📄 Index
As the blog contains over 140 posts now, it is really tricky for anyone other than me to find a particular topic.
Here is an index of what has been covered so far :
👋 Welcome :
🛞 Wheels :
- Lug nuts
- General information and various types
- Super fancy AITech nuts to come soon
- Winter wheels
- First post on winter wheels
- 3D printed hub caps
- Stainless steel trims for the steel wheels
- Maintenance of the steel wheels
- Image Wheels
- Image Wheels billet Ultralite
- Badges for the Image Wheels
- Centre bore CNC machining
- Replacing the perimeter bolts
- Tyres review
- Uniroyal RainExpert 5
- Just ditch the Avon ZT7 and buy Nankang Ultra Sport NS2, honestly; to come soon
- Portable air compressor
🛑 Brakes :
- Front
- Rear
⚙️ Differential :
💡 Lighting :
- Headlights
- Tail lights saga
- Replacing a flooded LED unit
- Drilling a new but wet LED unit, plugging the hole in the rear wing
- Replacing it once again
- 3rd brake light
- Cabin light
- Fog and drive lights
🔋Other electrical :
- Battery
- Horn
☂️ Hoods and covers :
👁️🗨️ Dash cams :
- GKU D600 (get this one)
- GKU D600 pro (don't bother)
- Proper wiring of the rear camera
- Making the dashcam invisible with adhesive felt wrap
🏎️ Performance/engine :
- Easy stuff
- K&N air filter
- Inoxline Performance exhaust
- Adhesive heat shield of the intake
- Improved heat protection of the intake
- Carbon fiber intercooler air guide
- Spark plugs Looking for spark plugs
- Rear axle alignment
- Oil catch can (keeping the intercooler and inlet valves clean)
- Crankshaft thrust bearings of the R06A in the Caterham are safe
- Turbo fixing hardware
- Serious upgrades
- SCS-Delta engine management + hybrid turbo
- First impressions
ECU upgrade, chassis harness rabbit hole - Integration fine-tuning
- Wideband oxygen sensor
- Coolant
- Suzuki blue coolant : why
- Suzuki blue coolant : doing it
- Purging air from the circuit
- Lazy thermostat : 17670-81AB1
- Maintenance
- Oil change, wiper fluid
- Pumping oil from the top of the engine
🎛️ Dashboard :
- Speedometer
- Replacing gauges and rocker switches light bulbs
- Digital CAN gauges
- Shift light
🧳Cabin and comfort :
- Safety
- ECE-Compliant 4 points harnesses
- Sidescreens mist prevention with Rain-X
- Always keep a chamois cloth in thre cockpit
- Storage
- Smartphone holder
- Attaching the fusebox cover
- Heating
- Sidescreens
- Pedals
🙈 Varia :
- Styling
- Moto-Lita formula steering wheel
- Caterham handbrake sleeve
- SPA design formula mirrors
- Using motorcycle mirrors when the sidescreens are left home
- Second take on those motorcycle mirrors
- Tow straps
- Carbon fiber galore (but hidden)
- Fasteners
- Sacrificial nylon bolts on the rear wheel arches
- Plugging holes in the chassis
- Screws of shame, part I
- Other shameful fastners replaced
- Sidescreen straps fasteners
- Lego Caterham
- Clothing, footwear
- Decals and silly stuff
- Tools
- Cleaning
📚 Stories :
- Buying the 170S
- Why
- First contact with the car
- House of Speed gallery
- Test drive and purchase
- Renderings on the Caterham configurator
- Family show and tell
- Bringing the car home
- The origin story
- Wrapping-up the first year of ownership
- Crashing the car in a roe deer
- Wrapping-up the second year of ownership
- Random trips
- Second day : going across 4 countries
- Second week : goindgto Normandy (1500km)
- Crossing the Dutch border on a ferry
- A week-end to the Vosges
- Weight check
- Random hop to the Nürburgring-Nordschleife
- Trip to Luxemburg with 17°C and snow
- Camping with the Caterham : buying the equipment
- Random Winter Drive - the best drive so far
- Events
- Track day at Spa-Francorchamps (03/2024)
- Club Team Lotus Belgium 2024 Season opener tour
- My 170S in watercolor
- Stavelot British Car Meeting 2024
- Static Rally : Lotus & Caterham special edition 2024
- Distinguished gentleman drive Liège 2024
- Visiting the Caterham factory part I : the heroes
- Visiting the Caterham factory part II : the whole story
- Static Rally : looking back at season 4 (2024)
- Caterham & Boterham tour #1
- Track day at Spa-Francorchamps (03/2025)
- Caterham Car Club Nurbürgring backstage tour
- Vosges in May with a rental MX5
- Distinguished gentleman driver Liège 2025 open for registration
- Vosges and Black Forest 31/08
- "British cars" special edition of the Static Rally
- not written : blat to Nürburgring with Sven
- not written : Caterham & Botheram tour #2
- not written : DGD Liège, as the pictures were never published
- not written : a week in Normandy
- not written : Caterham & Botheram tour #3
- Preparing for my first track day
- Belgians on Track Mettet track day (2025#2)
- not written : quick late hop to Lotus on track at Spa-Francorchamps
- not written : blat to Nürburgring in the fog for the love of currywurst
- Mishaps and close calls
- Tailspin on the second day
- Starting the engine with the car in gear, crashing in the garage wall
- Flooding the cabin fording a puddle at speed
- Losing the brake pads pins' 'R' clips
- Losing a wiper arm
- Replacing the engine cover badge
- Fixing dodgy side repeater wiring
- Crashing the car in a roe deer
- A yellow shade of discord (hood paint mismatch)
- Outrageously rusty headlamp bucket
- Blog meta
- Media
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