Exarkun1178

hi. I believe this will be a one off. If you’re interested I am happy to connect you with the folks helping me with this. robert

Happy to share I was able to solve the Smith guages as well this week. Ended up with: FET3-1B52-36C TACHO 8KRPM CATERHAM $254.44 FES3-1B52-38C 160MPH CATERHAM SMIT $346.13 FFC1-1B52-56C FUEL 52mm CATERHAM $97.46 FOP1-1B52-50C OIL P 52mm CATERHAM $ 97.46 FCT1-1B52-48C WATER 52mm CATERHAM $97.46 CAR CARRIAGE OUT $55.00 Folks at Caerbont Automotive Instruments Ltd. were helpful and share dteh guages are a driect plug and play swap. No additional wiring or compoents needed.

I called for a quote today to Geico specialty insurance. I was quoted ~$3,000 for the year, NJ. With a stated value of $120,000

After much back and forth with Moto-Lita and Caterham, i have successfuly ordered a Moto-Lita Mk4 10" flat bottom (with holes) wheel compatiable with the Momo Quick release hub. Due to the 10" diameter, theres only enough room for 2 holes, but im pretty excited to have this option. Thought id share should other folks have the same request. I had a Mk4 on my Europa and loved it. Next up, getting the motorsports guages from Smiths....

A few of us did scca and north east motor sports. Both at the meadowlands complex in 2006-2009. Between 4 and 12 Elise’s would come out. On Friday’s NEMS had a morning session where, for ~$120 you could do “training”. And we’d run as many laps as we could in ~3 or so hours. We’d easily get 16-20 runs. No course work. Just driving. we ended up skipping the traditional weekend events because none of us wanted to work the actual course. was a good group of guys.

Every year.

Yeah. I built a reputation for hitting the cones. there’s one picture. I’ll have to look for it, where I drifted my rear through a crescent of cones hitting each just right to kick them up and create a rooster tail of cones, liken to a go fast boat turning up the bay.

I loved my 71 S2. Did a full frame off restoration on it. thus far, still the best handling car I’ve ever owned/ driven. any my BWR S/C 05 Elise, which was a mixed bag ownership experience

Thanks for this. those turn pods keep coming up…

The roll bar is coming in heritage sage. But I plan to have it wrapped in beechwood leather. I was thinking to do the doors the same. not sure why, but Caterham’s leather source can’t do the the roll bar wrap in any color other than black. 😕 I think I’ll need to find a local shop for both. That’s when I started to notice I haven’t seen a single example of a door other than black.

Has anyone done up doors in colors other than black? in all the pictures I see online, I’ve only seen black.

Thank you.

do you know if the sending units are the same I figured the steering wheel is straight forward swap. But the gauges maybe a bit more involved given the wire looms and all will already be configured

So now i have a few months to wait.... Caterham offers a tremendious number of changable specifications for the car, that is already pretty light on compoents and such. However, i was surprised which the numbers of items i asked about that could not be spec'd. For example, you can order the side striping in any nearly any color, but the word "Caterham" is only available in white or black. Why would the color pallet available for the side stripes not also be available for the lettering? There is no option to upolster in the anti-sub belt hole in the comfort seats (standard or signiture). This surprised me as Id expect this to be faily common request for a car likely to spend time on the track. The leather wrapped roll bar option is only available in black.... Id expect there'd be no additional effort to have it trimed in any available leather option. Smith Guages option is available on the super seven 2000s but not for other cars Moto-lita streeing wheel is available on the super seven 2000s but not for other cars - Ill end up ordering this sepratly but would have figured this could have been configured at the assymbly location in Dartford. Diamond stitching was replaced by Hex stiching option - I suppose Id happy with the Hex, but went in expecting diamond. Very happy with what ill end up with but still surprised. Did you all have an simlar experince?

I did speak with my dealer on the tariff issue. He has been great throughout the process. Chalk it up to managing a sales process I suppose. Any case. 13% is built in to the current pricing to cover tariffs & port/custom fees. I do understand that this administration, the current tariff structure could change as quickly and the tides. Shipping from the UK to the port in included. What’s not, as I understand it – Tariffs over 12.5%. Port fees etc over 0.5% and freight shipping from the port to the dealer. From there, assembly and final delivery. The new pricing seems to have be a point of contention, maybe, between Darford and US dealers.