Video: Honda-powered Lotus Elise is a VTEC-tastisch!

Posted on 20-02-2013 at 8:52 by Ricardo – 53 Comments”

“To add speed, add VTEC”. The best of two worlds?

A light and relatively affordable athlete like the Lotus Elise gets in its most powerful version, the SC with the superchager, 220 hp from the implemented Toyota block. There you will not soon someone on hear complain, but you have a slightly older Lotus, carried out with the semi-ancient 1.8-litre Rover K-Series engine, for example, the desire to have more oempf large. Turbootje it then?

No, because the weight we want to keep down. In addition, a turbogat is something for Germans. A common engine swap to a Honda block in the middle of the Brit hang. Because a Honda i-VTEC should still be seen as one of the coolest blocks in the world. Hang there then still a zesbak (close ratio), and you have to proportion a extremely brutal supercar for the common man.

This striped Elise is equipped with Honda’s K20 engine. 1.998 cc viercilindergenot with a redline at 8.600 rpm and VTEC that standard from the 5.800 rpm fold. Indeed, the block from the Civic Type-R. GTspirit reports that the power to 250 hp comes out, and that in a car weight of between 800 and 900 kg.

Now we’re going to the Italian Varano de Melegari Circuit with the toy. WAKE UP!