RE: Caterham Announces Official Performance Arm

[atom-ick]

ewenm said:

turbochris said:

ewenm said:

turbochris said:

Anyone got a Caterham with over 90K on the clock?? I think mine has to up there with the highest miles in the country!?!?

Mine's just shy of 100k but DannyBoy on Blatchat is well on his way to 200k

Blimy... Thats alot of Caterham miles!!! What models have you got?? Origional engine?

Mine's now a 1.8VVC car (replaced the 1.6 engine a while back with one from an MG TF Trophy 160 - no problems just easy way to more power). Can't remember what's in Dan's.

Blimey, you boys deserve some sort of medal for "achievements in hardcore driving lunacy" Are you that annoying bloke that arrives at work every morning with a massive smile on your face because you have just had an awesome drive to work?

[turbochris]

atom-ick said:

ewenm said:

turbochris said:

ewenm said:

turbochris said:

Anyone got a Caterham with over 90K on the clock?? I think mine has to up there with the highest miles in the country!?!?

Mine's just shy of 100k but DannyBoy on Blatchat is well on his way to 200k

Blimy... Thats alot of Caterham miles!!! What models have you got?? Origional engine?

Mine's now a 1.8VVC car (replaced the 1.6 engine a while back with one from an MG TF Trophy 160 - no problems just easy way to more power). Can't remember what's in Dan's.

Blimey, you boys deserve some sort of medal for "achievements in hardcore driving lunacy" Are you that annoying bloke that arrives at work every morning with a massive smile on your face because you have just had an awesome drive to work?

Sometimes... But only when its above 10 deg C (had a 180 deg spin in greasy ice insident last year) kept it out the ditch luckily.. LOL

Unfortunatly my work pay me a car allowance which has rules.. got to do 35mpg, got to seat 4 people bla bla bla, so my daily driver is a Octavia VRS estate! Feck knows how I clocked up so many miles in the R300... most of them in Europe!!! 200,000 miles is huge though, does Dan drive round the Nuremberg Ring all day!

[ewenm]

turbochris said:

atom-ick said:

Blimey, you boys deserve some sort of medal for "achievements in hardcore driving lunacy" Are you that annoying bloke that arrives at work every morning with a massive smile on your face because you have just had an awesome drive to work?

Sometimes... But only when its above 10 deg C (had a 180 deg spin in greasy ice insident last year) kept it out the ditch luckily.. LOL

Unfortunatly my work pay me a car allowance which has rules.. got to do 35mpg, got to seat 4 people bla bla bla, so my daily driver is a Octavia VRS estate! Feck knows how I clocked up so many miles in the R300... most of them in Europe!!! 200,000 miles is huge though, does Dan drive round the Nuremberg Ring all day!

Those are the particularly fun moments and the car has more power when it's cold

[jackal]

STASH said:

POINT TAKEN ROB77 BUT £115 GRAND IS STILL A HELL OF A LOT OF MONEY AND BET THE FIRST ATOM IT COMES UP AGAINST WILL EITHER BE QUICKER OR GIVE IT A GOOD RUN FOR ITS MONEY FOR A FRACTION OF THE PRICE

hmmmm, atoms are slow around circuits regardless of power

a 300bhp atom would struggle to even match a basic superlight challenge car.. it would require a massive amount of suspension fettlage to allow it to get close

[Noger]

stratosUSA said:

anyone raving about this engine for a road car is crazy. Go to the radical web site and look up the maintainance scedule for this SRV8 engine. No "just nipping to the pub" in this one!

The Radicals use Powetec engines. This isn't a Powertec engine.

But the engine life will all be relative, just like the Radical. Up the rev limiter and race it ... yes it may well need frequent rebuilds. Turn down the wick and it won't.

[Ultrasound]

jackal said:

STASH said:

POINT TAKEN ROB77 BUT £115 GRAND IS STILL A HELL OF A LOT OF MONEY AND BET THE FIRST ATOM IT COMES UP AGAINST WILL EITHER BE QUICKER OR GIVE IT A GOOD RUN FOR ITS MONEY FOR A FRACTION OF THE PRICE

hmmmm, atoms are slow around circuits regardless of power

a 300bhp atom would struggle to even match a basic superlight challenge car.. it would require a massive amount of suspension fettlage to allow it to get close

Driven one have you?

[RobM77]

Ultrasound said:

jackal said:

STASH said:

POINT TAKEN ROB77 BUT £115 GRAND IS STILL A HELL OF A LOT OF MONEY AND BET THE FIRST ATOM IT COMES UP AGAINST WILL EITHER BE QUICKER OR GIVE IT A GOOD RUN FOR ITS MONEY FOR A FRACTION OF THE PRICE

hmmmm, atoms are slow around circuits regardless of power

a 300bhp atom would struggle to even match a basic superlight challenge car.. it would require a massive amount of suspension fettlage to allow it to get close

Driven one have you?

In EVO issue 105 they took a variety of performance cars to Cadwell Park. An Atom 300 road car went a second quicker than a Caterham R400 road car to top the time sheet (1:38.8 vs 1:39.9). They've got sector times in the magazine, and it seems that the Atom did it all down the pit straight and the back straight on power. Everywhere else they were even. It sounds silly, but I think if you removed the optional windscreen on a Caterham I reckon it'd equal the Atom. Racing Caterhams without windscreens and racing suspension can equal that Atom time with 150bhp, so it stands to reason that with 220bhp (a huge difference in a car that light!), a standard R400 (with aeroscreen) on road superlight suspension would probably beat the Atom's time.

[jackal]

RobM77 said:

In EVO issue 105 they took a variety of performance cars to Cadwell Park. An Atom 300 road car went a second quicker than a Caterham R400 road car to top the time sheet (1:38.8 vs 1:39.9). They've got sector times in the magazine, and it seems that the Atom did it all down the pit straight and the back straight on power. Everywhere else they were even. It sounds silly, but I think if you removed the optional windscreen on a Caterham I reckon it'd equal the Atom. Racing Caterhams without windscreens and racing suspension can equal that Atom time with 150bhp, so it stands to reason that with 220bhp (a huge difference in a car that light!), a standard R400 (with aeroscreen) on road superlight suspension would probably beat the Atom's time.

and 1.39 is a complete joke for an R400 around cadwell

should be at least ~1.36


atoms are slow.. just look at britcar 2 years back

[RobM77]

jackal said:

RobM77 said:

In EVO issue 105 they took a variety of performance cars to Cadwell Park. An Atom 300 road car went a second quicker than a Caterham R400 road car to top the time sheet (1:38.8 vs 1:39.9). They've got sector times in the magazine, and it seems that the Atom did it all down the pit straight and the back straight on power. Everywhere else they were even. It sounds silly, but I think if you removed the optional windscreen on a Caterham I reckon it'd equal the Atom. Racing Caterhams without windscreens and racing suspension can equal that Atom time with 150bhp, so it stands to reason that with 220bhp (a huge difference in a car that light!), a standard R400 (with aeroscreen) on road superlight suspension would probably beat the Atom's time.

and 1.39 is a complete joke for an R400 around cadwell

should be at least ~1.36


atoms are slow.. just look at britcar 2 years back

Maybe it was a cold day, or with damp patches under the trees? I'm tempted to say it was the drivers, but aren't John Barker and Richard Meaden from EVO ex Caterham competitors, and successful ones at that? Jethro's done the Academy too. Only a second or so seperates our grid of 30+ cars in Roadsport A, so I'd expect their times to be at most a second off what a top running Caterham racer would manage.

[fuzzymonkey]

I've just seen this car in the flesh!
Looks very tasty. Everything is made from carbon fibre, even the steering wheel and all the aluminium bits are anodised in flunky colours
The car was never run so I didn't hear the V8 supercharged engine. The mat black paint job was lovely.

In fact it was mostly ignored as everyone attention was with another car that had the same V8 supercharged engine and was been tested...