Joining The Fold - Gulf Coloured Ex-Academy Car
Discussion
Hi All,
Thought I'd introduce myself now that I've finally pulled the trigger and bought myself one!
Picked it up from Caterham South on Monday. It's an ex-academy K-Series car with a few goodies (low battery, Apollo tank, carbon wings)
Only driven it for about an hour so far as I'm currently offshore but will be taking it home to Aberdeen in a couple of weeks - can't wait!
Any 'must haves' or 'must do' items? I'm going to get a half-hood I think and I suspect that the front camber may be a bit extreme for road and occasional track use.
Dominic at Caterham suggested that I 'kill' those tyres relatively quickly and get some Avons on there to improve the predicatablility and ride...
Few photos on the Caterham site of how it used to look before the Tillets and full cage got removed: http://uk.caterhamcars.com/pre-owned/1380-academy
Thought I'd introduce myself now that I've finally pulled the trigger and bought myself one!
Picked it up from Caterham South on Monday. It's an ex-academy K-Series car with a few goodies (low battery, Apollo tank, carbon wings)
Only driven it for about an hour so far as I'm currently offshore but will be taking it home to Aberdeen in a couple of weeks - can't wait!
Any 'must haves' or 'must do' items? I'm going to get a half-hood I think and I suspect that the front camber may be a bit extreme for road and occasional track use.
Dominic at Caterham suggested that I 'kill' those tyres relatively quickly and get some Avons on there to improve the predicatablility and ride...
Few photos on the Caterham site of how it used to look before the Tillets and full cage got removed: http://uk.caterhamcars.com/pre-owned/1380-academy
Edited by dirtbiker on Saturday 7th February 08:08
Lovely colour.
I bought an 07 academy car last year. Things to do: Check for cracking round the ends of the water hoses as the standard Caterham rubber ones don't last. Check whether it warms up ok - academy cars have no thermostat as standard and the r500 fan switch fitted to them lowers the temp that the fan kicks in. Get some CR500s which are excellent. See if the MSA seals are still on the cambelt cover which would be a giveaway that the cambelt's never been changed. Think about changing the sump foam if you don't know when it was last done as its known to disintegrate and can block the oilways up.
I bought an 07 academy car last year. Things to do: Check for cracking round the ends of the water hoses as the standard Caterham rubber ones don't last. Check whether it warms up ok - academy cars have no thermostat as standard and the r500 fan switch fitted to them lowers the temp that the fan kicks in. Get some CR500s which are excellent. See if the MSA seals are still on the cambelt cover which would be a giveaway that the cambelt's never been changed. Think about changing the sump foam if you don't know when it was last done as its known to disintegrate and can block the oilways up.
Hey, I saw you driving quite the thing this sunny morning down by the reservoir in Cults. Looks very good, and you seemed pretty chuffed. I was using mine - blue with clamshell wings - every day since November but sadly its in the garage getting remapped for the cold Scottish weather right now. Enjoy.....
Hi Andy, that can't have been me as the car's at my parents' house in Southampton just now! Be intriguing if there are two Gulf coloured Sevens in the Aberdeenshire area though! Will definitely try and get along to some of the PH Ecosse meets now I have something vaguely worthy (last 'proper' car was a Z4C 3.0 which kind of counts I suppose).
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