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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #15 on: 25 April 2011, 09:51:04 »
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And the 3.6 never spews oil and coolant from its HG, does it.......  ;)
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only after about 150 000 miles  ;)
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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #16 on: 25 April 2011, 11:42:42 »
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And the 3.6 never spews oil and coolant from its HG, does it.......  ;)
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only after about 150 000 miles before it pops its 3rd ;)
Fixed that for you ;D
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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #17 on: 25 April 2011, 11:51:30 »
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only after about 150 000 miles before it pops its 3rd ;)
Fixed that for you ;D

not in the case of my car, it went within a couple of hundred miles after turning 150k, but that was at a time when I could get my car in my garage to work on it.
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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #18 on: 25 April 2011, 11:55:30 »
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Always had the impression that there wasnt much point tuning the v6, as it was difficult to get much more power from it. :-/

done properly like the senator straight 6 anything is do able if you free the breathing side air and exhaust,port and polish the heads sort the cams  etc alot of money for maybe 50bhp
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« Reply #19 on: 25 April 2011, 12:08:16 »
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Always had the impression that there wasn't much point tuning the v6, as it .......
would likely break or overheat or spew coolant or leak oil .............   ::) ::) ::) ::)
And the 3.6 never spews oil and coolant from its HG, does it.......  ;)

If there was the desire by the manufacturer, or a *proper* tuning company (ie, not the likes of the retards at Courtney and similar), I'm sure both S6 and V6 could be encouraged to (realatively) reliably give that sort of power.  Downside of V6, not sure how much you could increase the cc with that block, though it would need a new crank anyway....


...but probably cheaper to through an off-the-shelf v8 in :D :D :D


the carlton engine was a total rebuild from the crank and block up built and tuned by lotus enginering the brief was to make the fastest saloon car of its time,and it was. as i have said before the HG werent the issue it was having to get the engine rebuilt after 90,000 miles and the abuse the car got at the hands of thier owners.

this car has stood the test of time what other standard production car of its era could do 0 to 60 in 5.5 seconds 0-120 in about 9-10 seconds hit 177 mph and yet be  driven every day with out worry of anything breaking, for £50 000.
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« Reply #20 on: 25 April 2011, 15:11:47 »
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And the 3.6 never spews oil and coolant from its HG, does it.......  ;)
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only after about 150 000 miles before it pops its 3rd ;)
Fixed that for you ;D

not in the case of my car, it went within a couple of hundred miles after turning 150k, but that was at a time when I could get my car in my garage to work on it.
Was yours a 3.6 :o. ;)
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« Reply #21 on: 25 April 2011, 15:33:10 »
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And the 3.6 never spews oil and coolant from its HG, does it.......  ;)
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only after about 150 000 miles before it pops its 3rd ;)
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not in the case of my car, it went within a couple of hundred miles after turning 150k, but that was at a time when I could get my car in my garage to work on it.
Was yours a 3.6 :o. ;)

My straight six failed at 150k  :P
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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #22 on: 25 April 2011, 21:34:46 »
Cooling on the V6 improved in 1998....sadly it weakened the head gasket though  ;D
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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #23 on: 25 April 2011, 23:38:29 »
'Swindon' apparently used to get 400BHP from the X30XE (Supercharged) used on Elise conversions.

Now though use the 2.8 Turbo engine from GM and modify that instead.

As said in the thread previously, if you spend enough money, you can get whatever gains you desire from any engine (within the limits of reason).
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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #24 on: 26 April 2011, 09:03:52 »
I wonder what a 2.8 V6 Turbo would go like in an Omega, if you use the 325 BHP engine from the insignia as a base, you can change the intercooler get it remapped and there's 400 horses for you :) I'm going to stand by the fact the Lotus Carlton was the best idea anyone ever had, and I think it's way better than any other Vauxhall, I'd have one over anything. I wouldn't go for a VXR8 or a Monaro because I think with 6.2 litres 414 BHP is t enough, much prefer an Insignia VXR or a Lotus Carlton  8-) 8-) 8-)
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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #25 on: 26 April 2011, 09:11:10 »
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I'm going to stand by the fact the Lotus Carlton was the best idea anyone ever had, and  .....

It certainly upset the apple cart & really upset Ferrari. How many cars have had a mention in Parliament?  :y :y :y Jasper Carrot said ....
"A four door family saloon? Who's the family - Mr and Mrs Fittpaldi?"
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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #26 on: 26 April 2011, 11:05:39 »
Vxr8 v l carlton is now on 5th gear.
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« Reply #27 on: 26 April 2011, 11:06:32 »
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Vxr8 v l carlton is now on 5th gear.
On Dave.
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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #28 on: 26 April 2011, 11:09:35 »
Vxr8 lapped 1.5 seconds faster.  :)
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Re: Lotus Carlton today
« Reply #29 on: 26 April 2011, 19:06:56 »
brilliant car nuff said ;D and you all  know why!! :y
however who remembers the adverts for the L.c.?

can you get a better line than,

now you know why so many porsches and ferrari,s are bright red? ;D ;D
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