Amazingly all of the cooling system pipes and electrical connections were fine and the car started (after a bit of coaxing), but then we couln't get it to idle and realised it was only on 3 cylinders. Went through normal troubleshooting by swapping plugs and plug leads but then saw that the top of the piston on the suspect pot was still nice and shiny aluminium colour which meant it wasn't getting any fuel. Fortunately my able assistant (my nephew) knew a bit about injection systems (I am an old school carburettor guy!) and decided that we could take the system apart and look at the injectors. Bingo! We moved the injector to another cylinder and that went down. We had our culprit! A new one is in the post from Caterham! Good guys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3KWM7t3UfM - the not so sweet sound, but loud!
Anyway that gave me a chance to finish off the rear suspension.....
Next stage is getting the engine properly fettled - tidying up wiring looms, pipes etc. and getting the roll bar fitted so I can bolt in the coil srping dampers (just tempoarily fitted currently).
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