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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

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guilty187 wrote:

The car is glorious looking. Many theming possibilities. Its right outside my window and I look at it all the time.

I think there is only one theme:

http://www.bani.md/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6a00d83452989a69e201901e387e2a970b-800wi.jpg

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

st_rage wrote:
guilty187 wrote:

The car is glorious looking. Many theming possibilities. Its right outside my window and I look at it all the time.

I think there is only one theme:

You could also do a Basic Instinct theme which could get interesting with the right, or even the wrong, people.

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

I preferred this James Bond Lotus, for appearance.

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

Don't forget the Pretty Woman possibilities:

http://www.gadgetshowprizes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Pretty-Woman-Lotus-Esprit-SE-.jpg

You'd need a lady driver who shifts well, and a male driver who shifts poorly to complete the theme properly.

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

skivittlerjimb wrote:

Don't forget the Pretty Woman possibilities:

http://www.gadgetshowprizes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Pretty-Woman-Lotus-Esprit-SE-.jpg

You'd need a man in drag driver who shifts well, and a male driver who shifts poorly to complete the theme properly.


Fixed that for you.

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

Good luck with this. I had an Esprit on the hook for a Lemons car about a year or 18 months ago, but it was up in Chicago and I just could never pull the trigger on it. Glad to see that someone's going to get one of these into the race!

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

Don't cut the roof off of this one...

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

Wow. Major points.

We run the Chotus on the west coast and I have an 84 Esprit that I'm slowly restoring. I took a non-serious look at what it would take to get the esprit in Lemons and decided the cage was a big big deal. The Esprit is 44 inches high, compared to the Elite at 47.5 inches. We had to drop the drivers seat through the floor on the Elite to get the necessary headroom to the cage. The result for me that there are many places on a track where I can't see the track over the hood because we're so low.

There are pictures here of how we had our cage made: http://churchofbk.com/bteam/chotus/cage/

Good luck.

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

Other Chotus team member here.

Looking at some of your past projects, it's obvious that you know what you're doing.  With that said, be very aware of helmet clearance.  Because the car is so low (as Steve mentioned), even with a high angle seat lowered as much as possible, your helmet will be right next to the roof.  More importantly, it will be very close to the roll bar depending on where you put that bar (put it as far back as possible).  Because of the rake of the side windows, it will also be close to the top door aperture bar.  This is just to say don't forget the helmet-shod driver when laying out the cage.

I picture every car as a Lemons car (Lemonitus?) -- I always pictured Steve's Esprit has having an exo-cage - at least on the top. 

Best of luck.  Can't wait to see it. 

Also, be prepared to eventually replace every Lotus bit with something that actually works.  smile

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

I'm not sure you can get a burned car into Lemons

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

Team Sensory Assault wrote:

I'm not sure you can get a burned car into Lemons

not without everyone crying about how it's not a 500 dollar car anyways. wink

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

A Chevy Citation with an Iron Duke and automatic transmission would be the perfect running gear donor for that.

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

Well its not really burned. If you look at the pictures it only had an engine fire. Only the engine area took any damage and it is minimal, mostly cosmetic. No other compartments were touched. I think the reason we got such a low price is the guy had horrible pictures on eBay, the car was in Canada and nobody was dumb enough to try and bring it across the border except us. Hell if you look at custom laws a salvage title isn't suppose to cross, but we took that risk. Lastly the car has been sitting for 10 years since it was damaged in 2004.

We are well aware the forums and comments on articles are going to blow up on how the car wasn't 500. I will show our accounting papers to anyone who asks when the car is race ready.

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

Team Sensory Assault wrote:

I'm not sure you can get a burned car into Lemons

Especially not a rotary powered one.

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

God, I can smell that toasted fiberglass from here.

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Re: Fun game - ID Sputnik's new Lemons project

Let me add to the chorus that says "good Job" and be the first to say on this board "that'll buff out"

My suggestions for power plant include all the Lemons favorites

Iron Duke
Slant 6
GM 2.8

but something tells me it's going to get an SR20!

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