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Postby Costas » Sun 30.09.2007, 09:13

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Can the God of Photoshop make the Hood that Ekapol has on his Avatar on this Picture? Its quite different considering you have the Lights covers on the real one while on the Avatar one they do not exist.

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Please make me jump of my chair again!

I can make it come true, trust me!

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Postby Paul.P » Sun 30.09.2007, 17:36

Its good to here from you again Costas, last time i recall you on here, you we're on about having something else done, but didn't say what , care to elaborate at all ?
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Postby Costas » Sun 30.09.2007, 18:37

Its good to be among you guys again!

Not much Paul. Didnt have time to actually.

I eliminated all the minor electrical problems
I think that almost a year ago I Replaced the Custom made Suspension with a Fully adjustable Factory made one. Unfortunatelly due to extremelly heavy business schedule this past year, I only drove the Car to DSP, asked of what I wanted and just went back to pick it up. So at the moment I cant share any more details. All I can tell you is that the car is stiffer yet much for fun to drive if you are a "redliner"

Other than that Paul, I am driving the car on daily basis, and because my work is far away from Athens, I am driving about 3k miles per month most of them on Motorway-highway.

The engine now is Tuned to either 1.1 or 1.4 Turbo Boost pressure which outputs 275 and 325hp and I only use NOS when my co-passengers want to exprerience the feel of it. I now have installed the smallest NOS output of +50Hp but I can tune it to +150 in a few secs (never tried it though).

The engine has proved to be not just bulletproof but built for Spacetravel, and during this past year I only visit DSP Lotus for a change of Oil and a "just in case" check in, and keep in mind I am driving it every single day all year.

HAVE TO MENTION that the car maintainance cost me for this past year no more than 500Euros, apart from Insurance.

So there you go!

Now I have more free time, at last, and I want to fresh the Sh4rk up.

New Wheels, Tyres, aparently this "Dream Hood", maybe a full body work, and surely full paint Job again.

Thats all.
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Postby GeoffSmith » Sun 30.09.2007, 20:22

Hello Costas. Good to see you about again. Here's a quick one for you to sleep on.....
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Postby alainmarty » Sun 30.09.2007, 21:31

Costas wrote:
alainmarty wrote:hello what type of strut insert you have? or do you hae the dimension? best regards

Whats a "strut"? I really dont know...
sorry for my bad technical english,your shock absorber is composed by 2 parts the insert:inside,....the exterior ;i needs the measure from the top of the insert and the total longer? what is the factory for the absorber? best regards
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Postby Costas » Sun 30.09.2007, 22:05

alainmarty wrote:
Costas wrote:
alainmarty wrote:hello what type of strut insert you have? or do you hae the dimension? best regards

Whats a "strut"? I really dont know...
sorry for my bad technical english,your shock absorber is composed by 2 parts the insert:inside,....the exterior ;i needs the measure from the top of the insert and the total longer? what is the factory for the absorber? best regards

Will let you know as soon as soon as possible.
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Postby Costas » Tue 13.11.2007, 01:52

I had confirmed that the "Dream Hood" can not be Built....

Theres zero free space beneath. Can you guys design one at the same idea but with the hood pumped up so that it can fit those vents and vent lines?
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Postby F1 LOTUS » Tue 13.11.2007, 08:17

Costas wrote:I had confirmed that the "Dream Hood" can not be Built....

Theres zero free space beneath. Can you guys design one at the same idea but with the hood pumped up so that it can fit those vents and vent lines?


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That's TOO easy for you Costas :D
You should have your guys dry-sump and lower the engine :twisted:
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Postby XiPHiAS » Sun 20.04.2008, 01:29

no more updates ? :-)
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Postby Costas » Fri 09.05.2008, 18:11

Nope!!! I need lots of $$$ to do what i want and I cant decide if its worth it anymore. I have done my research though and discussed every little detail with my Mechs.

Sequential Gears (costs over 7.000 Euros)
BIGGER Turbo, and I mean B I G G E R!!! (3.000 Euros)
100hp X 2 NOS injectors instead of just 75 I am using now (1.500 Euros)
Bodywork metamorphosis (3.000 Euros)

HP Target is 600Hp+

So I unless I win the Lotto or go in Lotus frenzy again, I am not willing to add any more costs to the ones I already have done.

I do enjoy the car on daily basis though, and thats the fun about it. I never post about street racing results with super cars because I dont want to cause any trouble again with such kinda of stuff on the forum as happened before, and besides its has nothing to do with the development of the car.

I dont have free time at all for the past 1.5 year, but I do check the forum as often as I can.

All I care is to make it at least once more for a driving trip to Britain sometime....
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Postby Nige » Fri 09.05.2008, 18:16

Costas,

If you want to do one more driving trip to Britain how about the Lotus 60th Anniversary at Hethel on 14 September this year, SH4RK could even be on a podium :wink: , but I'm sure you would rather drive the car.
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Postby Costas » Sat 10.05.2008, 13:12

I am gonna read the Details about it asap. Thx!
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Postby Doug » Mon 12.05.2008, 05:06

Go for it Costas! Then I can meet you and see the real SH4RK !!
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Postby Costas » Mon 12.05.2008, 09:22

Doug wrote:Go for it Costas! Then I can meet you and see the real SH4RK !!

Ahhhh! thats one more reason for me! Good to know you ll be there as well Doug. Will try to make it, I promise!
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Postby nitroman » Mon 12.05.2008, 23:50

Costas, I know for a fact your car will be sporting one additional change before the Lotus 60th Anniversary bash!

Just something in partial return for the cam-cover & oil-pan.
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Postby Costas » Mon 12.05.2008, 23:57

like? :shock:
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Postby nitroman » Tue 13.05.2008, 06:10

Costas wrote:like? :shock:
There's a custom sh4rk hood-liner being designed & produced 4 ya, with your own personalized logo on it. This is how it happened...

Matt,

Yes I can do that.
My daughter does all my graphics and vinyl & she's out of town until this coming Monday. I expect she'll want about...to do a...in vinyl.
Which colors do you prefer?

Bob

Oops, omitted key words didn't I?
Oh alright, it's this:
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No, no. I mean this:
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Doh! Wrong again. This is it:
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Crap, it just won't won't display right. You'll have to wait for it in the mail. Sorry.
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Postby nitroman » Sat 14.06.2008, 20:21

Arrived today, she on the way.

Custom orders seem to take a while. I was amazed more than a month had passed!
Artisans cannot be rushed.
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Postby Elanlover » Sat 14.06.2008, 21:20

Wowo, that looks fabulous! :smt023
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Postby nitroman » Wed 18.06.2008, 20:28

Shipped out USPS 6-10 days. UPS wanted over $200... shazbot!
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