VX Power and weight....
Discussion
I have just finished restoring one of my Caterhams today and decided to put it on the corner weight scales to compare it against a 420r championship car, I wasn't expecting the results to be as close, especially the weight split being very similar, just had a full Paul Gardner engine rebuild along with the greabox and diff, should be good for 240/260 bhp. Both cars had the same amount of fuel, the Vauxhall car had 2 seats and 2 sets of harnesses and the 420 had a bag seat and 1 harness.
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Edited by cwin on Thursday 27th December 16:55
I have just finished restoring one of my Caterhams today and decided to put it on the corner weight scales to compare it against a 420r championship car, I wasn't expecting the results to be as close, especially the weight split being very similar, just had a full Paul Gardner engine rebuild along with the greabox and diff, should be good for 240/260 bhp. Both cars had the same amount of fuel, the Vauxhall car had 2 seats and 2 sets of harnesses and the 420 had a bag seat and 1 harness.
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Edited by cwin on Thursday 27th December 17:04
There often does not seem to be much love for VX engined Caterhams these days but istr they were highly thought of when introduced. Very robust and very tuneable engines. I have only driven a K engined 7 but have driven a Vauxhall Lotus single seater and a Vauxhall engined Clubmans Phantom front engined sports racer. I don't really understand the ambivelance - this article shows that there isn't a great deal of difference in weight, or the % weight balance, between the Duratec and VX cars and yet the VX cars are often criticised for being more understeery. I don't understand!
As an aside, is the VX car now for the roads only or will you race that, too? Ideal for CSCC Magnificent 7s!
As an aside, is the VX car now for the roads only or will you race that, too? Ideal for CSCC Magnificent 7s!
andy97 said:
There often does not seem to be much love for VX engined Caterhams these days but istr they were highly thought of when introduced. Very robust and very tuneable engines. I have only driven a K engined 7 but have driven a Vauxhall Lotus single seater and a Vauxhall engined Clubmans Phantom front engined sports racer. I don't really understand the ambivelance - this article shows that there isn't a great deal of difference in weight, or the % weight balance, between the Duratec and VX cars and yet the VX cars are often criticised for being more understeery. I don't understand!
As an aside, is the VX car now for the roads only or will you race that, too? Ideal for CSCC Magnificent 7s!
The problem is with people who say they don't handle is they don't know how to set one up, you can make a k series car understeer with the wrong geo and a VX car oversteer again with the wrong geo.As an aside, is the VX car now for the roads only or will you race that, too? Ideal for CSCC Magnificent 7s!
The weigh distribution obviously isn't as bad as some people make out when you consider both cars had the same amount of fuel @ 5 ltrs.
I rebuilt this as a track day car mainly but it may get used for the odd race in Mag sevens as well as a big powered Duratec car I have with Sadev box, I'm just on with finishing it now.
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