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I think you'll find that box is missing at least one more hat! :dry:

Chris Yes I have a concept for an autotensioner, but needed to finish the belt first to ensure the loadings are correct. That is nearly done but I now need an engine to play with to get the Autotensioner in the right place. I dont really want to remove the engine from the Esprit for that purpose, but my Sunbeam is already out and in bits. Problem is that the Esprit get jealous then keeps looking for attention stopping me from getting on with the Sunbeam, but it is moving up the to do list quite fast.. With regard to cam timing error, this will depend on the engine the layout and the belt

Even though being a full blooded, bull headed kraut, I never liked Porsches as I also consider them a "flattened Beetle" design wise. (no wonder, both got the same midwife) I must say though that they deserve where they are, due to their perseverance and their strictly followed company philosophy. I don't know of any other car maker which is able to make just one model always look different yet exciting and still keep the traditional design path. Same goes for the engines. 6 Cylinder flat NA or Turbo. ( remember, all other experiments were not really successull, see 928) Such always pays

Can we all have a hat each then so we can throw them at the Renault team sponsored by a rich childish git next year as thanks for being a bunch of [email protected]? Seeing the Chapmans jump ship so easily makes me laugh. Lotus back in F1, it's never been so much of a joke!

This seems to me a very contrived statement, I can almost feel an arm twisted up my back. I'm liking the current management regime less and less. The problem for me is how much damage will be done to the mark before sense or receivership is reached. For the first time in 50 years I'm starting to feel negatively toward Lotus.