Dang....260 hp out of the K series??

 

Lotus has been putting other OEM engines for a long time, including Ford engines, Renault engines, etc.

 

OK! yes you are right the normal production elise use the rover engines, but as somebody here said, lotus have been using engines from a lot of automakers, incluiding honda. This exige (the one on the pics on top) uses the honda one, the thing i'm not sure is if the engine is the RSX engine, which by the HP numbers seems to be the type S if not the type R engine. Don't quote me on these engines, cuz i don't know much abou b18 or K20 at all.

 

a setup like this is pretty common here.. There are about 4 that I can think of right off the top of my head. The company that started doing the swap for my area needed help with the wiring harness conversion, so I helped lay a few out for them. All in all it's a pretty fun car to drive and work on.

 

i still think its an s2000 motor................nevermind it is a k20a



[Modified by viprcr1, 12:48 AM 1/13/2003]

 

does anyone remember the weight of the yellow lotus that went heads up against the cobra? i believe it was sumwhere form 1600-1900 lbs.? anyone?

 

what the ****. are you sure you live in Boise? i live in Salt Lake and i've never heard anything about any of these. i would be willing to drive to boise just to see something even half this cool.

since you know 4 owners, tell them to get their asses down to the Utah SCCA events and tear everyone a new anus... i'm tired of seeing a C4 vette smote everyone.

 

Ok, I will have a chat with the ones that SCCA and see if we can't arrange a litte treck to SLC. I know they usually go to the Pocatello meet.

 

The car in the photo is a Lotus Elise with a JDM engine (I forget which one). I believe the photo was taken at the L.A. Auto Show. While I was there, I talked to the guy that owns the shop that did the installation.

I believe that it was Sun "International" that was doing the B18C installations and saying that they could get them registered in the USA. It's questionable that any were really "legalized" due to items like bumper requirements. In other words, it wasn't due to the usage of the Honda engine.

The photo is of the "early" style.

I think that the weight is something like 1600 pounds.

In talking to the Lotus reps at the show, they are planning on importing the new style, but they wouldn't say what engine it would have. The current car in europe has a Rover engine and it isn't "federalized". The word on the grape vine is that it is going to be a Toyota.

It may be informative to know that Lotus did the original design work for the Toyota MR2 and it was going to be built by Lotus. They decided to not do the project and sold it to Toyota.

Wes V