Almost (well you know what that means! ) finished now!

So here we are at about 40 hours of actual building time, and we are getting close to the finished product now!

As always there are lots of simple jobs to complete that will probably take forever, but it is now starting to look like a real Caterham!

First engine start up.

So here's the next major milestone completed in my build process today.

Yep the very first time the engine started. I had previously cranked the engine over to get the oil worked around the engine, with the inertia switch disconnected.

The engine sprang into life for the first time with no issues, and plenty of good oil pressure too.

Engine start up on YouTube

High res pictures of the first rollout of the garage today.

Heres some better quality pictures using my Nikon SLR camera to show off the carbon etc.

Rolling chassis for the first time!

So got a few more of the small build items completed today. So I managed to roll her out of the garage on her wheels for the first time today!

Plumbing almost finished.

I managed to get a few hours at the weekend to finish the pipes for the cooling.

Other simple stuff

As you know, having a young family and other life comitments means I can only get an hour or so free every now and again to get in the garage. So when I do have small windows of time, I do little jobs to help it make me feel I am moving on with the build.

This time I fitted the catalyst heat shield, and also tried out the nice new side screen mounts with the even nicer little black nuts, very nice indeed !

Back onto the suspension

With a nice new Arm and Rod end kindly sent in the post from Derek, it was time to finish the back end.

It's starting to look a lot more like a Caterham should now!