mynickers

Anyone read October Evo?

Two four-pot bike engines spliced together to make a 340bhp V8 that revs to 13k the unit only weights 74kg and shoved in a wide body SV Seven cateringvan...

V8, 2000cc, 40v
Max power 340bhp @ 10,250rpm
Max torque 190 ft @ 7000-7800rpm (over 100lb at 1000rpm)

Bit pricey at £40k

I'll scan it in later...

Brendan Hughes

Read it two weeks ago. Does the mag come later than the website? Go to evo.co.uk, select Driven - Archive and look at Caterham RST V8.

Brendan Hughes

BTW, what about the new restyled Caterham CSR with 2.3 Duratec engine?

http://www.caterham.co.uk/news/index.htm

hades

Perhaps the more relevant comment seemed to be that the power was "only" that much 'cos they'd limited the peak revs to 10250. IIRC, the article implied there was potentially more to come if they decided to let it run to 15000rpm. So, if they had it close to 400bhp in the weight of a normal superlight R, that would be perhaps 7-800bhp/tonne - that sounds quite healthy to me.

mynickers

Well I was just quite impressed they managed to do it at all. Silly power from Seven's isn't that remarkable these days, I was looking at the Dax Hyabusa turbo'd seven recently, which kicks out as much power as most mere mortals probably know what to do with.

Brendan, I did actually do a search in Evo, but came up with a news item, not the article I was on about.

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Although, the torque is a bit on the weedy side

Proby521

iTrader: (1)

Who needs torque when the catering truck only weighs circa 500kgs? lol. That 190 is PLENTY to pull you from 20mph in SIXTH right to the limiter! :-) What a piece of engineering though. I found a site a few months back when they were developing this lump, cant remember what it was though. What I'd give for one in a seven.(can't afford 40K thou!)

Proby
(ex Mega'blade owner!)

vindaloo

AFAIR the engine currently cost 15K and they hope to be able to drop it to 10K.