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:Exige:
10-09-2004, 07:39 AM
I said a month or so ago that my cousin was getting an Exige .. well we went to pick it up today and its beautiful. Ive done the Egg Nog Challenge for him at his request :D. Heres some stuff about the car :

Super sports Exhaust (around 104Db!)
190bhp Upgrade
Carbon Fibre Airbox
Carbon Fibre interior trims (sills and foot panels etc)
Leather Standard Seats (might be getting the Alacantara sports seats with 4 point harnesses)
Graphite Lightweight Wheels

Heres some pictures ..

McLareN
10-09-2004, 07:46 AM
Your cousin is a lucky guy :).

Rockefella
10-09-2004, 07:53 AM
I envy you're cousin :cool:

PerfAdv
10-09-2004, 08:00 AM
Nice race car. How many variants of the Elise are there? Is this still the shape selling in Europe? The US model looks different(headlights mainly).

:Exige:
10-09-2004, 08:24 AM
This is the Series 1. The series thats on sale now is Series 2 which looks identical in the US as it is in Europe. The Exige is a different car from the Elise .. apart from the engine which only develops more power. 0-60 in the S1 Exige is 4.5s wheras 0-60 in the new Exige is 5.2s. This is because the S1 weighs 750kg and the S2 weighs around 900kg. The S2 is more luxury than the S1 which pretty much goes against its race car purpose. Also the Toyota engine in the S2 is heavier than the K series in the S1 (which also sounds better than the 189bhp Toyota block). Personally I think the S1 looks better but its a matter of opinion. We'll probably make a couple of videos just so you can see and hear it in motion.

Because Lotus is taking their cars to America the newer cars are starting to get less raw and heavier thus slower. Theres loads of variants .. to name a few .. 111s , 111r, 190, 160, 120, Type 49 and many more. The Exige isnt a variant as such because it has some substantial modifications.

McLareN
10-09-2004, 08:35 AM
Nice race car. How many variants of the Elise are there? Is this still the shape selling in Europe? The US model looks different(headlights mainly).

M8 this is an Exige not an Elise.

PerfAdv
10-09-2004, 08:47 AM
This is the Series 1. The series thats on sale now is Series 2 which looks identical in the US as it is in Europe. The Exige is a different car from the Elise ...

Thanks for that informative post. Looks wise, I agree the S1 has a more integrated and pleasing shape. I've even read some bad stuff about the Toyota engine, there have been reports of failures caused by high RPM running. Very strange for a Toyota, especially one co-developed with Yamaha. Unfortunately and unavoidably cars get heavier for the States. :( Luxury or safety are difficult to apply in a LWS.

Love to hear and see the S1 in action!

Mustang
10-09-2004, 09:28 AM
Nice car :)

Thats not the new Exige is it ?

im pretty sure that it isnt

still nice car mate :)

:Exige:
10-09-2004, 09:29 AM
The Toyota engines are less reliable at high revs and when driven fast but theyre better for going around town (but if you want something to go round town in why dont you get a Prius or something :D) Theyre not easy cars to drive at all. We got stuck in traffic and in stop start conditions its near impossible to stop the K series clunking out .. its not made for conditions like that. Its also vey hard to get it started, we spent 5 minutes in a McDonalds car park trying to start the thing. Its by no means easy to drive at all.

Edit : Mustang .. when did I say it was a new one? I said it was an S1 :rolleyes:

Coventrysucks
10-09-2004, 09:36 AM
The Exige is a different car from the Elise

That is a bit misleading as they are basically the same car, just that the Exige is much more "hardcore" having different chassis and suspension tweaks, and the aero kit actually helps, rather than just being an aesthetic appendage.

The S1 Exige was substansially more powerful than the basic Elise, 177bhp compared to 118, but there was the Elise Sport 190, which unsurprisingly had 190bhp.

The S2 Exige has the same 189bhp Toyota engine as the 111R, the 'base' S2 Elise in the USA.

:Exige:
10-09-2004, 10:17 AM
The Sport 190 was slower around a track but were lighter making it faster in a straight line. It didnt have the looks or the sound though .. it also had a scary price tag.

cuntukimushroom
10-09-2004, 10:29 AM
thats the kinda lotus i want

:Exige:
10-09-2004, 12:27 PM
thats the kinda lotus i want

Theyre scary cars .. if you find a TVR scary you wont last a minute in this! But i presume your a good driver from what you know about cars. It requires constant clutch control and loads of attention to keep the car from clunking out because the idle speed is very low. My cousin started off owning a Peugeot 205 Diesel then a Ford Ka then a Ford Escort then a MK2 Toyota MR2 G-limited then an MR2 Turbo with over 300bhp then this. Lol - his wife drives a Citreon Picasso and his other car is a Peugeot 406 (because he needs something with a bit more space for work) :cool: Thats the sort of thing a devotion to cars leads you to I suppose .. hope the same happens to me (ill probably end out living in an Elise :D). The sound it makes is amazing though .. sounds like an Enzo when it accelerated from 30 to 70 and sounds like a 70s Lemans car the rest of the way. Its awesome.

Mustang
10-09-2004, 12:54 PM
Edit : Mustang .. when did I say it was a new one? I said it was an S1 :rolleyes:

Oops didnt notice that anywhere :p

*note to self* read more carefully :p

:Exige:
10-09-2004, 01:19 PM
the aero kit actually helps, rather than just being an aesthetic appendage.

Thought Id come back to this. Ill take some pics of the front and the bonnet vents. The whole front clamshell is basically radiator .. you can see the radiator pressed against the meshing of the front vents .. its great. The Motorsport Elise (the real motorsport elise not the ones that have had an aftermarket kit fitted) had all the vents opened to cool the brakes etc because it needed it because it was much rawer than the Exige. But the MS Elise also only had 1 seat and was barely road legal .. it was just over a cm off the ground. Theyre only used in Motorsport now .. the only road legal ones are the 2 Green press ones and Elises with a Motorsport bodykit.

Coventrysucks
10-09-2004, 04:47 PM
I hope he keeps a fire extinguisher handy...

16-4Veyron
10-09-2004, 06:00 PM
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: WOW
Very nice car, I am green with envy. :cool:

:Exige:
10-10-2004, 09:16 AM
I hope he keeps a fire extinguisher handy...

Whats that meant to mean? K series dont set alight .. VHPDs do though. The crap about the K series setting alight was made up by some people who drove an Exige and found the cockpit got hot .. its an Exige not a bloody Bentley Continental with Monster aircon that harnesses the power only gale force winds have :p If they wanted a luxury car they shouldve got an Audi or something.

Turbo Puma
10-15-2004, 07:10 AM
M8 this is an Exige not an Elise.

Well, the Exige is basically a Coupe version of the Elise...

Coventrysucks
10-15-2004, 09:43 AM
Whats that meant to mean? K series dont set alight

I've seen quite a few motorsport Exiges aflame.

It was a few years ago now though, so I can't remember the links etc.

Carmaniac
02-06-2005, 09:21 PM
How much does that thing cost? I have never seen even 1 Citroen, Peugeot, TVR, Lotus, or anything like that!!! :(

johnnynumfiv
02-07-2005, 12:58 PM
they sell lotus' in the us, not really popular, but they dont sell citroen and tvr's in the usa, they used to sell peugot's but not anymore( all i've ever seen is an old station wagon).

clutch-monkey
02-07-2005, 05:14 PM
i thought the k series had a rover engine, supposedly inferior to the toyota engine?
anyway out of curiosity is it possible to put something like an s2000 engine into a lotus?

IBrake4Rainbows
02-07-2005, 05:52 PM
methinks it would be possible, and it's not a bad idea, suits the nature of the car a little better, but the VVT-i engine from Toyota also gets more power at higher revs, only it's at 8,000 Rpm, rather than 9,000, that it redlines.

Matra et Alpine
02-07-2005, 05:55 PM
i thought the k series had a rover engine, supposedly inferior to the toyota engine?
Well the K-series engine is lighter and gives 180bhp in stock and the Toyota 190. So not a lot in it.
The issue was the emissions which the Toyota engine already was able to pass for the US.

anyway out of curiosity is it possible to put something like an s2000 engine into a lotus?
Why ?
The error in squezing engines into chassis is it affects the handling and can be VERY difficult ( sometimes impossibel ) to dial it back in.
Why not jsut tune up the K-series or Toyota engine. You can get 250 from either :)

ZeTurbo
02-08-2005, 09:07 AM
nice one dude.

i must admit i did not believe you at first (couzin getting elise... hmm sounded fishy) , you have now gone seriusly up in my book.

wish u lots of hardcore track days in that beast.

i am looking foerward to those videos.

:Exige:
02-08-2005, 09:23 AM
Well people regularly put VTECs in Exiges .. faster than the K. They also put Audi 1.8s in them.

DieselRacer
02-08-2005, 12:47 PM
You can see more pictures of the car at...

www.wright-it.com/exige

Alas, I sold the car after only a few months however :( I just didn't feel the car was right, plus there were other circumstances involved which I won't go into here.

I'm definately thinking of getting another MR2 in the Autumn next year... I'm considering getting a revision 5 with a BEAMS engine, which apparently blows the socks off a regular MR2 turbo. My old MR2 tubby had 300bhp, and was capable of beating even the Exige, so fingers crossed I'll have a fast car again soon. I'm getting fed up drving about in a 406 diesel :(

Manik
02-08-2005, 03:43 PM
it's a nice car and lotus did i nice job on it. Did you're cousin let you drive it? that would be such a thrill

DieselRacer
02-08-2005, 03:46 PM
it's a nice car and lotus did i nice job on it. Did you're cousin let you drive it? that would be such a thrill

No, his cousin didn't let him drive it. I'm sorry to say it was sold before he got the chance.

:Exige:
02-08-2005, 03:54 PM
He keeps trying to make me jelous of him since he found out a friend of mine should be building a 620bhp Ultima GTR later in the year :)

As for me driving it .. it'd help if he could drive it first :)

DieselRacer
02-08-2005, 04:00 PM
As for me driving it .. it'd help if he could drive it first :)


Ooh.. meeeoww :p

You wasn't complaining when we were doing 160mph down the motorway in France in the MR2 :) Nor when we were racing around the backroad of Sussex in the Exige :)

But it is a shame you didn't get a drive, I would have loved to have seen you try! :p

:Exige:
02-08-2005, 04:03 PM
Ooh.. meeeoww :p

You wasn't complaining when we were doing 160mph down the motorway in France in the MR2 :) Nor when we were racing around the backroad of Sussex in the Exige :)

But it is a shame you didn't get a drive, I would have loved to have seen you try! :p
160?! It was 140 .. 160 was the figure you made up, honest :D Anyway, im preparing for the Ultima .. I have a video of one doing 220 :p I also have a video of one breaking the 0-100-0 record and doing 0-60 in 3 seconds :p :p

Why do you mean youd like to see me try? I could drive my Dads friends TVR Cerbera 4.5 pretty fine .. only stalled once.

DieselRacer
02-08-2005, 04:07 PM
Oh yeah, 140.. I remember now. But I had 155 out of it during another run and it was still pulling like a train. I reckon that car was good for 170, although at that speed the front was getting very light indeed, and quite scary really. The BEAMS engined MR2 I'm hoping to get can outpace the Rev1 and Rev2 MR2 turbo, and with a few easy mods can make it to 320bhp okay. I'm still thinking about it though, I need to look at cheaper sportscars now, because the Exige cost me too much money. Besides, the MR2 can beat the Exige.


Why do you mean youd like to see me try? I could drive my Dads friends TVR Cerbera 4.5 pretty fine
:rolleyes:

:Exige:
02-08-2005, 04:12 PM
Besides, the MR2 can beat the Exige.
Cough .. not when someone who can drive it properly is at the wheel. It could kick the MR2 around Brands .. but you were too scared to go on a trackday.

DieselRacer
02-08-2005, 04:20 PM
I tend to disagree, having logged over 20k miles in the MR2 and 3k miles in the Exige, I feel I know how each performs. The Exige has a slight edge with accelleration in the low gear range, but in the high gear range, the MR2's turbo compensates adequately. The MR2's top speed is far superior to the Exige, beating it by at least 20mph (that is id you're on a track which allowes those speeds on the straight).

I would say the Exige is a little more nimble around the corners, with the MR2 tending to break away more easily, however with upgraded racing suspension, that would easily be combatted.

I wouldn't say the MR2 is superior to the Exige, but having driven both - I feel both cars are pretty much in the same league performance wise. Of course you have to take into account that the MR2 cost me 6k, whereas the Exige was 24k. So pounds-for-power, the MR2 comes out on top. 18k worth of performance upgrades on an MR2 would leave the Exige for dead.

And yes, I was scared to take a 24k car out onto a track. So sue me!

:Exige:
02-08-2005, 04:26 PM
And yes, I was scared to take a 24k car out onto a track. So sue me!
So, would you wish to tell everyone why you bought a £24k car built for the track?

Of course, you couldve got the Supercharged Exige TT260 that was going for under £22k. 260bhp .. 750kg .. people have had them up to 160 pretty fine .. further with a Motorsport front splitter. I still dont believe you dont get the point of the Exige though .. in an MR2 you dont really get noticed much because there are so many and it doesnt look hugely special. Then take the Exige .. how many children you and I didnt know did you flash at in the MR2? How many did you flash when you picked me up from school?

DieselRacer
02-08-2005, 04:30 PM
Oh, I agree, the Exige was much better for looks, and I wish I could have kept it, but alas it wasn't meant to be. But never fear, I will have a car like that again oneday, when I've saved up my pennies.

The MR2 however was more of a sleeper... could beat most things, but looked the same as every other MR2 on the road (unless you know what to look for). I didn't get offers of a race nearly so much in the 2 as I did in the Lotus. I guess people just like to try it on.

Don't you just hate it when people try it on with you all the time?! :confused:

:Exige:
02-08-2005, 04:46 PM
So, would you wish to tell everyone why you bought a £24k car built for the track?
You still havent told everyone .. and I know the answer. Its also apparently the reason why you got rid of it and dont wish to go into it, isnt it Martyn.

my porsche
02-08-2005, 04:49 PM
and who is martyn, did his wife make him sell it?

:Exige:
02-08-2005, 04:52 PM
and who is martyn, did his wife make him sell it?
We shall soon find out if hes man enough to tell us .. which he most likely isnt. :D

DieselRacer
02-08-2005, 04:55 PM
and who is martyn, did his wife make him sell it?

I'm Martyn, :exige:'s cousin.

And yes, the wife made me sell it :( Good guess. She wanted a house extension instead :confused:

:Exige:
02-08-2005, 04:59 PM
I'm Martyn, :exige:'s cousin.

And yes, the wife made me sell it :( Good guess. She wanted a house extension instead :confused:
Exige? Extension? IMO there is no choice :D

DieselRacer
02-08-2005, 05:00 PM
Exige? Extension? IMO there is no choice :D

LOL - yeah, well... when you're married, you'll find out there is no choice either :p

:Exige:
02-08-2005, 05:06 PM
LOL - yeah, well... when you're married, you'll find out there is no choice either :p
Im practically married to my girlfriend .. Id say going to Ecuador in the Summer with her is pretty serious :) Plus shes ok with cars .. I did afterall help fix up that bobtail V8 Land Rover in their Garage :)

DieselRacer
02-08-2005, 05:11 PM
Im practically married to my girlfriend .. Id say going to Ecuador in the Summer with her is pretty serious :)

...and no-one is happier for you than I am!

Matra et Alpine
02-08-2005, 05:18 PM
I did afterall help fix up that bobtail V8 Land Rover in their Garage :)
Leave the keys for the bobtail when you go :)

:Exige:
02-08-2005, 05:24 PM
Leave the keys for the bobtail when you go :)
Its a meaty Rover V8 from god knows what .. sounds very similar to what I heard in a Pilgrim Sumo though :) Torquey as hell. But being able to see the axel below you is a sure sign that it needs a new floorpan :) Theres a snorkel in the a shed .. Im gonna see if i can hook that up and have myself some watery fun :cool: Theres was also a huge hole in the silencer .. my welds didnt hold :rolleyes:

Edit : I just answered a question nobody asked :D Great!