has this just fallen off my car...???

[poptosis]

Very strange thing happened today. Wizzing down a country lane and heard a noise like something falling off the car or as if i had driven over something metalic. Something made me go back and see what it was.

In the middle of the road I found a 6 cm x 3 cm brass plaque with spot welding marks at each corner. It is engraved with the following:

Manufactured by CLF TECH LTD 11/03 LOTAC05108

Is this off my car or is it just a random piece of metal in the road
? Bit of a coincedence if it isnt bearing in mind date of manufacture is the same as my car.

Who are CLF Tech?
Confused

[ministrone]

A quick google seems to suggest its fallen from your exhaust

www.clftechnologies.com/

[poptosis]

indeed, they seem to do work for aston too.

[shangani]

Look on the bright side poptosis - your car is now lighter. Say 70g for a brass plate - that makes your power to weight ratio at least 0.01% better. All that and it didn't cost you a bean.

[poptosis]

just taken it for another spin, you wouldnt beleive the improvement in handling, 0-60 time is now well below 5 seconds, much freer reving and it sounds fantastic

[tanman]

shangani said:

Look on the bright side poptosis - your car is now lighter. Say 70g for a brass plate - that makes your power to weight ratio at least 0.01% better. All that and it didn't cost you a bean.

Are you trying to tell us something shangani?

[tanman]

shangani said:

Look on the bright side poptosis - your car is now lighter. Say 70g for a brass plate - that makes your power to weight ratio at least 0.01% better. All that and it didn't cost you a bean.

[cej]

shangani said:

Look on the bright side poptosis - your car is now lighter. Say 70g for a brass plate - that makes your power to weight ratio at least 0.01% better. All that and it didn't cost you a bean.

You might as well pull the entire exhaust off and save even more weight

[shangani]

Sorry guys - pistonheads was doing strange things yesterday. I tried to post it, but it kept giving me error messages. Now I see the same thing got posted 3 times. This is the first time it has loaded up since then. Anyway, I deleted the offending triple post.

Poptosis - glad to hear that you have indeed benefitted from the thundering performance gains.

>> Edited by shangani on Tuesday 27th December 12:12

[Buster44]

CLF are Magnex Exhausts who made the sports Exhaust for Lotus.

This plate is normally in the centre of the silencer.

I hope the rest of your exhaust is welded better