Thanks for the info, hot air, got it.

Yep, NSX's can be tricky.

I concur.

"Jets" will never be electric because if they were electric, they wouldn't be "jets." Are we to assume that that you are referring to large commercial aircraft powered by gas turbine engines?

I consider the Roadster akin to having your name on an album mostly done by well known studio performers (Lotus) where as Model S is the first wholly done album.

Still waiting on the Sophomore Album...

Production key is a leather wrapped flip out key IIRC. Will have to look to see if I have a picture of it somewhere.

Torque Sleep is when one of the drive units stops providing any torque to propel the vehicle and it's all done through the other drive unit. (not sure if it's the front or back unit that sleeps, could be either) Without this update to the software I am assuming both are always providing torque and takes an efficiency…

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Good explanation and the math IS intense - the imaginary number " i " (or " j " if you're one of those fruit cakes) is used quite a bit. Thanks Euler for making our brains hurt.

I wonder if the winner got a belt buckle back then. I played a major part in helping someone get this one.

Not mine but I know who owns it.

Maybe someone will post the full engineering BOM, actual material used (with AS9100 material certs), layup drawings, first article QC report based off the CAD model and the signatures of people (in triplicate) who did the work...

The car retains the factory aluminum chassis structure (underneath the carpet and switch panel there) and the carbon fiber front, rear, and side bodywork pieces are bolted to that. There are no doors, just the carbon fiber pieces on either side of the car. Guess you could call those side pods instead of doors.

I think when he means "ripped out the suspension" he's referring to the stock coilovers being replaced with aftermarket 3-ways with remote canisters. (can't remember which brand off the top of my head, Nitrons?)

The body that it was based from was an aftermarket 211 carbon fiber body, rather than the factory Lotus 211 bodywork. Most of the carbon fiber is covered with paint but some is unpainted with a clearcoat on it. On the left side of this picture, you can see where paint stops and carbon + clearcoat only starts.

I've got one of those,

Actually, longer than you think if everything is built and tuned correctly. The ECU has many safeties built in to protect the engine. For instance, the ECU will switch to a lower boost level (wastegate spring pressure) if alcohol pressure is too low or will set a 4000 RPM rev limiter if oil pressure is too low.

Check out RS 211 account on youtube, plenty of videos

That's what it looks like when you hit the rev limiter and it's an ignition cut.