Anybody got a pic of new caterham wheels/cxr'x with flares

[jp7]

Hi all, as it suggests, anyone got some pics of a flared wing car with the latest Caterham 8 spokes or cxr's, wondered which would look best. Wrestling with what to buy

cheers in advance

Jon

[Alaskossie]

By "flared wings," do you mean clams?

 

Or is this a new CC option I've not heard about?

 

Alaskossie

[Nick Chan]

Hi Jon,

 

TC's first seven was a flared wing car in the BRG/Yellow anniversary colours and I have got some pics of it with the 15" 10 spoke anthracites and tillet seats 😬 Definitely a great look

 

Drop me a blatmail with your email address and I'll send one or two over

 

Cheers

Nick

 

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Back in a BEC! - but done alright in Class 1...

[caterhamnut]

Somewhere I have a pic I mocked up of our car with silver 10 spoke wheels on - I can't get hold of it right now, as I am abroad....sorry, not much help if you are in a rush!

 

Angus's Adventures in Sevenland

[jakeandlizzy]

Compomotives look way better...I don't see why clams make a difference to this fact:

here.

 

I have got two sets, one grey, one black. The grey are much nicer I think as they have 'sparkles' like the anthracite CC wheels.

 

Now I need a third set to finally get rid of the last set of minlites for the track tyres.

 

[Windy Corner]

I think I have a copy of Angus' photo, I will try and post it when I get home tonight (if that is okay with Angus ??)

 

Rik

 

Roadsport SV 1.6 Sigma 150

in Viper Blue here

[Windy Corner]

Found it

 

here

 

Rik

 

Roadsport SV 1.6 Sigma 150

in Viper Blue here

[Mcalvert]

Here's one of how H5 URF looked before the rebuild a few years ago here

 

Michael.

 

Edited by - Mcalvert on 11 Nov 2010 09:42:04

[jp7]

Hi guys, many thanks for your replies, much appreciated.

They look good, my only concern was that the new caterham wheel is more inset on the front, ET24 i believe, compared to the old minator, so might look as though the wheel is too far 'into' the car' and not filling the clam, if that makes sense.

Michael, did you replace the studs on your hubs with longer ones to use the wheels, our cars are of a similar age and i only have 32mm of stud protruding, not sure if this is enough?

cheers

Jon

[Stationary M25 Traveller]

40mm studs are readily available and cheap, and fairly easy to swap over.

 

 

[Mcalvert]

I ran with the original studs for a couple of years. I then met a very thorough scrutineer at Harwood hillclimb who pointed out (having spent ages with his micrometer) that I was JUST outside of the MSA regulations that say that you have to have 1.5x the diameter of stud as depth within the nuts. I was something like 1.46x from memory

 

Anyway, I got to compete, but did change them when I rebuilt the car that winter.

 

Michael.

[jp7]

Many thanks for your replies, and also to Nick for the pics, much appreciated.

I shall have to get one with it and buy some

 

cheers

Jon