240sx vs. Lotus Elise

[Decker]

So I was on my way home from work this evening and noticed an Elise at a stop light about to turn left onto the road I was on. I thought to myself, "Ah cool! Never messed around with one of those. Maybe he'll play ..."

So I got in the right hand lane and slowed down a bit to let him catch up. After a few lights of not seeing him, I thought he might have turned or wasn't interested in street fun. About a mile later I hear VROOOOOM! as he flew past me on the left. I dropped into 4th and jumped on his tail. Eventually we got to a red light with nothing but open road ahead. I couldn't pull up next to him b/c another car was there, so I settled for being right behind him.

Right before the light turned green I hear him rev to around 2500-3000. I thought, "Holy shit this guy is really gonna launch?!?" Anyways, light turns green and he takes off. Unfortunately, I still have an open diff and completely worn tires ... so when I floored it, I spun through 1st, 2nd, and most of 3rd. Regardless, I was still skating right on his ass. I got into the right lane, threw it into 4th gear and blasted right by him putting an instant train car on him.

We both got to a stop light and he rolled down his window and in a British accent asked, "What the hell do you got in that thing? That's really cool!" I told him it was the motor from a Toyota Supra and he kinda looked at me blankly. I laughed and said "You're car is awesome man. You'd totally destroy me in the mountains." He smiled, gave me a wave then drove away.

Any chance I get to play with someone on the streets makes me happy. Thank you sir for brightening my somewhat depressing day :)

[ayalacoming]

haha sweet

[WTS3]

nice, i love lotus. i didn't know you were supra-powered...1j or 2jz?

[~The_Duke~]

Nice Decker lol

How bad did you pull on him?

[TopSecret240]

Nice Decker lol

How bad did you pull on him?
By a few busses I would guess.
Nice kill Decker!:goodjob:

[2tone]

LOL nice kill decker

[~The_Duke~]

By a few busses I would guess.
Nice kill Decker!:goodjob:

That would be my guess to, but I am curious because those lotus have one hell of a power to weight ratio going on.

[babowc]

lol
he pulled on him by trains, man.

Not buses. I'd expect that!
That thing sounded sick @ Cordele.

[Sir_Alexander_Slideways]

i know some english people with a yellow exige! (was it yellow?)
lol us brits have a way of finding eachother >: D

[hellfire]

Haha, awesome.

Tyler

[Decker]

nice, i love lotus. i didn't know you were supra-powered...1j or 2jz?

2jz


i know some english people with a yellow exige! (was it yellow?)
lol us brits have a way of finding eachother >: D

nope. It was like a forest green.

[Sir_Alexander_Slideways]

awh man i thought i was gonna have somehtign to talk about T.T :P any of you see a forest green (british raceing green ftw) '92 corvette around the place watch out.. tis my dad and its supercharged.. dangerous :D!

[Decker]

awh man i thought i was gonna have somehtign to talk about T.T :P any of you see a forest green (british raceing green ftw) '92 corvette around the place watch out.. tis my dad and its supercharged.. dangerous :D!

ask him if he wants to meet up with me sometime ;)

[bigs]

Reps for you, I enjoyed reading that lol.

[JJ Alfano]

2jz no shit

[Sir_Alexander_Slideways]

he might, usually only races on the strip though >.< plus he had to replace a head gasket AGAIN so its out of commision :P ill let him know though, hes the youngest 40...somethign year old you would ever meet haha

[de3zy]

race the vette... do it! :cheers:

[Decker]

Awesome. I'd love to do some runs and shoot the shit with him. Hell ... there are some drag events coming up. Maybe we could roll down together.

[s14.5gonewide]

my buddy has a exige type s(supercharged. with a shit ton of bolt ons. standalone. meth. air to water. and makes really good numbers. its power to weight makes it like a 450whp car.
they are defiantly fun cars to play with. wait till u play with one in the mountains. heck get to take one in the back roads. shit is on rails.
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k285/s145gonewide/rb26vert/cars013.jpg
old intercooler setup.

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k285/s145gonewide/rb26vert/cars009.jpghttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k285/s145gonewide/rb26vert/cars011.jpg

[Decker]

^ holy shit! 450whp on that light of a chassis ... that's sick!

[Sir_Alexander_Slideways]

lol remind me tomoro to ask my dad, and the estimated drag events, my dad loves drag raceing lol. it gets about.. 450-550 ish horsies, he had it dynod at 480 but that was with bad plugs and almost every hose and pipe leaking lol!! ill see if i can find pics..

[s14.5gonewide]

^ holy shit! 450whp on that light of a chassis ... that's sick!

it didnt make 450whp but its power to weight ratio puts it right at 450whp.
and its shit ton fast. deffantly a midship setup with power thru the power band is amazing.

llook up turbo exigue. at 350whp they run high 11.

[Decker]

it didnt make 450whp but its power to weight ratio puts it right at 450whp.
and its shit ton fast. deffantly a midship setup with power thru the power band is amazing.

llook up turbo exigue. at 350whp they run high 11.

that's pretty badass

[youngster603]

i would love to drive a car like that exige through the mountains. that has to be fun as hell.

[Sir_Alexander_Slideways]

aha found some pics, anything you guys wanna see in particular, dads got every inch covered.. lol (in nothing other than pics!!)

[~The_Duke~]

my buddy has a exige type s(supercharged. with a shit ton of bolt ons. standalone. meth. air to water. and makes really good numbers. its power to weight makes it like a 450whp car.
they are defiantly fun cars to play with. wait till u play with one in the mountains. heck get to take one in the back roads. shit is on rails.
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k285/s145gonewide/rb26vert/cars013.jpg
old intercooler setup.

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k285/s145gonewide/rb26vert/cars009.jpghttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k285/s145gonewide/rb26vert/cars011.jpg

I have seen this car or a car like it somewhere...

Does he run it on auto x?

[Sir_Alexander_Slideways]

http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g181/lemsurf/?action=view&current=DSC_00802.jpg
http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g181/lemsurf/?action=view&current=HeadsAftersmall.jpg
http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g181/lemsurf/?action=view&current=DSC_0130.jpg
http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g181/lemsurf/?action=view&current=DSC_0134.jpg
http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g181/lemsurf/?action=view&current=DSC_0803.jpg
(best engine one i can find T.T)

best ones i can find atm >.< yay tenth post!

[1941]

god that sounds like some fun there.. nice kill

[s14.5gonewide]

na its just a street car in south carolina.

[Leroy457]

That was a good read. reps. nice vette lemon, reps for you to.

[Sir_Alexander_Slideways]

omfg first reps! lol :) i guess its a good thing cuz reps sound good in my half asleep state

[zcrew]

have you and justin (s2000) gone for a run?

[youngster603]

i don't think justin has gotten his car back yet.

[Decker]

i don't think justin has gotten his car back yet.

x2

[seksehowy]

decker your car is awesome.

[Decker]

decker your car is awesome.

thanks buddy

[I RON DON KEY]

nice kill, it sounded hella fun.

[carlova78]

that guys rich

[Memme]

Yeah, that's pretty much my dream car right there. Maybe not the fastest on the straights, but put it in the twisties, and :wave:

I love those damn cars, there's a few of them floating around Alpharetta/Roswell that I've ran across.

Good kill... can't say I'm surprised though, assuming it was the 190hp Toyota Celica engine vs. the 2jz... a modified 2jz that is. Even the ~900?lb advantage isn't going to help the Lotus there. Fun kill story. :goodjob:

[Cool Cat Racing]

The Elises aren't fast by any means in a straight line. We've added superchargers to quite a few of them and it solves this little problem. lol Most of the Elises also only had an open diff so they spin a good bit with the superchargers in first. Our supercharged 04 can just about keep up with my bike from a light and pulls me slightly from an 80 roll. We just got done putting a BWR supercharger on a blue 05 Elise from Cobb county so if you see a short woman behind the wheel its probably that car, though I doubt she will run anyone, she's an attorney. lol

[Blake]

2j ftw

[DeadDoc]

The Elises aren't fast by any means in a straight line. We've added superchargers to quite a few of them and it solves this little problem. lol Most of the Elises also only had an open diff so they spin a good bit with the superchargers in first. Our supercharged 04 can just about keep up with my bike from a light and pulls me slightly from an 80 roll. We just got done putting a BWR supercharger on a blue 05 Elise from Cobb county so if you see a short woman behind the wheel its probably that car, though I doubt she will run anyone, she's an attorney. lol

nice... id rather an Esprit but its a bit heavier.... though with a V8TT it does have a bit more power..

[Volcom240sx]

badass..

[Memme]

Open diff on a car built to run like it's on rails???! :screwy::toung2::thinking:

That makes NO GODDAMNED SENSE...

Wow. That's the first thing I'd fix... and yeah, I'm pretty sure I've seen that lady, I remember thinking, "OMG, it's a lady..." and she was olderish... as I recall sort of blondey-gray?

[MOOREOFSTEPHEN]

everyones talking about beating hondas and shit decker is like yeah just beat a lotus in 2nd gear lol

[djQ]

sounds like a fun race

[Cool Cat Racing]

The lady I'm talking about is maybe in her early 30's. She's a few months preggers too. Foreverbroke, when you drive one you won't notice or miss the LSD. Its simply not as necessary when 60% of the weight is on the tires and more shifts to it as you hit the gas. The car rotates and neutral slides just fine without it, both directions. Lotus didn't leave it out to be cheap, it simply isn't necessary. With the addition of a supercharger the slower speed corners on an autox causes a lot of wheel spin which is why I'm putting a helical in ours later this month.

[Memme]

Huh... well that's good anyway.

When I think of open diff, it's "highly likely to lose your shit around a corner and end up either in the ditch or facing the wrong way in traffic", especially in rain... Which happened a few times in the slick ass parking lot of the apartment I used to live in... I did it on purpose mostly, just for fun because that parking lot was stupid slick in the rain... like someone waxed it for bowling, and then poured liquid detergent and oil on it for good measure... :goodjob:

Preggers huh... Is she hot? Hahah... I are sick bastard... :p

Now, being that this are a MR layout, do you see the problems with snap oversteer like in an MR2, or has Lotus designed a superior car in that aspect as well?

[Cool Cat Racing]

If you don't know what to do it will swap ends with you pretty easy. One of our guys was running it at RA and looped it going into turn 1 and it just went backwards up the hill. The car tends to understeer until you learn to drive it properly so usually you'll just hit front first if you crash. Once you learn the proper way to drive it you can do things that quick physics in your head says shouldn't be possible. I've never ran an MR2 hard on the track but a buddy of mine spins his all the time in TT, I think much of that is driver error though. lol As for her being preggers, you can't get pregnant again till that one pops out. lol