Welcome to the Purplemeanie build blog of our Caterham 420R. We hope you enjoy our trials and tribulations during and after the build. Please leave us a comment and tell us what you think.
Where to Start
The latest project from the Purplemeanie HQ is to have a go at converting a Seven to be an electric vehicle (EV). Follow the project here.
For my most popular video take a look at “Build a Caterham 420R in 30 minutes”
For more reading…
- If you want join us on the journey from the beginning then take a look at this post: Build Blog Index
- If you’d like to see a bit about us then please take a look at our About page.
- If you just want to skip to the latest news then take a look at the Blog.
- We’ve also put a Gallery together if that’s your thing.
- If videos are your thing then take a look at what we’ve posted to YouTube: YouTube Videos
- If my ramblings aren’t enough for you then you can find a whole different bunch of other blogs in this post here.
- … and some might like to jump to my tools and trinkets here.
Latest Posts
-
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…
-
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
-
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,…
-
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…
-
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…