v8 elise

[turbo_chuff]

now radical have done an amazing job with the hayabusa v-8, how long before some bright spark puts it in the elise ?????? and offers a conversion?
they have the sound track on the radical site of the engine sounds gorgeous... well I shall wait with anticipation....


adam

[Davey S1]

Already been done (although only as a one off - so far) with the Exige GT.

Hopefully this will make it into a limited run production car for homologation purposes.

Other than that I dont think Lotus will go this way with the Elise / Egige for the road cars. Its not what they are really about.

[atom290]

Thought that was a V6?

[Scuffham]

I assume he is reffering to the Elise GT-1 from 97/98 FIA GT....

[turbo_chuff]

i'm sorry for not being clear i know they made 1 road car of the gt1

www.autosalon-singen.de/Katalogfahrzeug_RecordView_DetailAll.cfm?fahrzeugID=08666_0012_06_02&languageID=GB

i was actually refering to the radical v8 as in the sr8 new car

www.radicalextremesportscars.com/news_folder/sr8_roars/index.php

sorry,

[_topcat]

oh oh i want one....Now!!!

[steff]

Sinclaire's are working on a conversion aparently but it's going to be a bit pricey just under 18k fitted alegedly.

[maxf]

I think there is an engine commercially available - its certainly in a caterham I know of. I'll try and dig out a link - although a search on SELOC might yield.

[dannylt]

The 2.0 yamaha based RST-V8? Powertec will certainly be selling their RPA V8, but probably approaching 20k. Why bother though? You'd never get your money back. Why not just buy a Radical SR8 in the first place? An Elise with 350 bhp would require quite serious and expensive mods to do any justice to that sort of power anyway.