Caterham Blog
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Simple Engine Cooling Explained
Finally after nearly 5 years of work (on and off) I’ve published my Caterham Duratec Cooling video to YouTube. This video was the result of some pretty off the cuff comments made when I was first building my Caterham kit car. I posted about how the cooling worked on my car (after I’d done a…
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Differential Trolley Plate
Here’s a 3D model of the thing I attach to my trolley jack to allow me to lift a Caterham differential into the car by myself. Link to 3D Model OBJ
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Differential Carrier 3D Model
Here’s a 3D scan of my Caterham “BMW” Differential Carrier. Link to OBJ
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BMW Differential
Here’s my scan of the Caterham “BMW” differential. Scanned using a Shining 3D Einstar. Link to OBJ
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My Engine Animation WorkFlow
WARNING: this is strictly speaking a non-car related post… it’s more about animating 3D infotainment videos. This post has mainly been written so I can remember what, and why, I did what I did to create my Engine Cooling Animation. It will also be interesting to Blender Heads setting up a mixed OS render farm…
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PTEVIS – Progress #1 youTube Video
Well this video wasn’t quite the mammoth effort that the last two “explainer” videos were, but it still took over 50 hours to make. The video covers the purchase and road registration of the project car from 2022 through to the spring of 2023. I cover the options for getting the car road registered and…
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Putting the EV in sEVen – Lowflying part 5 : Spring ’24 Progress
So, it was about time I did an update for the Caterham and Lotus Seven Club magazine, Low Flying. This article is the Spring 2024 progress update and covers: Scanning the Car Component Configuration CANbus Configuration Suspension Logger
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PTEVIS Suspension Logger Mini-Project
As part of my Putting The EV in Seven project, I decided I needed a big detour into suspension travel on a Seven. That sounds like a good route to getting my project finished quickly, right? Well, it goes a bit like this. In a non-linear-timey-wimey sort of way of looking at the PTEVIS project,…
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ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPONENTS – YOUTUBE PTEVIS 2.2
This is the second of two explainer videos I’ve created to help YouTube viewers understand the concepts, terminology and physics of what’s going on in my Caterham Seven EV conversion. I’ve made these two videos so I can refer back to them in my progress videos and so I don’t need to explain each concept…
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The Electric in Electric Vehicles – YOUTUBE PTEVIS 2.1
This is the first of two explainer videos I’ve created to help YouTube viewers understand the concepts, terminology and physics of what’s going on in my Caterham Seven EV conversion. I’ve made the videos so I don’t need to keep explaining each concept every time I mention it in a subsequent video and I’ll be…
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3D Scanning My EV Conversion Project Car
Excuses, Excuses Ok… so… I’ve been distracted. Since starting this EV conversion project I’ve got a bit distracted by a couple of other projects. The first was the Caterham and Lotus Seven Club, in general and specifically the move to the new website. But I also found I was getting involved in way more other…
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PMSM Motor Internals Video
As part of a larger explainer video I wanted to show how a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Works. I wanted to show how the stator and rotor interacted with their respective magnetic fields and currents. The video shows how a simplified motor is constructed with a Stator and Rotor and then breaks those down to…
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Finally a good Press-Stud Tool
This one’s as much a note for me so I know what I did to make this finally work. I’ve been looking for a decent way of fitting press-studs for things like boot covers. I’d tried the standard manual tap-and-hope tools that are supplied with the car and with SoftBitsForSevens kits. But that always seemed…
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Putting the EV in sEVen – Youtube Project Kick-off
While I’ve been writing articles for the Caterham and Lost Seven Club’s Lowflying magazine, and doing a few Instagram and Facebook posts, I’ve not got around to creating the kick-off video for the Electric Seven Conversion project for Youtube, until now. I’m not really expecting this video to set the world alight, but it’s necessary…
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Putting the EV in sEVen – Lowflying part 3 : EV Bits and Pieces
This article first appeared in the February edition of the Caterham and Lotus Seven Club’s Lowflying magazine. I also created an animated overview of all of this in this video below: A more detailed version of this video will be coming soon. And here’s the text of the article… Overview In this instalment, we’re going…
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Lowflying February 2023 – Putting the EV in sEVen – EV Bits and Pieces
This is part 3, for the February 2023 issue of Lowflying, of a multi-part series of articles. An extended version of the Lowflying article can be found here.