Can anyone do this in an rx7?

[Fish]

Bill, if you think the S-03\'s have a hard sidewall, dont try the S-02\'s. They are even worse.

Dan

[bill shurvinton]

It\'s all relative. An FD weights 2.2 times as much as the westy, so can sqidge them that bit more.

But 200HP goes an awful long way in a little car :-)

[Sean]

My boss let me play in his caterham hill climber which has been dynoed at 375bhp and that usually wieghs in at 875kg. That is equipped with a plug to start it ( getting rid of the battery)  and a 1.5 ltr fuel tank ( just enough for one run)  and just one carbon seat with a completly fibre glass shell. How on earth did you get your westy to wiegh so little? My boss will be very anxious to know!!

[bill shurvinton]

That must be the heaviest caterham around. Most are around 550Kg, the superlights are 460kg and the bike engined ones are nudging the 400kg mark.

Mind you 375BHP in a caterham is very rare so suspect a very heavy engine and transmission. Seems an odd combo for a hill climber

Are you sure its a caterham?

[Sean]

It\'s a Vauxhall 2.0 16V. He has had as much steel replaced by Ali as poss

[bill shurvinton]

A NA XE will never reach 375HP. 275 is more believable. 375 would be a turbo. Very rare in a se7en

A road legal XE engined Caterham can easily be gotten down to 500kgs before you start getting expensive. If your bosses car was 875lbs and 275HP then that would be feasible.

Replacing steel? Caterhams are mostly ally to begin with, except the engine, but there is an ally block for the deep pocketed

[Sean]

All I know is that he spent an absolute mint on it and very rarely goes to meets in his winnie bago

:wave

[rextreme]

Let see him do it in the dry!!!