woooo hooo... first proper ride of the year

[Frad]

Originally Posted by Roy

hello Paul, yes we are both well.
Hope is all well with you ?
The guitars still get dragged out a fair bit but i am sposed to be getting the caterham ready for an event in april so my fingers seem to be numb all the time now as its bloody cold in the garage.

Roy

What do you do in it ? I used to Hillclimb one '89 to '93 great cars great fun

[Roy]

we only trackday and mess about with it, i use it as a road car more than anything.
we have a club meeting on the isle of wight in april and the car is bare ali..... so loads of metal to polish!

[Frad]

Originally Posted by Roy

we only trackday and mess about with it, i use it as a road car more than anything.
we have a club meeting on the isle of wight in april and the car is bare ali..... so loads of metal to polish!

Autosol it is then mine was metal with green wings and nosecone till I stuffed it on the way to Prescott Hill Climb then had a new chassis and had it painted blue Mine was a xflow and live axle but still quick enough to beat the de-dion and BDG boys I won the Midland Hill climb Championship back in 1992 Happy days

Sounds like you enjoy it what spec is yours ?

[Roy]

Frad

ours is 1.6 Holden (realy an old astra GTE lump with a strange head on it) we have about 145 BHP at the back wheels but as it's a live axle it only comes in at 465 KG so very swift.

I have a 195 BHP 2L vauxhall engine from a mates caterham sitting here ready to fit but i think that will be next winters project (when i have got around to putting some heating in the workshop) as it is very involved going from carbs to injection.

Roy

[Frad]

sounds good Roy

I started with a 1.7 xflow standard engine then got a 1.8 with a diesel crank in it ! odd i know but built by Richard Longman and was bullit proof thats what I won the championship with in the roadgoing class then I got a 2.0ltr Xflow Bored and stroked to give the cc's but that let go big style ran it with slicks and stripped it that only weighed about 410kg Weight is everything

If you need any bits or advice a mate of mine works for Demon Tweeks in Wrexham who is also a Caterham nut !! he builds them for people and also Hillclimbs them

Next best things to bikes in my book

[Roy]

Frad

I agree as close as you can get to a bike on the road (just not the best for filtering)
what axle did you have ? the slicks kick the crap out of mine, am on the second re-build already and have problems again and i am just running 048's (they do look very like the back tyre of my Blackbird !).

Top gear has done so much for the image of these cars in the last two years, kids thought it was a kit car before and now stop and ask questions.

the only downside is the bikes all do more miles on a tank of fuel, i struggle to get 120 miles out of a tank on a run, at silverstone last time we ran it it did 45 miles on a tank (about 15MPG )

Roy