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Ok now I understand what you have done. There are two types of Caterham belts on the website. There is the FIA spec (which I have) and the regular road type (which is what I think you bought). So it probably has no expiry date and is not acceptable as you surmised. Say hello to the folks at Stable Energies for me since they are your best choice for acceptable belts. Try to get here ASAP and we can get TJ or someone to get your drivers side changed over on Friday.

I use the Caterham belts and have no issues. But my belts are in date. So hopefully the new ones you bought are or your old belts are. Look for the white label. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Time out. The Caterham belts do have an expiry date. They don’t need FIA accrediting to be acceptable. Do you have the 5 or 6 pt Caterham belts? If so what expiry do they have on them? NJMP wants belts that are in date. So do yours have a date specified? Stable energies is good. I buy stuff there. But I am not convinced you need to buy more belts yet.

Glad you solved it because I am still confused? At this point I am having a beer and checking out. Tom C arrived today and we plugged his camper into the garage mahal. He was working with Steve helping to fettle his new beasty after it ate some rear wings. Jeff's new engine arrived at TJs along with two of my V8s rebuilds and was ready for installation - his Zetec - not my V8s. Unfortunately, Jeff is apparently not attending but rather is chasing something in Colorado. Hope she is cute? If I dont see you first, karting is at 3pm - bring your helmet and if you have it - race suit and neck collar. Meet at the karting site at Lightning. Safe travels!

Vovchandr - Checking Kayak shows the Ramada by Wyndham in Vineland (2 rooms left) and the Quality Inn in Vineland with availability. I used Kayak.com to search and reconfirmed by hitting their website directly.

Interesting? 1) Show 16 year old photos and say it still looks the same - trust me 2) Rubbish a $22k Westfield and say it is inferior to his $30K Westfield for which we have no reference point to judge value. That car could be gold plated and I would still keep away from a seller with his head so far up his ass he is heavy breathing his tonsils. Either he gets religion or the car will still be for sale 2 years from now.

Congratulations! Well done! Patience well kept in the face of bureaucrats with the intellectual capacity of amoebic dysentery. ironically the license plate frame would earn you a fine in NJ as the Welsh flag would obscure the “NEW JERSEY” on the base of the state license plate here.

Oh he's back! Posting at 1am too! I'll give you a call at 5am once I get to the office to talk updating restaurant numbers. Hopefully, I won't wake you up?

Nah! None of my forecasts show that. Anyway the track is in a rain shadow so the storms usually bypass it around the edges - strange to observe but good to see

Technically they need to sign up but you only need the visitor wrist band for meals and track ride alongs. A quick pop in to say hello to a wayward driver seems to be ok for a visitor as you described

Given Simon and I played tag recently and there was never going to be a conclusive winner without a monumental accident, I don't know how he can talk about less time consuming. Given his favorite track chew toy, Sebastien will be available to play, he'll probably decide to Brexit at turn 4 on Thunderbolt on day 1. Re belts, you may have to point that out to the inspectors that you will not have a passenger or instructor in the car which is why belts dont comply. Bring the spare set anyway in case they go all muppety on us - its been known. And lastly, Simon is not the only one with an accent. I do the voiceovers for a little reptile on car insurance commercials.

Fascinating video. Great location for an autocross - nice big course. Your hands on the steering wheel got confused a few times and you really needed to change down a gear a few points to keep the engine in its power band. Understeer seemed mostly under control but it was there at times.

I would drive down with windscreen on and then change to aeroscreen here. Thats how I used to do it coming down from NYC.

To answer: 1) Its a regular Drivers Club member day. There are 5 sessioned run groups designated - Green (Beginner), White/Blue (Intermediate), Sevens (us - intermediate rules), Red (Advanced), and Open Wheel (usually break within 5 mins). Each group runs exclusively within their sessioned slot. You will be in a group sharing it with other sevens on track. You will not be on track with the big cars - that was the objective Tom and I wanted from the beginning. It can be intimidating being on track with some full size cars when passing so a sevens-only session has proven to be a really good thing. 2) Instructor cars - Tom and I are instructors with sevens. Tom will have his original yellow Caterham plus the cheeze doodle Caterham SV. We can find an instructor (Dom or Kevin possibly) to drive the extra if needed. Simon is also an instructor but we would not do that to your better half. John B on this forum is an instructor. With instructor wrist bands we can also go out in white/blue with a passenger if need be. I was planning to get the Mustang out anyway so that is another option. We have always been able to get everyone out for at least one session each day and quite frequently more. One other option I definitely encourage is to go out in the green group in the pace car with the Chief Instructor. Its an Audi RS4 these days and Pete Tremper is Chief Instructor for Porker Club of America so he must know how to drive I suppose? 3) For trailering, I would ping Wemted (Paul) or Seb as they rent trailers from recollection. Personally, given you are coming from Albany (I think), I would tow as the interstates are a haul in a seven. However, if you drive and you break down then I have a solution to get you (one way car rental from PHL airport) and your car (TJ to the rescue) home in the worst case.

NEW Lotus 7 S2 https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1965-lotus-seven-3/ REPEATS Stalker XL https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/lotus/super-seven/2277011.html Stalker https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/lotus/7/2167534.html Lotus 7 S1 https://classiccars.com/listings/view/1065332/1958-lotus-seven-for-sale-in-stratford-connecticut-06615 Caterham SV http://britauto.com/portfolio-view/201216-nos-caterham-sv-roadsport/ Caterham http://britauto.com/portfolio-view/2000-caterham/ Lotus 7 S2 and Lotus 7 S4 project http://taylormadeclassiccars.com/vehiclesforsale.html and here https://www.ebay.com/itm/1961-Lotus-Seven-Series-2/293125027298?hash=item443f9cf5e2:g:hSYAAOSwGVRdCDgO Super Seven Sportscar (Fejer) http://sodo-moto.com/listings/super-seven-2tg/ Birkin http://sodo-moto.com/listings/1991-birkin-seven/ Birkin http://sodo-moto.com/listings/1990-birkin-seven-so-cal/ and here https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/cto/d/fullerton-1990-birkin-super-seven-lotus/6905895104.html Caterham SV Hayabusa http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/other/1458694360/1458694360ss.htm Lotus 7 S2 http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/lotus/1557321710/1557321710ss.htm Stalker http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/lotus/1437589044/1437589044ss.htm Caterham SCCA https://www.wirewheel.com/2001-Caterham-race-car-for-sale.html Rotus 7 https://www.wirewheel.com/1994-Rotus-7-for-sale.html Caterham SV https://vintageracecarsales.com/portfolio-view/2013-caterham-seven-480/ Replica https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/cto/d/hollywood-lotus-7-replica/6902046756.html Blakely 7 https://miami.craigslist.org/mdc/cto/d/miami-blakely-lotus-antique/6904149976.html Caterham https://providence.craigslist.org/cto/d/barrington-1989-lotus-caterham-super/6898592517.html Birkin https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/d/petaluma-lotus/6909365124.html CANADA Caterham https://www.kijiji.ca/v-autos-camions/sherbrooke-qc/caterham-super-7-sylver-jubilee-1982/1410777802?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true Birkin https://www.kijiji.ca/v-voiture-collection/laval-rive-nord/rare-birkin-s3-2002-lotus-super-7/1436724607?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true Replica project https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1437955743 Westfield https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1436824430 MCC 7 Project https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1432118799 Wolf 7 https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1436702029

Its more about no weight in the front than the tires. Your driving technique needs to adjust for this in the first instance - left foot brake taps, quick lifts or full on brakes - get the weight back on the nose for tire grip to make the turn. Trail braking is an essential technique in these cars on track - somewhat irrelevant for for autocrossing though. Caterham autocrossers usually have wide tires. One driving relic on this forum that used to autocross had 10 inch wide tires. Not needed for circuit driving since the directional changes are not as abrupt and you can progress the weight balance change around the car to prevent bulk understeer. On a circuit you need to be 100mph plus before high speed understeer starts to reassert itself on the narrow tire cars although it is now like 120mph plus on the wider tire cars. A couple of things: 1) Corner weight - if it is driving better with a passenger than without then you probably need to revisit the set up or only do autocrossing with a passenger. Same rule applies on a circuit - you do feel the difference in set up (or at least I can) 2) Do an alignment - the fronts should have some toe out which makes direction changes easier. 3) Tire pressures - you discovered this but at 8/9psi you are risking to take a front tire off a rim one day. This is an area where people have lots of different beliefs. Most UK Caterham circuit racers swear by 18psi cold which equates to 25psi when hot on the Avon rubber Caterham specify. I would not drop below 14psi cold for anything on the Avons. If you are using the Yokohamas that some people on here do with the stiffer sidewalls then you can drop lower since thats the only way to get the tire sidewall to flex. More pressure at the rear will get the rear end (of the car) rotating better around a cone (as you noted) 4) 13 inch wheels versus the 15 inch wheels - Thicker rubber sidewall flexes more in corners and assists the direction changes. Less rotational mass of the smaller wheel has benefits too. 5) The good thing is that you will (re)acquire some driving skills that were not needed for modern cars. Finesse and delicacy will better assist weight transference around the car at speed and will get a lot of gains in overall car speed around a course. Sadly there is no real cure for high speed understeer other than left foot brake taps or a front wing (Stalkers particularly need this) but even then it may make sense to keep the foot hard down and let the front scrub to achieve the best overall lap time.

Nice digging Josh! Makes more sense than what I was thinking. :seeya: So to bring it back to the original question - the Wirewheel car was the #87 Woody Adams car and was not the Caterham that redecorated itself and a Miata with the wall,

This is the ad I was thinking of - car was represented verbally as being ex-SCCA 2009 Nationals and crashing http://www.usa7s.net/vb/showthread.php?8030-SCCA-Zetec-Caterham-for-Sale&highlight=SCCA Mild searching finds the 2009 SCCA runoffs which were very wet and involved a black Caterham crash with another car 3 laps from the end. There is a yellow Caterham in the bottom third of the field on the video. The crash car was black - again not clear on number and driver - but damage looks consistent with what was evident on the Caterham I inspected. https://www.scca.com/videos/2026894 However, some searching finds this photo of a yellow Caterham in that race https://images.app.goo.gl/B8QjeL49dXHLB9Cp6 Driver is Jay Bonvouloir and not any name you referred to. Some comparison with the wirewheel car shows Carbotech sponsorship on both. Same cage. Same cut down race clams. Rear wings are different as stone guard is removed - likely replacement wings since the bonding lifts the clear coat when removed. Not fully persuasive but interestingly coincidental. Is the Wirewheel car this one? The old sale car from NJ had seen some extensive re-skinning because of the accident damage. A color change from black to yellow is not unrealistic in that instance. We may never really know the answer - its not as if great records were kept! You really need to inspect the Wirewheel car in person to see if it took a knock in an accident as that would really put your question to rest.

I dont know the number or name but I have seen, in person, the car represented to me as that crashed SCCA car. Used to be owned by a gent in central NJ - attended the NJMP HPDE event one/two years here, a long way back (5+/- years). It was purchased through the now closed classic car dealer in Hopewell, NJ - I did a pre-purchase inspection as a favor. Had obvious non-original welding repairs in the engine bay from a hybrid short/long front replacement (that is a big hit repair). Pedal box wore some scars that were explained by the hit. Steering rack was not original look. Was clearly repaired by a professional who knew what they were doing - it looked like a proper jig repair. I have suspected but ultimately do not believe the wirewheel car is that car but the photos were not good enough for me to confirm one way or the other. It was a full yellow paint car - the wirewheel car is partial. Cosmetics are far better on the car at Wirewheel in ways that I doubt someone would have remediated - would not have been economic. There were 2 sale ads on this forum - photos may still be around if you want to search.

The CSR is available by special order. Its chassis is built by Arch which makes it more expensive than the regular production line brazed chassis. I suspect that is why it is special order only. ....and for a completely gratuitous track video of a 2018 Caterham 420R with 5 speed...

That sounds better!

Safe travels Tom. I will be there from Thursday morning onwards if you or anybody else arrives early.

The secret to pointing by with arm restraints is: 1) Go faster 2) put them around your upper arm Pete the instructor loves to make fun of parts falling off cars but we all know its only Tom that has those issues...:jester:

Hmmm....so now the silicone lube has all new shear qualities!

More like a knockoff Locost methinks...