My New Caterham 620R ( no not a lego one! )

[nigelpugh7]

Well my Superlight Twenty has gone,,and been replaced with this lovely new 620R , already nicknamed Scarlet due to the colour.







Only poor photos for now, will get some better ones up later.

[cambuscat]

How many Sevens does that make it now Nigel?

[cambuscat]

Forgot to ask, if being the top model, you had ticked the boxes for air conditioning and cruise control or are they standard?

[nigelpugh7]

cambuscat said:

Forgot to ask, if being the top model, you had ticked the boxes for air conditioning and cruise control or are they standard?

Yes of course, ticked all the boxes for everything of course!

[nigelpugh7]

cambuscat said:

How many Sevens does that make it now Nigel?

Sorry forgot to answer your first question!

This is now actually my seventh seven!

And some say 7 is a lucky number!

[sfaulds]

Good to see her in her new home - Jonny's still not happy he couldn't keep that one.

[nigelpugh7]

sfaulds said:

Good to see her in her new home - Jonny's still not happy he couldn't keep that one.

I know Stuart, he keeps letting me know that too!

I will make sure that I bring it to BaT lots of times to rub salt into that wound !

[mike150]

Congrats

I thought that the Superlight 20 had enough power and consequently was more fun than an R500?!?!?

[nigelpugh7]

mike150 said:

Congrats

I thought that the Superlight 20 had enough power and consequently was more fun than an R500?!?!?

There was a lot to like about my Superlight Twenty, but sadly it was lacking the power I needed for track work, superb as a road car, but hitting the rev limiter in every gear on track meant more grunt was needed.

Plus having the R500 means you crave that power, so 263bhp was what we had, but 310 bhp was what we really craved!,

[Pdelamare]

Nicely done Nigel.

[mike150]

nigelpugh7 said:

There was a lot to like about my Superlight Twenty, but sadly it was lacking the power I needed for track work, superb as a road car, but hitting the rev limiter in every gear on track meant more grunt was needed.

Plus having the R500 means you crave that power, so 263bhp was what we had, but 310 bhp was what we really craved!,

I would like a 620S but I can't justify the price and have a very small fear that 310bhp is too much in a 7 for road use so that's why I bought the 420R.

I hope I don't change my mind on that thought train in the future as it will be expensive!

[sundance002]

Great looking 7, love the colour, Your gonna have lots of fun in that.
Absolutel weapon

[sundance002]

mike150 said:

I would like a 620S but I can't justify the price and have a very small fear that 310bhp is too much in a 7 for road use so that's why I bought the 420R.

I hope I don't change my mind on that thought train in the future as it will be expensive!

310 is completely usable on the road in a 7, I use mine no problem, admittedly, with a non sequential box,
I would think that the sequential box is not so pleasant in traffic. But on open roads would be great

[mike150]

sundance002 said:

310 is completely usable on the road in a 7, I use mine no problem, admittedly, with a non sequential box,
I would think that the sequential box is not so pleasant in traffic. But on open roads would be great

I did state it was only a small fear that 310bhp was too much! The big fear holding me back was the near 50k price! LOL

[Riccardino]

wow the beast, video please (or at least audio) !!!!

[nigelpugh7]

Riccardino said:

wow the beast, video please (or at least audio) !!!!

I've done a quick video of the start up, not sure how good it is, let me see if I can get that posted?.

[framerateuk]

Lovely colour combination! (mine is the inverse of that).

I wondered how long you'd go after the drop in power. Thankfully I've never been in a quicker seven than mine (Sigma 140) so don't know what I'm missing!

[nigelpugh7]

framerateuk said:

Lovely colour combination! (mine is the inverse of that).

I wondered how long you'd go after the drop in power. Thankfully I've never been in a quicker seven than mine (Sigma 140) so don't know what I'm missing!

Thanks, yep the power or lack of was bugging me, so I had to go all in!

[nigelpugh7]

As mentioned in the other post, I've started another blog now dedicated to my new Caterham.

Here is the link.

http://caterham620.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/say-hell...

[Riccardino]

nigelpugh7 said:

I've done a quick video of the start up, not sure how good it is, let me see if I can get that posted?.

Yes please very interested in the noise also when you drive it. Must be intoxicating