williams 3 vs lotus elise

[bigjim]

me and my mate were going to the central and east of scotland rs owners club annual event at knockhill today was about 10.00am this morning and sitting at lights before road heads onto dual carriageway towards forth road bridge and behind me is a silver elise with the hood down some bloke driving with his bird in passanger seat so we pull away nice and easy and hes right up my arse and were still in 40 zone on outside lane and a few miles of d/c ahead and as soon as we hit national limit sign i floor it in 4th was going about 50 at the time and hes right on my bumper i nail it in every gear up to 5th hes still right on my tail up to 100 hes falling behind up to 120 hes bottled it/ lost top end grunt and im away (his bird was probably screaming at him) anyway was a good blast. ps rs owners club meet was quality, some of the cossies etc on show were unbelievable. great track action as well.

[Rudders16v]

I had a little battle with an Elise on sat, that was a silver one to, pulled of the roundabout onto the d/c behind him, from 40 to 100, right on his arse. He backed of at 100 though, he had the roof down though so must be quite windy at those speeds, but he nodded and stuck his thum up as i cruised past

[Jamie.]

i wouldnt have thought we would be able to keep up with cars like that. didnt realise that the elise was that slow. would have thought that it was low 6's to 60. mind u they have got shity engines in em dont they

[Dancliovalver]

whats the top speed on the elise, coz i gave 1 a go on the A46 and he seemed to ease off at 100 too, either that or his car just looses power as soon as he hit 100 coz i pulled away from him like he had his handbrake on :D

[Zollo]

The Series One Elises only have 118bhp...I think. Run out of puff very quickly. Top speed about 125mph, but run out of go after about 90?

[Jan]

the original standard elise only had 118 bhp, and very similar performance to a lightly modded williams. The k series is a very good engine though and is easily tuned to around 160 which makes them pretty quick.

I have a mate with 170 horses and it's much quicker than my williams!

[Andyvalver]

I have a mate with 170 horses

He must own alot of land :D

[Zollo]

I doubt an almost standard Williams would be able to keep up with an Elise off the line and up to about 70. Weight wins over power for acceleration, power wins for top speed. I reckon somewhere around 80mph, the extra power in the Williams would see it right. :D

Yep, K-series is one of the best engines in the world

[Mark_Ritchspeed]

Apart from the chocolate head-gaskets.

From my epxerience the original Elises were way too slow and once above 40-50mph would lose ground to a standard Willy.

Once they started upping the power though, there a completely different beast.

[Slithers]

Its the exiges that are the mac daddys IMO