A race car is born - With a difference

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:10 pm

It's um... interesting to drive. Feels a bit wierd. I've only tootled about a little bit in it so far. Need to do a few tweaks with the map and then get some gentle miles on it. Gonna make sure it's well run in before I take it to the dyno to map it.

Performance wise for the 1600, not sure exactly it will put out but I'm certainly hoping for 180bhp plus. Limiting it to 8000rpm as I'm using the standard rods. Wouldn't want to go beyond 8k really.

If it makes anywhere near 190bhp I'll be over the moon.

Dan

tut · Post by **tut** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:45 pm

Bloody nutter..........

<BG>

tut

r055 · Post by **r055** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:44 pm

You need to paint or dye that tow strap so it looks like it's Tongue hanging out!

This is, of course, to represent Father TUT and his facial expression when giving young ladies pax rides at knockhill!

Post by **campbell** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:21 am

roadboy wrote:
The first one pictured looks like an original Autobytel Motorsport Elise race car (they were built as central seaters)

I watched a number of BTCC events in the season (or two?) that the Motorsport Elise ran alongside as a support race. £50k for a year's racing fully supported by Lotus, IIRC. Cars looked utterly awesome, sounded even moreso, and one would have thought they'd be a great way to launch and sell the Exige. Sadly the Exige didn't shift well initially, and the series was binned fairly quickly, but all in all still a good chapter in Lotus history and of course if you'd bought a tidy Exige S1 and kept it clean, you'd be a happy bunny today

Campbell

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:46 pm

Another small update.

Cheers

Dan

Post by **pete** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:38 pm

Just found this. Excellent.

philthy · Post by **philthy** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:01 pm

Great work Dan, you should price this up as a conversion as I'm sure it would interest a lot of people with track S1s.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:21 pm

Nice work Dan
Very interesting to see the work involved

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:35 pm

Hey Jamie! It's been a while.

Good to hear from you.

Dan

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:38 pm

Great work Dan

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:00 pm

Updated the first post again.

Dan

Mike Scib · Post by **Mike Scib** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:17 am

Looking good Dan

Ferg · Post by **Ferg** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:34 am

We need a vid of you trying to get in and out though!

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:59 pm

Ok... so the first chance I get to have a look at this thread and I can't see the pictures... typical...

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 3:40 pm

I'm currently moving them to my own webspace so hope to have that sorted by the weekend.

Dan

Scottish Elises

A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference

Re: A race car is born - With a difference