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So, as a bit of a tangent, I'm a numbers nerd and i keep track of how much gas I burn, and these numbers are kinda shocking. In one car, a V6 Infiniti over the 15 years I had it: Miles traveled: 101k Gallons of fuel consumed: 4,467 (28, 150 lbs) Pounds of oxygen consumed: 96,930 Pounds of CO2...

There should be no carbon monoxide, but there will be mainly water and carbon dioxide.

Ha! Yeah, I love V8's but I agonized for a month over my Emira versus the runner up a McLaren 600Lt. It's the first time in my life I could justify buying an expensive car. I really liked the McLaren's incredible power, but everything else about the Emira was better, with handling being on-par...

I said the exhaust coming out on a "smoggy day" is cleaner than intake air, because the engine is catalyzing away all the ozone and NOx in the air, and emitting almost pure CO2 and water.

Yes, I’m on OEM rotors but they don’t seem to have any weird deposits. I’m tracking the Nitron Clubsports on May 5, I’ll have some feedback then. I didn’t get the axle lift since it’s quite expensive and I’m not lowering the car.

I had a similar experience in my Elise when I started to become a fast driver after a few years. My brakes were holding me back and the advice was to do a BBK in front, and relocate the front brakes to the rear, but with sintered metal pads, I could break traction on Yoko A005's when braking, so...

By the time I tracked my Elise, people had figured all this stuff out, but with the Emira, I'm experimenting. It's expensive to replace pads and tires and even suspensions after each track day :) My Emira came with touring suspension (I bought an orphan) and that was absolutely terrible at the...

I've tracked EBC RP1's once at this point, on fresh Castrol SRF at Laguna and I found the same as you guys are seeing; inconsistent pedal travel throughout the day. On my first track day, I tried EBC SR11 and those have WAY too high of a friction coefficient for this size of pad/rotor. Too much...

I disagree with his conclusion, but then again, I chose a V6/MT as my car. He compares the exhaust note of the V6 in Tour mode versus the I4 in Track mode. That's kinda unfair. I agree that the I4 delivers power better and the DCT has more ratios and faster shifting, but the exhaust note is one...

What's crazy about it? I was oversimplifying, but when warm, and with a good condition catalyst, it will be very clean _most_ of the time. Where I live in CA, in a valley surrounded by mountains, we are very susceptible to smog, so I'm interested in clean cars. Most of this smog comes from old...

It's possible, but very expensive, and what makes it almost impossible is manual transmissions. When the ECU controls both engine and transmission, it can synchronize the shift with engine fuel mix, so that the engine can predict the loss of load during a shift. With a manual transmission, when...

I'm in too! Since I'm tracking this thing, @GRP is going to be selling me lots of these.

3200 lb cars aren't really momentum cars, they can't keep their momentum very well through turns. I love my Emira, but it can't hang with a real momentum car in the corners. I've tracked my Elise for 16 years and now I've done a couple of track days in the Emira, and it's a fat piggy. I love it...

I listened to the call. They're "investigating" a Euro-7 compliant V8. "investigating" comes years before sales. It'll be a while.

I bet they'll be much more than $100k

Well, this is going to be expensive, but if a V8 6MT Emira is released, I will take whatever depreciation hit mine has, and buy one.

The two main track day insurers in the US are Lockton Affinity (link) and Hagerty (link). They are quite expensive, and have high deductibles.

Oh, that sucks. Progressive and Geico refused to insure mine. Progressive because they don't insure Esprits, they're too old, and Geico said they don't insure those cars.

When I called Progressive, and gave them my Emira VIN, it came up as a Lotus Esprit.

AFAIK, other than the low oil pressure warning, which doesn't use an analog pressure sensor, the car doesn't know the oil pressure, so there is nothing to read.

Yes. Is there a reason to change it?

No, Evora doesn't work. I just use the generic OBD-II and it's good enough for me. It gets RPM's, throttle opening (which isn't same as throttle pedal) and a few temperatures and fuel level.

If you have an Emira, why would you ever drive something else if you don't have to? :) It's now my daily, and I use my big car for family road trips, but the Emira for everything else.

I got the clubsports. They recommend a rebuild every 10 hours of use on track, but I'll do it once a season. If they are too stiff, I will ask to lower the spring rates then. The tires are Dunlop Sport Maxx Race on forged wheels from Greg's Race Parts (they actually look too nice to track, but...

I haven't yet. On my next track day, I'll be using some Nitrons combined with a solid alignment/corner balance and grippy tires. Might be good enough. I don't particularly mind this understeer tendency because it can be managed.

Dang. I'm in CA paying about $1,900/6 months with an $5k deductible and comprehensive insurance. No tickets or accidents on driving record, ever.

Maybe it needs wider rubber in front.

The TPMS is ok for the street, but to save battery, it only measures and reports pressures once in a while, and when you're at the track, they're all over the place. I still use my trusty old track pressure gauge. As a first attempt, I ran recommended street pressures as my hot track pressures...

They certainly didn't simplify anything like the company motto implies when they designed the volume sliders on this thing. I hope that in due time, we come up with enthusiast written software that works better. I've written this kind of software years ago, and there are a bunch of VWAG cars...

For me, it's a combination of Waze combined with either Podcasts, Pandora, or just music in my library. The reason I think it's a bug in Emira software is that I I've never had this issue with this phone in either my wife's Subaru, my Cayenne or even the CP-71W headunit in my Elise.

Oh, it was Laguna Seca. I scrubbed quite a bit of rubber off, and I mis-spoke, it was the front right. I haven't yet worked out the proper pressures for this car, as it's new to me, and I scrubbed the middle of the tire too much to risk another track day. It's ok for the street. I would have...

These are Lotus specific ones at Tire Rack (link) They're 240 treadwear compared to 180 for a lot of other cars. I bought a set to try on track, they're not bad, but my front left is too damaged after one track day to go to the track again.

When I'm using Carplay, either wired or wireless, with driving directions, I have a funny problem. When I'm listening to music or a podcast, and the driving directions from Waze or Google Maps speak, the volume is lowered to hear the directions. However, the volume doesn't return to its previous...

It's a hybrid touch/button. The entire panel on each side of the steering wheel is a switch which depresses, and it reads your finger position when it's clicked to figure out what you're pressing. The problem is that the whole thing is so easy to depress, you're always hitting it with your palm...

19" wheels fit in rear and 18" fit in front with no issue, but the tire selection in 20F/20R is a lot better than 18F/19R or 19F/19R.

I drove a friend's 911T (since dealers don't allow test driving these around here) and also Cayman GT4 when I was cross shopping cars last summer, and I preferred the Emira for two major reasons. The front end feels much more "alive" than in the Porsches and it takes a squat in a turn similar to...

It's really hard to tell on the street. This is a big, heavy car and the wheels went from "very heavy" to "less heavy", but they're still heavy. I can't push too hard because the tires are still slippery due to the manufacturing lubricants. I'll know next time that I track it.

I think this is what GRP sells in the US, for a higher price. I bought this button set from GRP the day that I bought my Emira, and it's a great upgrade. https://www.gregsraceparts.com/collections/emira-interior-items/products/press-button-sets-for-lotus-emira-steering-wheel?variant=47595837325545

Yeah, it's really obvious when you lift them right after lifting the OEM ones.

I've recently received a set of GRP forged wheels, in OEM sizes. These are the Y-10 style in satin titanium. I think they look nicer than OEM. GRP: OEM: