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I find that the smug Porsche people who correct people who say porsh are almost-always not saying the name correctly themselves. This cracks me up. I personally don't give a fig how anyone pronounces it, but if you are going to demonstrate it you ought do more than add an "ah". I usually say my Porsche is pronounced "KAYman" because I am a mid-engine snob. According to the Porsche company, the name does not have a hard rhotic R.

I have one Tillett seat and another on order. I find the Caterham 6-points a real pain to use. The pull-up lap adjusters argue with the side ports in the Tillett seat. I just ordered and received two sets of Lifeline harnesses with an FIA date of 2031. The adjusters on the shoulders are pull-downs. The adjusters on the lap belt are pull-down and look like they will not interfere with the Tillett seats. These adjusters are built directly into the tabs that connect to the rotary buckle.

That's chicken COOP. The Chicken Coupe' was the transportation of Chickenman. Yes, I am old-enough to remember the goofy syndicated series of radio spots in the 1960s.

Not to mention a button release instead of a rotary release.

All three of my Sevens are illegal in CT. Moto-Lita, Momo, and "Momo-type?", they are all about 12" OD.

I thought about that later when I realized I have used the same phrase for the same reason!

I am open to suggestions.

I have been looking at the new fuel tank I have to put into 74PHIL to fix fuel-flow problems. Looking at the placement of the fittings on the tank compared to the old one, it looks like I need to get a filler setup like the one on my CSR. The pipe on the 1991 S3 is halfway between the the fore and aft edges of the tank. The new one is much closer to the back of the tank. Are the "new style" fillers on the S3, SV and CSR all the same? Can I buy this stuff in the USA? Caterham clobbered me for shipping this last time I got something.

I seem to racall that the British cars I had with drum brakes that I needed a square socket to properly adjust them. Bought a special little rachet wrench. Have not used it in years.

Not the case with my first Caterham. My 1979 car had a crossflow 1600. The dry sump looked like an inverted straight-ridge roofline. It stayed WAY above the bottom of the bellhousing.

Does not bother me at all. As far as the CSR goes, all the soft goods I'd want to add would be a Bimini that attaches to the roll cage. I don't have a windshield/windscreen and rollbar setup for the half-hoods that are available. If i did, I'd rather have a full hood with a zip-open backlight like I have for my S3-body Caterham.

You need to tighten your Bimini.

This is Saturday at the same location as Sunday. But the event was different. A cross between a regular autocross and a track day. Using the roadways on the site without pylon slaloms and chicanes. The fact that it was run like an autocross and not a trackday meant that despite the higher speeds, there was still no opportunity to heat the tires. In the afternoon, I did three runs in close succession, and the tires were essentially ambient temperature. Other folks were spraying their tires to cool them. Just in case you are wondering about the lump in the boot cover, and the general lack of the drum-like tautness you expect from a Caterham boot cover: I think the car originally had the hood sticks, whether or not it ever had a hood. With the poppers in the normal positions and no hood sticks to hold up the edges, the boot cover fits rather loosely. In a way, that's alright, because I think the backstays for the roll cage cross the plane of the top of the body rather aft of where the regular roll bars' backstays would. Oh, the lump. That's a full-face helmet I left in there for a short while. I believe it would not have fit there if the cover were stretched in the ordinary way. I do have one popper to replace, and I have a supply.

I have never seen a defroster that worked from the OUTside of the glass, but you never know. Yes, I know I have electrical wires INside my Caterham windscreen.

While it may solve the usual problems with gas-station fill of sevens, access TO it might be weird. Let's hear from Superperformance drivers.