My Caterham is for sale!

It is time for a change I have enjoyed my time with the Caterham so much but lately I have just not had the time to use the car so sadly I have put the car up for sale today on autotrader uk and if you are interested please take a look.

Mike

A Racing 160 & A few photo's.

Well I have not seen many 160's on the track and this one from I think Japan is the first that I have seen in race trim with full cage, Interestingly it must have been an endurance type race with a change in drivers.  Does anyone have any more details on this?

http://youtu.be/frfhxCPdlGY

Mean while I think that there has been more polishing than driving going on at the moment, Wheels off cleaning the suspension to touching up minor rust spots on the chassis.

I'm meeting up with 2 160 owners in rugby next weekend and ones another black and ally car!can't wait.

And the answer from Caterham it was in a 7 hour endurance race! Having a 5000 rev limit must have been a bit frustrating,..

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Last month a team from Caterham Japan (including one of our own illustrious UK staff members) entered a Seven 160 in the seven-hour K4GP endurance race at Fuji. It was the only non-Japanese car in a field of 98 (yes, 98) cars, all racing at once. With no previous experience of the event, and only a couple of days to prepare, the team found they were hobbled by the tight fuel restriction and very low gearing, resulting in a self-imposed sub-5000rpm rev limit that left them crawling down the long Fuji straight. Not letting up through the corners made things ‘interesting’ though (not least for other cars nearby), but they were running at 15-20 seconds off ultimate pace. So no-one was more surprised than they were to find themselves finishing 3rd in class (of 34) and 14th overall. Great work by the team from Caterham Japan and Witham Cars, Tokyo; well done! Now we have learned what the car needs to win, should we try again?...

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Go-pro on the Caterham

Just a little video nothing special and no music but I'll have to try and do something about the wind noise, My editing skills are not very good, apologies (First time using the editing studio) It was good to get out and enjoy a bit of dryish roads and some sunshine!

3000 Mile service

I had some time free so after yesterdays wet trip I thought it's time to do the 3000 mile service and give the 160 a bit of TLC.

In the seven owners hand book it does recommend using Shell Helix Ultra after going a few local motor factors I just couldn't find anywhere that stocked it, So over to Halfords to get there equivalent 5w-30 Fully synthetic VW504.00/507.00 all numbers matching the shell oil, I did pick up the same oil filter as I used for the 1000 mile service which I'm glad I kept the old box so I new exactly what to get. 

I did warm the engine up briefly before I drained the oil and removed the old filter and all went well. The oil looked fine to me and I would have thought that it could last longer than the 3000 intervals but hey ho, next service is at 6000 which involves a bit more work. 

I did also take all the wheels off to give the insides of the rim a good clean and checked all the bolts taking the rears off meant that I could give the suspension springs and axle a clean too. Now all I need is some warm dry sunny days,....Storm Imogen is not helping! :-)'

Wet and windy blast

My son wanted to pop down into town and if I'm honest I really didn't want to but I thought lets go in the Caterham after many days of cleaning and polishing waiting for some better weather the last thing I wanted to do was get her wet and mucky but I'm glad I did I had a great time, with the half hood keeping most of the heavy rain off.

I had a thought whilst driving around would I want a more powerful Caterham, in this weather it's a definite no, 80 bhp and not much grip is more than enough for me but God knows what driving a 620 in these conditions would be like,....anyway time to get the bucket and sponge out again! 

Most unusual dashboard

Well going through YouTube with my feet up last night I found this wooden dash installation for the Caterham 160 , personally I'm not that keen on it, A nice carbon one maybe,... http://youtu.be/EHxtRGWCd44 The one item that it seems most people upgrade is changing the roll over bar for an FIA approved one which makes a lot of sense for extra security and safety and also the ability to do some events with the club which I would like to do. I only have the standard rollover bar at the moment so another order looks likely for the FIA one!

I have been out and about in the 160 mainly on the dryish days enjoying the car I do have the half hood on and with the heater on max! Although the wet weather does not put me off too much it's nice to keep it clean so the bucket and sponge comes out after every trip, Roll on spring time.
I'm just under the 3000 mile mark so a service is due soon which I think its just an oil and filter change and a general check over time to check the manual.

Match Mazda MX-5 vs Caterham 160S

Not exactly a "VS" but interesting to watch tho,