Many thanks go to Roy Booth, Andrew Winfer and Daren Ball from the 7's list,  and also to JB and Chris who helped out as well.  I should create a 'rogues' gallery of helpers, it will not be pretty however :-o .

After the usual chit chat and cups of tea we all got set to on various parts of the build.  JB and Chris looked at the FIA bar and getting that into position, it soon became very clear that although it fitted snugly into the holes in the rear bulkhead the holes for the harnesses where no where near aligned so out came the files. Whilst this was happening Roy & Andrew hacked lumps out of my dif, as I was too much of a chicken.  At this point I am thinking will anything fit.  Also am I the only person that thinks that hacking lumps out of the dif to get it o fit is a bit off when you have spent £22K on a car, surely Caterham can supply the dif already 'modified'?  Then Daren and I fitted the front wing stays as this was going on.

Then we came upon what looked like a major problem.  To fix the prop shaft to the dif the manual very clearly states the use of some 'blue bolts', well we looked in all the boxes and could we find them, no.  Never mind quick trip to the ford garage round the corner, but they didn't have any, but the helpful parts chap could get them by Monday :-( .  During the short trip back I had resigned myself to the fact that not much of the build would be completed this weekend, and cursing Caterham.  On returning I found the steering had been taken apart to allow easy access for the riveting of the cheese wedge and plate.

A final check of the boxes revealed the missing bolts and they where duly attached to prop and dif. Roy then got the chance to show off his muscle by bench pressing the fixed parts underneath the car.  With the aid of several pairs of hands we fed it in and secured it to the front fixings, then carefully centred it and fixed it the chassis.

It was at this point that another issue with the spec was found, no watts linkage, although the sales man had said it was standard (like the competition exhaust) on the superlight spec car.  Through talking with others it is now clear that this is an optional extra, now if I had been told it was extra and the time of order then I would have got them, but never mind I can upgrade at a later date, I will not make small things get in the way of my enjoyment in the build process.

Then half of the rest of the suspension was put on during the afternoon, including, a-frame, de dion tube, forward arms, dampers and Z links.  The steering was then put back together, and it was noted my rack was black, this usually meant it was standard and not the 8% one, however it do 1.8 turns lock to lock.  A call to Caterham confirmed that all racks are now black.

We encountered very few problems that we couldn't sort out, most likely because I wasn't doing it myself!

(click on the pictures for an enlargement all 640*480 and aprox 150K in size)

On the Sunday it was just myself and JB working on the car, and we managed a fair bit between us with the minimal amount of fuss.  By lunch we finished of the rear suspension by adding and fixing the de-dion ears, hubs, brake discs and callipers.  After lunch we re-set up the steering so the car would drive straight

In a moment of excess I read on in the manual and attached the bonnet sticker to the nose, and it looks great.