New Sport Elise owner saying hi

[will_968]

I'm new to these parts of PH, so hello.

I am pleased to say that as of last week I am now the proud owner of a Sport Elise. It's not one of the original Autobytel cars, but was built by Cadena GTC from the spare chassis and parts they carried for their Britcar campaign in 2004. The car has had a few upgrades since it's build, including a 1.9 EVO2 engine from Scholar and a recently fitted Quaife sequential 'box with a flatshifter.

I live in Hong Kong and the car is just across the boarder in China in a city called Zhuhai, where I will race it in the 2 litre class of their Roadsport Championship. The car should be competitive, as it's a class it has won a few times before, but there is now a couple of supercharged bike engined 7s and three K20A FD2 Ariel Atoms all racing too which weren't there last time it won.

I'm a Lotus newbie, so still learning what's what. I'm paying lots of attention to that white time attack car and seeing what I can learn about aero. And trying to cut through the fear-mongering about the K-series.

Where do Lotus Racers hang out? Lotus on track looks very UK specific and only seems to have forums to discuss their race series with no technical forum. Any other recommendations?

[Esprit]

Ooh welcome in and post up some pics!

I dream of one day owning a MS Elise or a replica thereof!

[will_968]

Here's a few pics of it in the Macau GP last year:

[Exige77]

Have a look on Seloc.

Ex77

[Scuffers]

feel free to ask questions, there are a few of us that have run these cars for more than a few years.

[will_968]

Few pics from practice today, getting ready for my first race in the car next weekend.









Sorry pics aren't great quality. They were taken on a phone, but thought I'd share anyway. Should get better ones next weekend when we have a professional photographer on site.