Category: Caterham 420R Build

  • Build Session 5 : Front Suspension 2

    Build Session 5 : Front Suspension 2

    Post Views: 1,109 It’s Saturday and I was hoping to get a good day’s build in – guess what… didn’t quite go that way. I didn’t get up as early as I was hoping and so didn’t get into the garage until around 11AM. The first task however was a trip to B&Q (Lowes equivalent…

  • Build Session 4 : Front Suspension 1

    Post Views: 1,633 It had been a busy week at work and I hadn’t had a chance to get on with the car other than 20 minutes to look at the poorly threaded harness mount yesterday. Today is a Friday and a work day… and after sorting out all my morning emails I found a…

  • Build Session 3 : Tapping a Poorly Threaded Harness Mount

    Post Views: 1,104 A simple job today… when the car arrived there was an obvious problem with the inboard off side harness bolt. The car is set up for 4-point harnesses and it now seems that Caterham, not only pre-attach the hood and the boot cover, they also pre-drill and set up the attachment points…

  • Delivery 1 : Shortages Box

    Post Views: 994 After speaking with Derek Howlett yesterday, Monday, he shipped the missing shortages box by courier. I had given Derek my work address and the delivery arrived at 8:42 today, Tuesday. We opened the box while I was at work and found: N/S and O/S, upper and lower, wishbones Pair of De Dion…

  • Email 1 – Caterham (Derek) : Shortages, Bellhousing and IVA Trim Questions

    Post Views: 1,061 Here’s the first, and hopefully only (you’ve gotta think positively haven’t you) email and answers in-line, to Caterham’s chief fixer, Derek. I called him a couple of times on the Monday morning but the poor guy was only just back from a week off so I was only really calling on the…