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That looks pretty good.

I have a lot of gold heat reflect foil left on the roll I bought to wrap around the Eventuri connect tube to the supercharger inlet. This issue with the clutch line in the engine compartment sounds like a good place to use some of that foil.

@GRP Any news on JB4 shipments? My order with you is now sitting at 30 days and counting.

You could check the connection to make sure the connector is plugged in correctly. Check the hose lines; check to see if there are any air bubbles in the line between the fluid reservoir and the pump. Is your dealer close? If everything is connected and looks okay, it might be a bad pump...

Is it making any sound? Do the wipers work? If nothing is happening at all, might be a fuse.

Maybe they should look into making the Emira Flex Fuel compatible. More power, less emissions. The mileage goes down, but the offset is E85 is a lot cheaper than gas. It also runs cooler in an engine tuned for it. I've been researching and reading up on it, and I think I'm going to...

Trump?? The entire EV thing was already collapsing before the election even happened. He had nothing to do with that. It was collapsing because of simple economics; EV's were too expensive, brutally expensive to repair, the cost of battery replacements were insane, people were discovering...

Clutch failures and power steering failures are a supplier issue, not a Lotus is screwing up failure. They DID use well-known and working components and sub-assemblies, or they thought they were. All those decisions and contracts with suppliers were made before Covid and everything that...

That's an old photo from April 2022 of prototype cars. Those wheels were just ones they had at the factory that were used to move the cars around.

"somehow riddled"? New manufacturing system, new paint system, new body panels with a new process, new electronics with new features never before on a Lotus, new more sophisticated and complex electronics, new and much stiffer regulations and requirements no Lotus has ever had to meet...

I don't know about this... on the one hand, I can understand the desire to get around tariffs, plus the cost of shipping cars across the ocean to the U.S., but to completely abandon Hethel? Part of the appeal of Lotus as an exotic brand is because it ISN'T made in the U.S. No matter what Chevy...

Just waiting for @GRP to ship my unit.

I already did my own first oil change right after break-in, and my main focus is quality and performance. This is why I went with the Eventuri intake, and the Boss Purolator oil filter. Filtering and oils are not an area you want to 'save money' on. I'm planning on keeping this car for life...

Since we're dreaming, how about a variable speed extractor fan system that attaches to the underside of the vents to forcibly extract heat out of the engine bay? It would be nice if it had a heat sensor to work automatically so it only came on when needed, and only as much as needed. Something...

Get a better filter. Brand Ranking rated the Purolator Boss the best out of a group of name brand filters. This is the one for the Emira V6:

I didn't even think about that! The potential difficulty of getting replacement factory filters.

Was your deposit non-refundable? If it wasn't, then it wasn't a deposit, it was an order which moves it from a place holder (which is really what a deposit is) to a contract and they are bound by the terms whether they like it or not.

I agree. This car is already really good, and it's a great starting point for mods to refine it even further.

If you turn the front wheels to one side and look, it'll either say Touring or Sport on the shocks and springs. This is a V6 Sport spring.

Mine's been great. Have had it now for just over a year, no issues.

I think the warning was more towards oiled filters, or filters that let a lot of particulate through like K&N's. I installed my Eventuri without any worries whatsoever, and it's been just fine. It has an excellent, solid and well-built filter in it, but I can understand if someone wants to...

Says the guy who started it.... I agree, you're spending too much time on this. I'm not offended. Let's move on.

Many it seems thought mistakenly (including VF themselves) that a mod, probably @Porter, had deleted the posts which VF seemed to take as some form of censorship. Porter rightfully corrected that for everybody (which wouldn't have been visible with a private dm) so that any confusion or...

!! um... you do realize he's a forum moderator, don't you? It's his job to clarify things if there are misunderstandings or issues, which in this case there certainly was.

The fact that Geely has acknowledged it's misdirection with all-EV, and has and is restructuring to not only NOT discontinue the Emira, but find new engines and improve it is a very good sign to me. Every manufacturer has taken a huge financial hit over the EV debacle, and is struggling to...

It seems that either Evora owners, previous Evora owners, or people who just want to sound trendy tend to be the ones who insist the Emira is just a re-skinned Evora, and it isn't. Lotus was and is correct in saying it's a new car because it is. It has features that no Lotus has ever had...

My advice is to not over-react. This forum has thousands of members, and it's not unusual that a handful, and I mean typically less than 6 or so, might get upset about something or complain. That's actually pretty mild compared to some forums. It happens. You've stated your position, and...

It'll be interesting to see if the used FE prices suddenly take a jump.

Are you saying the Emira V6 ECU is the same ECU that was on the Evora? No additional code or programming was added for the Emira?

Wow. The original price for the V6/MT FE is turning out to be quite the bargain, and people thought it was too high compared to the C8 lol.

Do you even need anti-freeze in your cooling systems there? Try distilled water and a bottle of Redline Water Wetter. https://www.redlineoil.com/waterwetter

Try compressing it as a .zip file, then post it.

You say after over night on the tender the problem goes away... just as a wildcard guess, try putting the battery on an actual battery charger, not a tender, and give it a full actual charge instead of a maintenance trickle charge. See if that fixes it.

Is that for the V6 or Turbo 4?

By any chance are you guys running gas above E10? Like E15, E20 or E85? That's a possible source of injector fouling.

Be aware that Lotus specifically states in the manual to NOT use fuel with more than 10% ethanol. The warning seems to concern the fuel system, not the engine, which means the fuel system components are not made of the materials that can resist the corrosive effects of ethanol, and E85 is 85%...

Just out of curiosity I looked into E85 gas which I know is popular with tuners, and the Emira is not listed as a Flex Fuel car. It's rated for E5 or E10, but the manual specifically states to not put more than a 10% mix of ethanol in the car.