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Hi Mario :seeya:- Tom (Yellowss7) and myself are partners in crime! He has you down on the list and we are in close contact to make sure we are coordinated. Cheers mike

Come on Steve! Since when has been getting a BDA been going to the dark side? They are not that far removed from each other. They both leak copious amounts of oil like the Exxon Valdez. And they both sound absolutely awesome with some revs! :drool:

Thats ok...Tom is pretty old too! :jester: Tom commented well on the spirit of the day - drive safely, enjoy your car in the setting it was designed for and have a fun social time at the end of the day. If you do have problems so far from home then we do have a local mechanic in town that seems to services a lot of the local track cars. There is a good tire shop for remounting tires and balancing but probably would not have any exotic tires in stock. If it is something that needs Caterham parts then we have access to George Alderman, about an hour away in DE, who could probably help out. But an engine rebuild....then we would probably be pushing uphill to help out at short notice. Best way to avoid the scramble though is with good preparation as you noted.

I do respect a gentleman with good taste in cars in his garage. :cooldude:Very nice home for that Stalker.

Sebastien - when you get close enough you may want to drop Red Duck (Steve) on here a PM as he is in CT and I am sure will fill you in on his efforts at the DMV. Another one to PM is Bruce (11Budlite) as he is also in CT and not too far from you.

Hi Sebastien Welcome to the USA7s forum and welcome to Seven ownership. :seeya: We would love to welcome you to the event later this year. Have you started construction of your kit yet? If you have questions, post them on the forum. Someone always has come across them before you do. Cheers mike

I wish you would not post porn on this site Tom! :conehead: My wallet is having trouble coping with the concept of such an expensive engine. :ack:

Sadly I recall from a Blatchat post that this may no longer be true. IIRC, last year he took a stone into a cam belt which made a big mess of the internals. Mind you that is not unique to this engine - could happen on any engine without a belt/chain guard for that matter. Just a monumentally expensive problem to fix on the RST V8. :ack:

It would be good for donuts in one direction! :rofl:

Great idea Mike! :iamwithstupid: I have a catalytic converter than accidentally fell off my previous seven that I am currently using as a door stop Karl has the entire parts collection needed to construct a Caterham SV - thats what happens when you rebuild your car from the Cosworth parts list! Tom has the world's surplus supply of clam shells. Steve from St Louis has surplus ali polishing compound that he can do live demonstrations of how he keeps so shiny. MichaelD probably has a goodly supply of broken clutches. And of course I suspect that you have many many broken pieces of engines lying around your garage? :jester: Tom has talked with George Alderman and his son at MidAtlantic Caterham and Dave Hutchinson at Ragtops & Roadsters (Birkin Dealer) about participating. George sounded keen to join the fun!

Speechless with laughter :rofl:

They look good - enough detail but not too complicated a design. The black powder coat is a great look. Which size 13" 15" or 17"? I have a set of custom BBS 13 inch wheels now shipping. They were the only ones I could find that gave enough inside clearance for the rear brakes and Passat hub on my CSR. They are not listed on the website but are a 3 pc alloy with a square 8 spoke design with a black inner sold as a Caterham race wheel. This will allow a lot of tire options including slicks that are currently impossible with a 15" set up difficult to get. Other goodies in the shipment include a cold air intake vent for the bonnet and tires - Avon ZZR

Bogart would get my vote as the Keizer website is full of errors and link issues. You click a 5 spoke wheel and the specs come up for a 4 spoke. I like the Bogart SS - reminds me of the old Momo Stars I had on a car once. Maybe a black inner to hide the brake dust? Which style/size are you looking at? I can help you load up your credit card quicker than your wife I have some experience having bought some 13" wheels myself this week amongst other go faster goodies.

Normally they are quite a sensible bunch of guys. I don't know what came over them?

I can only agree with you BigDog. If it was $32k with clean title six months back why would you pay an additional $8k now for a damaged title and chassis concerns. Reading the ad carefully makes me convinced that they are reading USA7s website....

Steve - You are still jealous from my driving at Spa-Francorchamps in the snow - more wrist action than when I was 15yo! :willy_nilly: Funny accent my ass :bs: I am a true southerner unlike you Yankees!

My office is a mile from Teterboro and fly out of there too. So if you are in town let me know and we can arrange to meet for a beer and a burger.

Come on up to NJ Xcarguy - I am sure Mike (Kitcat) and myself can corrupt you! :rofl: :cheers: Sadly the dust cloud video is banned from boobtube thanks to the illegal music Tom used in making it. It was epic though - one of my longer spins I have got myself into and to force everyone to stop in the middle of the track because of no visibility was just perfect :rofl:

Pussy! Thats not an offroad excursion. This is an offroad excursion (start at 7.15): Just remember - men go hard, its the girlies who go soft!

The Tillet R500 seats will fit an S3 chassis or an S5 chassis and are mostly based on the Tillet B6. The Tillet B2s are known as Caterham CSR seats and will only fit an S5 chassis not an S3. However, the B6s are not the same as what Caterham sells for the R500 as the headrest has been kicked back in the standard B6 to accommodate a helmet but this makes it out of position for road use - something to consider depending on your use patterns. The width and other dimensions are still the same between the two. The Tillet website has lots of dimension brochures to check the width of the seat depending on whether you have the cut or rolled edges to the seat. For mounting you can stick it on runners to adjust fore and aft or just bolt it in to the floor using fixed seat mounts. Tillet sell both. Tillet USA were very unhelpful when I tried to talk with them on a set of seats and I eventually ended up talking with Tillet UK who were excellent. Definitely worth calling the UK to get the right advice for your order as they know Caterhams well. http://www.tillett.co.uk Reverie also do a carbon seat for Caterhams S3 and S5 chassis. Lastly, Oxted Trimming sell a really nice seat pad for the Tillets to make them more comfortable and warmer in cold weather.

Skip - that was a good move posting the VIN here. Sadly it is too easy to launder titles these days and it may stop a potential buyer from being unknowingly burned. $22.1k plus the auction premium (5%?) was a good price for the auction - fully valued for the insurance company selling. Not much left in it for the buyer though (assuming no shipping costs) - I do hope it works out well for them.

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I saw this car in person a few years back and liked the look of it. Immaculate condition and surprisingly the gold panasports work well with the green. I really feel for the owner though - 3 cars and all that flooding through his garage and house - my commiserations if you are reading this. I would consider the Caterham at $10k but it is over that now. By the time you add on sales tax and auction premium and transport home and then allow for the unknown in repair work and then you have the $5K+ in value diminution from having a salvage title (although that can be cleaned away in that part of the US too...legal but unethical in my opinion) then for the effort I am not seeing enough of a payoff for the risk. Quite a good project car though.

Oh come on Mike. Its like Blubarisax buying up the entire global supply of carbon fiber for his car to make it lighter and therefore faster. It is well accepted that lightening a heavy wallet does improve performance in a seven. I have seen it first hand. It also adds extra inches mentally to a gentleman's performance. :cooldude: If you try and justify purchasing upgrades with logic and common sense the male world as we know will explode! :svengo:

Best wishes to everyone for a wonderful Christmas! :seeya: