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After years of building, developing and generally messing with my own and then building Lee's car too we finally got them together in the same place so took a few pics. They look pretty good together I think! Bar a few differences the cars are very similar. Mine is built on an Seight chassis and Lee's an SEIW. Both cars have had immense amounts of work to pretty much everything possible and most parts have been upgraded and developed after years of trying to get the package right. Quite a bit of extra strength added in the rear around the diff cages too. Both also have pretty much end to end custom parts from Pro Alloy including all the rads, pre rads, turbo coolers, water tanks, breathers, fuel tanks and WI tanks. Tonnes and tonnes of carbon including floors, arches, seats, wing extenders, splitters, diffusers, dashes etc mostly from Mick and both caged by caged. Both run Caterham CSR rims with the 9 inch rears. Red car made 549 horses (481@the wheels and 480ft/lb torque) with a GT3076 turbo White car made 515 horses (440@the wheels and 460ft/lb torque) with a GT3071 turbo They both weigh 680kgs so red car has a touch over 800BHP per tonne and the white one a touch over 750 per tonne. Both run Elite 6 speed sequential gearboxes with gripper plated diffs. Electronics wise they both run Pectel T6 engine management with all the goodies like launch with traction and anti lag, both have gear specific boost control amd have the full AIM Pista dash, GPS and Smartycam systems. Both fitted with plumbed in fire systems too. Both mapped by Martin at Reyland Motorsport. . Performance wise they go pretty well with both hitting 100 in under 6 seconds and comfortably doing 10 second 1/4 mile passes. Top speed we have both seen 160 without trying too hard but bottle runs out here!!! They drive really easy on the road and perform well on tracl too. The idea was to have them as good all rounders. Lee's car was having a pistonheads video feature done and a hot lap of the ring with a proper race driver last week but suffered an unusual clutch failure so maybe another time! I could go on all night about the specs and I know they are not to everyone's taste being high powered turbo charged cars but I hope you like and please let me or Lee (Porkie) know if you want anymore info. I've not really used mine much for the last 6 months as been busy building myself another project. An S1 Lotus Exige which I've converted too Audi power and done the usual Stu ground up top spec uber build! This has all the toys and well over 500 horses too!!

Thats fantastic. Lucky lad, and the kid! :-)

Passing the matter of who's at fault aside for a moment - ultimately it's an unfair fight! Bikers are vulnerable and cars have a protective cage around them so the car driver is way down the path of the dark side IMHO. This is the 'red mist' that under the right circumstances we are all a bit prone to sometimes. We must let the insults wash over our heads - stay calm whoever is at fault - use the force...(unless you're racing on a track that is, then disregard most of that!).

Steve Thats interesting because my Sport 2000S definatealy had 400/200 springs and I checked the spec with factory The BECs tend to run 275/250 fronts with 180 rear due to differnt engine weight and balance. I also know that several people have run slightly higher spring rates to stiffen the car a little ( different drivers like different handling) Rich Kerrs car with the vauxhall XE improved dramatically when he bought my 400/200 springs!!!!!!! He even won the speed series that year.

Having seen both these cars in, and under the skin I can only admire the detail and effort that has gone into these cars. There is a point when faced with limited horsepower that light weight can be a virture, but if there is a spare 250 + bhp in the car, whats an extra 70 to 120 kilo's. High power seven type cars are always traction inhibited so who's to say that extra weight is a disadvantage to 500 bhp + Westfields.

Very nice! I've seen a video of the white car before I think. Looked a handful! The Exige is great too. A friend of a friend has/had a 400bhp 1.8T Elise and that car was ridiculously fast.

Making me feel guilty But you know it was my turn to enjoy her Hope you find another soon we miss you on the runs!