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Huge spec, utterly bonkers road-legal Yamaha R1-engined Caterham - reduced price: £12k pics added

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https://www.flickr.com/gp/charlieandhelen/s267H3

You can't add more lightness than this:
2001 Roadsport with 2006 Yamaha R1 engine

Love the power to weight of your R500 but yearning for something more? Annoyed by how long it takes to slow down? Fed up with having to brake for corners? Want to add more lightness, but the only thing left to strip out is your engine? Curious as to what 14,000rpm feels like? Want a car that literally makes small children cry (mine) when you start it up? Then read on...

Taxed and motd, 14,000 rpm superbike-eater for sale

Drivetrain:

2006 Fuel injected R1 engine (180hp)

Bike box (6spd sequential)

Bailey Morris propshaft with torque tube

Quaiffe ATB diff

Yoko AO21R/185/13

 

Chassis: 

2001 Academy Roadsport (originally with 1.6 K-series)

Kawasaki Green with black pack

Full cage, side intrusion bar and removeable petty strut

Windscreen AND removeable aeroscreen

Weather gear

Heater

Plumbed in fire-extinguisher

Honeycomb protection in sideskin, drivers floor and fuel tank

Composite seats

Under-dash-handbrake

 

Instruments:

Stack ST500 for speed, tacho and shift-lights

Compatible with timing beacon

 

Other bits & pieces:

oil/air heat exchanger

bespoke air intake

FIA battery cutout

bespoke exhaust manifold

Chassis mods for R1 engine by Stuart Taylor motorsport

Q/R Momo

Reg: S5EVN

 

Always garaged, I am the second owner since new. Selling because I have too many other toys and not enough time.

Looking for £12,000. 

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TomB

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Is it on Pistonheads?  Given its bike engined, its fairly specialist so it could be attractive to hillclimbers, sprinters etc.  It might be worth putting it on RaceCarsDirect, Book-a-track or the classified sections of the UK hill climb website.  

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Hampshire West AR

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This now sounds like an absolute bargain. Couple of things, your Pistonheads advert still says £15k?  Why not post up some more detailed pictures for buyers to get tempted by?  As you are up north people need to spend time viewing the car on the internet and may not want to contact you until they make their mind up.  It is frustrating selling cars and that is why the "webuyanycar" ads on the TV focus on the fact that it takes a lot of time. 

Good luck with the sale, would make a fantastic road or sprint car, 14,000 rpm must be fantastic.  My Blackbird is brilliant on road and track at 11500 rpm , but this must be in another league again.

Nick

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SimonRHC

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Hi Charlie,

I'm 4 weeks into owning the BEC you made in 2005 and I love it.

It's my 3rd Caterham since Christmas eve 1999 and I've never been without one and hopefully never will.

It's an insane proposition and quite hard to drive smoothly but that is exactly what I'd want to put my final gallon of dinosaur juice into.

I thought the headcase 998cc engine would be the most endearing aspect but in the cold light of day i think it's the feeling of amazing lightness when chucking it about.  

I can understand why they weren't very popular being "more than Marmite".  Every trip feels like a pugilistic punch in the face but in this cotton wool world i take that as a privilege not a chore. 

All the best,

Simon

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paul jacobs

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Hi Simon, interesting that you now own Kermit.  I ended up buying it from Charlie Pank, completely unseen, as he lived in Edinburgh and I'm down here in sunny Somerset.

As you can probably see from the original photos, I made quite a lot of improvements to it, can you imagine how hard core it was with a full cage and aeroscreen and no reverse?  I kept it for around 5 years and sold it to a nice lad through an internet auction site.

You describe the experience very well.  I always felt, that more than any other Seven, it is an A - A car not A - B via C, or anything, just take it out on your favourite roads for a couple of hours, thrash the hell out of it and put it back in the garage for another 4 weeks whilst you get over it.

Are you clutchless gearchanging yet?  The harder and quicker you go through the box, the smoother it is to drive, although in practice I found it was relatively restful to change gear at around 6 - 8 k revs, and even when accelerating hard would change at around 10 - 11 k.

Has the electric reverser motor setup held up?  I always felt it was a little delicate and the car would start going back wards at full speed so would need moderation.

Do let me know how you are getting on with it and if there is anything I can help with, don't hesitate to ask.

Paul.

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