Duratec R500 Caterham & 600bhp Lancer Evo

sniffing out a local 600bhp Mitsubishi Lancer Evo at Oulton park during a morning warm-up lap

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[Whipit8rapture]

Can't be a Duratec R500, for one its not using the R500 dashboard secondly the video was uploaded 03 November 2006 and the Duratec R500 was released around August 2008.

Nice video though.

[jackal2513]

Nice bit of detective work but you are slightly wide of the target. The title refers to the car's spec and does not claim that this is a current 2008 R500 as produced by the factory.

[jackal2513]

No, as you've spotted, this car was custom built long ago, way before Caterham offered a duratec option. In fact it was arguably the first Duratec powered caterham in the world. It had R500 power levels and also was R500 spec with those all important expensive R500 options like kevlar seats and aerofoil wishbones... hence why it is referred to as a Duratec R500.

[jackal2513]

Incidentally, the person who deisgned and built this car is the very same person who Caterham employed to design the engine of the current official Duratec R500 of which you speak.

You could in fact say that this car was the seed towards the current factory R500 because the designer learnt a lot from building this one and then went on to deisgn what caterham offer today. Its a small world this Caterham malarky !

[jackal2513]

if you look, he does actually back off a bit when i pass him

thats proper trackday etiquette and what you are supposed to do

having said that straight line he is still only ~400/ton versus the caterham ~500/ton. power means precious little and i have seen even just 120bhp Caterhams run circles round 300-400bhp tin tops regularly.

[shaun928]

all people focus on is Horse Power these days, its not the case! Power to weight is where it is at.

a R500 has 520 bhp per ton and will do 0 - 100kph in 2.88 seconds.

it only weighs 506kgs, and will out run 99.9% of all cars on the road, so on the track it is nothing short of slaughter when the driver doesn't chicken out or scare him self shit less..

[HighContrastOwnz]

Caterhams ROCKS !!!!!!!

[TraxxasKing]

@sugarisgoodness

Duratec is a mazda engine

[renorti]

looks like that evo had about 200bhp,it was't very quick on the straights at all

[LEBONSKIFINARM]

Awesome piece of kit & sounds amazing too :D

[akaAlexthekid]

@DaftPACman first time i read this i thought your favourite was the megabus haha

[sugarisgoodness]

Thats a ford motor for ya! :D

[YonOtto]

the evo won'd

[the26thhour]

SBD do a supercharged Hayabusa for any clubman Kit DaftPACman

[samr500]

i agree, the r500 will still out do it round top gear track :) my opinion

[ritualfunk]

slicks, downforce, venturi tunnels, random gay techness and you might have win

the ariel atom with 500bhp has a lot of wings and shit on it so it might improve traction ... I still think itll wheel spin in most gears though ... haha

[DaftPACman]

the thing i love most is that the car feels like an extension to your body

you can see all the suspension and steering working

clubmans are the greatest

westfields, birkins, caterhams, arrows

i love them all

but my favourite would have to be the megabusa

i wonder if anyone has used ghostrider's 500hp hayabusa gsx1300r-turbo set up in one yet?

500hp in under 500kg would be a sight to see

if no one has i'm doing it

the only thing i haven't figured out is how to get traction?