<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Phil,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Your Cat 1700 sounds like a wonderful car. I think they were about 135HP if I recollect correctly. Do you think the LSD helps traction significantly? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I always thought that with under 150 BHP an LSD probably was not much of an advantage, just additional maintenance, but it sounds like you think it is beneficial.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I just rebuilt the rear axle and pumpkin on my '56 Lotus Eleven and decided against an LSD at the time and you have me wondering whether I missed an opportunity. I have a Climax FWE at only 110 BHP and the car only weighs 950 lbs, so it is significantly less powerful and probably lighter than your Seven. Just curious if you had yours with an open diff before going LSD. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm not racing it currently, just doing the canyons here in SoCal with "exuberance." </div><img src="cid:ii_m16ge8zy1" alt="PXL_20240915_220640034.jpg" width="562" height="423"><img src="cid:ii_m16g9y5s0" alt="PXL_20240915_215013737.jpg" width="562" height="423"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 9:30 PM Philip Ethier <<a href="mailto:pethier7@gmail.com">pethier7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 6:36 PM Thomas Coradeschi <<a href="mailto:tjcora@icloud.com" target="_blank">tjcora@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div>I think heat is gunna be your friend. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><p>I didn't have to resort to the blue flame. The slider block finally came loose with liberal application of Kroil and 1100-degree-F air from a heat gun followed by a twist with a pair of vise-grips. Ran a half-inch reamer through the block. Polished all the corrosion off the sway bar with a sandpaper strip and eery cloth. Block is 20mm long. Used one block to put saw marks 20mm apart on each bar arm on both the inside and outside to serve as guides to settings. I set the bar two notches up (40mm plus saw kerfs). Cat is much-more neutral now. Front tires are sharing with each other better with car rolling less. Plate-style LSD is preventing wheelspin. This has transformed the handling, There is much more overall grip. I can provoke both understeer and oversteer now. May try one more notch at next weekend's autocrosses. I did have to put a little more bend in the endlinks to allow one more notch. They are factory-bent to clear the DeDion tube.</p><p>Took out the lateral drift on the brackets with slit PEX pieces held in place with hose clamps. Clicky noise is gone.</p></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Phil Ethier</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">1991 Caterham 1700 Super Sprint</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 16, 2024, at 2:02 PM, Philip Ethier <<a href="mailto:pethier7@gmail.com" target="_blank">pethier7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:monospace"><div>Saturday I ran a small-lot autocross at a dragstrip near Rock Falls Wisconsin. My Caterham was pushing a bit and I had trouble staying in the power band in second gear.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also, there is a light clicky sound when I drive over bumps on the street.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The click is probably the rear sway-bar moving sideways and hitting the hose clamps that locate it in its aluminum-block brackets. First shot at quieting it is to put in a couple of cable ties between the clamps and the blocks. If that does not do it I will slit some PEX.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Next, adjust the rear bar stiffer. Problem: I have removed all the fasteners and the blocks will not move. The Heim joints pulled out OK. I swung the bar down. It moves very easily. I shot the blocks with Kroil, smacked them with a wrench and stopped for lunch. 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