Category: Magazine Articles
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Build Session 6 : Headlamp and Indicator Pod Assembly (the short version)
Ok, so the front suspension is now starting to take way longer than I anticipated. I’m 6 sessions in and still not completed what I thought was a simple part of the build. A lot of the problem is that I’m not getting many long sessions in. It just goes to show how difficult it…
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Build Session 5 : Front Suspension 2
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 for our US…
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Build Session 4 : Front Suspension 1
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 couple of hours…
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Build Session 3 : Tapping a Poorly Threaded Harness Mount
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 for the harnesses.…
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Delivery 1 : Shortages Box
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 Ears Pair of…
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Email 1 – Caterham (Derek) : Shortages, Bellhousing and IVA Trim Questions
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 off-chance. I decided…
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Build Session 2 : Engine, Gearbox and Bell Housing
Day 2: front suspension day… or so we thought. First thing Sunday, while I waited for Harry to “wake up”, as he sat watching the football on the TV, I decided we needed the better bodywork protection I’d been thinking about the day before. So, I took one of the spare Caterham cardboard boxes (I…
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Build Session 1 : IVA trim and Steering Rack
And so we’re off and running…. sort of! Saturday morning broke and I was hoping to get a full day’s build in, but of course, things didn’t go to that plan. We ended up doing a bunch of chores around the house, and garden, and didn’t get off to a great start with the car.…
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Our Kit Car Has Arrived
After 151 days since putting in our order, the Purplemeanie Caterham 420R Kit Car has arrived! We got final confirmation of a delivery date earlier this week and a courtesy call from Caterham yesterday confirmed that they would deliver our car before lunch time today… … And at just after 11 this morning the Caterham…
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Pre-build Update #6 – Delays but now “in build”
Breaking news: The Purplemeanie 420R is now “in build”. Caterham have updated their online systems to show that the car is now being built. Delivery is still likely to be end of July or early August. For those of you that have been asking… the Caterham 420R kit car delivery date is delayed but is…