for the past couple of days, i have been playing with the hoses, engine wiring and exhaust installation. The only thing i can say here are that since this is an academy car, there is no heater, which means that the hose configuration is completely different (in theory simpler, but through having no guide to go by, also much more confusing).
In the end i called Sean at Caterham, and he supplied a few pictures of another Academy car which meant we had something to follow... so looking much better now.
Wiring was relatively easy.. there is only one way to do the wiring, the more interesting part is how to route and secure the wires from chaffing... that is more an issue as some connectors don’t have much movement, and therefore have little ways to get the wires secured in the best (and neatest) way. .
The exhaust was interesting, getting the 4 pipes through the holes... not much struggle there, getting the silencer in place... no not much struggler there either, but getting the springs onto the clips which secure the 4 outlet manifolds so the cat... nightmare...
When the spring loaded clips are pulled to their maximum length, this is only just good enough to get the clip hooks to the top of the hooks, not over them.. so in the end we used brute force to pull the clips to that position, and then a screwdriver through the clip to hook that over.. it took a few goes.. But got there in the end... the worst part was for the last one... as my wife and I had
been trying this one for about 25-20 minutes. We were determined to get this on.. And just as we got it to the closest position to hook over the end of the hook, the phone rang... so the question is .. Do you answer it or not....  ???

HELL NO... not until the clip is over the hook !!

Well i have managed to get the engine in, and the bolts went in for the engine mounting brackets, eventually after some persuasion with a lever and a little loosening of other engine mounting fixing bolts to get the difficult bolts lined up... also managed to get the gearbox central, through the use of a lever, and a small peace of  1" x 2" block of wood. Basically used the jack handle as a lever down the transmission tunnel (from within the car), until i could slide the block wood down the tunnel between the chassis and the gearbox... this seemed to make the gearbox align perfectly straight down the tunnel..
Happy days...

well i thought it would be a good idea to go and sepnd the weekend with the famliy, then a friend rang to say that he was free to help with the car if i had a need of him.... well who was i to turn down some assistance just as the engine needed to be dropped into the car..
Geoff, Andrew and myself set about putting the engine into the car... this would have been made simpler if the garage was larger, and the hoist had sufficient clearance to raise teh engine above the chassis... so we ended up dropping the car to the lowest setting on the axle stands, opening the garage door in order to lift the engine, and then manuvering the hoist and closing the door so that we could raise the engine and close the door for mximum clearance... not an easy process to work out... but it did work.. and we got the car above the engine.
Once the engine was over the bay it was reletively simple to lower the engine into the bay, although it was slow and deliberate in order to get the engine in without any scraping, or drama on the final location..... still all done, now just the mounting to line up with the bolts, and get the earbox into the tunnel centrally... (and that gearbox filler plug does look like a night mare clearance now it is in.. (cant even drill through the passanger foot well to get to it as tehre is a chassis member right over the filler plug... (ooooh well we will see when it comes time to fill the gearbox with oil).