I dont do this very often but my heart was pounding and I just couldnt resist. This guy in my community has a yellow Lotus Elise. Just as I exit my community there's 1.5 miles of 2 lane 2 way back road. There was a jeep behind me, and he was behind it.

As soon as we hit the road he took off into the opposing lane to blow past the jeep... and me... but guess what... I was sitting right in my sweet spot in 3rd and floored it. He droped behind me and by the time we hit the stop sign at the end of the stretch he was at least 4 car lengths behind. My wife said maybe he wasn't trying but at the stop sign he started reving his engine.

We both made lefts and he was on my butt... so I took off again lost traction in second but from there on about a mile till the light I pulled about 3-4 lengths again. Now I knew he wanted to play so I took off and really demolished him at about a 3 mile length to the next light. To the right was a deserted back road I hit my turn signal and made the turn... He went straight

I felt good when I beat a new Civic SI, and the RSX... but wow man how he must have felt 50K$ against my 1985 Rx-7 PLAYED . I had no Idea what a fresh blowthrough SP 12A on 10psi boost would crank out. Never been to the track or DYNO but I'm going soon...

 

HOO RAY for the 1st gens!!!

 

12A.... pshaw

 

good kill!!! especially for a 12A!! gotta love the underestimated first gens!!!

 

Thanks rotorican!

When you have got 3 12A's around doesnt make sense to buy a 13B.

This was my 1st time rebuilding a rotary, 1st time building a blow through with Rotary Shacks guidance, and 1st time driving a turbo car so it has definately been a learning experience and a great one.

I plan on getting another FB and doing a complete TII swap on it... this carb stuff just aint cutting it....

 

How much boost do you run?

 

Awesome kill. I love 12A turbo setups.

 

10 pounds of boost

I ported the wastegate and dual scroll. Stock s4 no creep at all.

 

eh they look cool but isnt it just a celica engine on a nicer chasis and a big price tag? not too surprising

 

Trying one on a road course is something completely different:

https://www.rx7club.com/rx-7-audio-visual-lounge-143/pro-driver-elise-track-494171/

 

Nice.

 

killing a lotus on the straights is no big deal. beating it in the corners... that's a different story. they remind of stock fd's in that respect.

 

yeah 98 type RS (Adam) had an elise (117R ?) when it first came out it had a toyota motor that had been rewqorked by lotus, quite the little screamer and it basically was a gokart with a fancy roll cage (body) it handled beter than anything i had driven at that point (straight from the factory).

good kill though as they are not slow, and 0~100 are actaully quite quick.

kenn

 

yeah, didn't mean to diminish the kill. good accomplishment

i just respect lotus a lot. to me, they are like the luxury division of mazda. the major emphasis is handling, which to me is a more difficult engineering problem than power. respect.

 

Elise (with the celica engine) runs

13.1 quarter mile

0-60 in 4.9 seconds

0-100 in 12.6 seconds.

It's not too slow.

 

whats a blow through?

 

Carb setup for turbo.

 

Here's pics of my build

http://rx7learner.pictiger.com/images

 

My hats off to you.

 

I don't condone street racing, but ya know, I like this kill.

 

The elise is an autocross monster...try doing some laps in an scca event to really find out what kind of skills you have...

nice setup