Markindevon

Sounds good @DDubya, I did the Club Lotus Irish Spring weekend last week and a few of the local contingent will be coming over to the open garden too. We'll have an early n/a Evora, Turbo and V8 Esprits and something else, didn't catch what that will be. Should be a lot of cars there on the Saturday.

honestly, a bit of rain.. 😉 Yes, it seems that the SW group is really a combination of CL and LDC, the two clubs are combining efforts quite a bit this year (the CL Irish weekend which I'm doing in a couple of weeks was also communicated through LDC for example). There's a Wessex group drive out (from Salisbury way) to the Yeovil Fleet Air Arm museum on Sunday which I'm going to join - the weather is looking a bit better for those of you who don't like their cars to get wet! No worries, see you at some point soon I'm sure!

I haven't seen anything on here about this so I wondered if anyone... @exeterjeep, @mayevora, @EGTE, @MPx was planning to go along? As usual, I'll use it as an excuse to see my brother for an evening and it's not as far as some of the planned drives this year! Maybe see you at the Sportsmans Arms, Blackawton, Totnes TQ9 7DE?

Exchanged thumbs up, I was in the Evora. First one I’ve seen in the wild… looked fab.

Yes, I got some of their oyster dye a while ago - perfect match

The Janspeed Lotus sport back box on my S1 clearly says track use only on it… I also have a 3rd cat delete pipe and haven’t had any issues at MOT. i may have a noise issue at Castle Combe in May, though I’ve been assured it should be ok… we will see. for me, the system sounds fantastic, especially at higher revs and has lots of off throttle gurgles around town.

You’ve probably checked but on mine I found that the rubbish screen wash was due to the pipe being pinched by the access hatch. re routed it to avoid the catches etc and it’s now fine.

They don’t hang around do they…? … still seeing that 0% deal on i4 Emiras on facebook for the Exeter branch! Lets hope there’s another dealer / agent waiting in the wings for any of us who may eventually want to buy a new car! Real shame for Lloyd et al but he’s good and will find a new position pretty quickly I’m sure.

My n/a has a sticker in the drivers door that says 36 rear / 33.5 psi front. It’s wheels are 19/18 of course. its quite a bit higher for ‘fully loaded’, low 40s iirc but it only has me in it usually so I stick to those as hot pressures. don’t you have a sticker with recommended pressures?

I can't come along to this one (I'm running the Grizzly on the 17th and so need to fit in another long training run this weekend and, with Mother's day on Sunday, it will have to be on Sat.). Have fun, do report back on whether it's any good, and will see you somewhere soon (I may actually pop down to Plymouth for the Club Lotus / LDC meet on Thursday night)

Mine went through a milestone this week, running beautifully.

Hi Mike , @MPx, We were going to do this a couple of years back weren't we... and then I ended up not being able to go! I would definitely like to have a chance of finding my way around and would love to take you up on that offer - maybe even in both directions with me coming with you first and then vice versa? The car is going into SWL next week to try to get the bumper properly aligned and do a couple of other small things so I'll ask them for their view on the brakes etc while it's there. Actually @exeterjeep, the Matford 'Sanctioned' car show is indeed on the 25th too... I know where I'll be going!

I think @exeterjeep may have been mistaken about the clash? -it's back to the usual Saturday of the late May Bank Holiday (which is Monday 27th):

I've finally worked out that the CC track day won't this year clash with other family commitments so have signed up It will be my first track day and so any hints and tips will be appreciated - just hope the car passes the noise test! Any of the SW gang going? @MPx, @mayevora, @exeterjeep, @EGTE?

@MPx Hoping to join you at this, finally. The stars may have aligned and that day may be free of other commitments!