The new Atom looks rather good.

505 bhp.
495 kgs.

From a supercharged, 2.4 V8 with 20 valves.

Atom or Caterham??

I see the Caterham has been given that engine, but dont think it made that much power! Still hot though...


Link?

You can't post links here Si. Look on PH home page.

Oh k, will do, the Caterham version that has that motor in it looks very tidy!

The new Atom is over 1 bhp per kilo. Amazing.

That is an epic PTW ratio... mmmmmm....

Still looks like a pile of scaffolding poles though.

Of the two, I'd personally have the Cat, slower or not, its the more attractive of the two, IMO.

I wouldn't have an Atom or a Caterham for road use anymore.
I would have a track-only car and something more useable on the street.

Track car would have no lights, number plates, little silencing, no cats!, or any other street-legality things!

I'd like 250 bhp, probably the S2000 engine, in something weighing about 400 kgs.

quote:

Originally posted by Finbar:
Still looks like a pile of scaffolding poles though.

Finbar, do you ever have any thing positive to say?

quote:

Originally posted by Knockside:

quote:

Originally posted by Finbar:
Still looks like a pile of scaffolding poles though.

Finbar, do you ever have any thing positive to say?

No, he and Barky could so easily be brothers, mate.

2.4 V8 .... Is it an F1 block?

sounds similar to the radical v8. small bike sized light v8. makes similar power turbocharged aswell. maybe it is the same.

quote:

Originally posted by Bamford:

From a supercharged, 2.4 V8 with 20 valves.

Shouldn't that be 40 valves? 5 valves per cylinder x 8 cylinders = 40

otherwise you've got 2.5 valves per cylinder and that ain't right

40 valves is right.
It's like 2 Yamaha R1 engines, which had 20 valves for most of the model's life, but has now gone to a more conventional 16 valve layout.

quote:

Originally posted by Knockside:

quote:

Originally posted by Finbar:
Still looks like a pile of scaffolding poles though.

Finbar, do you ever have any thing positive to say?

Sorry mate. It's the best looking pile of scaffolding poles I've ever seen, and undoubtedly the fastest.

Positive enough?

quote:

Originally posted by Bamford:

quote:

Originally posted by Knockside:

quote:

Originally posted by Finbar:
Still looks like a pile of scaffolding poles though.

Finbar, do you ever have any thing positive to say?

No, he and Barky could so easily be brothers, mate.

We are the Stadtler and Waldorf of 4Car!

I'll leave you to work out who Kermit and Miss Piggy are.

quote:

Originally posted by Finbar:
Still looks like a pile of scaffolding poles though.

Despite the digs you have to admit that he's right, though!

finbar is the same letters as f-brain.

f for fantastic, obviously!