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Title: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 23, 2009, 01:34:48 PM
Being built at the moment. For those that are interested you can follow the project here http://www.lu07tus.com/

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: John S on March 23, 2009, 05:55:17 PM

Great post Neil. :good:

I am ashamed to admit that the thought of taking something like that to the limit now scares the pants off me.  :swoon:

I guess I am just getting old, twenty years ago I would have wanted to try it out.  :(


Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: cosworth151 on March 23, 2009, 06:23:46 PM
It looks like a real beast!

How soon will you be converting yours, Neil? ;)
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 23, 2009, 06:42:20 PM
I imagine that upgrade would be outside my budget cos :( . I think there's going to be some footage of my car going round Brands Hatch online soon. I'll put a link up when it comes online.

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Steven Roy on March 24, 2009, 07:20:04 PM
That is going to be a seriously quick car.  I hope they let the Stig loose in it.
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: cosworth151 on March 24, 2009, 07:27:51 PM
I imagine that upgrade would be outside my budget cos :( . I think there's going to be some footage of my car going round Brands Hatch online soon. I'll put a link up when it comes online.

Neil.P

Please do. I'm looking forward to seeing that! :good:
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 24, 2009, 07:48:22 PM
It was to do with a magazine test Cos, they was testing my 7 up against the brand new Duratec 7. Was a really good day. They've already done the front cover, it's on the bottom left here http://www.trcmagazine.com/home.html

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: cosworth151 on March 24, 2009, 08:21:01 PM
That is just too cool!  :yahoo:
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 24, 2009, 08:23:37 PM
Thanks Cos :D

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Scott on March 25, 2009, 08:23:56 AM
That's great Neil.  It looks like there are three of them in the picture.  What was the other one?  How did yours do against the new 7? 
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 25, 2009, 10:34:39 AM
Thanks Scotty, The other car is a R500. My car and the brand new one are both R300's with different engines.
The two R300's did feel quite different. My one has got a full screen and leather seats, which I spec'd when I bought it. The new car has got an aeroscreen, tillet seats and a lowered floor so it felt like a bit more of a racer than mine.

The two engines are similar in performance. The Ford engine's pretty strong with loads of torque. The K-Series engine's a bit more of a screamer and likes to be revved.

I did write a little piece to put in the magazine, I'll put it up once they've edited it etc :D

Here's a picture of me on the right, with Mark the R500 owner :D

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Scott on March 25, 2009, 12:39:04 PM
Nice pic...cute shoes   :P

Yours is the blue one in the background, right?
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 25, 2009, 01:15:37 PM
Yeah that's the one Scotty :D

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: John S on March 25, 2009, 01:26:55 PM
         Real cool Neil. 8)        The car I mean not the shoes. :D
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 25, 2009, 01:31:21 PM
Thanks John. I always thought that 'Blue Suede Shoes' were supposed to be trendy? :DntKnw:

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Dare on March 25, 2009, 02:09:44 PM
Nice pics Neil.

Nice looking car and I like your
shoes too
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 25, 2009, 02:14:26 PM
Thank you dare.

Neil.P


Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Wizzo on March 25, 2009, 04:18:25 PM
Your street cred is going through the roof Neil.  :good:

Let us know when the mag is published or if we can access the article on line.

ps they look more like socks to me.  :DntKnw:
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: cosworth151 on March 25, 2009, 04:32:41 PM
Honestly, I thought they were fireproof driving shoes. My Simpsons have a similar appearance, but are that stylish blue.
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 25, 2009, 04:55:13 PM
Yeah they are Sparco driving shoes Cos. Not SOCKS ::) Yeah I'll put the vids etc on here when they come online. Thanks for the interest.

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Ian on March 25, 2009, 05:36:50 PM
Great pics Neil, I'm impressed with your shoes, those GG socks will look good with them.  :good:
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 25, 2009, 06:15:34 PM
Yeah, whatever! :D

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Ian on March 25, 2009, 06:25:03 PM
Seriously Neil, the pics are great and I'm looking foward to seeing the vid.

                            Ian
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Dare on March 25, 2009, 06:29:30 PM
Ian you have it all wrong.Neil ain't winning the
smelly socks he's donating them ;) :D
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Slugger on March 26, 2009, 09:31:25 AM
Nice one Neil. Sounds like you had a good time. Are they paying for the write up? lol
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on March 26, 2009, 11:06:25 AM
Cheers Sluggs. They haven't mentioned about paying yet, I'll get on it. :D

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on April 20, 2009, 11:48:51 PM
Here's a short video of the Brands Hatch track day. I'm not driving in any of it though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ5kgmRZOGU&feature=channel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ5kgmRZOGU&feature=channel)

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Wizzo on April 20, 2009, 11:53:01 PM
Come on guys - how cool is that?  :DD

Hip Hip  :yahoo:
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Dare on April 21, 2009, 12:01:24 AM
Excellent vid Neil.That's not your blue
Caterham in the vid?What got you interested
in Caterham's in the first place?
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on April 21, 2009, 12:07:24 AM
Yes that's my car the blue one. I got interested in track days in my clio. I decided to take the next step and get the Caterham.
Glad you liked the vid.

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Scott on April 21, 2009, 05:49:51 AM
Nice Neil.  Those Caterham's look like a lot of fun.
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: cosworth151 on April 21, 2009, 01:07:58 PM
Waaaaayyyyyy cool!  :yahoo:

Hey, wait a minute -  I saw that white helmet. Was that The Stig?  ;)
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on April 21, 2009, 03:58:37 PM
Cheers for the comments chaps :good:

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Ian on April 21, 2009, 09:09:36 PM
Neil, flaming brilliant mate, I feel the need, the need for speed.  :yahoo:  :good:
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: SennaMan on April 26, 2009, 08:16:45 AM

Wow! 360 and 500 brake in a 7 has to be blindingly quick if not downright scary Neil.

thanks for the link and the track day vid mate - brilliant stuff
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: Neil.P on April 26, 2009, 12:13:00 PM
Thanks for looking at the vid Sennaman. Will be interesting to see how their V6 project turns out. :good:

Neil.P
Title: Re: 1000/BHP per ton Carbon Fibre Road Car...
Post by: david1275 on May 14, 2009, 11:34:55 PM
I had a run as a passanger in a Westfield Megabussa a few years ago. It had a rev limted Supercharged 240bhp Suzuki Hayabussa motorbike engine, sequential gearbox and was less than 500kg. That's roughly 480bhp / metric ton. :o The run lasted about 10 mins, in which time we blasted round the local A & B roads, done a few power slides round roundabouts, a few doughnuts at road junctions, and generally had the crap scared out of me. At the end of my run I proceeded to dismount said vehicle and barfed the contents of my stomach onto the kind gentlemans driveway. :sick:

I can only imagine what effect this would have!! :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:
Still want a go but. 8)
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