Jason Plato Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 If your a K series fan , then this deal from PTP looks quite interesting -not sure what exactly has been done to make it a "lower cost version " ??? Dave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New lower cost EVO 220 engine PTP have been developing a lower cost version of its highly acclaimed EVO 220 engine for club racing activity. Last weekend the PTP/Trinity Yellow Caterham 7 attended the JCC Tom Rowe Centurian Challenge at Croft as part of the sign off/validation activity. The car was present for test purposes and although running on standard Caterham road tyres the car achieved pole position beating the Ince and Kincella R500 into 2nd place. The field included Caterham 7 Vauxhalls, Superlights, Roadsports, Richard Smith in his Meggabussa and Simon Scuffham/Dave Walker in the QED Elise. RACE 1. The car finished 3rd in class despite going into the gravel and losing 4 laps in the early stage of the race. RACE 2. A much better race with 2nd in class and fastest lap but adverse weather conditions with the road tyres forced us to finish 9 laps early. There will be two more sign off activities including a rigorous 2 day test at Nurburgring and following completion of these the Low Cost EVO will be released for sale. The estimated price including the ECU and harness will be £7500 plus VAT Watch this space for further updates soon!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ward Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 Sounds intriguing.... Does anyone have any experience of PTP products that they are willing to share? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Gillet Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 "£ 7500 + VAT" : low??? Pierre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Corb Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 Every Caterham owner with a factory supplied K series (from 1.4 thru to 1.8 VHPD) has experience of PTP products as they are the official outlet of Rover engine products. (To lotus, caterham, morgan, TVR etc). They are nice people to deal with and have a good range of products. They usually develope the engines with people such as Janspeed. BC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRIS CLARK Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 Try WWW.ptp-ltd.co.uk for info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 Was at Donnington on tuesday, their Caterham with this new engine was flying beating 2 R 500 on track, the only faster car was a GT porche. this is their low cost engine and has an even faster EVO, would love to see that in a Caterham!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Ince Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 Dave interesting interpretation from the web site! "The car was present for test purposes and although running on standard Caterham road tyres the car achieved pole position beating the Ince and Kincella R500 into 2nd place. The field included Caterham 7 Vauxhalls, Superlights, Roadsports, Richard Smith in his Meggabussa and Simon Scuffham/Dave Walker in the QED Elise. RACE 1. The car finished 3rd in class despite going into the gravel and losing 4 laps in the early stage of the race." Pole by 0.066 on a drying track. In the race finished 14th and 6 laps down. R500 fastest lap 1-38.51 PTP car 1.43.485 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Plato Posted November 15, 2001 Author Share Posted November 15, 2001 Richard , Please don't shoot the messenger , I cut and paste from their web site . Sheds a different light on things though ?! . Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dent Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 More of what they dont tell you than what they do. Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Carmichael Posted November 16, 2001 Share Posted November 16, 2001 Nothing they claim is untrue but it is a highly misleading slant on events. By the way, these are the people who have told a certain individual that he didn't know what he was up to mapping engines and threatened to remove their advertising from a well-known magazine. If the product is good and good value, they shouldn't have to try this hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Plato Posted November 16, 2001 Author Share Posted November 16, 2001 Peter , I think there is a bit of needle between our Hero and PTP wink.gif. The fact still remains as to why is the mapping on the SLR sooooo poor ?? . Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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