Knockhill footage- Some Lotus content.

Bada Bing! · Post by **Bada Bing!** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:36 pm

Andy G wrote:S2000

Says it all really.....

Has anyone put and S2000 engine in an Elise???

What does it say?

AFAIK, you can't mount the engine in an Elise because it's longitudinally mounted. Shame though cos it's a peach.

Bada Bing! · Post by **Bada Bing!** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:45 pm

robin wrote:Unusual crash - it didn't seem to me as though he was going that fast - does anyone actually know what happened?

Anyway, I liked the manouevre up the back straight

Poor bloke - S2000 - they always end up in the armco at the 'ring and KH it would seem ...

Cheers,
Robin

It's how most S2K's meet their doom - lift off oversteer. They're quite long and heavy cars (1240kg), and usually they have a very short angle at which they can no longer be retrieved from a slide gracefully if at all. I saw the crash developing the minute the rears went light - he's obviously only had the car a short time, or never driven it in anger.

Can't say I know him. I'll ask around and see if anyone on the S2K board does.

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:47 pm

Bada Bing! wrote:
Andy G wrote: Has anyone put and S2000 engine in an Elise???
AFAIK, you can't mount the engine in an Elise because it's longitudinally mounted. Shame though cos it's a peach.

Seen one in a Caterfield...

Bada Bing! · Post by **Bada Bing!** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:54 pm

CTR - I was trying to figure out what it was from the reflection in the window from the dash.

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:17 am

alicrozier wrote:
Bada Bing! wrote:
Andy G wrote: Has anyone put and S2000 engine in an Elise???
AFAIK, you can't mount the engine in an Elise because it's longitudinally mounted. Shame though cos it's a peach.
Seen one in a Caterfield...

Ali, must've been a W***field (sorry, can't say it in full

), AFAIK only 1 Caterham has had an S2k lump fitted - apparently the engine is very high, needing a bonnet bulge, plus effin' heavy (ie much more than a K)

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:13 am

rossybee wrote:
alicrozier wrote:
Bada Bing! wrote: AFAIK, you can't mount the engine in an Elise because it's longitudinally mounted. Shame though cos it's a peach.
Seen one in a Caterfield...
Ali, must've been a W***field (sorry, can't say it in full ), AFAIK only 1 Caterham has had an S2k lump fitted - apparently the engine is very high, needing a bonnet bulge, plus effin' heavy (ie much more than a K)

Blink did a Westy:
http://www.blinkmotorsport.com/cgi-bin/site.pl?honda

...and were working on a Cat:
http://www.blinkmotorsport.com/cgi-bin/site.pl?news

Not sure if it was ever finished...

Bada Bing! · Post by **Bada Bing!** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:47 pm

Well it's taken a bit of digging on the S2K forum (no one knew him, but one guy I know was at the event), but here we go:

The man a few of you would like to have a chat with. Apparently he can regularly be seen outside busy kebab shops after pub closing time in Edinburgh, offering girls a lift home in his S2K (parked on the pavement beside them) for sexual favours. And no I am not joking!

tut · Post by **tut** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:18 pm

Was just speaking to Gaz again last night. He is an Ailine Pilot for KLM, but has been on sick leave for 21 months now due to slipping on a piece of lego on the stairs (ps hope that he does not check out the Oman photos thread..........)

He bought a 2.4 Honda engine back from the States a while back, along with a Jackson S/C kit and a Hondata ECU. Phoenix Engineering is putting it all together in his '98 S1, and is expecting around 310hp and 340 ft/lbs tq.

tut

tut · Post by **tut** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:21 pm

He definately has one of those smackable faces........

tut

Bada Bing! · Post by **Bada Bing!** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:53 pm

His face reminds me of Graeme from MMC.

Digital · Post by **Digital** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:02 pm

I met this guy at the beginners trackday session last July, he seemed nice enough but a bit, erm, highly strung...

He didn't seem to really know what he was doing on track, he spun several times during the evening, including once while we were just doing some not especially fast laps behind one of the instructors. He seemed a bit out of his depth to be honest, most people starting trackdays tend to be failry humble and break themselves in gently, but he just seemed to have no concept of where his limits (I say his, not the car's) were

He wasn't especially willing to move over to let faster cars past, so that video looks familiar

jj · Post by jj » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:14 pm

loving 80`s man on the right with the jumper and brick-mobile combo !

Bada Bing! · Post by **Bada Bing!** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:30 pm

Yep, I think that green landy is some sort of time machine.