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Month: March, 2008

2bular pulling out of honda elise manifold market

Aside from the link-up / eliseparts manifold options 2bular have offered a nice budget item – its been used on many of the budget honda k20a lotus elise conversions (Pheonix and Stark) as they come as standard with a bodged up standard honda manifold which crucifies the torque curve.
Looks like they will have to look [...]

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Rotrex style charger for yoda S2 Elise Varients

Its basically a rotrex bodge and will no doubt blow up, being Italian and all. Check out he video on the site though – sounds quite nice. www.flygas.info.
Claimed 0-100kph of 3.9 seconds which I have to say is getting a bit boring now. How credible is it that no matter what model they start with, [...]

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interlude #1 – freaks on the web

Its all a bit heavy on here at the moment so its time for a quick interlude, number one in a series of freaks on the web.
I give you – Martin Dower.
http://www.connected-uk.com/
Oh lord, what a cock.

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The Tesla is a Lotus Elise

As Tesla degenerate into corp-speak and marketing bullshit rather than concentrate on producing decent cars they now seem to want to claim that the Tesla is not basically a lotus elise.

It’s made in Norfolk, at lotus.
It uses the same chassis technology
Lotus produce a rolling shell which tesla then drop their battery into
Its an elise interior [...]

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Secant Vehicles – Super Charged Ecotec Lotus Elise / Exige conversion

Its all very new but the guys @ SECANT are now offering a 2.0lt ecotec fedralised lotus elise conversion with an eaton m62 (roots type) supercharger conversion for $20,000 which on current exchange rates is about £4.50.
Currently only a test mule seems to exist, but the basic spec is;

2.0lt GM (Ford) Ecotec
Ford Ecotec standard ECU
GetRag [...]

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10 miles for Joe

Nothing I can write can put it better than a Joes Dads own words.

http://www.justgiving.com/10milesforJoe

On the 24th of May 2008 I’ll attempt to swim 10 miles none stop at the Taro Sports Centre in Petersfield. The 640 lengths are going to take me around 6.5 – 7.5 hours to complete.
My son, Joe or ‘little Stewpot’ [...]

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