What does your Europa look like *today* ?

[LeftAngle]

Thanks.  Federal type.  14" front, 15" rear.  Helps lower the front end.

[EuropaTC]

Wow, that's one serious looking engine bay.  I suspect that S2 is going to be a touch faster than the OEM Renault version...

Brian

[BDA]

Yeah, it should be a little bit faster! 

Very nicely done! 

How is the engine testing going? Can you tell us a bit more about your car? More pictures would be nice! 

[Clifton]

Nice. Is that a 2ZZ engine? If so did you make an adapter?

engine is looking good. black pipe will be replaced with an esprit charge cooler. (pipe is just for engine testing)

[buzzer]

Definitely impressive!!
down to one fuel tank then. how/where did you mount your battery, I presume in the front.

Dave

[buzzer]

Lovely neat install especially the brake pipes 👍👍

[StephenH]

Having a bit of fun with a passenger ride day at the Sandown racetrack in Melbourne.
Not a very complex circuit, a couple of big straights joined with short sections of bends and one high speed corner of bravery.
Being a passenger day, you are under strict instructions to behave and cause no trouble (which most managed).

Most of the time was spent circulating with people I knew in cars of similar performance, but had a nice session with a Mercedes SL63 Biturbo that entertained with continuous stretching and then contraction of the rubber band as you can see in series of screen captures below.

Edit: Tried to add a short video, but Flickr isn't playing along....
Hopefully by now YouTube has come to my rescue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjytT233Ys
That's my better half in the passenger seat, plus it's still a damp track, plus under instructions to behave..... OK..... I'm too just slow   

[lotus-62]

Stephen, did we meet? I was at a club lotus victoria meeting near Melborne with Ross Nicol (red s2 europa, he has a pantera and a gt40 as well, he is from Frankston) do you know him?
 

[StephenH]

I don't think so and can't recall Ross either.
Only joined the Lotus Club this year and haven't been too involved as yet, have only met 2 fellow Europa owners locally and know of one other.

[3929R]

There are many amazing projects on here. My goal is to keep my Europa maintained, road worthy, and not screw anything up. I'm happy when my to-do list does not grow longer faster than I can check things off. Lately she's been running great, but I am still thankful for every drive I get.

The owner of the Investor's Edition Esprit (far left in photo) owns a cooking school and hosted a small cars and culinary event on Sunday. It was great fun. I entered the parking lot with a local police escort. The cop stopped in the street, then followed me for three blocks. Not sure if he was just looking or waiting to ticket me, but he left when I entered the lot.

[BDA]

Nice Loti and fun story! The one on the right must have been working out! 

[EuropaTC]

The cop stopped in the street, then followed me for three blocks. Not sure if he was just looking or waiting to ticket me, but he left when I entered the lot.

He was probably just so amazed to see a Lotus moving under it's own power......   

Brian

[Hf_martin]

Just gonna finish up the Exhaust and install the interior, then it's ready for a test run for the first time in 30years

[BDA]

She looks great! Let us know how the maiden run goes!

 

[RoddyMac]

That looks great.  What carbs are those and what ignition system are you running?