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Get an eRod Swiss electric 7 replica for the track and another one for offroad..........https://kyburz-switzerland.ch/en/offroad

eRod Swiss electric Super 7 replica on the track.......

there is a 201 hp race model of the Swiss erod electric Super 7 replica. it costs $108,000. very cool, quick....... https://newatlas.com/kyburz-erod-electric-vehicle/44173/

Here is a very interesting electric powered Super 7 type replica from Switzerland. Start a U.S. dealership? It is light makes me think what an ice swap would be like. This car looks like great fun, with some advantages over ice engines, less complicated, instant torque. https://kyburz-switzerland.ch/en/erod

Westfield electric Super 7 replica kit available https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-maintenance/news/a4227/aftermarket-westfield-lotus-seven-replica-kit-car/

Future french electric Super 7 replica. cool looking car https://www.autotimesnews.com/in-france-develop-electric-competitor-caterham-seven/

I found this when researching Ford Zetec and Duratech. Maybe it might be related to your problem. Intake manifold valve can cause the Check Engine light. If your car doesn't accelerate after 3000 rpm, maybe your problem is in that valve.

Nice ride. Great fun.

Looks good. good price.............. maybe? Only name on the car is Lotus. Like all the Cobra clones say Cobra. At least the ad says replica.

I couldn't find info on Lotus suing over 7 copies. Did Lotus sue over Elan copies? Colin Chapman's son said they shouldn't have stopped production of the Elan, Lotus sold 16,000, Mazda sold over a million copies (the Miata). in the 1960s, Toyota wanted to show that it was a player on the world automotive scene and they introduced the 2000GT Under the 2000GTs skin, though, the car is a near copy of the Elan’s chassis. There is no question that the Elan’s backbone frame, Chapman strut rear suspension, and general layout was copied by the 2000GT. Other than the two extra engine cylinders, the two cars’ chassis look almost identical. the Mazda Miata was an Lotus Elan copy. Tom Matano and the other Mazda designers involved with the first Miata used the Elan as a design brief is common knowledge. someone had the opportunity to ask Matano how it felt to be “the most successful sports car designer ever”. Matano told me that because the Miata was based on the Elan, he was actually prouder of the last RX-7, which was a clean sheet design.

I did quite a bit of research before i bought a replica/clone 7. What I found is Lotus super 7's (made by Lotus) are usually the most expensive, they only made 2500, out of those the series 4 was often the lowest priced because they are not liked as much. Caterham's are the only legal continuation of the Lotus 7, they paid for the rights to the design, but they do not use the name Lotus, they are the second highest priced below usually the real Lotus 7 by Lotus. (I don't know if Lotus sued clone makers, Catarham did sue clone/replica makers). All the rest of the super 7's are replicas/clones, they are usually lower priced then the Lotus or Caterham 7, maybe because they are replicas. It might partly be supply and demand, 2500 Lotus 7's, 14,000? Caterhams, 8000? Duttons, 13,000 Westfields, plus another 150 companies built 7 replicas, who knows how big that number is. In some cases the replicas might do 80% of what the Lotus or Caterham 7 does and maybe in some cases the quality is similar. There is some high quality 7 replicas in Europe like HKT, I don't know how quickly they depreciate, another one is the Donkervoort (a 7 replica) they are a very expensive car around $150,000 to $300,000.

I was curious why there was a problem getting OBD2 data on some of these cats so i did a search (after 1995 most cars are OBD2) and those 2 links plus others came up. For low production cars it said that full OBD2 data doesn't have to be available. I have a 95 GTI with an Audi 1.8 20vt swap with 2 different ecu's that are tuned the one that came with the car was locked by the company that tuned it making it hard to access to change maps, it is stage 2 tune 20 psi boost, it still has full OBD2 info which is great for diagnostics, it is a very complicated engine and a powerful ecu which is great for tuning. the second ecu I had remapped, also stage 2 but 25 lb boost that I got from a company in the U.S. I started investigating software to do the tunes myself, Nefmoto and Tuner Pro (for VW Audi) are two versions of software you can get to change the maps in the ecu, it also requires a special cable to connect a laptop to the OBD2 port to access the ecu, then you can do your own tunes. I got the cable and an extra laptop, that is as far as it went, if I get interested again I might go further. I also thought it might be a good business to get into. Tuning ecu's today is like upgrading hardware (carburetors, exhausts, etc.) in the old days. I did some research, there is software available to access the ecu and change maps to do your own tune for a large number of the different brands of engines available today. it looks like Caterham (probably the aftermarket tuning company) they source from, locks the ecu, so you can't go in and change the maps to get more power or delete things you don't want. If you get a stock ecu for whatever engine you have and can find the tuning software to access the ecu you might be able to do your own tune. Some links that turned up in a search for tuning software for Ford Duratech ecu's. there might be something interesting there. https://www.maxxecu.com/mtune https://automobilesoft.net/tuning-ecu-soft/ https://obdstation.com/best-car-tuning-software-review/

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I did a search to try to get info on Caterham OBD2 diagnostic data, these are 2 of the various links that came up, it did give information on this subject, so i am a bit better informed. This interests me because i have worked with OBD2 generated output on VAG products. https://purplemeanie.co.uk/index.php/2019/08/31/ecu-diagnostics-part-2-ecu-obd-and-can/ https://www.lotus7.club/forum/techtalk/caterham-mbe-ecu-obd-ii-can

Colin Chapman was a pilot and a structual engineer. Tim Dutton was also an engineer, he worked as a consultant to car manufacturers as well as building his own cars. Dutton's cars were over engineered, they were strong. When you look at an early Dutton Phaeton chassis, you do have to be a little impressed at the economy of manufacture to make it quick, easy, and surprisingly strong. when you look at how the steel is cut so the next bit on the length can be used somewhere else with no more work, all open ends are properly capped off with welded plates, so water tight, and there is not a massive amount of welding, so quick and easy to produce. And then you look at one competitor.............Not mentioning the make, there are square chassis tubes that are plugged with the sort of black plastic caps that are usually found in school table legs, and they were visible with the nose cone on! A Dutton was fast, easily repaired and cheap, what more do you want.

fuel pump relay malfunction? Crankshaft or camshaft position sensor defective?

ultimate specs says 1312 lb

Re: building a 1938 Alpha Romeo tipo 158 F1 clone/replica..... I own a Lotus 7 clone now, it would be easier to make, buy or have fabricated a 1953 Ferrari 500 F1 car body or a 1938 Alpha 158 F1 body and stick it on my car. instant increase in value. My car at least has a pedigree engine. It is powered by a Fiat Lancia 4 cyl. 2 ltr., dual overheads camshaft designed by Lampredi. lampredi worked for Ferrari designing engines, he later on worked for Fiat, Lancia designing their engines. This famous lampredi 4 cylinder engine was used in cars built by Lotus, Morgan, Fiat, Lancia, Alpha Romeo, (maybe the 158 clone should have a Lampredi engine, better pedigree, probably for costs the Miata engine is better). That Lampredi 4 cyl. was in more World Rally championship winners then any other engine. In the Lancia delta the maximum output they got from the engine was 1000 hp it had a supercharger and a turbo. The 1953 ferrari 500 F1 car had a Lampredi designed dual overhead camshaft 4 cyl. 2.0 ltr. NA engine. Lampredi 4 cyl. powered Lancia 037 rally car.......

Car number 1 sold at auction $100,000 In these pictures it shows Alpha Romeo logos on the front and side, in other photos of the car the logos are missing. Ferrari and Porsche are aggressive in suing over use of their name, there are many examples, CMC a kit car manufacturer in Florida had legal issues, one example was their Porsche 959 replica kit car, Porsche sued them. All the replica Cobras say Cobra on them, The conflicts between Carroll Shelby and various kit car makers are well known and sometimes seem never-ending. Massachusetts-based Factory Five Racing has been at the forefront of the lawsuits with Shelby, and the two have been in battling it out in the courtroom for a decade. The initial lawsuit, filed in the year 2000, resulted in a settlement that barred Factory Five from using the terms "Cobra, 427 S/C, Shelby, Shelby Cobra, Daytona Coupe and Daytona Coupe Cobra" on any of their products. Super 7......... over 160 companies have offered replicas or Seven-type cars over the years. Many have been challenged over the years by the UK rights-holder, Caterham. Such cars are often referred to as "sevenesque" or simply a "seven" or "se7en". Sometimes they are also called clubmans or "locost" How many other court cases were there? Are Cobra owners asked why they have Cobra on their car but it isn't a Ford cobra, it just looks like one. some owners with 7 clones/replicas are confronted if they have a lotus logo on their car, Cobra replica owners not so much. Tim Dutton made 8,000 Lotus 7 clones, he put his own name on them and did not market them as a lotus 7's. Caterham makes legal continuations of the Lotus 7, but there is no Lotus name on their cars. it is probably safer to make a Alpha copy rather then a Ferrari or Porsche copy, maybe less chance of a lawsuit.

This tipo 184 is a replica of the 1938 Alpha romeo tipo 158 F1 car which had an interesting history: The Alfa Romeo 158/159, also known as the Alfetta (Little Alfa in Italian, is a Grand Prix racing car produced by Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo. It is one of the most successful racing cars ever produced- the 158 and its derivative, the 159, took 47 wins from 54 Grands Prix entered. It was originally developed for the pre-World War II voiturette formula (1937) and has a 1.5-litre straight-8 supercharged engine. Following World War II, the car was eligible for the new Formula One introduced in 1947. In the hands of drivers such as Nino Farina, Juan Manuel Fangio and Luigi Fagioli, it dominated the first two seasons of the World Championship of Drivers. The first version of this successful racing car, the 158, was made during 1937/1938. The main responsibility for engineering was given to Gioacchino Colombo. The car's name refers to its 1.5-litre engine and eight cylinders. The voiturette class was for racing cars with 1.5-litre engines, standing in the same relation to the top 'Grand Prix' formula (usually for 3-litre engines) as the Formula Two does to Formula One today. Alfa's 3-litre racing cars in 1938 and 1939 were the Tipo 308, 312 and 316. The 158 debuted with the works Alfa Corse team at the Coppa Ciano Junior in August 1938 at Livorno, Italy, where Emilio Villoresi took the car's first victory. At that time the 1479.56 cc (58.0 x 70.0 mm) engine produced around 200 bhp (150 kW) at 7000 rpm.[5] with the help of a single-stage Roots blower. More success came at the Coppa Acerbo, Coppa Ciano and Tripoli Grand Prix in May 1940.[6] Soon World War II stopped development of the car for six years. After the war the engine was developed further to push out 254 bhp (189 kW) in 1946. In 1947, the Alfetta was put back into service. The new rules allowed 1500 cc supercharged and 4500 cc naturally aspirated engines. The 158 was modified again, this time to produce over 300 bhp (220 kW) and was denoted as Tipo 158/47. The car made a tragic debut in the 1948 Swiss Grand Prix where Achille Varzi lost control of his car and was killed. Another loss for the team came in practice for the 1949 Buenos Aires Grand Prix, where Jean-Pierre Wimille was killed in an accident (driving with Simca-Gordini). In 1950, the 158 was eligible for the new World Championship of Drivers. The car won every race in which it competed during that first season of Formula One; it was incredible that a car which had originated in 1938 was so victorious, most likely because all the other constructors (as few as there were) had less money to build and develop their cars and the Alfa had so much development time. The Alfa Romeo team included talented drivers such as Giuseppe "Nino" Farina and Juan Manuel Fangio, the latter of whom later won the World Drivers' Championship five times. At the end of the 1950 season, a further updated version known as the 159 was produced, which was used for the 1951 season. This version had reworked rear suspension, the old swing axle was replaced with a De-Dion axle and the engine produced around 420 bhp (313 kW) at 9600 rpm. The 159 had top speed of 305 kilometres per hour (190 mph) and it weighed 710 kilograms (1,570 lb). Very cool, inline 8 cyl. 1.5 ltr., supercharged, 420 hp. 9600 rpm. In order to achieve this power however, the simplistically designed engine was fitted with larger superchargers over time. This fact, combined with the rich mixture required to burn methanol in the engine resulted in extremely poor fuel economy - the 159 achieved 1.5 miles per imperial gallon (190 litres per 100 kilometres; 1.2 miles per US gallon), compared to the Talbot-Lagos of the time, which delivered 9 miles per imperial gallon (31 litres per 100 kilometres; 7.5 miles per US gallon). The British Grand Prix at Silverstone was the first Formula One Grand Prix not won by an Alfa primarily because Fangio and Farina both had to stop twice simply to re-fuel their cars – and the Ferrari of José Froilán González did better on fuel and would go on to win the race, with Fangio second. Still, the Alfa had the edge on performance and with wins in Switzerland, France and Spain, Fangio won his first of five championships that year. For their second-to-last World Championship race (until 1979), the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Alfa Romeo introduced a new evolution version known as the 159M, the "M" standing for Maggiorata ("enlarged"). After an unsuccessful bid by Alfa Romeo to obtain government assistance to meet development costs, the team announced their retirement from Grand Prix racing at the end of 1951 (leaving the development of the 2.5-litre Alfa Romeo 160). This, combined with problems for other Formula One teams lead to a decree by the FIA that all Grand Prix races counting towards the World Championship of Drivers in 1952 and 1953 would be for cars complying with Formula Two rather than Formula One. In 1953 the Ferrari 500 F1 car became dominant, it had closer specs to the future Lotus 7, 540 kg., 4cyl., 2.0 ltr. engine, 4 speed trans,

Very nice, really cool ride. These weigh 700 kg, I wonder where the extra weight is compared to the Cat. (after researching the Alpha 158 weighed 700 kg. so maybe he is keeping the same as original). Someone built a 1953 Ferrari 500 F1 replica, it is closer in spec to a Caterham or Lotus 7, 540 kg, 2.0 lt. 4 cyl, 180 hp, 4 speed, de dion rear axle., they sold it for $70,000 (a real one is $5.4 million). small, light, analog = the best rides.

Some Webers have fuel return lines some don't. Some owners block of the return line connection. Usually the return line goes back to the tank. There was a fuel filter with a 3rd fitting for a return line, so the pump would suck from the t

150 different companies built Lotus 7 tributes/clones/copies, you just have to figure out who built this one, it doesn't appear from the info that it was one of the 2500 that Lotus built. Is there evidence somewhere that this is one of the 2500 that Lotus built?

Have tried rebuilding them yourself? It doesn't look like any special tools are required, balancing two of them does require the purchase of a special tool. Getting an expert to rebuild is probably the best decision.