Wayne Stambaugh

If you can get one for that engine, you are right! Even at that you'll likely have so jetting/tuning to do.

You might want to look at a Weber chart and find out all the specs on these. The Type is 40DCOE 19 and they are both the same. The No. is 6824 on one and 6899 on the other. If you can determine based on the numbers I’d feel comfortable with you going with them.

It’s not a jetting problem. Yes obviously you can reject any way that you like. There are jets, emulsion tubes, tube ends, venturis, that can all be changed. I say they won’t work on a Seven I am talking in particular a Ford Cosworth 1600 BDR. It’s about the pull direction for the throttle hook up. You can make anything work if you have machining capability and time is no issue. These pull from the opposite direction as the Webers on my BDR. I don’t want to sell them to you letting you think they will bolt right on and everything will hook up and work just fine because it won’t (again based on the BDR engine) If you understand this and still want them, I’ll be happy to ship them to you.

Sorry to be slow getting back to you.

Donnie, I do still have these carburetors and they are still for sale. I am sure you understand they really won’t work on a super 7. They are likely for a BMW possibly a 1600 or a 2002 but I don’t know that for sure. They are actually in the Weber boxes that they were originally received in. No they are definitely no Chinese knockoffs. If you like I’ll pack them up and get you a shipping price and they I’ll get them on their way. I had really forgotten about them. I had planned to advertise them on a BMW forum but didn’t get around to it.

Sale pending.

I purchased a lowered floor pan for my 86 S3 DeDion Caterham from Redline Components. As you can see by the label this is not made by Redline, it’s an original Arch made Caterham part. If you have a straight axle car pre 96 this may fit. You can always call Caterham to verify. This sells for $450 US. My loss, your gain, I’ll take $275 for it, you pay the shipping, I’m in Montgomery Alabama.

Bought a lowered left floor pan and a master cyl/Brake pedal bracket from Redline Components. The label says its for a pre 1996 S3 and post 2000. I mentioned that my car had a DeDion rear suspension as well. The pan it approximately 2” to narrow at tunnel side. Front to back it seems to be okay. At least it serves as a good pattern. It does give me a lot of dimensional information that will come in handy.

Are there and shows or gathering of Caterham Sevens and Lotus Sevens in the Eastern half of the US this year?

Mine measures 37-3/4 as well. It was worth a look!

I'll try to get dimensions this evening. Thanks. Wayne

I haven’t measured yet but what year was the hood supposed to fit? I have a 1986 S3 and wouldn’t mind having one on it.

I’m still recovering from skin cancer surgery on my left hand but my interest and effort hasn’t changed. I started a new full time job the first work day of the new year. It requires about 50 hours a week so it does steal some of my Caterham time. I posted a note in the tech forum minutes ago, asking if any forum members are using the Tillett B6 40 extra cut seat. I have postponed other work on the car until I can get into a comfortable position in the car to enable me to drive it. As I may have mentioned before, when I lift my left leg to put my foot on the clutch, my left leg, just above the knee hits the frame tube under the bottom edge of the dash. This restricts me from getting my foot on top of the clutch pedal. I am very tempted to purchase this seat to see how much difference it would make. Even if it doesn’t totally resolve the problem it would certainly be a big improvement especially if you are driving the car hard. I’ll keep you posted as thing progress.

I’m still fighting to find my ideal driver position in my 86 Caterham S3. I have had several people question the chassis length (cockpit length) and the original build paperwork show “standard chassis” . Based on the fact I’m 6’ tall and the word “standard” in the paperwork, this chassis has to be the shortest one available, otherwise you would need to be less than 5’ 6” tall to drive it. I am considering lowering the floor but only as a last resort. Before I do that I think I’d rather try a Tillett seat. I have talked to Tillett and have been advised to order a B6 40 extra cut (Caterham cut) seat, bottom mount. In researching this seat it appears that you can get the bottom of the seat almost making contact with the floor. I haven’t seen the seat in person but the seat shell doesn’t look like it could be any thicker than about 3/8”. Again, this seems to be as low as you can get without lowering the floor. Has anyone out there purchased this seat for there car? I know Caterham offers a Tillett seat on their website but my guess is that they probably mark it up and I couldn’t get any details about it anyway. Any information or advice anyone can offer will be appreciated.