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Time for Caterham to make improvements to 7


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My Brother in Law Manufactures specialist Alloy / Composite cutting Machines , He supplies Airbus, Rolls Royce, Red Bull F1 etc.

 

Last year i visited one of his customers one of the largest Specialist Alloy stockholders in Southampton

I was amazed at the range of Stock Titanium Bar, Tube , Plate , Box section an extensive enough range to build a complete 7 Chassis and not THAT expensive.

 

I have a friend of mine who is a top ex Aerospace Fabricator / Welder he could easily make , De Dion Tube/ Ears , Prop Shaft , Half Shaft's , Front Wishbones , and Up Rights in Titanium and other Chassis parts.

 

Chaterham could have offered These Products as up grades years ago!

 

 

 

Edited by - BSA on 5 Mar 2013 10:23:49

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7 Wonder posted:

 

-Wiring loom

-Paint finsh

-Full spherical joint suspension option

-Inboard front coilovers

-Alloy caliper all road

-Decent rubber supplier for hoses, gaiters etc

-better rear axle location panhard rod or watts linkage in preference to A frame

 

Luckily CC are ahead of us there, having designed and made such a car as long ago as 2005, they called it the CSR, although still in production it is sadly only a fringe model, probably because of its' price, most customers prefering to put up with the downsides of the old fashioned model 😔

 

Paul

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BSA, have you ever compared the structural stiffmess of Ti Vs steel, if you made a 7 chassis out of Ti, it would probably have to be heavier than the steel one to regain the stiffness.

 

non structural parts from Ti are fine or when in pure tension or compression, anything with a bending moment on it, then forget Ti

 

Simon

 

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