Esprit factory active suspension development car

[pete]

Can other schematic with short description 

[LOTUSMAN33]

Some more active information.

Dave  

[silverfrost]

Holy cow, that electrical thing under the bonnet looks something that resembles the gubbins of an Enigma machine   So hope that  the suspension system on this car is sorted out and made to function again 

[910Esprit]

Well I see HP 87 hardware is still readily available on Ebay!   I wonder if that 'enigma' device is the DAQ as it appears to have 9 circuit boards, which may correlate to 18 channels?   Hopefully someone may have the original design docs in their garage.....      

[TAR]

I notice that an active suspension Excel is up for sale for £6K on LotusExcel.net http://www.lotusexcel.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6727&start=15

Would make a great sister car for the Esprit.

 

[franjipane]

Anyone got any pictures of the Excel one?  Couldn't see any in that thread.

[rajesprit]

What a fantastic Esprit that is! How is the project going?

[Stuart Monument]

Not really lifted a finger on her I'm afraid. New garage will be finished in a couple of weeks so the aim is to get her running and stopping over the winter. Will then get the clever people in to look at the computer side of things 

[robington]

I see it's up for sale on pistonheads now. Did you ever get it running Stuart?

[nello]

Gulp https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/lotus/esprit/1980-lotus-esprit-essex-turbo-car-no-1--the-factory-active-car/8718590

Says it needs recommissioning so perhaps not?! Someone called Andrew selling unless its a dealer?

I wish the seller well but at that money I would expect the work to have been done - even with the cars history.

[Stuart Monument]

Hi Guys, 

Didn’t even try. Got a email from Brian Angus sayin he just changed the fuel, fuel lines and battery and fired straight up before the factory out it on display. I wanted to get the belt done and then do it. 

With two young children and a business everything is just being wasted on me I’m affraid. My Elise was used once last year , Europa three times and the other not at all.   So it was time for the active and the electric Evora to go. 

[cbclotus]

HI Stuart .Hope it goes to a good home  Yes I agree you can have too many cars .lots to maintain .Best wishes ....Mike.Also not enough hours in. The day .......

[PhilW]

I really hope they sell and go to a good home.  Would be great to see the active car running again.   Just fabulous history.

[Steven162]

Anyone think £150k is too much?

[mdw]

I would have thought that Gaydon is probably the best and only place for this.   A bit of history but of limited appeal to most I would  have thought.

[Giniw]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lotus-Esprit-Essex-Turbo-Car-No-1-The-Factory-Active-Development-Car/292582198235

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPQ66fW9RAM

 

[esprit22]

How cool is that!! Sparky, book my car in to have that done to it please..

[Giniw]

This nice car is probably not super easy to maintain. I suspect there are not much spare parts!

[esprit22]

well, for 150k I would expect a life time warranty..,

[Giniw]

(thanks to the moderator who did the merge and sorry I missed the topic in the first place, actually I was almost sure I had seen a reference about this active suspension Esprit in the signature of someone here!)

@phil flash > this thread might be of some interest to you

[esprit22]

Thanks, never knew about it, interesting stuff.