{"id":269,"date":"2017-04-16T21:43:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/?p=269"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:15:26","slug":"pre-build-update-3-specification-set-garage-finished-and-line-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/04\/16\/pre-build-update-3-specification-set-garage-finished-and-line-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-build Update #3 \u2013 Specification Set, Garage Finished and Line Drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Purplemeanie Specification Set<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This week we had a couple of trips over to the Williams car showroom. The first trip was to confirm&nbsp;the final specification of the car. We ended up with the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>420 (2-litre Ford Duratec engine tuned to 210bhp)<\/li><li>R-spec (track specification)<\/li><li>Series 5 (Wider bodied SV)<\/li><li>Lowered Floors (2&#8243; lowered floors)<\/li><li>5 Speed Gearbox (Williams didn&#8217;t recommend the soon to be discontinued 6 speed)<\/li><li>Full weather windscreen and hood (the R usually comes with the aero screen and that&#8217;s not in line with my all-year aspirations)<\/li><li>15&#8243; Orcus Wheels (I like the low profiles even though some say the 13&#8243;s are better)<\/li><li>Ventilated Discs and Quad Callipers (you can never have enough braking)<\/li><li>Heater (again all weather aspirations)<\/li><li>Leather Seats (found these to be better for my less than perfect lower back)<\/li><li>Armrests<\/li><li>Momo Quick-release&nbsp;Steering Wheel (why not)<\/li><li>Battery Cutoff (will help with battery depletion if left standing for a few weeks in the winter)<\/li><li>Boot Cover Carbon (finishes the look set by te carbon leather tunnel)<\/li><li>Carbon Front Wings (should set off the exterior colour better)<\/li><li>Carpets (can help with internal noise &#8211; we&#8217;ll see)<\/li><li>Polished Exhaust (not sure about this one, but was convinced in the end)<\/li><li>Custom Colour (more on this below)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The second trip to Williams was a couple of days later and was with a number of family members. The guys at Williams were very accommodating to my turning up with an entourage and, as well as letting us wander around freely, allowed me to take a few pictures of one of the probable colour options &#8211; Lotus Aubergine&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6176693968_IMG_0010_Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"114\" data-attachment-id=\"278\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/04\/16\/pre-build-update-3-specification-set-garage-finished-and-line-drawings\/6176693968_img_0010_crop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6176693968_IMG_0010_Crop.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"809,154\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 80D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1492265470&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"6176693968_IMG_0010_Crop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Aubergine colour sample&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6176693968_IMG_0010_Crop-600x114.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6176693968_IMG_0010_Crop.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6176693968_IMG_0010_Crop-600x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6176693968_IMG_0010_Crop-600x114.jpg 600w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6176693968_IMG_0010_Crop-768x146.jpg 768w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6176693968_IMG_0010_Crop.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Lotus Aubergine &#8211; lit from the right on a curved sample showing a gradation of the colour in different lighting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Garage Completed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you following each episode you&#8217;ll remember from the last post that after one coat I wasn&#8217;t happy with the epoxy garage floor covering. This week another pack of the Rust-o-leum garage floor kit arrived and it was applied to the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before putting this second coat on I also took the time to fill any cracks in the concrete floor. The rust-o-leum didn&#8217;t cover well with the porous floor and did very badly at filling fine cracks in the concrete. The first coat also showed a number of holes and dents in the original floor. All this was filled and then finally the second coat of rust-o-leum was applied. This time the quoted 25m<sup>2<\/sup> coverage given on the can was much closer to being valid. Instead of the full can only covering our 16m<sup>2<\/sup>, it looked like it would have gone on to do the full 25m<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final result was much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We then left the garage empty for a couple of days just to make sure it was all cured. But even then, putting a kids bike back into the garage caused the rubber tyres to bond to the epoxy and pulled the second coat away with the tyre when we moved the bike. Needless to say, the bike spent the next two days perched on some off-cuts of plywood to make sure that didn&#8217;t happen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On reflection, perhaps a self-levelling compound prior to any epoxy coat would have given a better overall finish but in the end it&#8217;s only a garage and I&#8217;m happy with the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CAD &#8211; Line Drawings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the down time this week I turned my attention again to the 3D CAD model &nbsp;of an R500 that I&#8217;d bought. I want to try and get a 3D print of the model and have experimented with a number of ways of turning the supplied mesh into a solid body &#8211; all to no avail. This needs a rethink since&nbsp;there are a few dozen parts in the model and the hand editing of the mesh that I&#8217;ve resorted to so far is proving to be very time consuming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime I created a vector line drawing of the front view of the CAD model. I intend to use the line drawing for some promotional material but that&#8217;s&#8230; for another post. At some point I&#8217;ll provide a high resolution PNG and SVG image gallery of the drawing below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" data-attachment-id=\"271\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/04\/16\/pre-build-update-3-specification-set-garage-finished-and-line-drawings\/r500-sketch-front\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front.png\" data-orig-size=\"1603,1047\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"R500 Sketch Front\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front-600x392.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front-600x392.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front-600x392.png 600w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front-768x502.png 768w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/R500-Sketch-Front.png 1603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Vector line drawing of the front view of a Caterham Seven. Vector created using Sketch on macOS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week I also talked about working on the project plan for the build. I got a little time to work on that this week but it&nbsp;will now also have to wait for a future post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purplemeanie Specification Set This week we had a couple of trips over to the Williams car showroom. The first trip was to confirm&nbsp;the final specification of the car. We ended up with the following: 420 (2-litre Ford Duratec engine tuned to 210bhp) R-spec (track specification) Series 5 (Wider bodied SV) Lowered Floors (2&#8243; lowered floors) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,51],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caterham-420r-build","category-caterham-blog","tag-prebulid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8yl38-4l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130,"url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/09\/first-test-drives\/","url_meta":{"origin":269,"position":0},"title":"First Test Drives","author":"John Martin","date":"March 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"After the deliberations covered in the Introduction, I found myself in the Williams Automotive show room talking to their Caterham sales guy, Lindon. He was more than happy to let me have a test drive in a couple of 7's, talk through options and to see what worked. First off,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Caterham 420R Build&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Caterham 420R Build","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/category\/caterham-blog\/caterham-420r-build\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":296,"url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/07\/pre-build-update-5-a-project-planned\/","url_meta":{"origin":269,"position":1},"title":"Pre-build Update #5 \u2013 A Project Planned","author":"John Martin","date":"May 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This week has seen me in the US again, Dallas this time for a couple of days. While there was lots of work to do on the flights, and in Dallas, I did get some time to finish the project plan and review the line drawings I'd previously started. 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Even with my still unbelievable June delivery date, I'm going to have to wait 3 months. That's a lot of planning time and evenings mulling things over. On the todo list is: Option selectionColour - a biggySort out the build space Options, options\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Caterham 420R Build&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Caterham 420R Build","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/category\/caterham-blog\/caterham-420r-build\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Build-Space-Drawing-v2.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Build-Space-Drawing-v2.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Build-Space-Drawing-v2.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Build-Space-Drawing-v2.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Build-Space-Drawing-v2.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Build-Space-Drawing-v2.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8146,"url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/12\/04\/seven-part-2-the-victim\/","url_meta":{"origin":269,"position":3},"title":"sEVen Conversion &#8211; The Victim","author":"John Martin","date":"December 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Well it's about time for an update. 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