Caterham to Fisher Fury?

[MikeE]

I appreciate I may get shot for posting this question but....does anyone on here have experience of going from a Caterham to Fisher Fury, particularly track focused examples?

[DCL]

The early years of this blog may help you . . .

http://www.furybusa.org.uk/blog/

[Tom_C76]

You might want to try asking on se7ens.net, which is an email list still but is home to a wide variety of 7-esque cars. Or even Cam7 if you don't value your sanity.

[DaveK-S1]

This one is a nice example https://www.racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/7557...

[Equus]

I went from a Caterham to a Sylva Phoenix, which is very nearly the same thing.

Let's just say that I wouldn't be interested in another Caterham, but I might be tempted by another Sylva at some stage in the future.

Depending on who put it together, the build quality on the Sylva/Fisher will be more variable, as will the specification, and the details won't be anything like as uniform and standardised as you get with a Caterham. But the handling is at least as good (better, for road use road, if you go for the IRS Fury and it's well set-up with decent dampers), and the top-end performance is much improved for equivalent engine power, due to the better aerodynamics.

You will also be left with a lot of spare cash to blow on coke and hookers , which is never a bad thing!

[MikeE]

Equus said:

I went from a Caterham to a Sylva Phoenix, which is very nearly the same thing.

Let's just say that I wouldn't be interested in another Caterham, but I might be tempted by another Sylva at some stage in the future.

Depending on who put it together, the build quality on the Sylva/Fisher will be more variable, as will the specification, and the details won't be anything like as uniform and standardised as you get with a Caterham. But the handling is at least as good (better, for road use road, if you go for the IRS Fury and it's well set-up with decent dampers), and the top-end performance is much improved for equivalent engine power, due to the better aerodynamics.

You will also be left with a lot of spare cash to blow on coke and hookers , which is never a bad thing!

That's my thought process!!

I've had two Caterhams, the last one I built new around an R400 kit with a 280bhp 2.3l Duratec, full specced up with all the track enhancements it was around £50K in 2004, that'd be even more now which I'm not prepared to spend on something that'll only get used 10 times or so a year, I'd rather have an R1 Fury and a F-type R in the garage