Discussion
Having recently sold my R400D, I've got a 2nd hand R500D landing next week from CC. As part of the deal they've agreed to do a flat floor setup for me.
Having heard mixed reports about the setup if I leave it to CC to decide, I thought I'd see if anyone's got a good starting setup for track/fast road?
I'm a decent track-driver, and will be running slicks, happy to compromise a bit for road-use. On the R400D, Caterham's standard settings were scrubbing the outer edges of the CR500s and under-steering a bit too much.
Cheers
Rich
Having heard mixed reports about the setup if I leave it to CC to decide, I thought I'd see if anyone's got a good starting setup for track/fast road?
I'm a decent track-driver, and will be running slicks, happy to compromise a bit for road-use. On the R400D, Caterham's standard settings were scrubbing the outer edges of the CR500s and under-steering a bit too much.
Cheers
Rich
Cheers.
It's the Rosso Red one with leather seats. CC are swapping the seats over to Tillets and putting on a white decal pack to liven things up a bit. Was a tough choice to go with manual box over the seq, but in the end I decided if I wanted an uncompromising race-car there were better cheaper options... I'm after a bit of comfort after 4 yrs of Atom ownership.
walton,
IMO you made the right choice. We took the sequential out of our DR500 and replaced it with a 6 speed because the seq is so noisy, driving it becomes much less fun if you're not helmeted. If you're helmeted, you get the loss of conversation / horrible hair combo that isn't popular with the missus, therefore the lids, and then the box had to go.
I also prefer driving it with the 6 speed, because you're so much more involved with the car then. The seq was very impressive, and would no doubt come into it;s own on the track, but as a road car I'd not want one again.
IMO you made the right choice. We took the sequential out of our DR500 and replaced it with a 6 speed because the seq is so noisy, driving it becomes much less fun if you're not helmeted. If you're helmeted, you get the loss of conversation / horrible hair combo that isn't popular with the missus, therefore the lids, and then the box had to go.
I also prefer driving it with the 6 speed, because you're so much more involved with the car then. The seq was very impressive, and would no doubt come into it;s own on the track, but as a road car I'd not want one again.
Ah OK, I ask as my mate just sold his on sale or return from Caterham, its the white one on their website, he had sequential on his which I thought was fantastic, he decided to sell after we had a bit of a drag race on a long runway section of a trackday in May and he didn't appreciate the outcome 
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