Caterham Owner's Manual

[breezy7]

Playing around on the Caterham UK site tonight and came across an owner's manual available for download. It is found under downloads in the "Technical" section of the site. I don't remember seeing this before, think I'll print a copy and put in my 7's glove box. Mike

[Jeff7]

No owners manual is bad, I have one page from Caterham with mine which is all that came with it.

[scannon]

I got an assembly manual with mine but no owner's manual.

[Croc]

Here is the link to the downloads for the owners manual and some recent assembly manuals.

 

http://www.caterham.co.uk/assets/html/technical/download.html

 

I also have a K-series assembly manual which is entertaining at points for its less than clear direction plus does not match my engine choice (did anyone ever install a Rover engine in a US car???) I can scan it to a PDF if someone desparately wants it.

Edited April 6, 2009 by Croc
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[pksurveyor]

Great news. Thank you.

[yellowss7]

Here is the link to the downloads for the owners manual and some recent assembly manuals.

 

 

I also have a K-series assembly manual which is entertaining at points for its less than clear direction plus does not match my engine choice (did anyone ever install a Rover engine in a US car???) I can scan it to a PDF if someone desparately wants it.

 

 

Yep! I did. When I was ordering my car, the choice was crossflow, possibly Vauxhall or the Rover K series. The Zetec was not yet a choice. The VHPD spec was the top engine, the R500 was not yet in the mix.

 

I liked the idea of a lightweight, highpowered motor. So I made it happen. Only issues that came up on the install were, that with the drysump pump on the right hand side and the steering and headers on the left there was no room for the altenator, the other issue was that it was set up for a hydraulic clutch and there was no fitting to connect the slave cylinder to the clutch arm. I called Caterham and asked how they how they resovled these issues and they said, " Don't know, we've never did a Left hand drive Dry sumped, hydraulic clutch Rover K series, let us know how you make out!!!!"

 

Ended up mounting the altenator facing rearward off the front of the engine, and making a clevis to attach to the clutch arm. Easy peasy.

 

Great motor by the way. only weighs 87kg. Mine has 196 hp from 1.8 liters. Looks pretty too. See the attached pics.

 

Tom

Edited April 6, 2009 by yellowss7
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[solder_guy]

Ended up mounting the altenator facing rearward off the front of the engine, and making a clevis to attach to the clutch arm. Easy peasy.

 

Funny seeing the alternator like that! A guy near Atlanta has a 1962 Rover engine in his Rotus .. he likes it alot too!

 

BTW: Looking at the owners manuals .. these Cats sure have alot of fuses!

 

Rob

[yellowss7]

62 rover engine? is that a V8 like the old buick motor?

 

my K is an all aluminium twin overhead cam, 16v 4banger. Originally, used in small Rover 214/.metro models.

 

Then Lotus put it in the series one Elise, MG put it in the MGF. Stock, it's speced at around 114 hp, supersport version is 133 hp, Then there was a Trophy 160 hp, Mine is the VHPD (Very High Power Derivative) at 190-200 hp then came the R500 version with 232Hp. I think they also did a tweeked R500 called the R101 whiched bumped up the hp slightly higher to 242hp.

 

I believe they also came out with a VVC variant too.

 

Tom

Edited April 6, 2009 by yellowss7