mwiener2 Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 but that fancy interior will add like 5 billion pounds and make it deh slow My Mods List (Updated 8/22/17) 2005 Outback FMT Running on Electrons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4 Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Rumor has it that the Exige is coming stateside soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowImg Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Rumor has it that the Exige is coming stateside soon... Heard that as well, not in street legal form though -- track car, 190hp 1300lbs? Something to that effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilT Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Now if only TVR could meet these damn emmission regs ! http://www.tvr-eng.co.uk/intro.html Double Award Winning Legacy GT Wagon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBY Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 10 hp plus a flatter torque curve after the Lotus wizards re-worked the ecu. I've seen 3 of them on the road around here. They seem to be everything + more. Elise > M3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axis008 Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Oh how I'd love to have an Elise. I want to see a turbocharged or supercharged Elise. That would be sweeeeet. Kinda like the Ariel Atom. -ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGT Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 They were originally made with the Rover 1.8 engine, but as it wouldn't get past US emmissions laws, they swapped it for the Toyota. Just as well as Rover is finally no more Yes, I was referring to the official US version. As for Rover, my bro had a 200 and it was a fun car. The large Rovers SUCKED hard, but the small ones were nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avishar Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Good race! As for the technical stuff people are bound to argue about.... Performance: 0-60mph 4.9sec (4.7 sec Sport Pack) 0-100mph 12.9 seconds Top speed 150 mph Fuel consumptionEPA 23 City - 27 Highway Curb weight Base Car 1984 lbs *(Touring Pack + 15 lbs. - Sport Pack - 20 lbs) Reported from Lotus... says car and driver: Whereas the European Elise was designed around the 1.8-liter Rover K-series engine, the U.S. Elise gets a retuned version of the Toyota 1.8-liter, DOHC 16-valve four-cylinder that powers the Celica GT-S. For Lotus, the Toyota four-banger makes 190 horsepower (up from 180) and 138 pound-feet of torque (up from 130), delivering all that oomph through a six-speed manual gearbox, also borrowed from the Celica. Tipping the scales at just under 2000 pounds, the Elise sports a weight-to-power ratio of 10.2 pounds per pony. The results are blistering performance numbers of 0 to 60 in 4.4 seconds and the quarter-mile in just 13.2 at 104 mph. For comparison, the new 325-horsepower Porsche 911 barely nips the Elise, hitting 60 in 4.3 and the quarter in 12.8. However, the 911 can’t match the Elise’s staggering skidpad number of 1.06 g. Oh how I'd love to have an Elise. I want to see a turbocharged or supercharged Elise. That would be sweeeeet. Kinda like the Ariel Atom. ask and you shall recieve: http://www.gglotus.org/ggtech/elise-forcedfed/forcedfed.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbolen Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Looked in to an Elise before I bought my 05MT. They are not a daily driver! The reason for the Toyota engine was that it was already emission cerified in the U.S. and they needed to get it to market fast. When I looked, the back order time was about 6 months. I ended up with a 1565 lb car with about 180hp....for considerably less money!...LOL! http://www.shockwaverider.com/puma/puma-010.jpg A 1977 Puma GTE(VW running gear...and of course...a boxster engine!) In my opinion, the Elise is sort of a Eurpean STi(for a lot more money)! Cheers, dave Drive softly and carry big torque! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eVoMotion Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Videos of Elise fun. http://www.jimbocam.com/bentwaters/v3.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBDarkwinter Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Caterham CSR 260 ahhhhhhh 0-60 3.1 seconds ahhhh what was the one they had that broke the world record for a 0-100-0 run a few years back, had a 280hp rover engine that pulled 14,000rpm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voyetra8 Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 Bump for Lotus lust. I REALLY want an Exige. I may need to start playing poker again... BLAH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The B4 Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 I've seen 4.7s in one of the mags. I'd be all over an elise...it's not a car though...it's a toy. I Personally would like to know what an elise would be like with an s2000 engine swap.... Imagine the rapture. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melayout Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 This needs a bump. I keed I keeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eVoMotion Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 One of the car mags last month did a test of a couple different Elise tuner cars with turbos, engine swaps and more. I think at least one was S2000. I've seen 4.7s in one of the mags. I'd be all over an elise...it's not a car though...it's a toy. I Personally would like to know what an elise would be like with an s2000 engine swap.... Imagine the rapture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnoldscu Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Isn't this a race thread? I'm pretty offended right now, I thought these had all been closed up ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaa Kaa Man Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 This reminds me of one of those dopey threads that Kaa Kaa guy puts up now and then .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBT Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Lotus and Rice are two words that can never be combined ! It's bordering on blasphemy. (tic) Amen brother - that marque has so much racing history associated with it that it could never be associated with rice. That and Colin Chapman would come back from the grave and break out a can of whoopazz. - Pro amore Dei et patriam et populum - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobY Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Isn't this a race thread? I'm pretty offended right now, I thought these had all been closed up ... True but sometimes 4 month old threads just plain come up from the dead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWDxBOOST Posted December 22, 2005 Author Share Posted December 22, 2005 yes...old as crap where the hell did it come from??!/!?!/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colatkitty Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 A friend of mine has an elise and was kind enough to let me drive it on the track for a few laps ... I had previously driven it on the street a few times, and thought that it would be a blast to drive it on the track. But after flogging it for a few laps, it became apparent that it is much more difficult to drive it fast consistently as compared to our legacies. Being spoiled by the generous torque curve that our boxers provide, the elise just feels underpowered until you hit around 6500 rpm. And you have to keep the revs above that to carry any decent amount of speed out of the turns. To drive it fast requires total concentration and much more effort than driving my car. Long story short, I lapped him in his elise during a 25 minute session ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGT Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Amen brother - that marque has so much racing history associated with it that it could never be associated with rice. That and Colin Chapman would come back from the grave and break out a can of whoopazz. what about the grey marekt imports that hat Honda ITR motors in them? If I put an eBay short ram on it and painted the heads fluorescent yellow and loomed all the cables to match, would that then be considered rice?? Prolly not....I think the Elise has enough mana to ward off all comers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbacis Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 On the topic of the Elise....When I was at Group5 Motorsport a couple weeks ago a guy called in looking to get an automatic tranny put in his Elise. They estimated it would cost about 1/4 the price of the car, but he didn't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colatkitty Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 On the topic of the Elise....When I was at Group5 Motorsport a couple weeks ago a guy called in looking to get an automatic tranny put in his Elise. They estimated it would cost about 1/4 the price of the car, but he didn't care. Automatics and Elises DON'T mix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodan Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 a guy called in looking to get an automatic tranny put in his Elise Cretin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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