caterham fireblade

[pikeyboy]

Hi I'm interested in a caterham fireblade, I notice that there are 2 for sale in the classifieds, does anyone know any thing about eithier of them?. Has anyone ever driven one?

Failing that I could be interested in a superlight 6 spd wide track with an aero screen etc

many thanks

[Noger]

Yes, James Whiting was just up the road when I lived in Teddington. He used to service my Xflow, and I was really interested in the Fireblade project. Managed to blag a wee go. Annoyingly by the time I had decided to get one JW had stopped doing them.

With so little weight over the front wheels, it is almost telepathic. I didn't really get to grips with the gear box, but it would not have taken long. The rev range is intoxicating.

There were a few niggles here and there IIRC, like the reverse box, but they have all been sorted, more or less.

In hindsight I should bought a s/h blade instead of converting mine. It still isn't finished

[pikeyboy]

Thanks for that, I bought one of the ones on pistonheads. They are fab cars, so delicate and damn fast too. The gear box is a doddle once you get the hang of it with clutchless up changes etc, great great fun car.

[jimmyslr]

I spent some time with one (owned by a friend). When used hard on a track we found a tendency for it to eat gearboxes. I think the feeling was that a standard fireblade gearbox was delicate piece of kit and using it hard with a car's worth of weight was asking a lot. There are upgrade options to fix this and another mate with a blackbird engined 7 used a specced up box with no issues