New 430 cup

[EldonZ]

I love the slat walls. Those are really handy to have. What did you put down on the floor? I can't tell if it an epoxy finish or what?

Later,
Eldon

[Forkhandles]

Great car congrats,, i love your garage transformation too , lovely job👌👍

[DJW]

Awesome 

[Neal H]

Love the car, love the garage!

[Bibs]

[Jcx]

There’s a Facebook group?! 🤷🏻‍♂️
🤣

Following 🤗😉

[Ali tuck]

 Car looks amazing-In the middle of a garage build at the moment @Screem- what did you use on the floor ?

[Edinburgh 111s]

I am pretty sure it’s a carpet that’s been used. Good solution it would seem 

Edited June 24, 2020 by Bravo73

[Screem]

23 hours ago, EldonZ said:

I love the slat walls. Those are really handy to have. What did you put down on the floor? I can't tell if it an epoxy finish or what?

Later,
Eldon

Commercial carpet  works really well for my needs. 👍

23 hours ago, GFWilliams said:

The plant outside the garage is nice 👍 

Don’t tell anyone but it’s not real 😉

https://www.bloomingartificial.co.uk/artificial-cedar-spiral

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On 23/06/2020 at 21:27, Tex said:

Perhaps we need a new thread of show off your garage with your Lotus. I know other marques forums do this 😂

😂 I’m not doing all that again here! 😂

[Screem]

After doing circa 800 miles in the 430 and following the running in procedure to the letter I can now give a better idea on how it compares to my previous 380 sport. 

The biggest difference is definitely in the ride quality. It does feel so much more composed and compliant on Uk roads. It actually feels closer to my old 2012 evora S the way it absorbs the road. 
I should say that I didn’t have the track pack on my old 380 so I’m almost certain this has to be the nitrons on the 430 Which are so much better. 
in terms of power the car does feel a lot more powerful with additional grunt across the rev range as you’d expect with an additional 15% more power. 
one thing I haven’t played with is the adjustable traction control which I’ll do over the next couple of weeks.

I took the car to oulton park yesterday on a track day to get a better feel for the car and it was faster than anything else I came up against on track.
I Had some really good fun Sitting behind the MSV instructor in his Stripped out M3 race car On slicks and I had to lift on the straights to maintain a safe distance. 
I wasn’t pushing it too hard as I’d not taken any Trackdays insurance out and being a week old putting it in the tyre wall was defo not on the agenda!

re noise I had absolutely no problems all day  they didn’t do a static test so I actually assumed that maybe they weren’t testing because it was normally a race day at oulton but after asking one of the Marshall’s he told me that this was not the case and that they weren’t doing static because of 2 meter distancing rules and that the drive by tests were very much in place and I’d know about it if I activated one! 

I would normally drive my 380 with traction completely off but was only brave enough to activate race in the 430 and didn’t touch the nitron setting or the traction control knob. In fact I have no idea if that is even activated in race and I don’t actually know which setting it’s on. I’ve Not even looked at it. 🤷‍♂️

Finally, another really big improvement I’ve noticed over my 380 is the Sony sound system. I know sone people will say if you’re concerned about the sound of the stereo you’re missing the point etc but imo this car is absolutely at its best when used to drive a few hours to and from a.circuit. Race round all day faster than almost anything you’ll come across while meeting other likeminded petrol heads then Drive home in relatively comfortable surroundings listening to your favourite tracks. The additional 2 speakers and Improved head unit now means that listening to music or taking calls in the car on the hands free is physically possible and the sound is 100% improved. 

In summary and As you’d expect out of the box the 430 is pretty much unbeatable as a track car and when you build in the relatively cheap running costs I genuinely can’t  think of another car that I can compare it against. 

Anyway here’s a few pics and a link to one of the cleaner laps where traffic was light. 

A cracking day in an amazing car.  👍🏻
 

 

 
 

[Mark030358]

20 minutes ago, Screem said:

A cracking day in an amazing car.  👍🏻

Love it.... 

[Martrack]

Really nice feedback, many thanks 👍
Must absolutely be enjoyable for sure... 😍

46 minutes ago, Screem said:

didn’t touch the nitron setting or the traction control knob. In fact I have no idea if that is even activated in race and I don’t actually know which setting it’s on

The knob setting is only activated when you're in traction control mode off (so the last mode after race mode).
You then have 6 different levels, up to 0% (fully off) of traction control, thanks to this knob.

Edited June 28, 2020 by Martrack

[Martrack]

A few more cosmetic questions

On 19/06/2020 at 08:38, Screem said:

the headlight eyeliner details are the same as original ie a transfer/graphic but I had them printed onto gloss instead of Matt  material

Did you think, while choosing your colours, about fully deleting these headlight eyeliners ?

On 19/06/2020 at 19:21, Screem said:

I really disliked the unfinished look that the harness bar gave with the bulkhead missing and the seatbelt real cover also missing

Looks strange I agree, but somehow enforces the race feeling of the car.
Would then perhaps need the exterior engine isolator / fire extinguisher switches to confirm the look
But you went for the interior carpets, so I understand.
Anyway, did you try to challenge the factory to mount the bulkhead with their A-frame fitted, for example properly cutting it / making proper holes ?
Perhaps you thought about doing this by yourself (but finally went for another harness bar) ?

On 19/06/2020 at 11:37, Screem said:

I’m  having full ppf fitted to the front end on Tuesday so will fit the front canards after that’s gone on. 

Show us once fitted

Finally, sounds like, in the video above, that you heel-toe downshift, is it comfortable enough with built-in pedals ?

Thank you again 👍

[Screem]

4 hours ago, Martrack said:

A few more cosmetic questions

Did you think, while choosing your colours, about fully deleting these headlight eyeliners ?

The car was actually delivered to the dealership without the headlight liners attached but in my opinion looks better with them and helps it to stand out over a standard 350

4 hours ago, Martrack said:

Looks strange I agree, but somehow enforces the race feeling of the car.
Would then perhaps need the exterior engine isolator / fire extinguisher switches to confirm the look
But you went for the interior carpets, so I understand.
Anyway, did you try to challenge the factory to mount the bulkhead with their A-frame fitted, for example properly cutting it / making proper holes ?
Perhaps you thought about doing this by yourself (but finally went for another harness bar) ?

no I didn’t even think about doing this as I already owned the removable bar and 2 x harness sets For both seats which the dealers said they’d swap over into the car from my 380.

4 hours ago, Martrack said:

Show us once fitted

Finally, sounds like, in the video above, that you heel-toe downshift, is it comfortable enough with built-in pedals ?

Thank you again 👍

 

I think the lotus pedals are perfect. Never ever had a problem and feels perfectly natural and comfortable to heel and Toe  👍

[E1EXG]

Hi Mate

What a awesome Exige fella.

Do you have a template or dimensions for fitting the canards ?? As i have some on order from Lotus.

Thanks Paul

[Tex]

Steve,

Are the rear diffuser barge boards carbon and I assume the long side ones are ?

Also thought about adding the 380Cup rear wing extended winglets ?

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On 31/07/2020 at 19:47, E1EXG said:

Hi Mate

What a awesome Exige fella.

Do you have a template or dimensions for fitting the canards ?? As i have some on order from Lotus.

Thanks Paul

Hi Paul,

I’ve not picked up the canards yet but I’m sure Jct said that they were going to get a template or Some form of technical drawing to me. I’m at Cadwell Tomo but will give them a buzz later in the week 👍

23 hours ago, Tex said:

Steve,

Are the rear diffuser barge boards carbon and I assume the long side ones are ?

Also thought about adding the 380Cup rear wing extended winglets ?

Hi Colin,

 

the rear boards don’t come in carbon unfortunately so I had them paint them gloss black to match the other features on my car.

not sure about the 380 cup rear wing extended winglets, what are these?

[Mark030358]

Why do 430 Cup owners want their cars to look like 380's? but fair play to them I say ❤️ 😄❤️

[Tex]

Fair point Mark !

but who doesn’t like the aesthetics of a 380 Cup

[Tex]

They are the wing end plates