AutoX Report #2
April 29th, 2011
Its time for a new season of AutoX’s. Which means my new suspension needs to prove itself. And it did just that!
Read more...Diagonal Weight Jacking (aka Corner Balancing)
January 29th, 2011
With the replacement of my stock coil over shocks with spring perch and damping force adjustable shocks I am now able to fine tune the balance of the Europa. Specifically with a Vehicle Scale System, I can tune the weight distribution for an ideal blance with my actual weight in the car.
Read more...New Suspension
January 28th, 2011
If you’ll remember from my Autocross article, my Lotus needed some help in the chassis department.
Read more...AutoCross
September 28th, 2010
Getting tired of fixing the Lotus after only taking it to work and back I decided to have a little more fun between breakdowns. That’s when I attended a Golden Gate Lotus Club AutoCross event in Marina, CA.
Read more...Monterey Car Week Engines
August 17th, 2010
At this years, events, I found myself snapping pictures of engines this year. Had I put any thought into it a head of time, I would have gone out of my way to get important engines from each of the great marques. But I didn’t. So here’s a somewhat random collection of the expensive metal that was on the Moneterey Peninsula for the 2010 events.
Read more...Chin Spoiler
July 16th, 2010
You could say that Project Lotus is all about correcting as many of the faults (or at least shortcomings) in my S2 Europa as I can. ‘As I can’ is the key phrase there as sometimes I find out that this or that is the way it is because of this other thing that can’t really be changed. Or it means that sometimes I try to reengineer something only to tape it back together the way it was because I’ve made it worse.
Read more...Lotus Trouble Log:
July 15th, 2010
I finally feel like a true Lotus owner. It happened when I started working on my car more than I drove it.
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