My Lotus Esprit S3 on Air and V8 power

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So you're saying a front-biased car with wide tires in the rear and normal width tires up front should handle better than a rear-biased car with a similar stagger?

In regards to front end grip, yes.

[hambler]

As someone who grew up around a lot of very original Lotus's, this is awesome! Can't wait to see the final product

[Beemernut]

So you're saying a front-biased car with wide tires in the rear and normal width tires up front should handle better than a rear-biased car with a similar stagger?

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Man I'm way too excited about this car. Quick question: how's the handling with that much stagger, I think I saw 315 in back and 205 in front? I'm planning to do 315s in the back of my future wide-flare turbo e28 and 225s in the front but I don't want to be mustanging into crowds or anything lol.

Really depends on the weight distribution for front end grip, since your e28 has a front engine it should be good with grip. Obviously adding a stickier compound will help. The Murcielago comes with 245 front, 335 rear and ALL of the weight is in the back, so it has a massive tendency to understeer. I swapped to an r-compound tire and bumped the front to 255 for a massive change in front end grip. (even worse is the Countach with 205 front and 345 rear, lol).

[Beemernut]

Man I'm way too excited about this car. Quick question: how's the handling with that much stagger, I think I saw 315 in back and 205 in front? I'm planning to do 315s in the back of my future wide-flare turbo e28 and 225s in the front but I don't want to be mustanging into crowds or anything lol.

[DawsonLiri]

I'm so glad this car/thread is alive!

Keep us posted some more (well, more then twice every 2 years )

[Miroteknik]

Love to see this come back! Can't wait to see what you do with it.

[gnmzl]

Sooooo happy this is still getting work done to! This mod is amazing! Can't wait for more updates

[V8-ESPRITS3]

Wow has been a long time maybe 2 years since I last done any work on the Lotus.

A few days ago I cut the rear body off to make a hinged clam like on the F40.

Today I finished the rear frame to support the rear bumper, valance and lower rear quarters.

I also cut out some more inner body work, it was tough plucking up the courage to sink the disk cutter into the body to start with but glad I did it!

Lot of work still to do but also a little less to do....LOL

The rear top body just lifts up with tailgate now and is so nice to work on.

I am getting too old to climb over the back and into the hatch.

[SoapHero]

Fucking nice esprit!

[OSSHWA]

Dax Rush but I do have to sell it! the wife has gone mental!

I had to Google what a Dax Rush was. Is it essentially just a Super-7 replica? Looks damn near identical.

[V8-ESPRITS3]

Dax Rush but I do have to sell it! the wife has gone mental!

[lamsv]

So... Um... What new car did you buy?

[V8-ESPRITS3]

very possible going to look into trying some other fans in the near future.

[delvin]

What is the cfm rating on those fans? If possible an oem fan setup from something fwd v6. I'm not sure if you can find one but the fans in a ford mondeo v6 move something like 3400cfm.

Love the car