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Kitcat, you are my idol. I've watched this years video many times and you are so spry that you can get up and over the roll cage and into your seat faster than most can get in a normal car. And I know how old you are. :svengo: I just hope that I can still get into my car when I'm your age. :jester: Since we are confessing, I too lied to my wife. I told her I'd sell the Yellow Caterham when I bought the Orange one, but I just can't bring myself to sell it. Oh well, it gives her something to bitch about other than my growing bourbon collection. :deadhorse:

HaHa, mine were taped on. For some reason they fell off before my first drive. Hope you are out enjoying it today. Tom

Congrats! Enjoy your drives before it gets too cold. Tom

Hope to see you back out on the track at NJMP next season John. Tom

Jay. The switch can be adjusted with the nut that is on it. Tom

Forget the Chassis plate and get it ready for the Track. :jester: Tom

UhOh, looks like there is a new top gun in town. Nice work Tom, Seb and Simon are starting to tear down their engines and are trying to figure out how to stuff a lot more horses into their S3 chassis. Tom:seeya:

Fred, but look at you now, A driving god on track. :hurray: You may want to share how you solved the issue of the automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters? :jester: Seriously, Fred built a nice BEC that does real well out on track. Tom

How much horsepower do you have? Are you just doing street or are you going to track it? Most of the UK Lotus seven guys stay with same size fronts and rears with lower powered cars. The higher powered ones, usually do a bit larger in the rear. My 2000 Superlight with 195hp at the flywheel came with 185x55x13 up front and 205x50x13 in the rear . More rear grip less drifting. Your preference. Tom

Tony Mills, is the parts guy I deal with. Tony.Mills@caterham.com He should answer your email if you ask him who you should speak with or email. Tom

Just goes to prove that you should NEVER EVER try to out brake Todd!!!:driving: Congrats Todd. Tom

I'm guessing an F2000. Tom

Sounds like a simple plan to me, Finish your project, sell it to Croc and buy his Caterham SV. Easy Peasy. Tom:hurray:

Glen, Make Croc an offer. and set up a payment plan over then next 50 years. He'll go for that. :jester: You know you are a Se7ener at heart. Tom

Croc doesn't cut corners. His cars are all professionally maintained and track tested so you know it is a nice solid car. I hope it stays local and joins us on track at NJMP. Tom

Probably won't help anyone as I think I may be the lone Caterham/Se7en with a paddle shift system, but I have been struggling with an issue since the Seven's Trackdays at NJMP where my car would get stuck in a gear or refuse to shift into Neutral or refuse to shift at all. The system is a pneumatically driven, with a couple of micro switches in the paddles that sends the signal to the brain and activates the pneumatic solenoids. It's a really slick system, that allows flat clutchless up shifts and blips to match revs on the down shifts. On track it is awesome!!! WHEN IT WORKS. :rant: The devil is in the complexity. Simon450 has been helping me with the pneumatic issues which is some condensation build up that affects the solenoids from activating. But there was also an electrical issue that was preventing the solenoids from getting a signal at all. The problems being intermittent added to the frustration. Two week ago after a full 25 minute track session, where it ran great, coming into the paddock, it wouldn't shift into Neutral. then after it went into Neutral, wouldn't shift up or down. It wasn't until I removed the steering wheel and turned it over when it clicked and then would go into gear, We traced it to a section of the harness about 4 inches in from the plug that the removable steering wheel cable attached on the harness side of the connection. Bad news was that the wires were 26 gauge and used a Deustch type plug and pin which we didn't have. But the pins came in and connections fixed so today I had it out for the full 4 sessions today with no issues at all. Shifting as it should. Made driving a pleasure when not having to worry whether it would shift everytime I pulled on the paddles. Thanks for letting me vent. Tom

Great Job Todd, but you're supposed to sandbag a bit to make them think you got lucky. Now they will probably load you down with 100 lbs of lead. :jester: sorry I didn't make it out, had a wedding in south Delaware and just got back home now. Hopefully I'll make it out next year. Congrats again! :hurray: Tom

Gonna miss you on track Michael. Keep in touch. Tom

Congrats! Hate too see a nice car like that leave the philly area, but hopefully you will give it the exercise it deserves. Enjoy it! Tom

After spending two weeks plus with him, I could do without hearing from him for a while. :smilielol5: Thankfully, he's off on another one of his driving adventures, so we might be lucky and not hear from him for another week or two. The guy never works, it's just one vacation after another. :jester: Tom

Hopefully, you will bring it out to play at one our upcoming member days. Tom

Jerry, congrats on the sale, and condolences on your loss. I always loved your color choices, as I'm partial to yellow anyway. My wife keeps telling me I should sell the yellow one, but since it was the one I built and it is so easy to drive, I just can't bring myself to sell it. Two sevens in the garage just seems so nicely balanced anyway. :flag: Take Care. Tom

We'll at least one is still there. The other is now home. My pockets weren't deep enough to stay more than one night, Plus I'm afraid of heights.:nopity:

Sorry. I thought you were in Pa. Good Luck. Tom

We'll if you pass the initial state Special constructed Vehicle inspection process and get your sticker, then next year you can just go to a regular inspection station and I suspect that by then those lights you have put on will have fallen off and you might just have to put the original caterham ones back on. Worked for me. :jester: