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Lotus Esprit V8. In 1996, Lotus launched the Esprit V8. The car came equipped with Lotus' own Type 918 V8 engine. The engine is an all-aluminium 90° DOHC 4 valves per cylinder with a flat-plane crankshaft and two Garrett T25/60 turbochargers but with no Chargecooler. The transaxle used was the same Renault unit as before but upgraded by Lotus.
The Lotus Esprit GT1 utilised the 3.5 L type 918 twin-turbo V8 engine of then newly launched Lotus Esprit V8. The engine was extensively reworked with the addition of one Garrett T4 turbocharger, a flat plane crankshaft, forged aluminium pistons, multipoint fuel injection and an air-to-air intercooler. All of these modifications increased the ...
Lotus Mark I, 1948 Lotus Mark IX and Lotus 6 Lotus Eleven Lotus Elite Lotus Elan +2S, 1973 Lotus Europa S2 Lotus Eclat S2 Lotus Esprit V8, 1999 Lotus Elise S1 Lotus Elise GT1 Road Car, 1997 Lotus 340R Opel Speedster/Vauxhall VX220 (based on the Lotus Elise S2) Lotus Emira Lotus Eletre. Lotus Mark I (1948): Austin 7–based sports car
The Esprit prototype is going to be auctioned by Anglia Car Auctions where it will be one of the headline lots of a sale that will run across January 27 and 28. It carries an estimate of between ...
With this in mind, Lotus set about to develop their racing car. Lotus decided to abandon the aged Esprit chassis and instead turn to its new sports car, the Elise. Lotus knew that the Elise's inline-4 engine would not be competitive so it was initially decided that the car would use the 3.5 L V8 engine from the Esprit sports car. However ...
It began to appear in Lotus cars in 1975 in the Lotus Elite and was later used in the Eclat and Esprit. Bore and stroke was 95.25 mm × 69.24 mm ( 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in × 2.726 in), for a total displacement of 2.0 L; 120.4 cu in (1,973 cc).