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Thanks. Folks at the local autocrosses this last weekend know the tuner I intend to use and say that he puts straps over the front wheels for RWD cars.

Not sure I fully-understand your answer. Picture? Drawing? ===== Sidebar: I always tie down cars in my trailer with a strap over each tire. I get them from Autohauler Supply 18200 SW Teton Ave Tualatin OR 97062 autohaulersupply.com I just picked up a set of these, and they look great: https://www.autohaulersupply.com/catalog/horizontal/ultimate-horizontal-e-track-wheel-strap-low-pro-with-ratchet-red-diamond-weave-554450.php I have been using an older style from them and decided it was time to upgrade.

This has a plastic case just like the one on the VDO fuel gauge that came to me broken in my Seven. Probably due to a DPO losing one of the mounting nuts and trying to compensate by over-tightening the one remaining nut.

How does one tie down a de Dion Caterham on a dynamometer? I will be bringing my Seven to a tuner to check the injection wiring and to tune my Megasquirt 3. Of course we don't want to damage either my Caterham or his Mustang. I presume we are primarily concerned with the de Dion tube. My instinct is that the ends of the tube are involved, but I have never dyno'ed any car so I need all the experienced advice I can get.

Yeah. Cycle fenders would have made it easier on my Hayabusa injection. I need to get a tuner at it to see if filters directly on the throttle bodies with no velocity stacks will work. Meanwhile, the Cayman has been a big heavy stand-in at the autocrosses. Took time out from 7s to take the Cayman to the Porsche Parade. Totally-different head: The stock autocross class does not allow autocross tires, so I left the truck and trailer at home and drove KMAN 2.9 on Michelin all-weather tires. I will not be doing that to take 74PHIL to LOG. I need to get 74PHIL fully-autocrossable.

I bought Grant GT steering wheel ifor my Europa. Wonderful wheel at a great price. The car had come to me with a different Grant model on it that was dreadful in every way. The Grant GT had a red center cap with a stylized "GT" logo. When I went to Texas to pick up a TR4 I had bought for my wife, Jay Mitchell asked me to co-drive his Europa in an autocross in Waco. I got in his car and realized he had a Grant GT wheel with a Lotus center cap. Not long after that I saw an Email from a guy in Nottingham England who had two boxes of OEM center caps, one box full of yellow/green caps and one box full of black/silver caps. He wanted 19 US dollars in cash for each cap. I sent him a $20 bill for a yellow/green and a note to keep the change. The cap installed in seconds with no tools. That wheel with that cap was in the running for the best-looking part of that car, along with the koa-wood-burl dashboard.

That looks like a Moto-Lita wheel. Nine bolts around a big hole.

Mine sure looks like that out-of-stock item. Again, I will shoot it in the next couple of days.

Dunno if it is the same thing, but I am open to offers for my original 1991 Caterham grill. I can shoot something later for dimensions. Flying low right now.

Just reading about this in LOWFLYING.

I first heard that one sometime in the 1960s. In high school I thought the ultimate combo was a Lotus Europa and a Chevrolet Suburban. Little did I know that decades later I would actually have that combination.

Things do change. Got two messages this afternoon. The hood is ready and the filters are in. Picked up both. Up with the chickens tomorrow to take them up to Isanti.

If I was going to buy a new Caterham, I'd probably want a 420R.

Bring toilet paper. You can perform a public service if the supplied loo runs out. Based on a true story. From three days ago.

Mine is similar, but RHD and de Dion. It's transitioning to 2000cc Zetec with Hayabusa injection.

I'm in Saint Paul MN. I found my Elise in on Cars.com in Park City, Utah. I found my Cayman the De Moines, Iowa Craigslist. My latest Seven kinda found me on Bring A Trailer. It was in Arcola IL.

Specs?

Every Lotus is a kit car. They are only bolted together for ease of shipping.

While I was autocrossing KMAN 2.9 at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds Saturday, Brian's shop had their annual open house. They moved my car and most of the rest of them around. I'm sorry I missed that show. The hamburgers last year were really good. As of this photo, my autocross number and my autocross class designation are 80 miles apart. The class letters are on the body here in Isanti and the numbers are on the engine cover in Dennison, getting the intake portal enlarged. Brian explained that the reason the engine is further back is that while the two T9 transmissions appear identical, the aluminum bellhousing and the flywheel geometry are different. John keyed off the rear transmission mount, which explains why the shifter pops up in the correct place. So, while it is correct that John did not modify the left engine mount I bought from England, he did create a plate with two sets of bolt-holes; one set to fasten the plate to the mount and a second set to fasten the plate to the engine. John then modified the right mount to fit without an adjustment plate. The bottom line is that we should have no trouble with the driveshaft or the shifter. The exhaust is already sorted. Because the new-to-me header is shaped differently, it perversely required the portal in the left side of the body to be cut further forward. Meanwhile, the intake portal in the engine cover needed to be enlarged rearward. The plastic bag on the driver seat contains the injectors, cleaned and wearing their new seals and O-rings.

Seals from Marren came in. Bob's Cycle Supply in Little Canada now expects the Unifilters to materialize Thursday. Brian and I just went through a plan to have the car drivable for the Back To The Fifties weekend after next. It does not have to be autocross-ready, just mobile. Why should those Cobra folks have all the fun?

Progress is being made. I delivered the hood to the metal guru's shop. I phoned Marren Fuel Injection. I read them all the numbers on the injectors and texted them photos. Marrren has identified these as 24 lb/hr injectors and is sending me new seals and O-rings therefor. With guidance from David Hansen of USA7s, I picked out the Unifilters I am going to try. Unifilter told me they don't sell direct, to get them from an Internet seller. I feel more comfortable dealing with a local store I know. Some of the simpler Unifilter stuff is stocked by Bob's Cycle Supply in Little Canada Minnesota (yes, for you folks in New England, that is actually the name of an incorporated city, and yes, it is because of French-Candian people). Bob's is where Twin Cities autocrossers go to buy Snell-approved helmets. They ordered what I wanted and they should be at the store for me next week.

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That depends on how you define "tools". channellock.com