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Fellow Drivers,
I've got to confess to being a car nut since birth. At 12 after mowing hundreds of lawns I bought my first car (71 Mini) and first saw a Seven parked in the car park at the St James hospital in Dublin (Ireland). I wanted one...Finally many years later and about 10 years ago, now living in CA, I was able to build a 7. After getting a house and family and some big debts in the post .com crash era I sold it for the cash. The purchaser was do_superlight who posted on here several times. Recently I reinforced Dave's car hobby and enabled him to buy the Vette he had really wanted by purchasing the car back from Dave and am now finally posting on here for the first time myself.
I was a very early CA builder using SPCN.
It was ordered before the SB100 bill was approved.
The car is a 2001 Superlight. (Not SV)
Zetec (VCT but not SVT)
Built in CA but supplied with parts from Caterham USA and car from RMSCI since they were close to a place I used to visit for work in Colorado at the time.
(I also visited the factory in the UK before purchasing the car.)
It has all the carbon. The Magnesium center wheels. Race radiator of the era.
Uprated brakes and wide track. The only engine mods to date are:
Lower temp thermostat.Redline Water wetter.
Header wrap on the stock caterham headers.
Relocated air intake to passenger side and lighter odessey battery in center.
So here come the questions: (Pointers to threads are a good start.)
1)Where can I get tires these days?
Preferably the staggered CR500s that came on the car as I liked them.
2)What camber are people running for a fast road car with some planned track time. Car has got ~-1.5 fronts and they still seem to be wearing more on the outside even on the street.
3)What tire pressures do people run on the CR500s on the street?
(Currently at 18psi. Tires are wearing more in center on rears than outside edges. Have heard numbers as low as 11psi from others but that seems rediculous.)
4)What is the source for the rubber seal against the bonnet that was used on the cold air box mod for the SVT zetec?
5)Has anybody tried to push the zetec NA to beyond ~200HP crank?
There has been a lot of work done in that direction by NA focus fans over the last few years that seems to have a lot of potential to the zetec cars.
6)Specifically has anybody tried the massive speed systems cylinder head?
Finally,
Thanks to Magnus and Doug for great posts and keeping such a great forum going,
Andy
I've got to confess to being a car nut since birth. At 12 after mowing hundreds of lawns I bought my first car (71 Mini) and first saw a Seven parked in the car park at the St James hospital in Dublin (Ireland). I wanted one...Finally many years later and about 10 years ago, now living in CA, I was able to build a 7. After getting a house and family and some big debts in the post .com crash era I sold it for the cash. The purchaser was do_superlight who posted on here several times. Recently I reinforced Dave's car hobby and enabled him to buy the Vette he had really wanted by purchasing the car back from Dave and am now finally posting on here for the first time myself.
I was a very early CA builder using SPCN.
It was ordered before the SB100 bill was approved.
The car is a 2001 Superlight. (Not SV)
Zetec (VCT but not SVT)
Built in CA but supplied with parts from Caterham USA and car from RMSCI since they were close to a place I used to visit for work in Colorado at the time.
(I also visited the factory in the UK before purchasing the car.)
It has all the carbon. The Magnesium center wheels. Race radiator of the era.
Uprated brakes and wide track. The only engine mods to date are:
Lower temp thermostat.Redline Water wetter.
Header wrap on the stock caterham headers.
Relocated air intake to passenger side and lighter odessey battery in center.
So here come the questions: (Pointers to threads are a good start.)
1)Where can I get tires these days?
Preferably the staggered CR500s that came on the car as I liked them.
2)What camber are people running for a fast road car with some planned track time. Car has got ~-1.5 fronts and they still seem to be wearing more on the outside even on the street.
3)What tire pressures do people run on the CR500s on the street?
(Currently at 18psi. Tires are wearing more in center on rears than outside edges. Have heard numbers as low as 11psi from others but that seems rediculous.)
4)What is the source for the rubber seal against the bonnet that was used on the cold air box mod for the SVT zetec?
5)Has anybody tried to push the zetec NA to beyond ~200HP crank?
There has been a lot of work done in that direction by NA focus fans over the last few years that seems to have a lot of potential to the zetec cars.
6)Specifically has anybody tried the massive speed systems cylinder head?
Finally,
Thanks to Magnus and Doug for great posts and keeping such a great forum going,
Andy
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