As on Fith Gear be intresting to see how much the grand total bill will be to get that car to 200mph, wonder if it will be 200mph at Brunters? And how true their costings will be ie cos its 5th gear a bling gearbox will be silly like £250

So how much do u reckon they need to do to get the Lotus to 200mph @ Brunters?

 

what car was it?

alex

 

the Lotus V8 turbo

 

One like that

 

Love them cars

 

it wont be at brunters tho will it? theyl be off down the autobahn like a bunch of cheats

 

Why spend all that on a Lotus ? They could have used a Calibra

 

Dunno Steve they didnt say, will soon see though

That Lotus is nice and they picked up that mint one for 22k Though the gearbox did break 50miles down the road

 

I reckon it could be done cheaper if you started with a Jag XJS V12, proper areodynamic shape and plenty of grunt

 

xjs v12, how is that more aerodynamic


it wasnt even finish of right , was ment to be mid engined for a start

 

the more aerodynamic the car the cheaper it will be, that lotus looks well slick

 

the jag would only do 200mph if it was towed by a 747

 

Mike R knows a fair bit about these cars.........

He also knows what they're like at high speed when they hit a patch of standing water

 

pon they dont also have a magnetic attraction to roundabouts do they

 

Wow All I can say is what a beautiful sight..... I have loved those cars since I was very young and it's deffo my ambition to own one one day. I remember tuning on on Gran Turismo 3 to over 1000BHP! If a real one is anything near as hard to go forward from stationery in then I better spend the next ten years practising

 

I wouldn't mind getting involved in that.
After all, it was one of my boxes that got Sunny to his 178mph without breaking
I think I might drop them a line........

 

yeah bernie go for it matey

 

i didnt think top gear was on this sunday?

anyone got the link to that site were you can download it?

 

i was seriously thinking about getting one of those, maybe rethink if the gearboxes are chocolate, if i spent 22K on a minter i would be wanting my money back if it broke 50 miles down the road. cheers nomad

 

it was fifth gear that the lotus was on, i think its repeated tomorrow. cheers nomad

 

Want a budget 200mph car you want one of these bad boys...



You can build one of these for 30k, and at that price you get a 500bhp V8

 

there is a Jag XJ12 shaped that can just about crack 200mph - Lister Jaguar Le Mans.

 

What a piece of shit to chose to break 200mph . I would have chosen the Ultima as well if they want to get 200mph on a budget.

It's a good job they're changing the gearbox, as the gearing on these is flat-out on the limiter at 175mph .

They are going to have SO much trouble with finding a suitable transmission on the "cheap" . The transaxle unit that Quaife do for the Esprit is going to come out at well over £10k with all all the required parts .

The engine is a 32v flat plane crank 3.5 litre V8 and the power has been limited to 350bhp / 295lb ft torque in an effort to save the REALLY shit standard gearbox from a short life. Accordingly, it runs a relatively soft and reliable set up to achieve this (two tiny T25 turbos running a heady 6psi with NO intercooling ), even so the engine still suffers cooling / headgasket problems , so will cost BIG bucks to improve the performance, as EVERYTHING will need strengthening / improving on the engine. Even the GT car they mentioned competing against the Listers was fraught with reliability problems. It had charge-cooling on and still only made 450-500bhp and still destroyed drive shafts on a regular basis .

All I can say is good luck - theyre going to need it .

 

ultima is a good idea.

for a standard road based car, you are better off looking at the car with the lowest Cd, as this will require the least amount of power to get it to 200 mph (as has been said, and as posted on another thread recently about a calibra supposedly being able to hit 200 mph with just 400 bhp - i reckon on more like 440)

but, you've got to be able to fit in an engine capable of producing the power, and a transmission capable of handling it.

i would be looking at maybe a viper and a shot of nitrous.

 

the honda insight has the lowest Cd of any production car at just 0.25, but getting enough power out of it to hit 200 mph could be tricky. i would want some slightly wider tyres as well

 

corvette C5

must be cheap as chips in the US, and they'll hit 200 mph relatively easily with a few mods

 

the gearbox breaking was funny especially seeing as tho they got the car checked out by reputable lotus delaer who gave it the all clear

 

Personally, i think the best BUDGET car to pick to do 200mph is.
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The Chevy Corvette 5.7V8.. You can now pick these up for 12k. You get these 400bhp standard and i am guessing they can be turboed, look at the lingerfelter corvettes. 1300bhp and quarter miles in 9secs flat

 

beat you to it paul

forget turboing it, if you only want to do it once, give it a laugh with a bit of gas.

 

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! lol, just cause you wrote a diddy little reply!


Thats the lingenfelter 650bhp one, cant imagine what the more powerful ones are like!

 

What about the 180mph Ebay Granada?
Bit of boost and some NOS should crack 200 easy!

 

How nice is that Jag! They look like leather covered cossie recaros in it.

 

Nice??

Looks like a Citreon from the front!

 

i agree with the suggestion for the XJS Lister Le Mans, they may look a bit 'different' but i've just done a quick search on google...

they crack 200mph as standard lmao

how about one for 28k?

http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/find...lCarID=1707459

that's even cheaper than going the kitcar route ie ultima.

 

the one i put pics up is 30k and 2300 miles or somet... bargain really!

 

one of them parks in the M.E.N arena carpark in manchester, on the bottom floor - see it everyday, looks fookin mean

 

Ok so technically it's not the best choice to crack 200mph with but come on guys. Any bloke that looks at that bodywork and doesn't dribble must be clinically dead.

 

I think they totally chose the wrong car, as much as i hate to say it, a Calibra probably WOULD be the cheapest way to 200 over a unlimited distance... (ie autobahn which theyl obv do it as they got no chance at brunters)

Can get em for a grand.
Got less drag than almost anything, inc most supercars.
6spd box is geared for 200mph with the right rims n revs.
2litre 16v turbo engines are good for similar sort of mental power as YBs once the shitty std manifolds and managment are thrown well away.

Theyd of done it for far less than the 25k its cost them to get the lotus in the first place, and FAR more interesting too.

Or a Supra, std bommomends are silly strong so internals can be left alone, another easy 200mph car is you talking autobahn.

I think i got some vids of Nicholas Kiesa (you know, F1 dude) doing an indicated 200odd mph in his R34GTR on the motorway too, and thats got a std bottomend and gearbox...