EVO Caterham 420R engine going pop. Any details yet?

[baypond]

Hi
Has anyone seen any more details on what happened to the EVO 420R which blew it's engine. They announced in August that Caterham were investigating, but I haven't seen anything since. They now have a Supersport in their long term fleet.
It seems that these engines need a bit of care and understanding to survive repeated track days.
Is it just the higher BHP cars that suffer?
thanks

[baypond]

Thanks - I wonder if it is a new or rebuilt engine. seems a lot of money to ask if its just an engine rebuild (rather than a new unit) on a car that will have had only hard miles.
Mike, I am also looking at buying a 420R later in the year, so would rather buy with eyes wide open in regards to aspects on how to treat the engine.

[baypond]

nigelpugh7 said:

Not really, with the spec that car has and the engine upgrade

Degrade or upgrade? Im being facetious but £3k off new, for a car with a rebuilt engine which EVO seem to have abandoned, and went pop in such a big way that it shook the whole car and dumped a load of oil through the resulting hole, is not one I would be running for. I'm not mechanically minded, so maybe my concerns are due to a lack of understanding, but I wouldnt want any part of that engine in my car without fully understanding why it failed. As people on this forum have stated, sometimes its not easy to see where the failure started.

[baypond]

It seems oil level of EVO car went unchecked and it ran dry. Too many drivers/journos and not one person given responsibllity for the wellbeing of the car.

[baypond]

Who knows, I asked when confirming my deposit. Seemed a reasonable explanation. What is surprising to me is that EVO have never mentioned it again.

[baypond]

Interesting, I guess thats why all the 420s are dry sump now.

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Roberts7 said:

This happened to my 420R last year, a few weeks after I built the thing. All Caterham did was attach old ancillaries onto new block. All they would tell me when picking it up was that cylinder walls were in bits when thy took the head off.

did they repair it under warranty?