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I could not get the numbers to make it work financially. Not enough people. Transport was a cost factor at the time and gas prices have only got worse since then. There is a Birkin that calls CMP home if you want a track tag buddy. I can put you in touch when you have your car together.

Think of a DSK as an upgraded Lotus 7 S3. While it followed the original chassis plans, because it was brazed together out of thicker chassis tubes and additional cross bracing, it was much stiffer than the original S3 and was so was very desirable for historic racing. A lot of people thought they were made better than the original Arch chassis. It had some various other enhancements that made it better for racing - suspension and brakes. The SimpleSevens website had a write up on it but its been down for a long time. Hard to know where values should be as there has only been one other I saw in the last 10 years and it was asking $28K. It was pristine and with its period correct drivetrain could have been converted to historic racing instantly. Given the chassis reputation a DSK should be worth considerably more than the average home built Locost. Westfields are averaging more these days than the DSK is asking.

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It looks great. I saw your Caterham in Bruce's workshop when I was there twice in February. Bruce and I used it as a model for what to do on rear lights with my build. Love the yellow roll bar. Enjoy the drive - you have a nice part of the world to be in.

Well done! Congratulations on your new se7en!

Nice one Bob! I have never seen an IRS Stalker rear end design before. Intriguing design to reuse off the shelf parts. Looking forward to lots of photos on this journey.

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The 7 series is the high end luxury sedan. It is not an SUV. The SUV models have an X prefix, such as X7. Even so it is a polarizing design. Not sure if I like it.....

It will still open if you have an Apple Macbook. It is unsupported for Windoze products only. It is still supported by the Forum software.

Loving this project as you are engineering your way through things. One question - in the above photo you have the actuator connected by rod to the gearbox to make gear shifts but you also have the gear stick connected by rod to the same point. What happens when you change gear by paddle shift? Does gear stick move as well? Do they interfere with each other in some way? I made the decision early on to delete my traditional gear stick and just stick to paddles but I have not thought through what happens if you had both.

There is always an element of mechanical adjustment. We cannot change the programming but we can change the presets for the suspension, e.g. soft to hard front to back. The final thinking of how we do this remains undecided but we can see the potential for say a dry setting with neutral to firm setting, or a wet setting (soft all round).

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The front wheel assembly is now coming together with the wheel sensors. A milled reluctor wheel for the front wheel has been designed and fabricated to drop inside the front brake disk. Next step is disassembly, zinc-coat the reluctor to protect it and then final assemble. Following on from last week, the rear suspension assembly can move forward by sorting out the remote reservoirs for the rear shocks. Holes made to bring the reservoir into the boot area and they will be bolted to the boot floor.

Hi Jim - The result looks great. What kit did you use to produce that result?

Not sure my career is a particularly good model for anyone to follow given the zig zags and multitude of countries it has weaved through although it has had a consistent insurance industry focus for 35 years. Supermarket worker, mail deliverer, accountant, actuary, auditor, analyst, management consultant, bankruptcy workout consultant, financial performance improver, global tax expert, enterprise risk specialist, communications guru, and now a cat herder & fruity language generator. But I would offer the following: You need to move for the opportunities. You should not wait for life to come to you. You have to be hungry. If you have no drive or ambition you will go nowhere. If you stay in the traditional employment model, money usually comes first from technical expertise but unless you want to be a technician for the rest of your life, higher money will come from evolving yourself by moving into management types of roles. Highest money is obviously in senior management and thats all about communication and management of people. A career is not a consistent upwards track. There will be sideways or sometimes even downward moves as you run into obstacles in your path or life. You reinvent yourself. Then you regroup and move onwards. Quite a number of people on this forum will have had fairly stable long term roles in companies. Thats changing rapidly. Expect to have numerous jobs where you make moves to sustain and develop your career trajectory. You may be an independent contractor as the traditional employer/employee relationship is fragmenting. That places immense pressure on having your personal financial situation well under control. There may be gaps in work in the future where you need your financial resources to support you. In the new "gig" economy you may end up retiring earlier than you want. Or maybe going part time instead of full time. Career may not always be under your control but your financial resources have to be. You need to build a network. As much as I hate LinkedIn, it is critical in todays employment world for keeping track of people that intersect your professional and personal life. Those contacts will be a valuable source of future employment opportunities as we don't all progress careers at the same rate. So peers today may be your boss in the future. Former neighbors could connect you to their new neighbor who needs a skilled person. The network will be your weak link as you shift fields/localities/countries because your old network will largely cease having relevance and you need to build a new network. Think of your network as being your personal marketing platform. If you need a job the opportunity will increasingly come through the people you know because you will be pitching to them you are available and interested in new opportunities. It also helps when you get senior enough to be hiring you will reach out into your network for people that can assist. Life is about choices. Good choices consistently will move you forward in life. What people call luck is mostly from hard work opening up opportunities that allow you to seize them. One opportunity often leads to the next which eventually builds career momentum. You need to be resilient - things will not always go your way and you will need to bounce back. I am glad that I am not starting out a career now. Things are changing so rapidly that the foundations for a career are built on sand. Industries come and go. Technological advances are unceasing. Companies come and go. Information flows to be absorbed never stop increasing. The accelerating pace of work life is relentless. The permanent shift to hybrid work that is underway presents a whole new set of challenges for career progression of how to get noticed by those above. Good luck.

I'd suggest leaving the ECU as is until you have tried the new TPS. One change at a time makes it easier for diagnosis. Its slower I know but easier to isolate the problem. Is your MBE ECU unlocked? Or did someone give you the password?

Thermostat should be opening at either 82C or 90C depending on which thermostat Caterham supplied with the 420 Duratec kit. The ECU was programmed to be match fan activation with thermostat. In theory at least. I also think you should run cooler on track as you have a ton of airflow through the radiator, even allowing for the higher revs on the engine. Street driving tends to run hotter. So do you have a sticky thermostat? You can pull it and test it in hot water to see if it opens at the right temperature. Great track day video - you were having a lot of fun!

Looks to be PNW. @lucky dawg ?

There was a great article on the Lotus Mk 6 in the most recent edition of Octane i received. Great read if you can find it. Author thought it was a better drive than the Lotus 7.

There is a build thread of that car somewhere on this forum back in the mists of time. Owner and son were forum members - not sure if they frequent here or not now?

I think this makes a lot of sense. Fairly quick to swap and you gain a lot of progress at the same time to continue the trouble shooting.

Interesting plots. Just to clarify - this happens when engine properly warmed up? Does it happen cold? Does it happen with ignition on but not engine on? I would not play with Easimap settings yet as (assuming I understand the history here) it worked fine on those settings up to a point in time then you experienced the issue - do I have that correct? If so then changing Easimap would just mask the underlying source issue?

Its not the only CSR with this level of sophistication. However, its the only one in the USA. The hardware of ECU and peripherals can be bought along with the software to operate it. The custom piece is installing brackets and calibrating it all to the precise tolerances required. Its a learning curve but one that will allow it to readily replicated in the future for customers (called JohnB?) that come along later. There still are a number of challenges left: The Sadev gearbox has to be integrated with the ECU. In my last two visits to the workshop in the last 2 weeks Bruce and I worked out we were missing a hardware element I forgot to buy and also buy another piece that may have got lost in the workshop. We need the various wiring pieces to connect gearbox, ECU and dash - they are on the way. This is important as we have pneumatic paddleshifters actuating gear changes. There needs to be a clutch actuation system plus a throttle blipper for the downshifts and a throttle interrupter for the upshifts. All these need to be centrally integrated by the ECU so that it controls all the inputs in harmony. This has all been done before in the UK but not here so learning curve time to make it all work correctly and reliably. The ECU can do this but it needs setting up. At this point the car assembly can really move forward - fueling system installed, engine and gearbox in, plumbing of oil and coolant lines, finishing off the wiring, etc. The engine has run on a test bed dyno but has not been properly tuned with the end ECU. So that needs to happen. The MBE ECU has a base Duratec tune but this will need to be properly remapped. While it is an MBE ECU, it is not a Caterham supplied one so is not locked. Somewhere around this point the OBDII output needs to be configured. A lot of the systems will need calibration and documentation. The dash set up will require setting each of the multiple digital screens accessed by buttons around the edges of the digital dash. The primary screen with summary info will need to be set up. Ranges established around each of the monitoring input so that this portion of the screen will light up the moment something goes outside a preset range, e.g. voltage drop or oil pressure drop. Buttons need to be mapped to functions based on how I will use them. This could be time consuming but AIM has a new piece of set up software and we are not the first to set up a digital dash on a Caterham. Then the hardest piece will be drive testing. For example, we need to dial in the active suspension settings. We have a baseline view based on the mathematical set up but there will need to be tuning off this baseline from driving the car on a track. I like this work since I spend plenty of time tuning suspension on track in my other cars. The gearbox shifting will need to be set up. Only way to do this is drive the car hard. While I could do this, the better solution is Bruce will do it since he knows the local tracks in Seattle and I don't. Local knowledge and familiarity allows him to be much faster and better than me at it. If we were east on my home tracks it would be the other way around. The process in many areas is that Bruce and I have spent time talking through and strategizing each of these points, then I have gone off to research the technical aspects for him, then we further strategize and adjust the game plan based on the additional technical input, then he completes the actual work step. New things often get discovered at this point requiring a course change. Its been a fascinating project for both of us. A lot has been learned. If Covid had not come along we would likely have been finished by now. The key word on this project is patience as this is not plug and play first time around. But it will be for the next person who wants to come along and top this project.

With the wiring advanced far enough, it is time to wire in the wheel sensors needed for measuring wheel rotation speeds for launch control, traction control and the ABS brakes. This is the right rear. Brackets for the sensors now mounted on the hub. As a reminder, the CSR chassis is independent rear suspension. These hubs will look nothing like what a de Dion rear end car will have. The IRS was reputedly derived from a 1990s era VW Passat sedan. The rear uprights are pretty tall when you see them. To this a custom wheel hub is mounted onto which the brakes/wheel assemble. This hub was reputedly developed by Titan Engineering for Caterham or so I was told once. Lots of measuring is involve to ensure no interference with the suspension but yet close enough to the reluctor wheel to ensure optimal contact. The photo below shows the precise tolerances needed for this to work. These wheel speed sensors are quite large compared with the usual speedo sensor that Caterham would provide. The reluctor wheel is the "cogged" tooth around the drive shaft (the thing with the rubber boot). These were 3D printed in plastic for trial fitting and then sent to a professional to mill out of metal. With that the right rear suspension can be mounted on the car. Next step is left rear suspension. Much easier second time around.