More TTE Turbo news

Anonymous · December 9, 2004, 09:01

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=9604... which in turn quotes stuff from this site (vicious circle).

Tem · December 9, 2004, 09:20

Are they trying to say that Elise has the same engine with 189hp s:roll: :roll: s:roll:

Anonymous · December 9, 2004, 09:50

That is pretty pants isn't it! The Elise 111R has the 2zz engine (VVTL-i = 189bhp), where as the '2 has 1zz fitted (VVT-i = 138 bhp); IIRC!

So it's not the same engine that Lotus tuning division has rung an extra 51 bhp out of (as the article suggests) - it is a completely (well more or less!) different engine...

Anonymous · December 9, 2004, 15:35

What a bunch of muppets!

Slacey · December 9, 2004, 16:50

The error has been pointed out in the 'comments' thread, but you would have thought the article author would have researched his facts a little.

Liz · December 9, 2004, 23:27

Did they ask permission for that link to be available - or don't they have to?

Slacey · December 10, 2004, 06:58

It's generally accepted that as long as the pic / article etc. is credited to the original source (which they have) then everthing is cool.

Anonymous · December 10, 2004, 12:45

Quote from: "Mr 2"That is pretty pants isn't it! The Elise 111R has the 2zz engine (VVTL-i = 189bhp), where as the '2 has 1zz fitted (VVT-i = 138 bhp); IIRC!

So it's not the same engine that Lotus tuning division has rung an extra 51 bhp out of (as the article suggests) - it is a completely (well more or less!) different engine...

the thing that annoys me a lot is that ppl believe Lotus "optimized" engine ECU from 2zz, which is not true for sure since Toyota doesnt open up their ECUs for their own Tuning companies - TRD and TTE... Now you have a lot of articles on how Lotus finally took the engine where is should have been and Toyota is interested in what they did... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.