Collected the Caterham from the garage and was treated to a look around the XJS V12 Ed used for a rally car and his other saloon.
Spotless (if complex) engine bay as expected. Ed was a development engineer and test driver for Jaguar in the Brown Lanes era so knows the cars in infinitesimal detail.
Caterham seemed to develop a slight 'knock' as before on the last of the run home... but it was very hot. Will have to monitor.
Afternoon run in the 308 in the sun and the heat. Behaved well but also got hotter than normal. Oil level was a bit low so I topped it up. Hard to see the level as the oil is sooo clean and as a dry sump you need to take it with the engine running.
It took about 2.5 litres though - in only a few hundred miles so a. I may have misread/overfilled it. Or b. it's using oil. A bit of all three I suspect.
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