tomperkins

Hi Paul, I'm interested in these, could you send me some pictures please? Tom

Thanks Giles, some bedtime reading

Thanks Andy, very interesting. It's amazing it gave no weight saving don't you think

Are there any photos online do you know?

Thanks for the link Nigel, looks awesome!

Cool, thanks for the info David.

Wow, do you have any more details?

Interesting, amazing there was no weight saving. Bet it looked amazing!

Just wondering, has anyone ever seen a full carbon Caterham, either full carbon fibre body panels and skin or maybe a carbon fibre chassis?

I'd agree with that Tom, I love CR500's

"At low cost- upgrading to LiPo (5.66kg)" LiPo?

"Turn the rev counter around a bit so I could see the important range through the 260mm momo" That's a great one, simple but effective

Sounds like money well spent

I recently had my throttle stick wide open at around 90mph. Thankfully I was on a fairly open stretch of road but still eye opening to say the least. To avoid the same thing happening again I took a look at the linkage between my throttle cable and my Jenvey throttle bodies. There was slight play in the linkage so I improved this with some plastic washers so there's now zero play. When doing this I also re-balanced the throttle bodies using a Synchrometer that a friend lent me (thanks Alex). The result of these mods, which cost a couple of quid and no more than an hour or two, is the car feels a million times better. The throttle response is much improved and the engine responds really smoothly at lower revs. In light of the big difference this simple adjustment has made, I wondered what your best quick win has been? What simple change have you made that's made a big difference?

Thanks for everyone's thoughts on this. Sorry I can't be more definite on answers but figuring this one out as we go. We do indeed use plug in headsets (3M Peltor ear defenders modified to make a headset). The microphones do have a foam cover but I guess wind noise is a possibility as we all run aeroscreens. I guess the cheap radios is also a possibility. In the first trip I mentioned the guys using more expensive Kenwood radios didn't have issues (with aeroscreens and the headsets I mentioned above) but I did have issues using my Binatone (£40) radios. The more recent experience was also using a different set of similar £40 Binatone radios. Guess we need to start doing some scientific tests to try to narrow down the possible causes.