scannon Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 My video skills haven't improved much but here is a tour of my soon to be completed and legal Caterham SV. I've made a few runs to redline in 1st and 2nd, it is stupid fast! Just what I was looking for. Skip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Skip, looks great. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxologist Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 less movie, more drivy!:cheers: never mind my previous mentions on the FM turbo kit. thought they were using the t3. gt2x will be plenty fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scannon Posted May 6, 2007 Author Share Posted May 6, 2007 less movie, more drivy!:cheers: never mind my previous mentions on the FM turbo kit. thought they were using the t3. gt2x will be plenty fine! I have been sneaking a few drives in it since they took away my plates. :hurray: I've booted it through 1st and 2nd a couple of times and it is stupid fast. It is also the fastest spooling turbo I have driven, boost is all but instantaneous. The turbo is FM's standard Garrett GT2560R (also known as the GT28R) mounted on their new design exhaust manifold. This turbo was on my Miata which dyno'd at 250 RWHP and 265 lb ft of torque. It got moved to the Caterham when I upgraded the Miata to a GT3071R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxologist Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 wouldn't happen to have a disco potato laying around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scannon Posted May 6, 2007 Author Share Posted May 6, 2007 wouldn't happen to have a disco potato laying around? Sorry, don't have any disco potatos. I think it sizes up inbetween the two turbos I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al N. Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Skip- Great vid. I think it's an especially good primer for folks considering an alternative engine set up. More of us should take the time to do a little walk around. Thanks for sharing.-Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlar Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Scannon, very impressive car!!! How much boost are you running and have you any driving footage?:7head: Thanks for a great walk around. Kevlar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locost7018 Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 All I can say is WOW! I thought my car was nice but it won't hold a candle up to yours. I hope you can bring it to KC over Labor Day. It will be the hit of the show. Maybe I need to have 4 classes instead of 3 and split out origional Lotus and Caterham. Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 :thumbs: very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solder_guy Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Good job! makes my car look like a junkyard dog. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scannon Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 Thanks for all the compliments. I put in a lot of time on it but the building was almost as much fun as driving it. Good thing you can't see the car today. I towed it on the flat bed to Pueblo & back yesterday for a track day. It is the dirtiest it has ever been, the roads had been sprayed with mag-chloride and there was some slush, then add brake dust, rubber tire bits and some dust and she is filthy. I am about to give her her third car wash ever. Usually I just use the California duster or some final inspection and a microfiber towel but it is the wash bucket for sure this time. This winter I made a few changes, smaller headlights sitting lower down, new bullet shaped parking lights, FIA roll bar and finished up covering the car with clearbra. All of the bodywork is now covered with clearbra and the under sides of the fenders as well as the rear fender rock shield were coated with Rhino liner. I have a set of Brooklands windscreens on order but I will have to extend the mount by 104mm since they only make them for the standard width Caterhams. Four bolts and two electrical connections and I can change from Brooklands to standard windscreen. Click here for some current photos with the new mods. Skip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earley Motorsports Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Very nicely done. It is a credit to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitcat Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 What a car! 80 hours on the wiring alone? I am exhausted just reading about it. It has obviously been a labor of love. The engine bay is amazingly tidy. My Crossflow's looks like an industrial dump by comparison. Amazing power too. How do the relatively skinny 205 tires (same as on my mighty 100 hp Crossflow) put down so much hp? I assume wheelspin is an issue in the first 3 gears? How'd she do at the track? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scannon Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 What a car! 80 hours on the wiring alone? I am exhausted just reading about it. It has obviously been a labor of love. The engine bay is amazingly tidy. My Crossflow's looks like an industrial dump by comparison. Amazing power too. How do the relatively skinny 205 tires (same as on my mighty 100 hp Crossflow) put down so much hp? I assume wheelspin is an issue in the first 3 gears? How'd she do at the track? The 80 hours was just to modify a Miata wiring harness to elimiate excess wires and length and integrate it with the Link ECU. I didn't do much to the existing Caterham wiring except to merge the Link ECU into the Caterham harness. A lot of that time was spent disecting the Mazda harness, tracing the circuits and determining what could be removed and what needed to be saved. The really bad part about the wiring was my eyes were afflicted with mystenia gravis about half way through the wiring and I had to stop all work on the car for six months until they found a combination of drugs that allowed me to keep my eyes open and get rid of the double vision. Its really a bitch to work on two identical sets of wiring overlapping each other. One set was also rotated about 20 degrees. :crazy: The Avon 205s along with the Quaiffe LSD and 52% weight on the rear do an excellent job of putting down the power. Sure, you could spin them all the way through 1st and 2nd but I avoid that like the plague. With a little care you can get it hooked up quickly and the acceleration slams you back in the seat. The track day went well but bad gas was causing detonation so I had to dial back the timing and add fuel resulting in substantial loss of power. As a result of that I have ordered a Hydra ECU and Hydramist water/methonal injection system. Should solve the bad gas problems. I believe the 91 octane squirrel piss sold here in Colorado really isn't even 91, adding water injection will allow me to advance the timimg significantly over what it normally is and perhaps gain a few more HP. Adding a water/methonal mix will gain even more....More...MORE HP! Yea, too much is just about right. Skip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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