A few Photos from LOG 30 autox

[yellowss7]

These pics from LOG 30 were just posted on the Philly Lotus site.

 

Nice shots of Kitcat and Dean G. with Boxologist as navigator on one of Kitcat's runs.

 

Tom

[James A]

Very nice, thank you!

[DeanG]

Thanks for posting.

 

I love seeing pictures of a 7 being put to use. There are some serious suspension changes in the first and last pictures. The outside front tire may be rubbing a little bit in the last picture. Some dust being kicked up in the second picture.

 

A great aspect of the LOG 30 auto-x was that it was close to the hotel so many people came out to watch. People who drove hard, or screwed up in a spectacular fashion, received applause. When is the last time you heard applause at an auto-x?

[Kitcat]

I am really surprised at the amount of sway in my car.If you had asked me, I wld have said my car cornered totally flat.

 

It was a memorable morning and loads of fun. Dean's 7 looks even prettier than I had remembered.

[slngsht]

I am really surprised at the amount of sway in my car.If you had asked me, I wld have said my car cornered totally flat.

 

 

funny how that works, isn't it?

[James A]

I have increased my spring rates around 50% and you can still see some lean on very hard cornering. The stock spring are relatively soft.

[bball7754]

Mike - After the third trackday where someone came in and told me how much they enjoyed following me and watching my inside front wheel come off the pavement, I decided I needed to change the suspension setup.

 

I went up on the diameter of my front anti-roll bar, and added a rear bar. Since then, no one has said I'm cornering on 3 wheels.

 

I think our vintage Caterham have extremely soft springs - maybe 150 lbs in the front? I think 200-225 is the "normal" front spring rates for street/track use.

 

Steve

[Kitcat]

Thx Steve. I have had lots of people on my rear bumper (Sadly!), but no one has noticed a wheel lift. But I do spin the inside wheel a bit on "Dead Bear" curve at Putnam (motor rev's up). So I am putting some sky there under that wheel. Seems to help the car rotate and its only for a 1/2 second. IF I had more power it wld be more of an issue.

 

I like the comfort the soft suspension provides and since 95% of my miles are street miles, I will probly keep it as is. I like your solution. I know I have the stock Caterham "street" suspension, so 150 lb springs is probably right.

 

Mike M.

[MichaelD]

http://www.youtube.com/user/TopDocs7#p/a/u/0/epWUh6W_5iI

[DeanG]

More video

 

Mostly stills but some autox video including the run by the horse & buggy

 

An overview of the show site