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I wonder if they just wanted to buy the design? I'd think any tooling and such would have been gone by the time Lotus was putting a V8 in the Esprit. ![]() It was a 3.5L TT though, that they came up with. Around 350hp. I don't think it started out with a 180-degree crank though, I remember when they had advertisements about adding it (the ad talked about the wail the engine made).
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As for lotus using LT5's they did. There was a Le Mans Elise built that was running a flat plane crank but rule changes meant it wasn't used. I have seen the engine. Jeal got it from a guy that bought the Elise and wanted to put it back to a more original configuration. I believe there are still pictures on my site somewhere. From memory the engine was mounted by brackets on the cam covers. Interestingly I also heard that Jaguar purchassed a zr1 some years ago whilst working on the then new XK8 engine. The lt5 does kind of live on. Likewise a mate Tim that works in car design (was at the gathering with us a few years back) formally at Detroit ended up coming back to the uk got a new job with Merc. In Germany. He was working on the new sport model. There was a C6 Z06 there as that's their target car for weight and performance
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Here you go found the link
http://www.corvetteclips.co.uk/Modifications.html bottom of the page is photos and it's history
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