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Congratulations! I wonder why do they use GearFF Competition 75W140 and not Gear300 75W90 for the gearbox - I've always used the latter one in the gearboxes seeing the former as a more heavy duty stuff. Did you get any intelligence on this?

They also deliver quite promptly

Not sure if that's the cheapest, bit I've been buying mine from Camskill and had no issue with the price there

Castle Combe asks for 4,500rpm and not 3/4 of the redline as most of the others do - important for louder cars as it is normally noticeably quieter

Are they now selling Sport 350 exhaust to the owners of Sport/Cup 380, Sport 410, Cup 430 for additional £2,200? Brilliant move

After being charged >£200 for brake pads change (labour only, I supplied my own brake pads) I've concluded that it is better to buy my own trolley jack and torque wrench to do this stuff myself... 👨‍🔧👨‍🔧👨‍🔧

Very nice car, Christian! Let's not forget, red are faster from the factory...

I'm afraid we still have to do this bit ourselves. I find it tricky as well.

I bought Schroth Lotus harnesses and bar from SeriouslyLotus more than a year ago, but then decided to not use those until I get to sort out a hans device - somehow the idea of being pinned to the seat with helmet on my head started looking unappealing in case of any accident. Used 4-point harnesses in the other car before and was always very happy with very tangible improvement in the connection to the car and possibility to focus on working with pedals, steering wheel and gearbox (as opposed to holding on to them with the standard seatbelts). Just never thought about neck safety aspect of it.

Pretty much any functioning one will do

Should have picked red... It's the same as green, but red.

I have the same, but in red. It is heavy, and red.

If it is any bigger at all you will have leaner AFR (same applies for the same diameter and different airflow characteristics due to shape/filter), which in this car will most likely mean more power as it is very rich in stock form. That being said I am confident it is not a good idea to alter the AFR of the car in this way without means of monitoring the outcomes (i.e. WBO2 and logging software) and ability to make software changes (i.e. mapping software and cable).

Better than I've got to in November

Was promptly informed by Williams that they are on back order with Lotus until early May, reordered from SJ Sportscars. They seem to have them in stock.

Sounds very familiar! We have two wonderful Bengals at home and they are 100% confident that Amazon is the company that provides them with steady supply of boxes of all kind for them to get in. They are amazing creatures constantly providing endless joy and entertainment. 🐈🐈 Apologise for topic drift, just can't stay away from Bengal cat talk.

Bought one from Williams Parts Shop - will report on the outcomes.

@MrP_ what cat is that and why does the cat has to have a collar? Looks wonderful and just as curious with inspecting anything as our cats are.

I'd personally negotiate direct purchase of chargecooled TVS1900 (~£7,000), get Motec ECU with all the sensors (~£3,500) and install/map those myself or get help from someone smart (~£2,000). All in all not much different from Komotec business in terms of cost or power to start with, but much more exciting and with massive potential.

Thank you!

As simple as that - does anyone know of how to get hold of a glamorous accessory, bag to store the hardtop during the summer time? I've dumped the thing on the side in the garage last summer and it was well populated by spiders and littered by the flies - quite keen not to bother with these issues this year.

The same apart from being different models with vastly different mileage and most likely running different fuel, with further long list of minor differences How many dyno runs was your car taken through to "optimise for each car"? Ultimately, dynos are nowhere near +/-2-3% precision you're looking at at your graphs, especially when not done back to back. It is also not a massive problem as for sure both cars make very decent power outputs, which is probably what both of you wanted. Could these same cars make more power if mapped differently - probably yes, but you'd probably also not want it due to potential damage to the drivetrain. One degree of ignition advance at 6,000-7,000 rpm most likely means more than difference between the pieces of metal you were discussing above, yet there is on average no appetite to consider these matters here. Hopefully to make it clear - I have no interest in having any confrontation here and was initially only addressing the part of considerations regarding "this piece of kit may make more power and that piece of kit may make more torque"

I really did not say that anything is not good, only wanted to make sure we don't get into possible confusion over few hp difference observed between different cars and perhaps share some helpful facts on how the power and torque are related. Generally I think there is a bit of overly strong emphasis on hardware changes here and indifference towards mapping impact - while the latter is frequently absolutely critical to a safe and consistent power. Enjoy your cars gentlemen, whichever way you've made them to be.

Power is a product of torque by engine speed - to have higher power at given engine speed you must have higher torque at that engine speed. What is described above means different profile of torque, which I doubt to be that immediately driven by small differences in the exhaust without changing the ECU mapping (torque is affected massively by ignition advance and boost, which are both defined not by the exhaust unless the ECU have to pull the ignition due to knocks). All in all I'd treat these statements of "that's why it makes few more hp at different engine speed in different car at different point in time" as a pseudoscience.

I have this one fitted - http://www.hangar111.com/shop/lotus-exige-v6-s-replacement-parts/669-signature-towing-eye-assembly.html. Will only be able to check the dimensions later in the week though.