Cool build diary, Audi V8 into Lotus Esprit!
 

Now you lot seem to get rather worked up over Lotus Elises, ok they are nice but I think the older Esprit is soooo much sexier! Especialy when you transplant a 4.2 Audi V8 into it.
Be warned it runs for about 14 pages...

http://www.motorgeek.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9648&postdays=0&postorder=asc&star t=0

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h286/s3esprit/S3.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...erebuild73.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...971136x852.jpg

There are some short videos of it complete and running towards the end too (from page 12)

http://s67.photobucket.com/albums/h286/s3esprit/?action=view&current=pullaway.flv

http://s67.photobucket.com/albums/h286/s3esprit/?action=view&current=countryside.flv

I love that gen Esprit. Awesome project. Thanks for posting.

Back when the 964 was stil in development Porsche engineeres built a few mules powered by Audi V8s. Apparantly w/ success as no one was the wiser w/o looking under the hood.

Esprit are cool looking, too bad you need to be less than 5' 8" to drive one

Damn, I just lost 1 hour of my life....:D

Freak'n awesome, thanks!!!

Woohoo!!! Works for me! SmileWavy
angela (5'5 ish)

I saw an Esprit a week ago, parked in front of my office building. It was beautiful. The owner was waiting for the AAA flatbed tow truck.

Way cool!

I dig the Esprit, I have almost bought a V8 one a couple of times and passed on a S4S once that I should have bought....

Hey Patrick, were you ever able to get some pics or idea of how close your headers are to your rear shocks?

Cheers