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Carlimits – know your limits

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Euro 5 regulations kill off 1.8 toyota engined Elises and Exiges by 2011

Euro 5 emissions regulations are set to kill 1.8-litre Lotus Elises and Exiges in EU markets by the end of 2010, and Lotus is to mark the occasion with two special editions. The Elise SC and Exige S-based cars will…

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Lotus 2-11 supercharged Honda K20 arrives

For those suffering from the usual 2-11 woes;

  • Gearbox failures
  • Indifferent power output

The Link-up 2-11 Honda conversion is finally here:

This particular conversion is complete with supercharger and cooler.

It’s not visible on this video but…

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Sinclaire Group / Essex Motorsports Directors bans

More details have emerged of the reasons behind the Directors ban picked up by Wayne and Gill Sweeting after the Sinclaire (various) Ltd debacle.

Sinclaire Group was put into creditors voluntary liquidation. This at the time being presented as merely…

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Successful Tesla IPO

Electric car firm Tesla Motors, which has now delivered over a thousand li-ion powered, Lotus Elise based,  $100k Roadster sportscars, has had a successful IPO. The company’s stock, after a slight initial dip, climbed by 40 per cent

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Steve Butts 1.4 k-series compound charger update

I’ve collected the parts required to plumb the oil and water into the turbo and it and the engine/manifold are with a mate who can fab the turbo support brackets and make up the oil feed and drain to/from the…

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Lotus Elise S1 Seat mount corrosion issues

Aluminium corrosion on the floors of the S1 is a known problem and the fixes are pretty simple. Under the rubber mats, if damp, a nasty chemical soup can build up leading to crevice corrosion.

It is less well known…

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SELOC – Swingers club?

Has SELOC (South East Lotus Owners Club) become some sort of odd swingers club? SELOC Regional meets always had a dubious reputation but this is perhaps going a bit too far.

Originally posted by SubZero
Firstly, a head’s up -

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Tesla battery woe

Tesla have revealed in a recent SEC filing that its cars such as the Lotus Elise based Tesla Roadster will lose as much as 40 per cent of their nominal battery capacity after driving only  100,000 miles,as they start out…

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