New R500 Duratec Engine Questions

[nigelpugh7]

Guys,

I have a new R500 on order, due for delivery in September this year.

There is lots of general press information on the web, but no real detailed info as yet it seems, therefore I have been wondering about some areas of interest and hope some of you guys might know more!

These are some of the items I have thought about.

1 Why is the new R500 Duratec a tuned 2.0L duratec, tuned by Caterham Power, and not a 2.3 as fitted to the CSR and built by Cosworth?

2 I assume that the 2.0 Caterham Power engine is completely different from the Cosworth built 2.3 engine?

3 Therefore if my assumption in Q2 above is correct, what dry sump system is fitted to Caterham Power 2.0 unit?

4 From the pictures floating about, such as the yellow and black car featured on drivers-republic.com, many features of the engine look very different, IE the water piping routing etc, to other caterhams fitted with a duratec engine, albeit those are CSR models, any ideas as to why?

Thanks in advance.

Nigel