Derek888

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With 3 guys in your car you will lose by a larger margin.

Angel Of Mercy

Lotuses were all 4 cyl single turbos before the v8. They produced about 130bhp per ton in the 4 cylinder guise.

As to the comparison itself... come on.. u have 4 ppl in the car! Sometimes when I have just one person in the car.. I feel like the car just isnt moving...

If you do a straight 0-150mph run.. I dont think you'll lose out by that much (if u do lose out at all). Even at a rolling 100mph.. worst case scenario if evenly matched i.e. 1 driver v 1 driver, you should probably lose less than 2 car lengths... but then again.. depends on what mods you have on... having a mod that keeps boost constant and even at high rpms will help your top end acceleration a lot.

As the lotus driver to do a run on a very windy circuit with lots of hairpins and you'll see the lotus in your rear view mirror.. the lotus is a runway car.. the evo is a snake road car... just two different beasts meant for two different roads... pls dont make these kinds of comparisons....

trev0006

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if you are in the los angeles area and it was a silver lotus with the newer round lights in the back, it was my friend Lotus you raced.

Ted B

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From around 1980 - '94

Mistasparkle

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yea it was silver, not sure about the round lights. he had dark hair with a babe with semi curly blonde hair.

SterlingEvo

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As mentioned, a huge factor is the aerodynamics... those things are built like a wedged door stopper! The Evo, by comparison, is like a moving box...

trev0006

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Yup thats him and his wife, he has the ECU and super loud open exhaust pushing about 450hp and his car is only around 2900lbs.

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Volunteer

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I remember this car well, one of those cars you drewl about . I remember reading a article back in the 80's in car and driver stating the Lotus Esprit turbo was the fastest 4cyl production car made. It put the 4cyl turbo technology on the map. Here is an example of and 89 model SE. The 95 1/2 S4 (last year) made 300HP.

Performance statistics included: 264 hp @ 6,500rpm (280hp peak), 261ft/lbs at 3,900 rpm, 0-60 in 4.7 seconds, top speed was 164mph. Boosting 12.4psi.

Dyno4mance

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yep...but the 907 series 2.2 liter all alloy slant 4 was a POS for reliability...you couldn't keep them together for more than 200 miles without a full and very expensive rebuild.....

FresnoEVO

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the lotus elise with a type-r engine is a killer car as well... probably would walk all over just about any evo

Angel Of Mercy

Unlikely.. Elises are not built for speed and acceleration.. just handling and fun... not really the type of car you put up against and evo..

FresnoEVO

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really?? 1,710lbs + 195hp =

Angel Of Mercy

Ok.. that wasnt the lotus elise I had in mind Sigh, featherweights... wish I could drop 1/2 ton of my evo

sobemike

My friend trev0006 told me about this post after I had raced Mistasparkle . Well my car is a 2002 Lotus Esprit V8 TT. It's the 25th anniversary addition which only means some cosmetic differences. My car stock had 350HP and it weighed around ~3050 lbs. I have changed the exhaust and it now has an open exhaust system which also deleted around ~100 lbs weight off the car. I changed the ECU to GT1 spec = ~100 HP gain by taking the stock boost of only .5 bar to 1.1 bar. I assume my car has around 450+ HP.

Mistasparkle: It was fun racing you. My wife screeeaaming all the way from 100MPH to 150 MPH when I finally put the breaks on. Who cares about that...It was fun. I get a lot of rice rockets trying to race me but I don't waste my gas however, I have a lot of respect for EVO cars after driving trev006's ex-EVO.

Happy Motoring and Happy Lotusing

Volunteer

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Cool Post... Car sounds wicked fun. Can you post some pics for us.