Random car and/or Lotus related pictures and videos

[DaveC72]

20 minutes ago, scotty435 said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPS6cZEFNrG/?utm_medium=share_sheet

Direct link to the video here

Outstanding.  

[Doug Ashley]

A few from C&M on Sunday

[mayevora]

[Bibs]

 

[Mysterae]

 

[Barrykearley]

Wow - so is that going in the emira 💪

[mg4lotus]

7.5 litres. That's got to be thirsty.

[yeller77]

Pretty good. But this is my kind of engineer 'splainin'. Punctuated with chugs of Red Bull. 👍

 

 

[Mysterae]

 Proper spade is a spade attitude! Like he says, that youtube vid has probably drawn too much attention to it and it's bold claims. 

[scotty435]

Nice brisk run in Lincolnshire this morning with MLOC.

[ChrisJ]

 

[mayevora]

How of my students see gear changing…..

[Mark Blanchard]

[mayevora]

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Just going back to that pot holes post. I was driving the family back down South in my Passat from a week’s holiday in York on Saturday. Having endured abject misery with people consistently crashing on the M1 Northbound a week before, I elected to return via the A1(M). The traffic was fine and progress steady at 70 mph. Suddenly there was an almighty bang as the right hand side of the car crashed into a pot hole and rebounded off its suspension bump stops. In well over 30 years of driving I have never experienced anything like it, particularly on a key UK trunk road. The same thing must be happening to vehicles on that carriageway every few seconds. Scary.

[Bibs]

[Mysterae]

This even has a little Lotus content, awesome stuff:

 

[Escape]

Very impressive! It's clear the bigger engine aren't as well suited for higher rpm, and the structural integrity becomes a problem. He could have cheated and fixed the engines to a frame, but this gives a much better idea if the forces at work.

I wonder if he deliberately chose a flat plane V8 (more Lotus content there!) or just because of ease of construction. I know I had to modify some pieces to make a cross plane V8 and had even more problems getting a suitable crank for a V12. Mind you, back then I had no idea about the difference between flat plane and cross plane, I was just trying to get each cilinder to move differently.

[Bibs]

[nello]

Haha just watched that Bibs and spotted - Harry's a fan 

[mg4lotus]

Secretly flicking the V's 😄

[nello]

Does she run? https://www.ebay.com/itm/1980-Ferrari-512-BB-/265216575172?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&fbclid=IwAR0n828TmY92mhn3YflUJdNz4ze_HpibRSKIMlvl_xKbZDhte9eFQo4vLWk

 

Edited July 7, 2021 by nello

[Mark Blanchard]

[pete]

Mini had its first car show today

[pete]

Lotus was there as well