Recent content by OppositeLock

I went back to the dealer, and yeah, they said they made a mistake and gave me the correct filters. The Emira filters are more expensive than the Evora filters, and they were nice enough just to swap them. The Emira filters are both Lotus specific parts, no Toyota analogue. It looks like the...

Oh, that's lame. I was going to put it in this weekend, haven't gotten around to it yet. I guess it's time to return this expensive piece of paper.

The cabin air filter is Lotus specific, part A132P0156F. They charged me $49.80 for the cabin air filter, and $92.55 for the Toyota air filter.

Edit: This is an Evora engine and cabin filter! The dealer made a mistake, don't buy these. Yes, it's for a V6 Toyota Part # 17801-31120 Very expensive piece of paper :) The cabin filter is also $50 (with banana for scale). It's tiny.

I just bought an air filter at local Lotus dealer, and they sold me a Toyota part number (for 4x the Toyota price) without any kind of pre-filter.

I wouldn't give Shinoo too hard of a time, he's done a lot to support us Lotus nuts. Yes, @GRP 's deal is much better, so go with that :)

Oh man, had I not already ordered some from InoKinetic, I'd be in on this. Didn't realize their orders were pre-orders when I ordered.

We dinosaurs who like manual transmissions are a dying breed, and have to accept that some people simply _prefer_ a good automatic transmission. At a recent track day, I talked with a bunch of young guys who were driving Porsches very quickly, and they all got into driving real cars on the track...

I've gotten my brakes super hot - the iron turned blue-ish, and the caliper paint changed color, but no, the parking brake doesn't drag at all. I've not worked with the parking brake on this car yet, but my other cars with an EPB have a calibration procedure for the electronic caliper (Subaru...

It's standard to program displays (even analog gauges, which are all just digitally driven) to display a consistent temperature, voltage, whatever, because people are silly and complain to dealers if it ever deviates from the center. If something is actually wrong, idiot mode turns off and it...

MAP gets you boost pressure if you can figure out what the ambient pressure is (it's related to temperature and altitude). In my car, it goes from ~2 (meaning -12psi vacuum) to 20 (meaning about 6psi of boost) on the track. Yes, Solo2 DL is like any other full featured AIM product, it's got the...

I'm just using the OBD-II feature in the Solo 2 DL, generic CAN, and it works great. It supports limited channels; RPM, Speed, TPS, PPS, ECT, IAT, Fuel Level, MAF, MAP. There's no Emira specific mapping of ID's, so maybe the car exports more. I've not had time to investigate.

So, on a different topic, I logged my coolant temperature (OBD-II ECT channel in AIM). We had 102F outdoor temperature, and I was pushing hard. The coolant temperature started out around 195F at the beginning of a session, over a couple laps rose to 211F and then stayed between 211F and 219F for...

18" wheels make tires more plentiful and cheaper. Since I still street drive this car, though, I would prefer to keep the parking brake intact. 18" wheels won't clear the motor housing.