Caterham Blog
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An Evening With Caterham Cars, Lotus Seven Club YouTube Video
Well… I just had to volunteer, didn’t I 😂 As many of you will know, I’m a member of the Lotus Seven Club (lotus7.club) and have recently joined the leadership team with the role of looking after Social Video. This is a digital media role which at the moment is mainly focused on making YouTube…
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200,000 YouTube Views!
So I haven’t posted a great deal on here recently… As some of you may have noticed we’ve not been able to get out much, and that has affected what I’ve been able to do with the car. As we sit here today, in March of 2021, the car actually has no MOT and is…
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YouTube Novice Trackday
Today I finally got to posting my 2018 and 2019 track day experiences as a YouTube video. I’d recorded quite a lot of video at the Rockingham 2018 L7C Novices Trackday, but hadn’t got around to turning it into something fit to be published. After the unexpected success of the build video I was looking…
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Purplemeanie on The Express Website
A quick post to say I got a mention in an article posted to the Express Website: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1362578/classic-kit-car-restoration-vehicle-build-garage The journalist, Luke Chillingsworth, had spotted my build video on YouTube and contacted me for a few comments. The conversation resulted in the article. Here’s a couple of shots from the article.
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Build A Caterham 420R in 30 Minutes – YouTube Video
YouTube timelapse post condensing the Caterham 420R kit build into a 30-minute video, with the build archive and transcript context.
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Softbits for Sevens Boot Cover & G-clamp Hack
Note from Future John: The following post is a better way of doing this… Well, one thing led to another! So… for a while now, like many, I’d ditched the Caterham full-hood and have been using the Softbits for Sevens Half Hood (https://www.softbitsshop.co.uk/the-half-hood-8-c.asp). The half-hood is great, perhaps not as water tight when it’s tipping…
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Lowflying Article – If Only Caterhams Could Talk, June/July 2020
Background post for the Lowflying article that adapted the Caterham ECU diagnostics work into a broader explanation of CAN bus and MBE diagnostic data.
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Driving Clifton Suspension Bridge – YouTube Video
This is a quicky… The weather was good and we were coming out of lockdown, so decided to get the car out for its first small run of the year. The Video I took a much longer run to get fuel and out from Bristol to Leigh Woods, Failand and then back into Bristol over…
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Lowflying Article – Nervous Novices, April 2020
It was Brian’s fault! The local Bristol and Bath AR (Area Representative), Brian Hall had suggested my name to the Lotus7.club track-day co-ordinator Simon Maitland. Simon was looking for someone to do a piece in Lowflying (the Lotus7.club monthly magazine) about how good the club’s novice track-days are. Brian knew I didn’t mind putting pen…
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ECU Diagnostics – part 14 : Software Framework mbe.py
Introduces the Python mbe.py framework for sending requests to the Caterham MBE 9A4 ECU and formatting diagnostic responses into readable values.
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ECU Diagnostics – part 13.3 : MBE-ISOTP
Describes the MBE ISO-TP style protocol used by Easimap to request data from the Caterham ECU and turn the responses into useful diagnostics.
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ECU Diagnostics – part 13.2 : OBD-II
Summarises what standard OBD-II services and PID data the Caterham MBE 9A4 ECU supports and how that data appears on the CAN bus.
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ECU Diagnostics – part 13.1 : MBE-Broadcast
Documents the MBE-Broadcast protocol, where the Caterham ECU continuously emits CAN bus frames containing diagnostic data once the ignition is on.
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ECU Diagnostics – part 13 : Three Diagnostic Protocols in the MBE 9A4 ECU
Introduces the three diagnostic protocols found on the Caterham MBE 9A4 ECU: MBE-Broadcast, OBD-II, and the MBE ISO-TP protocol used by Easimap.
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ECU Diagnostics – part 11 : Logic Analyzer on the CAN Bus
Uses a Saleae logic analyser on the CAN bus to validate Caterham MBE ECU diagnostic code and compare captured traffic with expected requests and responses.
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ECU Diagnostics – part 10 : Decoding EC2 Files
Starts decoding Easimap EC2 files so Caterham MBE ECU CAN bus responses can be translated into useful human-readable diagnostic values.