SubscribeOnce you push a well set up honda powered elise past 200bhp, and assuming you don’t drive like Miss Daisy, you can start pulling some serious G for extended periods of time. If you don’t have a baffled sump system (or a dry sump kit) its fairly obvious that you are going to save the [...]
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Month: January, 2008
Simon Erland – fantasist or worse?
It has become increasingly obvious recently that Simon Erland (aka King_K) has been loosing the plot. He is getting caught out lying more and more and is now banned from exiges.com.
Now it seems from a post on SELOC that at least four people have been paying Simon Erland significant sums of money for an engine [...]
Hot from trying to setup selling the Sun-Speed kits…
The infamous Mr. Rowlet is now trying sell the ledgedary shed, all for the bargain price of £25K
http://www.lotus-on-track.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=5985
Tesla tranmission woe
As I suggested a month back, the Lotus Elise based Tesla is going to launch with a bodged transmission – production has been announced (the first production car going to Tesla Chairman Elon Musk) begining in March 2008.
Instead of a two-speed transmission enabling a 0-60mph of 4 seconds it will have the single speed transmission [...]
Pass On your Skills
Nothing about lotus for a change but if you are looking for a career change into teaching and are anything to do with engineering then it might be worth checking out www.passonyourskills.com – it is a government funded PTTLS course and they are about to start focusing on engineers as of the end of this [...]
Begining of the end for Tesla?
There appears to have been a huge staff cull over at Tesla, so far maps to the door have been handed to:
HR x2
Owner’s manuals Documentation
VP Manufacturing
Software development engineer
Firmware development engineer x2
Lead engineer on Tesla’s motor team
CIO
VP of Service & Support
Director
Manufacturing engineering manager
Software development engineer
VP Whitestar
Tesla blog Editor
Web editor
Systems engineers
Communications director
Entire Transmission Team
Buyer
Vehicle Development Engineer
Technical Writer
Mechanical [...]
IPS KSC cams – type r intake cam & type s exhaust cam
So you have a charged honda k20, you could spend many ££££ on IPS KSC cams from Intrinsic Performance, or you could just do what IPS might have done – check out the specifications on the standard type r inlet cam and the type s exhaust cam.
Guess which might cost you a mint and which [...]
Not long to wait now!
From the great engineer, Simon Erland, himself
“I am confident once the new head casting comes on stream mid summer that we can approach 350bhp from a na K and make the hondas look silly.”
Well its only been five years now so whats a few more months I suppose.
Does poor old Angelo in Aus get one [...]
King Dick returns
You have to admire the cheek of the man.
DVA points out, on SELOC, that its possible to deck a k series in situ.
The illustrious Mr Erland of course has not the merest clue how this might be accomplished (top tip – try asking DVA nicely he might well tell you) so he refers to a [...]
HGF strikes Honda-Pom
Who says the Honda does not suffer from HGF?