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When I transported my ex-Birkin Zetec stuff from Steve's place to the shop in Isanti we kept the engine upright. Steve and I stabilized it with its Birkin engine mounts and couple of 2x6s, then put four ratchet straps on it.

I took out the oil cooler on my 1700 Super Sprint Caterham. Now that I have the Zetec in, I hope I don't need to put the oil cooler back. I have my air horns living in the place where the oil cooler used to live. I am a Minnesota autcrosser like the Birkin guy who sold me his entire Zetec package, and I don't see an oil cooler in that pile. Neither of us are into endurance racing.

Yup. Looks Birkin. Found my Birkin/Zetec mounts today. Forgot to shoot them.

Test drove 74PHIL to check cooling system. Changed a couple of hoses around. Finally figured out that thread size on the Euro Van 3-connector fan switch was the same as my old Rabbit, with a little help from USA7s. Amazoned in a two-connector Rabbit/Golf part. After a short test drive, I left 74PHIL running in the garage while I prepared to reunite it with the front fenders. The radiator fan came on! Little victories. It appears that Caterham used both Metric and Imperial bolts to hold on the front fenders.

Moved throttle cable closer to pivot point to increase pedal travel. Drilled new lower hole in panel and shortened the ferrule (?) to reduce wear. This gave me the opportunity to reroute the cable. Carefully set cable fitting so that pedal hit bulkhead at full-open throttle.

Wow. I sure have been neglecting this thread. Right now, I am rerouting the throttle cable to slow down the action from handlebar grip to foot pedal. I think the cooling system is OK now. Next test drive will tell my if I am putting the front fenders on and going autocrossing Sunday. My tuner may be back from vacation Monday and we will discuss the next step. No time for pix right now.

I have a set of Birken mounts for Zetec motor. I bought all the Birkin parts my friend Steve did not need for his Electric Birkin project. I'd compare the mounts to my Kent engine but it is in a different city right now. If the OP finds out that Kent and Zetec mounts are interchangeable, I'm open to offers for my Birkin/Zetec mounts. My Kent-buyer has a car that is unlikely to use Birkin mounts.

Totally different head. Caterham chassis mount is vertical. Birkin chassis mount is horizontal.

Remember that my Minnesota license plate is 74PHIL. Truck is a white F-150.

Thanks. I will have more on this by tonight, I think.

I was there in Gettysburg, and ran both the autocross and the track day in my Elise. I had originally planned on doing both in my 1979 Caterham, but I had sold it to a gentleman on Cape Cod before LOG. LOG readily accepts Seven clones. Oddly, there was a shortage of them at LOG43 in Texas, the first LOG to which I brought a Seven. About the reaction to the reaction: I was at an Evolution Autocross School with my shabby Europa S3. The professional autocross instructor did the same thing your track instructor did. When I got my Elise I was not pleased that the steering was so slow. Finally got that fixed with trick steering arms. There was absolutely no learning curve. The first slalom I hit felt perfect. How they should have built all of them.

I hear you. When I had the Elise I considered driving it to distant events, but never did. I did drive my Cayman to the Porsche Parade in Oklahoma City this year, but that's a regular car.

Heck, yes. I hope to have all the wrinkles ironed out on my engine swap. All booked up with Lotus LTD and the hotel. I'll be towing from Minnesota. I'll have my Seven in the trailer and my former engine et al in the truck bed. Hoping to find a little muscle to help out with the transfer of hardware from my F-150 to the non-Seven vehicle of a USA7s member meeting me at the LOG hotel on Friday 5 Sep 2025. Many LOGers make the work lighter...

Glue? My tunnel carpet is held in by two screws, a handful of Velcro strips, and faith. Right now it's out, pending the completion of my engine swap. I took out all the rest of the carpet in the cockpit last year. I don't race, and I have not taken the Seven to a trackday. Autocross-addicted since 1968.

There's a funny echo in here.

To start with, I believe my thermostat housing is from a 1996 Contour. The temperature sender is on the top of the housing. I'm now going back to the video.

I'm sorry if I was unclear. I was not asking if you got air at the the entrance to the Karussell. I only was using the Karussell as a location device. Think back upstream to just after the righthander before the Karussell. You go up a hill, then crest the hill, then downhill, then uphill to the entrance to the Karussell. I was talking about that first crest. There was a meeting for us LOGers at the hotel in Gettysburg the night before the track day. We were told that at that crest to be sure we were far to the left because that if we were to the right and rose into the air that we might not be on pavement when we came back down. I suggested they put out some cones. They agreed that was a good idea. In my case, my Elise in stock trim was not fast enough around that righthander and up the hill to leave the surface at the crest. About the entrance to the Karussell: I had been instructed to aim for the tree, just like at the original in Germany. As soon as a "thin white strip" (the concrete) came into view, I was to place the car at the right end of the strip. It worked perfectly every time.

I drove the Shenandoah circuit in my Elise when it was still stock. Tons of fun. Did you get air at the big drop before the Caracciola Karussell? My Elise was not fast enough to get air there then. I have often wondered if it would have by the time I got done modifying it.

What brake pads will fit the front of my Caterham? I am unsure what calipers these are. The car is a 1991 1700 Super Sprint. It seems to be the same car as a Prisoner Special Edition. I would think maybe they would be the same as a Triumph Spitfire or maybe a Triumph GT6.

At a Corvette-club autocross where they like to run fast sections interrupted by tight hairpin turns I was up in third gear when I approached one of these hairpins. I was getting alarming rear brake lockup. Rather than replumb the brake system (amazingly, the UK let Caterham sell this car in 1991 with single-circuit disc brakes), I would like to try front pads with a higher coeffcient of friction. Any recommendations for front brake pads? I am unsure what calipers these are. The car is a 1700 Super Sprint. It seems to be the same car as a Prisoner Special Edition.

There is an an area on USA7s for autocross discusson. I'd like to see it used more for autocross addicts like I.

I am a fan of available tires. I currently believe the best road and autocross tire easily available in the USA for very light cars is the Yokohama 052. Available in a range of 15" sizes and I have recently learned in a 14" size. Back in 2008 when I bought my 1979 Caterham live-axle car, I bought a set of Panasports in 7x15.* My current 1991 deDion car came to me with 6.5x15 Prisoner wheels. The Yokos come in the Caterham-original 195mm size. I am sure that lighter wheels than either the Panasport or Prisoner are easily-available. I don't have a 2001 Zetec-powered Birkin s3 (do have a lot of the internal workings therefrom installed in my Caterham**) but if I did, I'd go 15". * The gentleman who has (last I heard) my old Caterham never received the Panasports, but still wore the green original Caterham wheels. ** The Birkin which previously contained my Zetec et al is on its way to becoming an all-electric autocross car.

Exactly. That's why I was fishing for anyone who had access to an applicable schematic.

BTW, I agree that the lower hose makes more sense, but a fan running more than needed is not something on the top of my worry list just now.

Thanks, 7Westfield. Not the question I asked, but a useful answer nonetheless. How did you know the the 1975 Rabbit was the first NEW car I ever bought?