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Yeah I know. He's a riot over drinks at parties and boistrous gatherings.

Well that is interesting. I bought a track day cage from Caterham for my 420R 18 months ago and it does not look like that on the front bars. This is a family member in my UK 420R at Spa last October (finally hitting the apex at La Source too!) Notice how the front mount points and bars that slope rearwards will conflict with windscreen in that version. Hopefully they have changed the design to be like the image render from the purchase website. For estimating head clearance, in my car, Lucas is 5'8" and there are no lowered floors in that SV chassis.

And harness not three points

So what are you? Track or Road? You seem to have put a foot in each and made a confusing spec. First, I would never have a cage for road. You must always wear a helmet if you have a cage. The consequences of clouting your head are major. Do you really want to wear a helmet all the time on the road? Second, three point belts and a cage? Thats just going to make the impact off the first point worse. Third, does the windscreen fit that track day cage? I am just looking at my UK 420R photos and I think it will conflict with the mounting points of the windscreen. You should probably confirm you are ok with your Caterham dealer. Sidescreens will work with that cage if the windscreen can. Fourth, I do not see it but add an LSD. A couple of other things: 1) what suspension set up are you spec'ing? The standard R version? 2) The ITB upgrade to the standard 420R plenum has caught people out with the ECU upgrade. It always seems to need to go back to the factory to get reflashed - check with the dealer to make sure it is done prior to arriving in your hot little hands. Its an essential upgrade once sorted - sensational induction noises.

Geez you really have stacked on the weight around your middle. Married life suits you!

Thats just not good enough John! You need to invite us to fun getaways and buy us all drinks!

They are custom dimension 3 part wheels for the CSR - the BBS center is not unique to Wesmo. I ordered bits recently from BBS for new wheels for another project. They are off the shelf motorsport pieces you can order direct from BBS if you know what you are doing. My wheels will not fit an R300 or any de Dion chassis. Thats ok as you can just show the center to BBS to order it and then ask for the inner and outer barrel pieces to get your custom offset and width to suit your car. For the record my wheels are: Front: 7x13 ET40 Rear: 9x13 ET8 (not sure about this offset as I am traveling and I really need to find my paper BBS order files at home) - either way it would be wrong for your car. The 13 inch wheels always look a little lost in the rear guards of any Caterham - mine is the same. This is a photo of it wearing the Hoosiers, which I used before I shifted to the P-Zeros. The P-Zeros fill out the rear guard a little more. About the same on the front as the Hoosiers. Width is perfect.

Neither will mine in some events which is why I made the comment about hand grooving a tread pattern. Easy enough to mimic the ZZR. A little quicker than ZZR Extreme - a second a lap. But if the ZZR Extreme are not available then the P-Zeros are MUCH quicker.

I didn't think much of the Nankang AR1. My track replacement for both the ZZR and the Hoosiers (now that Cooper Tires have changed the compounds and sizings) is to go Pirelli P-Zero for 13 inch wheels. If I need a tread (for a specific track day operator) then I have them hand grooved in a style similar to the ZZR - its easy to copy. Very close to the ZZR and maybe a fraction behind the old pre-Cooper Tires Hoosier R7 version. Downside - they are not cheap! I believe these are used for Formula 3 in Europe. For road I will stick with R888 for now in 13s. Still experimenting with my UK Caterham.

I ended up talking to Luke's mother and getting my order that way. He does not ignore you then! My CSR runs the original pads it came with from Caterham 15 years ago. No idea what they are but they work for me on track and road. I drive so many different cars on track I can adapt myself to the car and make it work. The softness in the initial bite is master cylinder related and not pad related. Changing pads is band aid on the original problem. You can get a brake proportioning valve to work on a CSR as I have seen it done but it will need the race master cylinder like I recommended.

I hope you do not mind Greg, but I wanted to add that I have seen this car on track at NJMP over many years in the hands of a former owner who attended the annual HPDE event. Despite being driven hard, it was well sorted, reliable and damn quick.

Geoff - Do you mind if I add these to the galleries on the USA7s site? If you do then I will add them on 6/27.

Upgraded master cylinder changes pedal feel - firms it up. improves it along the line of what you are looking for. I suspect some of your feel concerns are not going to be changed by the brake pads alone. Try to get in touch with Luke at Team Leos Motorsport in the UK. Very knowledgeable guy but very hard to track down. He has a business supporting racing Caterhams including some race CSRs. I use his upgraded rear shock mounts after the Caterham ones showed signs of failing.

Roman - I want to say thank you for making the effort to come and say hello. I recognize it was a long haul but it was great to see you.

A few cars missed out on the photo as they were worried about hair getting wet or had broken by then...

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Rather than change pads I will suggest something else. You are probably running the original standard master cylinder that Caterham supplied. Upgrade it to the Caterham race master cylinder. Try it out then see if your pads need changing.

Some context for the above. We were running in the open wheeler group which was mostly us se7ens but a few Formula Fords plus Formula Enterprise, a 180hp Mazda version of the Duratec, power beastie. The Formula Enterprise is shown briefly chasing Vlad in the above immediately above photos, only to be passing Vlad within the next 75 feet. It was quick. Weather today was overcast plus a lot of smoke from nearby wildfires. First session was dry. Second session started with a drizzle. Slightly disconcerting as most of us were on slicks or close to slicks. It was decent grip until 3 laps from end of session when I noticed it was looking "shiny" track in places plus the rear was stepping out for me. Photo session on the start finish line was in light drizzle. Third session was a damp track. Kudos to those who went out, including @wemtd on slicks. Manageable but you had to be very gentle and not try to push it too hard. A few injuries today. Vlad managed to knock off another front wing. Same one...again.... Carl developed a little oil leak and sensibly packed up before it could get worse - something oil leaks have a habit of doing. We are done for the day now and all heading home. More photos will appear on here as people get home and unpack. Group photo will turn up once Mikey has some free time to process through the images.

Oh dear….it happened again…

looks nice.

Looks quite fetching. Matches his helmet nicely.