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Done. Perhaps you can suggest an alternative route to avoid the A592 ?

These are spares that came with my 1988 SE narrow body so I'm not 100% sure of spec but happy to answer any questions and do some investigations! £400

2012 FW Special Edition 2.0 Blacktop Zetec Factory built 36500 miles 3 Owner (previously owned by forum member for 10 years) MOT Oct 2026 Many of you will recognise the car as it has been forum owned for over 10 years, I only bought it last spring and I absolutely love it but sadly I need to free up some money for the house. The previous owner owned this car for 10 years and put over 90% of the miles on it, taking it on regular trips to Europe etc. It's been very well looked after and has been great to me. The car comes with a full history file spanning its whole life, including build photos from the factory. Timing belt was changed in 2022. In my ownership I have; Replaced the tires with Rainsport 5s which are still brand new Replaced the headlights with LED units Spent £520 sorting the alignment Specs: MSA roll bar Omex ECU Protech coilovers with larger 2.25’’ diameter springs Sport Turbo seats Team Dynamics 15’’ wheels Lowered floor Wide track Heated windscreen Contoured dashboard Westfield half hood Side screens Wind deflectors Westfield HiSpec brakes Heater Westfield rear diffuser 4 point harness Shortened indicator pods Electric mirror upgrade Cigarette lighter 12V socket & USB Race tech quick release steering boss Carbon Fibre: Mick-made front splitter Silencer Rear stone guards Front cycle wings Gear knob Fuse box covers I am away for the next few weeks so these photos are just to give you an idea, I will get the car cleaned up properly when I am back and take some better ones. iCloud link to video: https://share.icloud.com/photos/01bXclMPWVodTb7h4ajXs7MnA Price: £13,950

@DannyTGSi'm going to book the PM session. I was there yesterday, started off wet in the morning but dried up later.

Here's hoping with all the crappy weather we've had so far this year, April will be nice haha Also spaces still available if anyone wants to tag along

Cars back home, fingers crossed for some nice weather, needs a run out

Apple probably won't blink, but Perrari’s IP lawyers definitely smelt something in the water—they’re already warming up the engines for a trademark infringement suit, and are currently drafting a lawsuit at 200 mph.

My phone number is above

That's a good article. I stumbled on this one recently and found a lot of good info in it - dave https://aricstreeter.substack.com/p/applying-aerodynamics-to-lotus-seven?r=2bb48a&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=split&fbclid=IwY2xjawPpi1FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR5uYPu176OSu_fnIGlc_pALA3lyBfoOovmG3rgJ7ib7s-9KPizfQO_qv-HVQw_aem_nlr5xgEGaY8T33nY4sdcvw&triedRedirect=true

A few snaps from a video of my trip up through Cheddar Gorge today. Weather was pretty good, so was out in the car for about four hours.

No, I checked that and they aren’t pushed in so all is good

Please could I take the 2.4 steering rack?

Looks nice, hopefully the paddles aren't pushed either or they'll drain the battery in storage

I was planning to post it to you to ask you that very question as I figured you’d know.

Been waiting since December for this one, but well worth it. SBFS Steering wheel bag, takes my modded 250 very nicely, snug, but doesn’t activate any of the buttons so it is ideal.

We will see you there @AndrewBClarke

Did it smell like a black pony's ar$e?

Is this the Autocar article you are looking for?

I'll be there, as usual! Anyone else joining me?

Will be there @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)

Hello after some black doors for seiw not sure if they are all the same. or just a drivers door worst case thanks dan

Keeping fingers crossed it’s a dry day

Treated the tin top to a full valet Thursday at my favourite hand car wash. When it was done, I climbed back inside and found this air freshener hanging from the mirror: Getting a bit paranoid that I’ll be done for double copyright infringement.

A little teaser of something in the pipeline.... The XI was a pig to start, but once running it performed admirably .

Most of the documents I had seem to have been lost to time, and a major (home) server crash 15 years ago, this is one of the surviving bits of info I have from one of the independent Caterham tests; sadly I can't remember who from, to credit them, not could I find it still on line in just a quick Googling. For those interested! (Obviously, this all pre-dates the fluid analysis modelling that's been done over the last decade or so!) " From Curborough Site I was lucky enough to have my car selected for the test session. Following various conversations with Graham Kendall, who not only manages the Wind Tunnels at MIRA, but also competes with daughter Claire (yes that Claire) in the rapid Metro, I prepared a few add on devices in readiness for the limited time available for the structured tests in the Wind Tunnel, whilst some other lucky club members had a tour around the facility. Apart from the obvious Caterham design I had added a full flat floor under tray and rear diffuser. Previous theories on airflow meant that I already raced with the front number plate mounted low down on the front of the nose cone. Yes I know you are all asking, "Why on earth would you want to do wind tunnel tests on something as un-aerodynamic as a Caterham 7?" Well even though it has the aerodynamics of a brick, there are still very useful things that can be accomplished using a test facility such as the Full Scale Wind Tunnel at MIRA. Armed with a multitude of cardboard cut outs and tank tape I was aiming to reduce lift on the front axle to balance the car and hopefully improve the drag at the same time. The first series of tests consisted of a splitter below the number plate, an additional spoiler below and blending. I won't bore you all with the full technical results but in summary these changes actually reduced aerodynamic drag and lift at the front. The action of reducing front lift actually increased rear lift by pitching the car around its centre of gravity. The next areas of attention were the front cycle wings. The theory was that air flowed both above and below the wing surface acting exactly like the wing of a plane. This caused a depression on the top surface relative to the air below causing lift. Blanking off the gap between the wheel and the wing did indeed reduce lift and drag, but without increasing rear lift. These results were further enhanced with the addition of a low sharp edge towards the back of the wing in an attempt to trip the air up and not follow the contour causing depression. At this stage CD (drag) had been reduced by 3% and front lift decreased by a whopping 14kg. How could I not resist looking at the front suspension? Now obviously I couldn't remove it all so I made covers for all the exposed round section tubes to change them to pear drop section. Although improvements were made, they were nowhere near as big as the effort in making the new sections! Another few kilos of rear lift were lost by adding wheel deflectors to the lower edge of the rear wings in front of the rear tyres, but at the expense of a little drag. Then came the addition of side skirts to the car. I set these to give ground clearance at all times under racing conditions. These had an overall reduction in lift of 9 kg but a slight drag increase. As I stated earlier I had already fitted a very pretty carbon fibre rear diffuser. However the shape of this was wrong based on textbook theory. The MIRA experts decided it was not long enough and the diffuser angle was nowhere near the optimum range. Copious additions of very stiff cardboard went some way to correcting this situation. But no matter what we tried, the best solution was to consign it to a very large skip! (The diffuser, not the car!) From a suggestion by one of the group present, we also added additional blending profiles to the windscreen posts. Although not strictly legal in my racing class, it did improve drag very slightly. Lastly for amusement I removed all of the weather equipment (roof and doors). This increased the drag force through the proverbial roof requiring a further 10bhp at 100 miles/hour, but actually created some more rear down force. I would like to thank Graham Kendall, Ivan Starkey & Paul Atkin for making this very interesting visit happen and for the opportunity to complete these tests, which sadly I have not had chance to convert into road/race-worthy modifications."