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You have to be the first person that thinks NJ might be better than NY in some way!

Hi Henry, I have been looking into the likely attendees at the event. As usual, everyone signs up at the last minute so its hard to predict which is annoying for you as you want some certainty to make plans. I'd like some certainty for catering so I can appreciate your request! Here is what I know today. - There will be two Caterham SV sized cars there. - One is not drivable on the road - its essentially a track car. - The other is my CSR which is not really representative of what you are shopping for as it will drive very differently to a regular de Dion 420R. Not sure its insured for you as a driver anyway given the policy wording. The majority of the cars that will be present are going to be Caterham S3 or Birkin or maybe a Ultralite. None of these were in your list of requirements. While I do own a 420R SV, it is on the wrong side of the Atlantic for your purposes! Your better option may be to make contact with Caterham dealers and their customers, similar to how you got in touch with Jim @kayentaskier I know you have been in contact with Josh at RMC but if he has not got what you want to try out then maybe try Rick at Time Machine? cheers mike

@theDreamer summed it up nicely. Lots of people have considered the topic in the past. Lots of prior postings and discussions about this topic. The most relevant post for your example that you would find a useful read is this one:

Thank you for posting. Its about time Caterham got off their ass and did something on this. The long running thread on Blatchat says they should have reacted a long time ago to a glaring safety issue. This had been a known issue in the racing community for a while but only recently had it migrated into road cars as their mileage got significant. Despite what Caterham says on their website, I would not want to be dealing with this part failing while at speed. There have been two or three CSRs in the US with cracked mounts. I replaced mine earlier this year using a replacement part designed by Team Leos UK as Caterham were uninterested in providing support. Replacement parts are available by order in the USA via Josh at Rocky Mountain Caterham and should he not be able to assist, then I know a back up source. Caterham-CSR-Rear-Clevis-Inspection-Guide-SL1-v2.pdf

Congratulations on your purchase. I split time between north and south NJ. I have had too many sevens go through the process in NJ. I'd personally prefer to sign up for a daily colonoscopy than go near the NJ DMV ever again. I need to track down the guy who managed to navigate through the process with a new Caterham 360 two years ago as there are some good lessons from his experience. As for alternatives to NJ, I recommend we take that discussion offline - look for a PM. In the meantime, if I were you, I would make phone contact with the DMV person in Trenton to ask for the kit car title/registration instruction package to be sent out to you. You will need it at some point. However, I would not give any facts/details away on the phone to the DMV person as that individual will be involved in a completed application of yours at some point. Two questions to ask Tom C are: 1) can the ECU can deliver OBDII output? I think I know the answer but worth confirming. 2) how would Tom title that Birkin in CO - 2023 Kit/Reconstruct? 2023 Birkin? 2023 Lotus 7 or some replica year like 1967 Birkin or 1967 Lotus? File the answers away for now - better not disclose here. PS - loved seeing the photos of your Birkin. I can clearly see in the background where in 2021 my V12 Bucket of Magnificence left many stains on Tom's then-pristine concrete parking area! I don't think he ever forgave me.

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Radtec in the UK are the Caterham cooling specialists with better quality than the Caterham parts site. While crossflow is not listed I bet they have a solution (likely the zetec) if you were to ping/call them. https://www.radtec.co.uk/shop/makes/caterham/

Yes production is ceasing for Avon UK tires. However, much of the Avon range is also produced in Serbia plus another Eastern European country (I think it was Romania or Bulgaria?). There are vague rumors that the UK production equipment will be relocated to the USA to kick off production here. I am not expecting the tires we use will be discontinued or cease to become available. There may be a short term supply issue while they sort themselves out.

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And then there is the Prototipo Synergy V8 out of NZ. Only costs NZ$70K (about US$35-40K) https://www.prototipo.co.nz/projects An Article here with more detail since the Prototipo website is pretty sparse. https://www.motortrend.com/features/1511-2014-subaru-brz-jun-auto-synergy-v8/ The problems with all of these V8s was the same: 1) Power delivery was hard to make work in a se7en 2) Gearbox was always going to be a weak link - allow for one a year 3) They have higher than regular refresh cycles and its not as if you can take it to your local mechanic to rebuild. Figure every 3-5 years RST has been wound up although Russell Savory has founded a new company called Motopower. Not sure if all the bits to support the RSTV8 and V6 are still available. While Hartley is still around and one of their V8s has been installed in a Caterham (and road registered!), back in 2017 it took repeated phone calls before I could chat on buying an engine and even then the questions around intellectual property, should the owner pass away or company go under, were never resolved. My lesson was these V8s were a performance dead end. My research in 2017-19 was the Millington I4 options were a long way better than any of these V8 engines. Sensational engines but require more care and attention than our regular street based engines. They are also a challenge to get in and out of the USA with customs being what they are. They are also not street legal. https://www.millingtonengines.co.uk/

Hi Bruce, This is one of those yes and no types of things. The nomenclature of Ford BD engines is really messy. Yes Caterham did the cross flow cast iron block and slap the BD head on it and call it a BDR but Ford never did that in its motorsports program. It was only a Caterham thing which I suspect was done for cost and availability of cross flow blocks at the time. The Ford Escorts also used a alloy block BDR engine in their official motorsport program for rallying and BTCC that was alloy block. The Escorts later went to BDG (I want one of those! ). I The Ford BDR for the Ford Escorts was higher hp than any BDR by Caterham as the alloy block could handle higher revs - so the hp result was a LOT higher in the Escort BDR vs the Caterham BDR. Despite both being called BDR they are clearly different engine specs. Different sources attribute different things. The website you linked is very good but it is contradicted by other books and sources. I have no idea what the real story is but it is confusing and your reference may well be right. This car for sale is not a Caterham BDR. It was not one of the series produced in the UK by Caterham which would be evidenced via the chassis number being coded as one of the BDR series. This is clearly a crossflow car from its origin. Does the engine in this car for sale match what Caterham claimed for its BDR in the 1980s? No. Depending on who you reference - Rees, Dennis, or any number of the websites the Caterham BDR series hp ranged from 175-200hp. The car for auction is spec'ed for around 150hp based on what I see in the rebuild invoice. Yes it does sound like a bag of bolts in the video but I suspect it is carb jets clogged from lack of use. Not sure its a big project though. Lots to commend it.

This car was not an original Caterham BDR. It was brought in as a kit without engine (hence no stamping on VIN plate). This was required by US import rules of the time (and today). VIN decipher confirms it as a pre-1990 Caterham Series 3 with the Marina Ital live axle and a pre-1990 version of the long cockpit. Looking at the engine makes me think it is a BDA and not a BDG or BDR. Block is not alloy as I would expect for a genuine BDG/BDR. Block looks cast which I infer as the crossflow bottom end mated to the BD head, making it a BDA. In the USA, the BDA was known as the BDD - same engine but some terminology difference that people get confused by. While BDA were 1600cc originally, a popular mod at the time was to bore out to 1700cc to make it a BDA Plus. Hart engines even bored them out to 1840cc in the 1970s. If they built this engine starting with the 1700cc cross flow block then that is the likely spec - sort of confirmed in the engine rebuild invoice. Reviewing the engine build invoice in 2017 (photo 77 on) is intriguing. Reads as if it was a rebuild of the cross flow into the BDA? Not sure why they re-used some parts instead of new? A 1600cc BDA in the late 1960s would give you 120hp. Given the extra 100cc and the better materials, oil, carbs, and engine tuning knowledge today, I would expect this BDA+ to be in the 150hp area based on a similar build by another forum member a few years back. indeed the ad quotes 148hp but no dyno plot I could see. So a modest upgrade in HP over the standard 1700cc cross flow of roughly 135hp. If it were a BDR then hp would be 200hp region.

Thats what I spent time experimenting yesterday before giving up. Guest page approach or even stealth page approach using some other more specialist browsers would just stop after 2 locations then blocked the rest of the country. Not sure what they expect people to do. Certainly it seems to limit their business model further as their regions are somewhat arbitrary when looked at on a map. And no there is no money in this for me or USA7s - just a recognition this is a small community of enthusiasts that needs to look out for itself.

I think it blocks me via IP address. Obviously I am scanning their entire database of car ads to extract the relevant ones so look like a spambot harvesting data. I doubt you would be seen as the same threat looking at a local city site and browsing.

I am blocked with both Autotempest and Searchtempest. I am also blocked if I access Craigslist directly.

It started by blocking me on the Edge and Firefox browsers but I am now blocked on Safari - irrespective of VPN or not. One way to turn customers away. Clearing cookies makes no difference. I can see there are cars for sale but I cannot click into them without being blocked. Ridiculous.

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No mockery here - kudos for the imagination to take on such a worthy challenge! Can I clarify - is it in pieces now or assembled? How long has it been in pieces? If it is assembled and you want to disassemble to bring it into CA then no go. Federal rules are pretty clear on once it is together then it stays together as a car. You may want to bring it in as pieces but you cannot classify it as parts then as it was a car before you disassembled. Of course lots of people do exactly this but you only have to check out what happened to the Nissan Skyline GTR folks to know the consequences. You can still bring the pieces in declared as a car restoration project. God help you with the Customs inspection though - my experience was they are not the brightest - so a lot of hand holding will be needed by your import agent. Now if it were in bits in France then that is another issue. To get it from France to UK you would need to inventory everything down to the individual screw/bolt types. Then expect to pay UK import tax on it plus potentially French taxes of some kind. Brexit has made a mess of it sadly.

Ignore it and carry it in the car? I did this a long time ago Bracket came up from underneath nosecone. Two strips of aluminum with some spacer strips to hold them parallel. Two mounts off the chassis tube, one hole in the underside of the nose cone (can be seen inside grille in second photo) for a third hold point, then the two arms floated upwards around the nose cone (without touching) to which the plate mounted. No visible holes in the nose cone this way.

The Superformance S1 are very good cars on track. They also have the ability to take a proper roll bar via pre-existing mounting holes - @S1Steve has the details

The simpler variation I did a long time back was take the standard Caterham plexi wind wings and bend them further in boiling water. This has the effect of making them stand out from the car further and shift the buffeting point rearwards past my ear. Not as effective as John's but a lot simpler to do. A variation of that theme done by someone else was to glue a plexi post (with a rubber end cap for the body) onto the Caterham wind wings and push them outwards.

Yes we have. I think it took a 1-2 month sale break. Debated putting it back in repeats but decided it had long enough time away to justify new.

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@Kitcat Mike - you and I met George at the USA7s event at NJMP in 2017. I spent a good amount of time chatting with George about this Birkin. Tom Carlin invited him to join us and knew George and his car well. I never associated this car for sale as his. George knew how to maintain the car in good condition and had developed it well. George is the guy in the purple shirt behind Tom's orange SV Caterham. Mike - in case you have forgotten, you are second from right. If George was ever on USA7s, I never knew his ID. However, Tom Carlin of Birkin America knew him well and would probably still have his contact email, assuming he is still with us, as he must be late 70s now?

@Anaximander just needs his daily dose of crazy people to work with. Kitcat will be perfect.