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subirg said:
A car with great potential but never properly developed. Requires a lot of re-engineering work at the front end to get it to work properly. At that price ($145k) you’d be mad to get this instead of a radical.
Interesting comment about the front end. What did you think was wrong with it? As I said in a previous post I drove the car at the International Caterham Dealers meeting at Snetterton on a super warm day. I thought it was a little underpowered, the transmission was spectacular, the front end grip was amazing, although I was never near its limit, the turn in and front end stability at 140 mph + was super impressive. I'm keen to learn, what was I missing.
http://7cars.ca/documents/sp300/SP300R.pdf
Edited by Trackdayguy on Monday 19th November 21:42
subirg said:
I was at Spa a few years ago and met a company that specialised in trying to get the SP300R to work properly. Can’t remember the name, but spoke to the lead engineer at length as I was quite interested in the car. They were supporting a car they had been working on. I can’t remember the details, but the summary is that they had re-engineered the front geometry and steering rack. Total cost £11k.
Ouch... that's a lot of money.sfaulds said:
The original design brief we hashed out in a pub near Castle Combe was for an affordable trackday car that could easily be looked after solo, and a one-make racer. It was *never* supposed to be competitive against anything else.
Interesting how things are dreamed up. Whose idea was this and what do you think bought it on? At the 2012 International Dealers Meeting Ansar was very passionate about it, and often referred to it as "my baby"Gassing Station | Caterham | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff