Category: Caterham Blog

  • Build Session 8: Front Brake Hoses, ARB and Dinitrol 3125

    Post Views: 1,474 Just had a couple of hours to work on a few things tonight. I’m now working on the assumption that I’ll be able to get the engine into the car this coming weekend – a holiday weekend. It’s now Wednesday and we have plans to meet up with family at the weekend…

  • Build Session 7 : Front Dampers and Suspension Uprights

    Build Session 7 : Front Dampers and Suspension Uprights

    Post Views: 2,003 A short session today, I managed to get a couple of hours in between, and then after, my evening meetings. Stool / Creeper Firstly: new toys. I’d read in a number of blogs that a number of builders had got on well with folding stool/creepers. After spending a lot of Sunday bent…

  • Telephone Call 2 – Williams, Track Roll Over Bar

    Telephone Call 2 – Williams, Track Roll Over Bar

    Post Views: 1,027 The first task today was a simple one – a call to Nick the parts guy at Williams Automobiles. I’d decided, for better or worse, that I wanted to go with the track roll bar and not the standard one that I had ordered and had delivered with the car. Lindon at…

  • Build Session 6 : Headlamp and Indicator Pod Assembly (the short version)

    Post Views: 1,172 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…

  • 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…