This just irritated me...

[mafioso]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hy8Ea6J9pA

I'm just shocked that such great cars can get into the hands of these people who just don't seem to have a grasp of how to use them properly!! Am I right or should I just shut up!?

[mafioso]

Ok ok thought you'd all get what I meant! I just think that the way he changes down is awful! There is no blip of the throttle and if you're going to own such a car, you would have thought you'd drive it appropriately, not as if you are some learner!!??

[mafioso]

jeaned said:

Hi mafioso,

It's my car. This little video was taken by october of 2006 when I bought the car. At this time, it had a problem in gear box. The 1-2 and 3-4 synchos was broken and the 5th gear of the Quaife straight cut gearbox of my JPE was very used. Is it why the downsift from 5 to 4 needed to be done very slow and with an excessive use of the clutch (please excuse my poor french, I'm a frenchie). Now, I had this gearbox repared and it's correct now.

Just have a look at this new video (76 Mo, 22 min) :
http://caterham.jpe.free.fr/20070324l (it's better to save it on your HD before to view it)

And please, keep cool because during this video, the gear-box was in grinding.

If you want to learn more about this car, you can bring a good beer and then have a look at http://caterham.jpe.free.fr

Hope you are now in peace, mafioso.

Brilliant! I take back everything I said! Haven't watched the video yet so hope the car's ok now! Happy motoring!!