Caterham CSR Rear Lower Damper Bracket Upgrade now available

[BruceBe]

Hello everyone,

 

Beachman Racing is pleased to announce the release of an upgraded rear lower damper bracket for the Caterham CSR. We have developed the new part over the last 10-months, and the brackets have been installed on both street and track cars for several months. We embarked on the project, due to perceived issues associated with the original Multimatic/Titan part, brought to our attention by CSR owners. Incrementally improving the Caterham product is not new to us, and this upgraded damper bracket falls right in line with our engineering foundation. The upgraded bracket assembly offers the following benefits:

• Use of 6061-T6 Aluminum for the bracket body, which eliminates the potential for stress corrosion cracking (SCC) associated with the original alloy (2014-T6)
• 30% increase in relative strength, by thickening critical loading areas and completely revising the bushing system associated with the damper mounting
• Corrosion resistance by design - in addition to utilizing 6061-T6 and anodizing the bracket body, all bushings/spacers are made of Al-Ni-Bronze, and all parts are coated with a non-hardening aerospace corrosion inhibitor. All new hardware is zinc coated.
• Exclusive upper pin design - we completely re-engineered the mount for the upper wishbone, utilizing a 140Ksi shouldered bolt. This captured bolt avoids both the use of a custom-machined pin, as well as a fastening system that relies on aluminum threads.

 

We had a soft release of 10-sets for our initial production run, and the next run of 16-sets is underway. For a more detailed description of the product, the installation instructions can be found HERE. The introductory sections describe the CSR rear suspension architecture, and go into more detail with respect to the benefits of the upgrade. One can also get a sense of the install.

 

Many thanks to the owners who placed their trust in us while we developed this product. Croc gets the credit for first bringing this to our attention :-)

 

Vroom, vroom!

 

-Bruce

[BruceBe]

Hello everyone,

 

We now have our second production run (16-sets) of these corrective upgrade CSR rear lower damper brackets in-stock and available HERE.

 

-Bruce