Exige, Honda, Sport 160...what now?

mac · Post by **mac** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:18 pm

The answer is 11 words into his original posting

Mac

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:43 pm

mac wrote:The answer is 11 words into his original posting

Mac

How about two?

IT'S MEGA

SteveBanks · Post by **SteveBanks** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:29 pm

Sanjoy,

Yep, it's Bill's car. Sounds nasty, hope he gets well soon.

Steve

Post by **Shug** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:46 am

Uldis wrote: And afaik the S160 had already a CR so don't need to buy one.

HTH.

160s didn't have a CR box as standard - major omission from Lotus....

Post by **Shug** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:48 am

Oh, and Steve. You'd be mad not to go Honda if you can. Seems like it's sorted - has been running almost as long as Ian Wilsons.

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:14 am

If I were you I would either buy my car

or buy a mint S1 for say £10K and throw in a 250bhp Audi lump £8K or 300+bhp for £11K

Honda...soooo last year

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:15 am

Gareth wrote:If I were you I would either buy my car or buy a mint S1 for say £10K and throw in a 250bhp Audi lump £8K or 300+bhp for £11K

Honda...soooo last year

i agree

Post by **Shug** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:22 am

Gareth wrote:If I were you I would either buy my car or buy a mint S1 for say £10K and throw in a 250bhp Audi lump £8K or 300+bhp for £11K

Honda...soooo last year

I'd really need to have seat time in an Audi car before recommending it to anyone (offers? <BG>

)

Elaine's car (same engine) doesn't suffer from lag, as you know it, but it's got a 'soft' throttle pedal - it's not linear and it feels disconnected somehow. It's bloody fast - in a drag race to 80 there's nothing in it between her car and my modded S1, so whacking the engine in an elise would be mind-blowingly quick....

Just not sure the power delivery wouldn't totally ruin the scalpel feeling of the Elise - plus the Audi lump is a bloody heavy old iron block boat anchor - it will affect the handling...

If it was my (buckets of) cash, it'd be a Honda with view to supercharging some way down the road....

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:25 am

Of course for 20k you could get a VXR

Post by **Shug** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:29 am

Lazydonkey wrote:Of course for 20k you could get a VXR

Yeah - even heavier than an S2 Exige......

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:45 am

Lazydonkey wrote:Of course for 20k you could get a VXR and be overtaken by S1's

mac · Post by **mac** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:58 am

mckeann wrote:
Lazydonkey wrote:Of course for 20k you could get a VXR and be overtaken by Simons

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:52 am

Audi lump is 40kg or 60kg heavier....

mac · Post by **mac** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:01 pm

Gareth wrote:Audi lump is 40kg or 60kg heavier....

Depening on who's bathroom scales your using

(it's an SE1 thing)

Mac

tut · Post by **tut** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:25 pm

Yep, the 330 reliable hp would tip the scales.

I suppose a drive in both that and an S/C Honda would make sense first, as I believe Scuffers is getting 310hp out of it now, and that, plus VTEC and 8,500rpm might have it over the turbo and 6500.

I remember Kelvin saying that the original N1 TUT with the Audi 330 was shooting past everything else on the track before it burnt out in the fire.

tut