1981 Chassis Scraping Plastic Plough Lotus VIDEO OUT THERE:

Wow just read your thread. Wow!

Altering the torque curve is effectivly altering the fuel burn. More torque = more air and fuel or a better burn of these. So in my head having different length inlets will alter the fuel burn and might also cause lean or rich cylinders. You could I guess use it to your advantage to get a broader torque spread. I wouldn't chance it, but why not call Emerald (I seem to recall you using one?) and ask. They should know this much better than me

That is looking very cool

Back in the day they used carbs not fuel injection. Each barrel of the carb works independently to measure air flow and meter the fuel. So if you've got different trumpet lengths, and therefore different flow rates into each cylinder it doesn't alter the mixture, each carb will keep each cylinder right. Some of the cylinders will be making more power than others, which can make it feel a bit lumpy, but does spread the torque around as you mentioned.

The problem with fuel injection is that you're taking 1 throttle position reading, and applying the same amount of fuel to all the cylinders. So if you've got different air flows into the cylinders you'll have to compromise and end up with some cylinders slightly lean and some slightly rich. I've never used emerald, but if you've got an option to trim the fuel amount for each cylinder independently, and have 6 lambda or EGT probe fitted you could map for different intake lengths properly……...

Alternatively you could say that this is a road car, unlikely to spend hours at full throttle where a slight lean condition may cause damage and unimportant if it's 1 or 2 horse power down on where it could be, map it very slightly rich at wide open throttle, cut the trumpets and have it looking damn cool. I say bring on the hack saw.

I thought about this a bit more. I'm only using a single wideband lambda. Using 6 lambda would be tricky and pricey!

That is exactly why I threw my axle stand in the scrap bin,

Spend a few quid on some old railway sleepers and chopped them down to handy sized chocks.
They don't slip when stacked and are far far more handy than stands and safer!.



Oh not overkill but if your gona get a drive lift get a bright pink one......

Wow, not quite sure how i have missed this until now but well done that man, truly epic.

It makes me wish i hadnt sold the body off my S3 now, but the chassis will live on (just underneath a different body!)

I can imagine you did upset a few of the purist when you fitted the air suspension, it is something i have also considered doing, and its not like i've let the purists hold me back so far. Have you ever driven the car in anger to see how the suspension performs? How low can you get the car and still have her drive (not comfortably, just movement without rubbing?) If i go with air I'm pretty sure i could get my floor pans on the floor and still roll on 19's. What is the full travel of you suspension?

Keep up the work and updates,

Cheers

Hi,

I have the white Esprit also on air bags. Yes I also found out the hard way they don't like the Lotus messed with! it did get a bit stressful posting on the TLF but I stuck with it. do you have any issues with bump steer? what PSI you running in the bags? are you running the dampers on a hard setting?  hope to have mine on the road very soon and kind of shitting it taking it out for the first time in case it all goes horribly wrong!
Rob

great project,
I think if you own a car you can do the hell what you want with it, and if you keep the original parts so they could be refitted then that's a bonus

I'm with the originality freaks when it comes to rare pre-war sportscars, but often they are incapable of thinking outside the box and have no sense of humour & small willies