Premier Power F175 thoughts, reliability

[Wayne95]

Hi,
I am looking for a Caterham with the following spec

Yellow or Orange
SV with lowered floors
Leather seats
Sigma, or maybe duratec but they are pushing the price a bit.

Other option parts I'm happy to change as needed, but need these basics as a starting point...

I have seen a 2010 with the premier power upgrade to 175hp, but its got 45k miles, 35k since the upgrade. On the PT Sports website

I don't mind higher mileage if its been looked after, but is a more highly tuned engine likely to let go at some point? I heard quite good things about Premier, but I looked on their website and they are no longer doing builds, is this an issue for support should I need it?

Its my first Caterham, so thought 150hp will be enough, but this one looked great otherwise.

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/16793275

Any experience of the engine upgrades would be great

Thx
Wayne

[WombleCate]

Pretty car.

I know little about Premier Power, beyond they had a good reputation (I considered them for an upgrade, the cost put me off & PGM did some great work instead).

I am consistently amazed how under-stressed the Sigma is and how much it can take. I race a shared 140+bhp Sigma and on a test day with two driving it pounds round all day.

I’ve/ I’m hugely enjoying the Sigma, personally, I wouldn’t know what to do with 175bhp on the road (without slicks). The racing 420r have around 175bhp and on sticky tyres, sequential boxes they are still a handful.

[WombleCate]

45k may be lunar miles for a Caterham but aside for a few parts (DeDion etc) everything should be fine and for other parts fewer than 2.5k p.a. might not be ideal

[DVandrews]

I heard somewhere that Premier Power have ceased trading, you would need to confirm that though.

Dave

[AinsleyB]

Premier Power are no longer trading, sadly.
But they don't use magic parts, just standard bits any performance engine builder could use / buy.

If its had several miles post upgrade it should be fine. If you sit at 8000 rpm all day long, sure it will wear out. But for the road 500 odd KG's will not stress the engine.

[mcg_]

Its my understanding that northampton motorsport can do what premier power did (or similar). they used to map the PP cars anyway.