The cascades plot below shows an NA honda on the right against the SW Lotus conversion (with the best stock PG1, the Lotus CRbox) on the left, speed along the x axis and torque at the wheels along the y axis:
The Honda is a typical “Link-up” NA conversion at 222bhp and 156lbft (measured at Emerald [...]
“Just by way of a public announcement…
I will be leaving Sinclaire Motorsport today for the final time as in the new year I am moving on. I will be remaining in the tuning industry (some 10+ years now) and while not Lotus specific, I will still be in the industry with all of the usual [...]
At Hofmann’s Motorsport we are looking to expand our workforce and we intend to take on two fully qualified technicians over the next six months. We are looking for experienced and talented applicants who are capable of consistently excellent work. We are only looking for the very best people to be part of our successful [...]
…sadly only for the week of Christmas, borrowed it last Tuesday and giving it back tomorrow. I’m a member of Ecurie25 hence having the car, thought I’d share a few thoughts on it!
Picked it up and in the flesh it’s very much like an Elise but slightly less pretty to my eye. The interior is [...]
Some more pics – of the SC and plenum bolted on to the current engine to allow for the pipework to be sorted. You can also see the nice job Guglielmis did of finishing off the bulkhead – lots of breathing space around the turbo.
There’s also one of the exhaust system. Neil from ThermalLogic has [...]
Made some progress over the weekend. Stripped the head and took it over to Dave (DVA Andrews). First thing he noticed was that the inlet and exhaust valves were fitted the wrong way round!! This head uses standard sized inlets and turned VVC/VHPD exhaust valves, so it’s possible to make this mistake. But a close [...]
Some more images of Steve Butts 1.4 compound super charger & turbo install.
Arrow rods, and a steel crank (Farndon I think)…..special combination as the stock Rover 1.4 cranks use a small big end journal size and there are no decent bearings available. So this crank (and a few others) were made with BDA sized big [...]
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