Georgia Fiero Club Forum
General Discussion and Announcements => General Discussion => Topic started by: TopNotch on September 26, 2014, 10:57:27 pm
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I saw this car on the way home from work. Do any of you know what it is? Is it a Lotus?
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Lotus Elise.
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When Chris would go out with us, we often joked about keeping up with a Lotus, or that the Lotus had come out to play with some real cars. I remember running behind him for a full day and while I was pushing hard in 3rd, I think he was still in 2nd. The engine had something like variable valve timing or that it only ran with some of the valves opening until a certain rpm, or something high tech. I know that once it got up to a certain rpm, the exhaust note made a big change. I think those things had around 200 hp and probably weighed about half as much s a Fiero.
The other joke was in line with the Fiero's Lotus-designed suspension. Well, there was actually some Lotus/Fiero hybrid in the group, but it wasn't the Fieros. Savet had one or two bolts from a Fiero that he was using in his Elise. They aren't creature-comfort cars. They are FUN cars,. For creature-comfort, go for a Tesla or Opel Speedster. They're almost the same car.
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There's a couple that pull one of these in a race trailer to the the scca south Carolina events and race it solo. It's setup for racing with hard top and hard seats. It was scary the first time they raced it....it was severely overpowered and he couldn't keep it under control. Working the course, i started to look for places to run away and wondered, if all else failed, could i jump high enough strait up to save myself and only suffer broken legs the next time he lost control and ran over someone! Later in the day, he got used to the setup and ran the hell out of the course.
The other half of the couple was more careful and ran solid runs, in control, the whole day. She had it figured out from the get-go.
They are really nice to look at. There's some really cool engineering going on under the hood, not to mention the suspension.