What does your Europa look like *today* ?

[3929R]

Miner's Day parade, Park City, Utah.

[Europaforever]

Never been out in a Europa, I sit in mine in my garage and pretend sometimes!

[BDA]

You need to get that thing together and drive it!!

[StephenH]

Yesterday in fact.
Only a little of my car visible between the 'Slow Down' sign at the end of the runway for a historic sprint event.
1st in the 1600 Production Sports class at 15.9sec (new class record) for the approx 1/4mile timed run 
Little Europa wasn't disgraced at about than 2sec off FTD (high 13s for a couple of real racing cars).
Last run I held the throttle down for a while and at 7200rpm in 4th those signs didn't seem to be far from the end of traction as we know it

Practice run here: https://flic.kr/p/oWHYpa

[BDA]

Congratulations, Stephen!!! Europas are not drag racers and not being far behind real race cars is very impressive! 

[EuropaTC]

 

The engine sounds great in that video. Keep 'em coming !

 

[Lotusjps]

Here's a link to a few pictures of my car.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/lotusjps/sets/72157602714913519/

[BDA]

Beautiful, JPS! What carburation  are you using? That engine is really something!

[LotusJoe]

Beautiful, JPS! What carburation  are you using? That engine is really something!

I think those are throttle bodies (fuel injected) 

[BDA]

That's what I figured. I had heard of somebody who had tried micro-squirt. I was wondering if it was JPS.

[Lotusjps]

They are Jenvey 45mm throttle bodies using a MBE ecu (distributerless).  The engine is a 2.2 liter using a Cosworth BDG block and a stroker crank, custom JE pistons, titanium rods.  No more getting passed on the straights.  LOL 

[BDA]

Very. nice! I'll bet it moves out pretty good!

Nice ride you got there, JPS!

[StephenH]

No more getting passed on the straights.  LOL 

Fantastic, bet that will flatten a few hills nicely

[Bainford]

They are Jenvey 45mm throttle bodies using a MBE ecu (distributerless).  The engine is a 2.2 liter using a Cosworth BDG block and a stroker crank, custom JE pistons, titanium rods.  No more getting passed on the straights.  LOL 

Wow! That's quite a spec. Man, that thing must be fun.

[Lotusjps]

Fantastic, bet that will flatten a few hills nicely

Hills are definitely not a problem.  Traction on the other hand can be a challenge.  It would really benefit from bigger tires, though I really don't want to flair the fenders.  It still has the original paint, and although has stress cracks (don't they all) still shines really well.  Also the interior is all original (except for my race harness) and is in perfect condition.

The last track day (labor day weekend) only 3 cars were able to pass me, a full race Panoz, a road race nascar, and a GT 40.  Think I really surprised a new Corvette owner when I flew by him.  The next day it won best in class at the All British Field meet (though Dave's beautiful S1 should've won).  Then the very next day I took top time at a giant slalom (fast autocross) by a margin of 3 seconds.  Was a very good weekend (especially since the car came home without needing repairs).