able. Spring is coming up soon.

Your broker wasn't able to get a specialty insurance to cover? It doesn't have a VIN yet? Or the VIN isn't in North American systems until they give you an MSO? I bought a used car (so it had a VIN, just not in NA systems), and hagerty was able to insure. You try insuring it as a vehicle and not as a kit?

Welcome to it!! Don't worry about the overspend, it will go away the second you goose it in a corner. It's going to make noises when you drive it, they're normal. As long as engine pulls strong, bearings feel good and it stops, drive it until you've got a good idea of what you want to do. Get as many miles as possible and welcome!

Fantastic price, plus if there are any issues you know where to find him.

They might have overpaid at auction (if that's how they acquired it), and would lose their shirt going lower. It seems a rather optimistic price.

Interesting fact. Is it because it is limited to the UK you think? I'm the 9th owner of my 7, with the first owner putting 10k kms on the car, then it rotating through 7 people for the next 29km (the last 2 had the car and did maximum 1k km each). Part of it may have been the work the car needed, but some of it must have been weather. I know one previous owner was a bit heavier and had the quick release installed. Very interesting info @Vovchandr, good stuff!

33 here, turning 34. Decided to do the mid life crisis early + fortunate to have sacrificed a lot to cut down on student loan debt to be able to afford a 7. <rant> Don't listen to auto journos (have dealt with them a lot on the OEM side), they all have ego's, very, very few are genuine and reflect / understand the younger generation. Their livelihood is based on getting attention. They're all divas who treat press / fleet cars like garbage and get bent out of shape if the car doesn't have xxx options. I'm getting served with a lot of gen z car content on IG/Tik Tok. The car people are out there, they're driving instead of podcasts etc. OEMs are looking for authenticity now with their partnerships. The younger generation are much more gracious and honest about the vehicles they drive, for better and worse.</rant> Best thing we can do is drive the crap out of them, show people they're not that impractical, and be welcoming to all 7s. I constantly tell people to check out westfields/rhd ham's/ indys/gbs zero or the locust forums. Looking forward to spreading the joy of analog autos.

Gone.

They're fantastic and it pains me there's nothing in the current portfolio which scratches that itch. It's very hard to sell manual rwd coupes to the general public, especially when the pricing gap is either cheaper (brz etc) or astronomical (looking at you P cars). Maybe things will change though, and these types of cars may come back..

I'm very spoiled through a subsidized work car. It's a tough life. Might take a chance on the X2 as the next car. I can't bring myself to have an SUV though.