Caterham Zetec
Hi Caterham Zetec! Thaks for the advise most appreciated.
I'm not a grown power fanatic...
In may mind i have a plan in 3 steps:
First i need to learn driving well the car, and spend some money in sport driving instruction is the most effective upgrade i can made for sure. Second step mapping the engine calibrate suspensions and aesthetic make up of the car (Eugene i love brooklands!!! )
third step a possibly engine upgrade... if really neded.

Thanks to all of you guys, my English it's horrible and must be tiresome to try understand what i mean thanks thanks
The day i'll come in UK to join a 7 meeting bottles of italian wine will be uncorked!!! I promise!!

madmagcat

There will be a Seven Meeting in Portugal, next May

too much?

Adaraujo if i sell the home and buy a cat in time for the meeting... i'll join you in Vale do Douro with a great pleasure. Esta é uma promessa i promise

That's a very nice car.

The SVR was, as already mentioned, a precursor to the CSR, only real difference being the deDion rear end, not independent. Very nice engine, I think the thing can easily be tuned for more power simply by remapping the ecu.

Oh yeah, the SVR doesn't have the picnic table front mudguards either, nor the chin under the radiator air intake. But it does have the CSR's semi horizontal rad and the big hole in the nosecone top for air exit. It's a crossover model.

That seems a good price, and it is certainly a very rare model.

As for the seats, the owner probably still has the original leather driver's seat, or a second Tillet.

Your English is excellent but I'm sure you know that!

Hal
Ciao Hal! Another one question: has the svr dry sump and the dry sump it's important for road driving?

Me and English it's like an air dogfight... No rules

A dry sump is not important for road driving.
It can actually be worse, as the oil takes longer to warm up.
But, I have no idea if the SVR has one or not.
Either way, I would not worry about it!

;Up:

MMC, Just checked, the SVR 200 definitely does have a dry-sump.
It probably has the Caterham bell-housing dry-sump tank, but it's hard to see from the picture as the air channel panel covers where on my car the Breese kidney tank fits. But it is indeed a dry sump as built by the factory.

Drysump is no real problem on the road, a lot of Sevens do run them but it's certainly not essential and as Eugene said, it can mean longer oil-warming time.

I have a Pace dry sump on our SV, though it's a special, not a 'proper' SVR. It runs a full-race K 1800 engine, built by John Wilcox for PTP and used in their Caterham Cup car in, I think 2005. It's a PTP EVO 220 so should be producing around 220bhp. I'm using an Emerald programmable ecu so can calm the thing if required such as for technical testing.

The dry sump does have the advantage of giving better ground clearance. If the car has an oil-cooler, it's best to run a thermostat in the oil system or there really will be oil warm-up problems in winter. I was told an oil-cooler isn't needed on a Seven with the K1800 installation but I think I'll be fitting an oil temp guage to be sure. With the much larger volume of oil in a DS system the oil should run cooler anyway, it will also be losing some heat from the tank itself.

In 7 speed site i've read about the mocal laminova oil cooler. is it good? it worth the money and the job?

I have been running the Laminova for a couple of years now and had reports back from various other customers and engine builders all giving it 5 stars.
The main points are:

• Quick warm up
• Very stable oil and water temps, even when thrashed on track
• Rebuildable, this is the only type of oil cooler that is

Mad Hatter
Hi mad. Rebuildable it means you can transfer the oil cooler from a car to another?

Mad Hatter
I've not heard that about being rebuildable before....but why would you need/want to rebuild one anyway?

I've been using an oil/air cooler on a 200bhp+ Elise for 7 years and with the oil thermostat, it also allows quick warmup, though of course the water isn't heating the oil.

It does keep the oil properly cool. We tested the car and at a sustained 150mph in summer, the oil stayed at 90°C. It doesn't go to much more on track either.

Yes you can transfer from one car to another.

But by rebuildable i mean the unit can be stripped down and cleaned if you have a major engine issue.
A normal oil cooler is in the bin.

But the warm up time is the main bonus, as soon as the water stat opens i can watch my engine temp needle going up.
The water will initially speed engine oil getting up to operating temp, then the water temp will keep the oil temp stable.
All very simple but clever, they are so effective you will find then on rally car sequential gearboxes as well as engines.

Also in the colder months i have seen other 7 owners taping half of their nosecones off to help keep the engine at operating temp, a problem i just don't get with the laminova.

Mad Hatter
So laminova goes into the "must have" list of my ideal car.

Yes I agree with Mad Hatter I have used one for a few years,
I run the long 330mm one now and as long as its fitted into the warm up loop of the duratec cooling system, the oil gauge starts to move after a few miles on my 7 ltr system.
And your cooling system has to have some reserve capacity to cope with the extra heat the laminova will feed into the system.

Mr sheep
Hi Mr sheep. Thanks for your advice. So if i understood i have to put an oil tank in the cooling system. something like this maybe? http://www.sevenspeed.co.uk/products/catch-tank