Lotus Esprit V8 '02
370 BHP - ~430 Nm - 1144 KG - 505 PP
GT Auto
Oil Change
Tuning Shop
Weight Reduction Stage 3
Carbon Bonnet (Body Colour)
Window Weight Reduction
Rigidity Improvement
Twin Plate Clutch
Semi Racing Flywheel
Fully Customisable LSD
Fully Customisable Suspension Kit
Sports Soft Tires
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Ballast
Ballast Amount: 0 KG
Ballast Position: 0
Aerodynamics
N/A
Power Limiter
100.0%
Transmission
1st Gear: N/A
2nd Gear: N/A
3rd Gear: N/A
4th Gear: N/A
5th Gear: N/A
Final Gear: N/A
Max Speed: N/A
LSD
Initial Torque: 0/46
Acceleration Sensitivity: 0/54
Braking Sensitivity: 0/38
Suspension
Ride Height: -20/-16
Spring Rate: 7.4/10.3
Dampers (Extension): 5/7
Dampers (Compression): 4/1
Anti-Roll Bars: 5/6
Camber Angle: 2.9/2.3
Toe Angle: -0.03/-0.09
Brakes
Brake Balance: 7/5
Driving Aids
Tuned with everything off except ABS at 1.
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Tuners Comments
I was randomly browsing the NCD when I realized I hadn't even bought this yet. I was like "WTF!?" and bought it. I don't know what I was actually expecting when I took it for a spin around the Nurb, but whatever it was, I was thoroughly dissapointed. Wheelspin everywhere, slipping and sliding and understeer. So I set to work on making it better. IMO, i succeeded. But, there is a but. This car is not one you jump in and hammer home record times with. It requires practice. I've put over 300 KM's on this thing tuning it, and I still haven't quite got the hang of it. Can coax it around the ring in the mind-blowing time of 7:41.092 though. For comparision, I lapped a stock GT-R around in 7:26.729. That's a decent time for a Lotus. But again, this car is hard to drive. It's unstable, which no tune in the world can fix without monstrous understeer, and drive very carefully until the tires have warmed up. You are warned.
Important Update: After some messing around, it turned out that the instability CAN be fixed. That fix is a new Damper Compression setting. Laps the 'Ring in just under 7:40 now, probably less if the hands of a better driver.