Do you ever get so tired of idiots that you just go on an epic rant? No, really... Anyone want to hang out? I'm sick of these motorsports companies having their heads up their own collective rectums.
@@CaseyPutsch can't wait to see what you and the GG team can unlock with this car.......... I always believed it to be a significant 'test bed platform', not a toy for the rich, and can't wait to see it used as such, its a perfect footprint of a race car, now stick yer boot in it and kick hard! 🥾 🚘 🏁 🔬 🏫 🚸
From what I have seen you do with your students Casey you guys can do this and build it better . We have the technology .Looking forward to seeing whst you guys do .
The Indycar engine was 2.65 liters, based on the 3 liter DFV F1 block. This was the most common Cosworth V-8, parts availability is quite good. I suspect your engine is based on the later 3.5 F1 engine (HB?) which would be a completely different block and likely rather restricted parts availability. I helped a friend detune a Cosworth Indy XD for vintage racing. It needed rebuilt anyway, and he wanted to reduce operating costs. Most of the stress in those engines was in the drivetrain, thanks to the killer valve springs needed to handle the aggressive cam profiles and 15k+ revs. (The ChampCar series addressed this in a later year with a mandatory 12,000RPM rev-limit.) All we really did was regrind the cams to a less aggressive profile and slightly reduced overall lift, plus a 2k drop in redline to 13k. Between those two changes we were able to run much lighter springs, significantly reducing drivetrain stress. He had the laptops and software from the original team, so it wasn't too hard to tune the whole thing. He generally short shifted at 11.5 - 12k in races. I ran it to 13k a couple times when I drove it, but even short-shiftngit it still made plenty of power. This meant the car was being driven around at perhaps 8.5/10 all the time, just as you describe with the your Lotus. You couldn't reach the blazing straightaway speeds you saw on TV, but you could brake even later and and still carry the speeds through corners, so you have just as much fun. It wasn't running around superspeedways for hours near redline, so we figured it was good for at least 3000 miles. Never found out, as he was diagnosed with cancer the next winter and never raced again : - (
Pretty cool stuff! Are you the guy that got ahold of Rob Dahm (about reworking the cams) that he mentioned in one of his Indy Car Cosworth engine teardown videos?
I know this comment is a little late but you have a pretty cool car. I think your car is an example of what Modern Formula One should be. It’s simple and more on the inexpensive side to work on I should say and most importantly it sounds beautiful. Even though I’m 15 years old and I haven’t experienced formula one of the golden era, I want cars like these back. I’m more in to the 1970s F1 cars and I dream of buying one with my own money and racing it in historic racing and working on it by myself. Right now I’m starting out driving in historic formula ford and racing in regional Colorado events. I have been karting ever since I was 10 years old. I just want to say from a like minded vintage racing enthusiast who’s a young teenager I think your car is cool and what Formula One should be. I hope you have a great time in your racing adventures and most importantly have fun.
Thanks for the breakdown on it all, looking forward to a deeper dive as you guys get it sorted Also, glad to have the original/former intro theme back!
The Exosphere is a magic spaceship, and you are a magic person, Casey. Any sufficiently developed skill or sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. That doesn't mean that someone with something slightly above an orangutan's brain on the evolutionary ladder can't learn to drive it properly, but TopGear was an entertainment show, not a car review show. They were well known for deciding on the direction of a story (their coverage of the Tesla was a great example), and then building their narrative around it... almost like the rest of media. Huh, go figure. That's why I particularly appreciate your channel. You call things as you see them, and make it clear when you're sharing your opinion and not facts. You're more of a journalist than anyone in the mass media.
interesting insights about this awesome car. about the coil packs some options could be: finding suitable sets over the spark or with wires like you did, building the sets from scratch, make use of CNC/3d printing to make it look OEM. engine reliability 30h before a rebuilt would mean: that can be 1800minutes, 1.5min for an average lap(4.3km) =1200laps; 30laps per track day- 40track days. around 5000+km. the car is an f1 that is not eligible for f1 racing (because of rules)but still offers the experience of a single seater as fast as a f1 racecar, looks like an f1 eligible racer. Every f1 racecar is unique so this just a another one added to the list of f1 cars. One point could be it doesn’t have a super expensive extreme engineered engine but it has an engine capable of delivering an f1 performance and sound. Btw, back in the day when I drove this on Assetto Corsa :) I didn’t realize it wasn’t a f1 racecar. I think it can be seen as an f1 racecar for special racing because it’s a racecar and it is an f1.
That car is so beautiful and amazing that I fail to articulate how jealous I am of the Genius Garage students.What an incredible piece of history to be able to work on. But I'm calling it right now, it's going to end up with some kind of LS coil on plug. 😄Those things are really reliable and have a ton of aftermarket support.
I have heard Judd is the best company to work with for rebuilding and taking care of these vintage formula engines. (I know it’s not totally vintage 2010’s) but Judd will rebuild their engines old Cosworth engines Zytek engines etc.
None of the above. Lotus are based (still) at Hethel in Norfolk and there's no dealership at Donington. Historic Team Lotus is still also next door to the factory in Norfolk. Formula E had a base at Donington for car prep and build, but moved to Spain in 2018.
Sounds like the engineers knew what they were doing, and the sales leadership didn't at Lotus. Cosworth might be corpo dicks, but are you a paying customer demanding support or pitching on cold calls? Not saying it's right.
Casey!! Jeremy Clarkson is indeed an oaf! But he's a classic British oaf, he's OUR oaf and WE love him!! Even if it's sometimes just to laugh at his oafishness!
Hell yeah brother! tell it how it is, these racing gods are just like the wizard of Oz, Smoke and Mirrors! - The press these companies put out is BS! Lewis Hamilton at least has made a difference by getting more of a mixed crew into the sport! - Best of the best? Naaah..! Left over big budget stuff that is ok, sold off for a massive over inflated price tag.. People saw threw it. (*some did) that's one of the reasons the project fell flat on it's face! Now you are working through the niggles, you'll adapt things and replace stuff to make it usable. We all look forward to you saying how it is and educating some up and coming race engineers.
I believe what you’re encountering is global level economic discrimination, intended to compartmentalize access to resources, knowledge, technology, materials and skills, to eliminate self sustainability and subsistence, and condition dependence and obedience, to enable a system of global livestock management. “us” being the livestock. We are the carbon they intend to manage. I’m hoping this achieves a acceptable level of rant, here, for the high level Casey sets.😜😘
If it was sold to an Emirati or a Saudi car guy they would instantly swap the engine with the GTR engine LS or the Lexus V8 engines to make it reliable and it's a shame that it didn't sell but looking at lotus at that time I don't think they helped sell it to people with their arrogance and the coils are hopefully easy to make yourself instead of buying it from cosworth
I would be happy to collaborate. Bunch of weirdos. I see you have multimatic dynamic dampers on the car. I live down the street and use to work there. And no they will not collaborate either.
IT’s electric. So basically just a child’s rc car so not ingesting And completely against the historic values in lotus cars The history of lotus is cars is make the lightest car possible
Do you ever get so tired of idiots that you just go on an epic rant? No, really... Anyone want to hang out? I'm sick of these motorsports companies having their heads up their own collective rectums.
What can you do when greed replaces passion?
I was waiting for the gloves to come off,,, 🥊
Sorry I baited you by asking about the Rodin parts 😮 😅
They aren't off yet...
Get a new hobby and let the greedy losers live in their own delusion
@@CaseyPutsch can't wait to see what you and the GG team can unlock with this car..........
I always believed it to be a significant 'test bed platform', not a toy for the rich, and can't wait to see it used as such, its a perfect footprint of a race car, now stick yer boot in it and kick hard! 🥾 🚘 🏁 🔬 🏫 🚸
Knowing Jeremy, Lotus probably said something arrogant or tried to correct him 😂
Yeah probably
It was nice to see the old school intro. :)
II accidentally deleted the new one. :/
From what I have seen you do with your students Casey you guys can do this and build it better . We have the technology .Looking forward to seeing whst you guys do .
If only we had any money…
You don't need money when you have grit and mad automotive skills bud
This car is awesome to “drive” in Assetto Corsa. It’s a shame it didn’t succeed.
Thanks for bringing back the OG intro, Casey! 👊😎
The Indycar engine was 2.65 liters, based on the 3 liter DFV F1 block. This was the most common Cosworth V-8, parts availability is quite good. I suspect your engine is based on the later 3.5 F1 engine (HB?) which would be a completely different block and likely rather restricted parts availability.
I helped a friend detune a Cosworth Indy XD for vintage racing. It needed rebuilt anyway, and he wanted to reduce operating costs.
Most of the stress in those engines was in the drivetrain, thanks to the killer valve springs needed to handle the aggressive cam profiles and 15k+ revs. (The ChampCar series addressed this in a later year with a mandatory 12,000RPM rev-limit.) All we really did was regrind the cams to a less aggressive profile and slightly reduced overall lift, plus a 2k drop in redline to 13k. Between those two changes we were able to run much lighter springs, significantly reducing drivetrain stress. He had the laptops and software from the original team, so it wasn't too hard to tune the whole thing.
He generally short shifted at 11.5 - 12k in races. I ran it to 13k a couple times when I drove it, but even short-shiftngit it still made plenty of power. This meant the car was being driven around at perhaps 8.5/10 all the time, just as you describe with the your Lotus. You couldn't reach the blazing straightaway speeds you saw on TV, but you could brake even later and and still carry the speeds through corners, so you have just as much fun. It wasn't running around superspeedways for hours near redline, so we figured it was good for at least 3000 miles. Never found out, as he was diagnosed with cancer the next winter and never raced again : - (
Sad that he got sick
Pretty cool stuff! Are you the guy that got ahold of Rob Dahm (about reworking the cams) that he mentioned in one of his Indy Car Cosworth engine teardown videos?
Jim's book on order. Personally, I think the late 60's CanAm was the most innovative, "golden years" of road course racing.
Awesome!
Rodin Carlin are in F2 they also sponsor Liam Lawson the New Zealand driver filling in at Alpha. Rodin also is trying to get into F1 as well.
If you, someday, grenade this engine, you should consider a Judd engine. They array of parts and options will make "easier" to maintain.
These are the type videos that always look forward to!
The no BS?
@@CaseyPutsch yes! Plus the your technical info on the cars!
My condolences on having to deal with Cosworth. Ur the man. Hope ur baby is great. I just had my second baby. It's the best.
Go get em
Thank you! Please email me through my website and let's connect!
I miss Cosworth though. It was more fun when F1 had at least one engine supplier that wasn't connected to a works team.
I know this comment is a little late but you have a pretty cool car. I think your car is an example of what Modern Formula One should be. It’s simple and more on the inexpensive side to work on I should say and most importantly it sounds beautiful. Even though I’m 15 years old and I haven’t experienced formula one of the golden era, I want cars like these back. I’m more in to the 1970s F1 cars and I dream of buying one with my own money and racing it in historic racing and working on it by myself. Right now I’m starting out driving in historic formula ford and racing in regional Colorado events. I have been karting ever since I was 10 years old. I just want to say from a like minded vintage racing enthusiast who’s a young teenager I think your car is cool and what Formula One should be. I hope you have a great time in your racing adventures and most importantly have fun.
Imagine a spec race of these...
Thanks for the breakdown on it all, looking forward to a deeper dive as you guys get it sorted
Also, glad to have the original/former intro theme back!
you got it!
The Exosphere is a magic spaceship, and you are a magic person, Casey. Any sufficiently developed skill or sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. That doesn't mean that someone with something slightly above an orangutan's brain on the evolutionary ladder can't learn to drive it properly, but TopGear was an entertainment show, not a car review show. They were well known for deciding on the direction of a story (their coverage of the Tesla was a great example), and then building their narrative around it... almost like the rest of media. Huh, go figure. That's why I particularly appreciate your channel. You call things as you see them, and make it clear when you're sharing your opinion and not facts. You're more of a journalist than anyone in the mass media.
Much appreciated!
interesting insights about this awesome car.
about the coil packs some options could be: finding suitable sets over the spark or with wires like you did, building the sets from scratch, make use of CNC/3d printing to make it look OEM.
engine reliability 30h before a rebuilt would mean: that can be 1800minutes, 1.5min for an average lap(4.3km) =1200laps; 30laps per track day- 40track days. around 5000+km.
the car is an f1 that is not eligible for f1 racing (because of rules)but still offers the experience of a single seater as fast as a f1 racecar, looks like an f1 eligible racer. Every f1 racecar is unique so this just a another one added to the list of f1 cars. One point could be it doesn’t have a super expensive extreme engineered engine but it has an engine capable of delivering an f1 performance and sound. Btw, back in the day when I drove this on Assetto Corsa :) I didn’t realize it wasn’t a f1 racecar. I think it can be seen as an f1 racecar for special racing because it’s a racecar and it is an f1.
Good thoughts
@@CaseyPutschthank you
Actual F1 cars from the era has conventional arms with carbon fairings as well
That car is so beautiful and amazing that I fail to articulate how jealous I am of the Genius Garage students.What an incredible piece of history to be able to work on. But I'm calling it right now, it's going to end up with some kind of LS coil on plug. 😄Those things are really reliable and have a ton of aftermarket support.
Spot in. F1 was AMAZING in the 80s and 90s. Looked faster too
Top gear wasn't a car show.
It was a entertainment show using cars...
This is what kills cars. Non car people seeing "car" guys that aren't.
They are intimidating. Ur so bang on. That is why so many indy cars aren't worth as much as a group c. Like i think they should be.
Think you will be back at Road America with this beast again next year? Unfortunately wasn't able to make it out that weekend this summer.
I have heard Judd is the best company to work with for rebuilding and taking care of these vintage formula engines. (I know it’s not totally vintage 2010’s) but Judd will rebuild their engines old Cosworth engines Zytek engines etc.
The GPV8 is 3.8L. Cosworth were beyond useless when trying to deal with these. Talk to Modatek in the UK for engine parts, they can't get the coils.
Isn’t it an old F2 tub…?
I have a lot of cosworth xd wiring diagrams did this lotus come with an information pack like the lola indy cars
no wiring or technical diagrams for the engine
Really cool information, time to race it more in Assetto Corsa.
what do you think about the new type 66?
There base is at donington park As far as I know. Unless that is just a dealership
None of the above. Lotus are based (still) at Hethel in Norfolk and there's no dealership at Donington. Historic Team Lotus is still also next door to the factory in Norfolk.
Formula E had a base at Donington for car prep and build, but moved to Spain in 2018.
I think he means Rodin.
@@CaseyPutsch I do mean them
@@OsellaSquadraCorse Rodin cars are at donington. On the left as you enter The pits at the Melbourne entrance
Sounds like the engineers knew what they were doing, and the sales leadership didn't at Lotus.
Cosworth might be corpo dicks, but are you a paying customer demanding support or pitching on cold calls? Not saying it's right.
Casey!!
Jeremy Clarkson is indeed an oaf!
But he's a classic British oaf, he's OUR oaf and WE love him!!
Even if it's sometimes just to laugh at his oafishness!
I think he's great too!
@@CaseyPutsch - BUT he does carry unwarranted influence!
Hell yeah brother! tell it how it is, these racing gods are just like the wizard of Oz, Smoke and Mirrors! - The press these companies put out is BS! Lewis Hamilton at least has made a difference by getting more of a mixed crew into the sport! - Best of the best? Naaah..! Left over big budget stuff that is ok, sold off for a massive over inflated price tag.. People saw threw it. (*some did) that's one of the reasons the project fell flat on it's face! Now you are working through the niggles, you'll adapt things and replace stuff to make it usable. We all look forward to you saying how it is and educating some up and coming race engineers.
I believe what you’re encountering is global level economic discrimination, intended to compartmentalize access to resources, knowledge, technology, materials and skills, to eliminate self sustainability and subsistence, and condition dependence and obedience, to enable a system of global livestock management. “us” being the livestock.
We are the carbon they intend to manage.
I’m hoping this achieves a acceptable level of rant, here, for the high level Casey sets.😜😘
Actually…. You’re spot on.
Come to think about it, they should have let Richard Hammond drive it instead, since he is the fittest of the 3 presenters.
Salty!
If it was sold to an Emirati or a Saudi car guy they would instantly swap the engine with the GTR engine LS or the Lexus V8 engines to make it reliable and it's a shame that it didn't sell but looking at lotus at that time I don't think they helped sell it to people with their arrogance and the coils are hopefully easy to make yourself instead of buying it from cosworth
I WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE 😎😎😎
Which “one of those people”?
@@CaseyPutsch the car sounds people
I would be happy to collaborate. Bunch of weirdos. I see you have multimatic dynamic dampers on the car. I live down the street and use to work there. And no they will not collaborate either.
That would be helpfull!
Magneti Marelli = NOT GOOD, if you've owned a ducati you know!
Lotus literally a producing a hypercar.. so.
IT’s electric. So basically just a child’s rc car so not ingesting
And completely against the historic values in lotus cars
The history of lotus is cars is make the lightest car possible
and one just crashed at goodwood hillclimb because of 'software' issue.....
These videos are so amazing! Keep going! 🫵💪
It would be cool if you would explain the areodynamics of the car in great detail.