Sequential Gear Box / Cerbera 4.5 Lightweight

[warrenk]

Hi all,

I was just wondering if anyone has ever heard of anyone actually putting a sequential gear box into a Cerbera?

Has it happened? Did it work? All that stuff.

Warren

[dannylt]

Nope, not heard of one. Why bother with the hassle?

danny

[warrenk]

Well yes...there is that!

But that's not the point of the question. I was just wondering if anyone had ever done it? For fun an'all!

W

[dannylt]

It's a boggo standard Borg-Warner T5. Though why Cerbies manage to destroy them regularly when they're rated at more power & torque I don't know. There must be lots of companies (e.g. cossie go faster) that will know about regearing them, or putting sequential changes. Still sounds like too much hassle & aggro though

[warrenk]

Fair enough.

[dannylt]

Don't let us stop you though!

[warrenk]

No that's it! I'm sulking now! It's all your fault too!

Remind me not to talk to you next time I see you. Ideally before we start talking if possible.

Warren

[AndrewD]

Are you keeping it then Warren?

[warrenk]

It's too expensive to keep and too expensive to sell.
So I have a choice. Pay for it and leave it at Fernies. Or pay for it and use it.

Bored with leaving it at Fernies! :>

So in short...I guess so!

W

[dannylt]

Mr Kernighan! Didn't think it could have been you - thought it was a bit of a coincidence - seen your car at Fernies several times. Why won't it sell?

[warrenk]

It is I!

It will sell...if I want to sell it for £30k. I owe more than that. I don't think +£30k cars are selling at the moment. Not to say that they won't in the future.
What is a 9 month old Cerbie with all the toys worth these days do ya reckon?

W

[AndrewD]

I would have thought a damn sight more than £30k Warren. I sold mine in January for almost that much, and it was a 99V with 18,000 miles on the clock.

I miss that car (but the house and Caterham are much better thank you!)

[dannylt]

If you're going to keep it and drive it, forget expensive gearbox mods I reckon - change those totally crap standard dampers for proper Nitron ones on stiffer springs - certainly the best value for money mod you can make I reckon! Joolz fitted his kit to my car (along with an adjustable stiffer front arb) in only a few hours and it's made a fantastic difference! Still running my engine in for a track day to set it up properly, but on the road it's absolutely fantastic. imho.

[warrenk]

I was thinking of changing the front discs for the Red Rose Tuscan ones. And also doing something with the suspension, but I hadn't worked out what.

[dans]

Since this is a city region gassing sub section....


My Griff is doing the same, languishing a fernies whilst I wrangle with what to do with it...

Sadly it is a bit cked having had to deal with lots of lovely london speedbumps. Needs diff, bushes, steering rack, tlc and Clutch which has decided to go at the same time....

dan

[AndrewD]

Sounds like it will be a great car to buy in about a months time then

[davidd]

Warren, if your car is for sale via fernies why is it not on their website?

Have you tried PH?

[ross]

get mine back from fernies tomorow. yippee!

[warrenk]

It is on Piston Heads...

It's not at Fernies any more, as I left it there for six whole months without it selling. So I went and got it back. May as well use it.

I must update the Piston Heads advert.

W

[davidd]

Aha I see it, very, very nice. If I sold the Griff and accidently did not have the new bathroom built I could afford that , hmmmmm I wonder how much trouble I'd be in.....