Track Record Attempt in my 500WHP Evo 5

A V6 Toyota Sound: A Collector's Delight?

Colette and I were discussing this last night, and it's got to be something to do with since it's a rear engine that can make like some sort of six-to-one collector sounds crazy. It'd be really cool if they could um kind of like put a uh like a tune on this and just give it a little bit more grunt. I feel like if this thing had an extra 50 wheel, it would uh really be gnarly. But maybe people do that, maybe that's what all the Lotus people do after they buy them, um but I think this is what a McLaren should sound like.

You know how McLaren sounds like a V8, kind of almost like an American car when I hear them? They don't sound like what I'd expect the car to sound like. I feel like this is what I expected McLaren to sound like when I see one - super exotic and kind of almost like V10ish. The throttle response is much better in race versus like normal mode, racer, damn. I did not expect to like this car this much.

Some Closing Thoughts on This Video

One on the Evo: The Slicks Definitely Blew What I Expected Out of the Water

There was a lot more feedback than I expected there's so much grip that I could hear and feel the chassis twisting. I could hear things creaking that never used to creak, I could feel the need for a higher spring rate, uh it's crazy the car felt like it was on rails. I'm glad I was able to do it; hopefully the engine situation isn't the biggest deal, and that's something we can salvage. Maybe it's just a bad plug or some sort of uh stuck injector and hopefully no damage to the ring or anything but a compression tester will tell all.

Now This Lotus: A Surprisingly Good Handling Car

I knew it would be good, but I didn't really know what to expect. And I have to say like it handled a lot like my GT3 and that kind of drove it like a rear-engine car because that's all that I knew. You can kind of get on the throttle earlier because of all the weight in the rear. But I found myself really enjoying how much you could kind of manipulate the weight of the car uh with braking and kind of trail braking, and getting on gas early and like kind of putting the grip where you need it was really fun and really uh rewarding to do laps and see improvements each time.

I got down to 118 with the car um I'll have it for a couple more days and I'll film some more exhaust clips and stuff around town. But today was just about fun getting back at the firm, getting some laps in, a little bit more details on the car: I haven't really filmed that much like all the car review people always show you all the fancy shots and pretty things but I'm just here's me driving the car.

One Thing That Stands Out

The fit and finish of the interior is really nice. I'm really bad at showing all these shots, but I like how it looks. The seats are really cool; they fit really nice. The only thing interior-wise that I think is dumb is these vents - they're like circle vents that look like they belong in like my F250 or something. It's weird because the entire interior looks beautiful. Something that I would expect out of like a Lamborghini or Ferrari um but head unit doesn't fit in these vents don't fit in if they were black, they'd look a lot better and then the back seats are kind of tiny.

I Wish There Was More

I wish the cigarette lighter was farther forward because it's kind of awkward. I didn't get to do a cup holder review on it yet but overall blown away with this thing. I think even with a stock alignment there's a bug uh just uh doing some pads to make a huge difference um but I'm pumped. I think it's crazy that they let me drive it on the track, and I'm appreciative so thank you Lotus um and uh yeah, that's it for this video. I know it's liked on the filming front, please don't hate me I'll do the next time I promise also someone commented on one of my things on Facebook saying that the track record is actually 111. What they have registered is 125, and that's what everyone always references but if there's a video that's a 111, that's going to be with my next target.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni don't think we should show this usually did we show the situation mike the issue so basically the problem that was having with the brakes it wasn't something loose like i thought i was really careful about torquing everything i was trying to be super extra and what actually was this lower control arm since the aftermarket race fab thing is a little bit beefier and when the control arm would go up the very bottom of it was nicking the brake rotor so chris actually just clearanced it a little bit last night i'm just put a little touch of paint on it and then we should be chilling john deere yellow it's really important when you get new brakes especially like performance brakes and stuff that you bend them in properly and this brakes call for 5 80 to 20 mile an hour stops you don't want to hold the brake on or left foot brake because it can overheat the pads so we'll do one real quick oh yeah okay so there's one got four more left sorry mike oh these brakes are feeling fantastic is your neck hurt yet nope a lot of people like to impress people with how fast your car accelerates i'm more of a brake type of guy you know your guy might be able to go faster but i could stop faster you know what they say about people that can't stop they hit things yep like the like button ah god dammit i always had the perception well i want to say i always but in the very beginning i had the perception that brakes that could lock up the wheels why would you want bigger brakes because you know you've got enough force to lock up the wheels but the thing is the bigger brakes you have a lot more control and you can stop without locking up the wheels so we've got more surface area we now have six pistons to distribute the load better than four let's do another braking test dude it is mind warping i think this thing would rival the gt3 rs now it must look so cool from outside sometimes i feel like watching a really fast car break is more deceiving than watching a car accelerate yeah dude these these are brakes are like every single time that i better them in again they feel better and better the only thing that i'm like a little concerned about is the people behind us are probably like what the this person does not know how to drive accelerating just a break again dude and it's so much more planted yeah before it used to like they used to kind of like lock up and it would just kind of fight me i feel like my confidence at the track is gonna be tenfold now i'm pumped they're way better than i expected it's like brembos are good so it's like hard to get that much better but yeah like those ones kind of have an end where these ones are endless wait was that isn't it kind of funny though that it break company you would think endless implies that like you're never gonna stop yeah like the track is endless or maybe your laps are endless with endless breaks we must find the origin one more and then we go get food wow too good yeah you know how people make reactive videos like react to my thousand horsepower supra it's gonna be reacting to my evo and it's big breaks and we're not even gonna accelerate fast we're just gonna go like a hundred and then just slam on the brakes but you know people normally get the girls with the big boobs to be like this like back in the seat they're going to be like this because we're breaking so hard i just passed panera so one of the things i knew was going to take quite a bit of time was the oil cooler setup so we opted to get a pre-made hks kit that comes with ducting we were gonna make our own ducting uh that would have been a very involved thing and probably added an extra couple days to the build what i really want there's a nismo duck that was discontinued that's like a i don't know if it's fiberglass or if it's carbon but it's like molded and it fits perfectly up against here and looks beautiful whereas hks when you can see it's kind of more like a sheet metal thing um but literally in the time that it took me to go get some paint you want got it all mounted up and the nice thing is it bolts all the factory location gives plenty of room for the lines gives room for the intercooler piping and then down the road if i can find one of those nismo ducks i'll probably switch it but for now um it looks pretty good i just think instead of the silver which is beneath the blue um we're going to send the stuff out to powder coat and get it done in satin black so it's a little so uh one thing i don't remember if i talked about in this video i actually fitted the halo seat from the other evo i was able to get the stock belt through and it actually like fits nice um it's sketchy using the four point harness if you do have like a roll or an incident like that three point with that seat is better than harnesses with a stock seat and i just need to not fire on the car so that was one thing i didn't tell you guys about another thing we also fit a front splitter um it's actually mounted to the chassis where the bumper is i could probably stand on it just the fiberglass would probably break um it's kind of like rivnutted and has a few brackets that marco made but i set it at a pretty decent little angle so hopefully that'll create a high pressure zone with air and actually create a little bit of down force um to get the front in the stick a little bit better i don't know much about arrow but it seems to make sense so we'll see if it actually has an impact or not but that plus the brakes plus the seat plus me not driving like a and plus the slicks did i say the slicks plus the slicks uh that should help so um chris gamingham checked the car up on the left we've actually checked over it a couple times replaced a few things alignment's different i'm pumped it's been a while since i've had this thing on track but i'm coming out swinging let's load man i love the firm but leaving at 5 00 a.m is tough we're tired our friend jim drove the lotus clutt needed to get some stuff done on our laptop and the truck so uh i'm excited today we're with evo with lotus hopefully turn some fast laps have a good time this is adam from the future listen yesterday the big drop happened with all the restock and all the merch just got added to the site a lot of it sold out initially but going through the weekend i'm sure we'll still have some stuff left and we're running a 15 off orders over eighty dollars all you're going to do is use code r34 thank you lzmov for sponsoring this video enjoy the rest i'm gonna go for my first laps on the slicks i've got them set pretty low i was suggested by one of my friends russell to run 22 in the front 25 in the rear um let them heat up and see what they get to take some measurements um so i'm gonna go get my feel see where my lap times are at starting out the day and get acclimated to the track again the grip feels tenfold the car feels fantastic i actually was wearing my fd helmet but one of the issues with that is it has ear cups for my calm and i can't hear what's going on with a car and i could feel a couple weird issues and stuff um so i think i'm gonna switch back to where my old helmet because i can have a little bit of better understanding what's going with the car mechanically but i'm pretty sure that my axles are binding pretty bad again that happened when the car was really low it just means that it has so much grip that it's actually compressing that much more now um so either need to extend the track with raise the car a little bit or put stiffer springs in so i'm going to check where the damn thing's at real quick and see if i can get away with a little bit of that helping but honestly it might just be one of those things where i'm going to need to raise the car and realign it here i know the first laps out uh the filming wasn't really the best i was just eager to get it on track since it was the first session i felt some weird noises um in addition to the axle binding once i went back out there to test again so eject the car up did a quick bolt check everything appears to be fine i just feel like maybe because there's no slip going on with the tires or the wheels i can feel the driveline chatter a lot more um and it kind of felt reminiscent of a loose um tie rod end or maybe like a loose heim or something but everything appears to be good uh i'm gonna go back out there the level of grip with the slicks is way more than i would have expected um people were saying that it would be faster but i don't think i really estimated how crazy it would be i do think i'm at a little bit of a disadvantage with these breaks i could tell after the first kind of two hot laps i could feel them getting hot still good but i just think the pads that are on it right now are probably a little bit more street than i would want for a day like today so i'll have to be mindful of that kind of do a hot lap chill for a bit do a hot lap chill for a bit um but i've got some pretty high temp fluid in there so i'm not super worried about that uh really the test now is to go see if axel's buying anymore and then if they do raise the car up um that's basically just from all the camber and the car being so low that the axles are too long so it's kind of binding them but usually the trick with that is extending the lower but then i mess up my whole alignment where if i raise it it does the same thing effectively but just actually would it really make that big of a difference yeah i think it would a little bit um so really like to not do that but we'll see oh i'm almost trippy my bad filling it up with the finest ignite you 90. uh listen guys i just ran a 113 which is the fastest i've ever run here it's a second and a half faster and it was a terrible lap my line was awful uh so i know that she's got the record in her i'm going to gas her up i want to check over a couple things adjust pressures we're looking good so so so good news is i got my fastest lap very very close to the record which i think is just 5 flat maybe i'm gonna look it up but uh it's funny i actually missed a shift so you can see it was four mile an hour slower in the street but still my fastest time yet you should feel sorry for me not being mad no just now that created a whole new dynamic i was gonna be changing my clutch and at the same time doing the transmission within a week or so and now because your trans is messed up you're gonna be like never mind i'm not gonna sell you my earbuds she slept on it i offered her the deal my fifth year synchro is gone i don't think so you want to hear something crazy on my on my lap where i ran a one twelve five eight i missed fifth gear really so all my mile an hour and all the other laps was 128 and that lap was only 125. wow so i got it i just got to let the tires go down they start getting a little greasy i'm gonna go back out foreign two sad things i realize the official timing system of the track starts at a different point than when my aim solo does and the aim uh starts later so i was never doing a full lap of the timing system so the track says i did a 113 because i didn't do a full lap and now my car's breaking up and i don't know why so i'm going to start by pulling the coil backs out see if there's anything going on in there but hopefully we'll be able to go back out because i know she's got it in her i pulled the plugs to try to um roll that out most of them look the same but i'll show you number two here it looks a fair bit leaner than the others so it's possible that um maybe from sitting for a while that injector got clogged and needs to be cleaned i want to rule out though maybe the car was getting hot i did notice the overflow is filling up quite a bit so i'm going to pull off the intake so we can get access to the fan and then i'm going to power probe the fan to trigger it make sure that the fan works because i noticed the fan wasn't really going on so it's possible we have some sort of mechanical issue there but i'm going to rule that out fan works ow arm burn you said he didn't hear it catching on though yeah i find it weird that after like running around when i popped the hood it wasn't on but i mean it kicks on at 185 and i feel like this thing is over 185 but but temp gauges were showing that it was fine i mean it looked fine but it's like a stock temp cage you know yeah i spoke to master fred and unfortunately we're making the call no more driving the evo today i took another lap out there started breaking up a little bit i just don't want to risk it it could be something dumb like a spark plug or a coil issue but there is a chance that there is some damage maybe a clogged injector caused some detonation i don't want to risk it sucks because like i said i'm pretty much like tied for the record i guess i technically would be in second because i got a one 12.58 which would be rounded up to a six regardless i'm blown away with a car i'm super happy i shaved pretty much two seconds off my last time and my laps were not even that good i'm bummed because i wanted to have a gopro set up a little bit differently and be able to uh kind of provide a bit more of an exciting angle i hope the angle was good um but i was just so excited to get out there i was like let me just have some fun let me get shake card out and after lunch i'll set up the cameras i should have known better but i'm tired and i just made a dumb decision but whatever so now we have the lotus evora gt and this thing is cool i've driven it a bit it has a supercharged toyota engine in it um i don't know a ton about it i know a little bit of a spec list but i figured i'm gonna do some driving and literally just let you guys know my first impressions because i haven't really driven it spirited um and just talked to you a couple of things that i like couple things that i don't like uh with some gopro setup and some mics so it looks cool sounds cool let's see how it does on the track all right guys so we're officially taking our first laps in the avora gt this thing is a 2020 it's got a toyota supercharged engine how much horsepower does it make 400 horsepower it's very linear torque curve it doesn't make a lot of torque but it makes enough i have a few things i want to share with you guys some bad stuff some good stuff but i kind of want to do it as we start doing the lap i don't really do car reviews and it's not really something that i'm interested in doing but getting the chance to drive a press car on the track and talk about it i think is a good excuse to review a car i'm very thankful that lotus is letting me track the car i feel like that's not a common thing that people get to do so i'm appreciated and that's cool for me because driving this car on the florida roads isn't really a good way to tell how good it is so as we pull it on the track i'll tell you guys the bad right off the bat driving this car the visibility is rough i have a hard time i think mostly because of the fact that you sit so far forward that the mirrors are kind of uh like so close to you that you have to like really turn your head and it makes it so you could miss uh stuff going on in the front of you um that the back seat's really tiny it pretty much doesn't exist um what else uh i think that's only bad things oh and the the head unit and backup camera looks like it's from 2002 um other than that uh yeah driving around town it feels very raw let's put it in race mode makes the exhaust sound cool lets it rev a little bit higher turns off some of the nannies it feels very raw the shifter feels good this is gonna be our first experience put it to the paces i got used to the evo so it's kind of not the best thing before i hop in a car like this but gotta get used to the gearing and the brakes it's my first mid-engine car that i've tracked i gotta get used to the handling characteristics because of the torque curve on this car it doesn't really feel like it's that fast but it just keeps pulling brakes are fantastic feels very planted under braking i'm curious to see what kind of lap times this thing runs my uh gg 350 ran 120s so it'll be interesting to see if this thing's similar she's spicy wow i'm thoroughly impressed it's on massive 295 cup twos helping us kind of stick to the road it's a very big tire for such a tiny car one thing i will say it is a bit heavier than you would expect being a lotus it's definitely bigger i'm definitely a bit more comfortable in it than i would have expected it's got quite a bit of room but it does weigh i think like 3 100 pounds it's a carbon edition that weighs a little bit less but i'm gonna try to focus on my lap and do a little bit less talking and see how this thing really does i'm not even using that much of the brake that's very impressive when you lift you can feel the rear engine stuff do kind of weird things yeah wow this is good first lap was a 127 not bad i gotta get back in rear wheel drive mode i'm still driving it like i drive the all-wheel drive car just starting to get my first little hints of understeer these cup twos will get hot pressures will start to get a little bit higher started off with about 32 not bad wow this thing breaks like a porsche whoa starting to get a little brake fade now 121 not bad for second lap out driving this thing i'm gonna let the brakes cool down a little bit colette what do you think nah they smell similar yeah no i'm like i'm not really even using all of the car either oh the rear view mirror visibility is kind of bad too because there's an engine there um i really don't like car reviews because i feel like when people get press cars they're kind of inclined to say nothing but good things that's why i wanted to start out with all the bad but i have to say my initial impressions with this thing on track if this thing is as reliable as a porsche it feels very engaging and it's very mechanical for a new car brakes feel great i'm sure i could do some track pads in a better alignment but initial impressions for never having driven this thing hard very good i'm gonna finish this cooldown and we'll do another hot lap and see if we can get sub 120. um that's kind of my benchmark just because that's what i would run with the gt350 on similar tires i think i did a 119 on like some semis but yeah this thing's good very impressed with this thing 120 flat brakes are very hot i noticed that we could use them sparingly and they would like last longer but as soon as i poured onto them super hard on that straight you smelt them immediately huh yeah it's still it breaks so planet and it it really reminds me of the porsche how like under firm braking you just feel like you're in control of a car sometimes with my evo i feel like the the car just has a mind of its own but there's there's absolutely 100 chance this thing will deal 119 on stock tires that's sick i guess it is 100 000 car and i guess that is kind of what you would expect from it but the real question is how reliable are these things for extended track use i know some people in the comments said they are i don't have enough personal experience but we're definitely putting it through its faces right now we'll go do a cool down there the tires down we got uh the 37 up in the front yeah make sure she's in neutral lotus is never going to give me another car after that i don't know how they made a v6 toyota sound so good colette and me were talking about this last night it's got to be something to do with since it's a rear engine that can make like some sort of like six to one collector sounds crazy it'd be really cool if they could um kind of like put a uh like a tune on this and just give it a little bit more grunt i feel like if this thing had an extra 50 wheel it would uh really be gnarly but maybe people do that maybe that's what all the lotus people do after they buy them um but it like i feel like this is what a mclaren should sound like you know how mclaren sound like a v8 kind of almost like an american car when i hear them they don't sound like what i'd expect the car to sound like i feel like this is what i expected mclaren to sound like when i see one super exotic and kind of almost like like v10ish the throttle response is much better in race versus like normal mode racer damn i did not expect to like this car this much some closing thoughts on this video one on the evo i have to say the slicks definitely uh blew what i expected out of the water there was a lot more feedback than i expected there's so much grip that i could hear and feel the chassis twisting i could hear things creaking that never used to creak i could feel the need for a higher spring rate uh it's crazy the car felt like it was on rails i'm glad i was able to do it hopefully the engine situation isn't the biggest deal and that's something we can salvage maybe it's just a bad plug or some sort of uh stuck injector and hopefully no damage to the ring or anything but a compression tester will tell all now this lotus i have to say um i knew it would be good but i didn't really know that much of what to expect and i have to say like it handled a lot like my gt3 and that kind of drove it like a rear engine car because that's all that i knew and you can kind of get on the throttle earlier because of all the weight in the rear but i found myself really enjoying how much you could kind of manipulate the weight of the car uh with braking and kind of trail braking and getting on gas early and like kind of putting the grip where you need it was really fun and really uh rewarding to do laps and see improvements each time and i got down to like 118 with the car um i'll have it for a couple more days and i'll film some more exhaust clips and stuff around town but today was just about fun getting back at the firm getting some laps in a little bit more details on the car i haven't really filmed that much like all the car review people always show you all the fancy shots and pretty things but i'm just like here's me driving the car one thing also too the fit and finish of the interior is really nice i'm really bad at showing all these shots but i like how it looks the seats are really cool they fit really nice the only thing interior wise that i think is dumb is these vents they're like circle vents that look like they belong in like my f250 or something it's weird because the entire interior looks beautiful something that i would expect out of like a lamborghini or ferrari um but head unit doesn't fit in these vents don't fit in if they were black they'd look a lot better and then the back seats kind of tiny i wish the cigarette lighter was farther forward because it's kind of awkward and i didn't get to do a cup holder review on it yet but overall blown away with this thing i think even with a stock alignment there's a bug uh just uh doing some pads to make a huge difference um but i'm pumped i think it's crazy that they let me drive it on the track but i'm appreciative so thank you lotus um and uh yeah that's it for this video i know it's liked on the filming front please don't hate me i'll do the next time i promise also someone commented on one of my things on facebook saying that the track record is actually 111. what they have registered is 125 and that's what everyone always references but if there's a video that's a 111 that's going to be with my next target i think it's doable i ran 11258 with a really bad line and definitely a lot of suspension improvements that i can make so it's going to keep me gunning for more um i really want to turn this thing back into a street car but until i get the red one built it's fun yeah so okay thank you guys hope you enjoyed this video it's been a blast and i'll see you sooni don't think we should show this usually did we show the situation mike the issue so basically the problem that was having with the brakes it wasn't something loose like i thought i was really careful about torquing everything i was trying to be super extra and what actually was this lower control arm since the aftermarket race fab thing is a little bit beefier and when the control arm would go up the very bottom of it was nicking the brake rotor so chris actually just clearanced it a little bit last night i'm just put a little touch of paint on it and then we should be chilling john deere yellow it's really important when you get new brakes especially like performance brakes and stuff that you bend them in properly and this brakes call for 5 80 to 20 mile an hour stops you don't want to hold the brake on or left foot brake because it can overheat the pads so we'll do one real quick oh yeah okay so there's one got four more left sorry mike oh these brakes are feeling fantastic is your neck hurt yet nope a lot of people like to impress people with how fast your car accelerates i'm more of a brake type of guy you know your guy might be able to go faster but i could stop faster you know what they say about people that can't stop they hit things yep like the like button ah god dammit i always had the perception well i want to say i always but in the very beginning i had the perception that brakes that could lock up the wheels why would you want bigger brakes because you know you've got enough force to lock up the wheels but the thing is the bigger brakes you have a lot more control and you can stop without locking up the wheels so we've got more surface area we now have six pistons to distribute the load better than four let's do another braking test dude it is mind warping i think this thing would rival the gt3 rs now it must look so cool from outside sometimes i feel like watching a really fast car break is more deceiving than watching a car accelerate yeah dude these these are brakes are like every single time that i better them in again they feel better and better the only thing that i'm like a little concerned about is the people behind us are probably like what the this person does not know how to drive accelerating just a break again dude and it's so much more planted yeah before it used to like they used to kind of like lock up and it would just kind of fight me i feel like my confidence at the track is gonna be tenfold now i'm pumped they're way better than i expected it's like brembos are good so it's like hard to get that much better but yeah like those ones kind of have an end where these ones are endless wait was that isn't it kind of funny though that it break company you would think endless implies that like you're never gonna stop yeah like the track is endless or maybe your laps are endless with endless breaks we must find the origin one more and then we go get food wow too good yeah you know how people make reactive videos like react to my thousand horsepower supra it's gonna be reacting to my evo and it's big breaks and we're not even gonna accelerate fast we're just gonna go like a hundred and then just slam on the brakes but you know people normally get the girls with the big boobs to be like this like back in the seat they're going to be like this because we're breaking so hard i just passed panera so one of the things i knew was going to take quite a bit of time was the oil cooler setup so we opted to get a pre-made hks kit that comes with ducting we were gonna make our own ducting uh that would have been a very involved thing and probably added an extra couple days to the build what i really want there's a nismo duck that was discontinued that's like a i don't know if it's fiberglass or if it's carbon but it's like molded and it fits perfectly up against here and looks beautiful whereas hks when you can see it's kind of more like a sheet metal thing um but literally in the time that it took me to go get some paint you want got it all mounted up and the nice thing is it bolts all the factory location gives plenty of room for the lines gives room for the intercooler piping and then down the road if i can find one of those nismo ducks i'll probably switch it but for now um it looks pretty good i just think instead of the silver which is beneath the blue um we're going to send the stuff out to powder coat and get it done in satin black so it's a little so uh one thing i don't remember if i talked about in this video i actually fitted the halo seat from the other evo i was able to get the stock belt through and it actually like fits nice um it's sketchy using the four point harness if you do have like a roll or an incident like that three point with that seat is better than harnesses with a stock seat and i just need to not fire on the car so that was one thing i didn't tell you guys about another thing we also fit a front splitter um it's actually mounted to the chassis where the bumper is i could probably stand on it just the fiberglass would probably break um it's kind of like rivnutted and has a few brackets that marco made but i set it at a pretty decent little angle so hopefully that'll create a high pressure zone with air and actually create a little bit of down force um to get the front in the stick a little bit better i don't know much about arrow but it seems to make sense so we'll see if it actually has an impact or not but that plus the brakes plus the seat plus me not driving like a and plus the slicks did i say the slicks plus the slicks uh that should help so um chris gamingham checked the car up on the left we've actually checked over it a couple times replaced a few things alignment's different i'm pumped it's been a while since i've had this thing on track but i'm coming out swinging let's load man i love the firm but leaving at 5 00 a.m is tough we're tired our friend jim drove the lotus clutt needed to get some stuff done on our laptop and the truck so uh i'm excited today we're with evo with lotus hopefully turn some fast laps have a good time this is adam from the future listen yesterday the big drop happened with all the restock and all the merch just got added to the site a lot of it sold out initially but going through the weekend i'm sure we'll still have some stuff left and we're running a 15 off orders over eighty dollars all you're going to do is use code r34 thank you lzmov for sponsoring this video enjoy the rest i'm gonna go for my first laps on the slicks i've got them set pretty low i was suggested by one of my friends russell to run 22 in the front 25 in the rear um let them heat up and see what they get to take some measurements um so i'm gonna go get my feel see where my lap times are at starting out the day and get acclimated to the track again the grip feels tenfold the car feels fantastic i actually was wearing my fd helmet but one of the issues with that is it has ear cups for my calm and i can't hear what's going on with a car and i could feel a couple weird issues and stuff um so i think i'm gonna switch back to where my old helmet because i can have a little bit of better understanding what's going with the car mechanically but i'm pretty sure that my axles are binding pretty bad again that happened when the car was really low it just means that it has so much grip that it's actually compressing that much more now um so either need to extend the track with raise the car a little bit or put stiffer springs in so i'm going to check where the damn thing's at real quick and see if i can get away with a little bit of that helping but honestly it might just be one of those things where i'm going to need to raise the car and realign it here i know the first laps out uh the filming wasn't really the best i was just eager to get it on track since it was the first session i felt some weird noises um in addition to the axle binding once i went back out there to test again so eject the car up did a quick bolt check everything appears to be fine i just feel like maybe because there's no slip going on with the tires or the wheels i can feel the driveline chatter a lot more um and it kind of felt reminiscent of a loose um tie rod end or maybe like a loose heim or something but everything appears to be good uh i'm gonna go back out there the level of grip with the slicks is way more than i would have expected um people were saying that it would be faster but i don't think i really estimated how crazy it would be i do think i'm at a little bit of a disadvantage with these breaks i could tell after the first kind of two hot laps i could feel them getting hot still good but i just think the pads that are on it right now are probably a little bit more street than i would want for a day like today so i'll have to be mindful of that kind of do a hot lap chill for a bit do a hot lap chill for a bit um but i've got some pretty high temp fluid in there so i'm not super worried about that uh really the test now is to go see if axel's buying anymore and then if they do raise the car up um that's basically just from all the camber and the car being so low that the axles are too long so it's kind of binding them but usually the trick with that is extending the lower but then i mess up my whole alignment where if i raise it it does the same thing effectively but just actually would it really make that big of a difference yeah i think it would a little bit um so really like to not do that but we'll see oh i'm almost trippy my bad filling it up with the finest ignite you 90. uh listen guys i just ran a 113 which is the fastest i've ever run here it's a second and a half faster and it was a terrible lap my line was awful uh so i know that she's got the record in her i'm going to gas her up i want to check over a couple things adjust pressures we're looking good so so so good news is i got my fastest lap very very close to the record which i think is just 5 flat maybe i'm gonna look it up but uh it's funny i actually missed a shift so you can see it was four mile an hour slower in the street but still my fastest time yet you should feel sorry for me not being mad no just now that created a whole new dynamic i was gonna be changing my clutch and at the same time doing the transmission within a week or so and now because your trans is messed up you're gonna be like never mind i'm not gonna sell you my earbuds she slept on it i offered her the deal my fifth year synchro is gone i don't think so you want to hear something crazy on my on my lap where i ran a one twelve five eight i missed fifth gear really so all my mile an hour and all the other laps was 128 and that lap was only 125. wow so i got it i just got to let the tires go down they start getting a little greasy i'm gonna go back out foreign two sad things i realize the official timing system of the track starts at a different point than when my aim solo does and the aim uh starts later so i was never doing a full lap of the timing system so the track says i did a 113 because i didn't do a full lap and now my car's breaking up and i don't know why so i'm going to start by pulling the coil backs out see if there's anything going on in there but hopefully we'll be able to go back out because i know she's got it in her i pulled the plugs to try to um roll that out most of them look the same but i'll show you number two here it looks a fair bit leaner than the others so it's possible that um maybe from sitting for a while that injector got clogged and needs to be cleaned i want to rule out though maybe the car was getting hot i did notice the overflow is filling up quite a bit so i'm going to pull off the intake so we can get access to the fan and then i'm going to power probe the fan to trigger it make sure that the fan works because i noticed the fan wasn't really going on so it's possible we have some sort of mechanical issue there but i'm going to rule that out fan works ow arm burn you said he didn't hear it catching on though yeah i find it weird that after like running around when i popped the hood it wasn't on but i mean it kicks on at 185 and i feel like this thing is over 185 but but temp gauges were showing that it was fine i mean it looked fine but it's like a stock temp cage you know yeah i spoke to master fred and unfortunately we're making the call no more driving the evo today i took another lap out there started breaking up a little bit i just don't want to risk it it could be something dumb like a spark plug or a coil issue but there is a chance that there is some damage maybe a clogged injector caused some detonation i don't want to risk it sucks because like i said i'm pretty much like tied for the record i guess i technically would be in second because i got a one 12.58 which would be rounded up to a six regardless i'm blown away with a car i'm super happy i shaved pretty much two seconds off my last time and my laps were not even that good i'm bummed because i wanted to have a gopro set up a little bit differently and be able to uh kind of provide a bit more of an exciting angle i hope the angle was good um but i was just so excited to get out there i was like let me just have some fun let me get shake card out and after lunch i'll set up the cameras i should have known better but i'm tired and i just made a dumb decision but whatever so now we have the lotus evora gt and this thing is cool i've driven it a bit it has a supercharged toyota engine in it um i don't know a ton about it i know a little bit of a spec list but i figured i'm gonna do some driving and literally just let you guys know my first impressions because i haven't really driven it spirited um and just talked to you a couple of things that i like couple things that i don't like uh with some gopro setup and some mics so it looks cool sounds cool let's see how it does on the track all right guys so we're officially taking our first laps in the avora gt this thing is a 2020 it's got a toyota supercharged engine how much horsepower does it make 400 horsepower it's very linear torque curve it doesn't make a lot of torque but it makes enough i have a few things i want to share with you guys some bad stuff some good stuff but i kind of want to do it as we start doing the lap i don't really do car reviews and it's not really something that i'm interested in doing but getting the chance to drive a press car on the track and talk about it i think is a good excuse to review a car i'm very thankful that lotus is letting me track the car i feel like that's not a common thing that people get to do so i'm appreciated and that's cool for me because driving this car on the florida roads isn't really a good way to tell how good it is so as we pull it on the track i'll tell you guys the bad right off the bat driving this car the visibility is rough i have a hard time i think mostly because of the fact that you sit so far forward that the mirrors are kind of uh like so close to you that you have to like really turn your head and it makes it so you could miss uh stuff going on in the front of you um that the back seat's really tiny it pretty much doesn't exist um what else uh i think that's only bad things oh and the the head unit and backup camera looks like it's from 2002 um other than that uh yeah driving around town it feels very raw let's put it in race mode makes the exhaust sound cool lets it rev a little bit higher turns off some of the nannies it feels very raw the shifter feels good this is gonna be our first experience put it to the paces i got used to the evo so it's kind of not the best thing before i hop in a car like this but gotta get used to the gearing and the brakes it's my first mid-engine car that i've tracked i gotta get used to the handling characteristics because of the torque curve on this car it doesn't really feel like it's that fast but it just keeps pulling brakes are fantastic feels very planted under braking i'm curious to see what kind of lap times this thing runs my uh gg 350 ran 120s so it'll be interesting to see if this thing's similar she's spicy wow i'm thoroughly impressed it's on massive 295 cup twos helping us kind of stick to the road it's a very big tire for such a tiny car one thing i will say it is a bit heavier than you would expect being a lotus it's definitely bigger i'm definitely a bit more comfortable in it than i would have expected it's got quite a bit of room but it does weigh i think like 3 100 pounds it's a carbon edition that weighs a little bit less but i'm gonna try to focus on my lap and do a little bit less talking and see how this thing really does i'm not even using that much of the brake that's very impressive when you lift you can feel the rear engine stuff do kind of weird things yeah wow this is good first lap was a 127 not bad i gotta get back in rear wheel drive mode i'm still driving it like i drive the all-wheel drive car just starting to get my first little hints of understeer these cup twos will get hot pressures will start to get a little bit higher started off with about 32 not bad wow this thing breaks like a porsche whoa starting to get a little brake fade now 121 not bad for second lap out driving this thing i'm gonna let the brakes cool down a little bit colette what do you think nah they smell similar yeah no i'm like i'm not really even using all of the car either oh the rear view mirror visibility is kind of bad too because there's an engine there um i really don't like car reviews because i feel like when people get press cars they're kind of inclined to say nothing but good things that's why i wanted to start out with all the bad but i have to say my initial impressions with this thing on track if this thing is as reliable as a porsche it feels very engaging and it's very mechanical for a new car brakes feel great i'm sure i could do some track pads in a better alignment but initial impressions for never having driven this thing hard very good i'm gonna finish this cooldown and we'll do another hot lap and see if we can get sub 120. um that's kind of my benchmark just because that's what i would run with the gt350 on similar tires i think i did a 119 on like some semis but yeah this thing's good very impressed with this thing 120 flat brakes are very hot i noticed that we could use them sparingly and they would like last longer but as soon as i poured onto them super hard on that straight you smelt them immediately huh yeah it's still it breaks so planet and it it really reminds me of the porsche how like under firm braking you just feel like you're in control of a car sometimes with my evo i feel like the the car just has a mind of its own but there's there's absolutely 100 chance this thing will deal 119 on stock tires that's sick i guess it is 100 000 car and i guess that is kind of what you would expect from it but the real question is how reliable are these things for extended track use i know some people in the comments said they are i don't have enough personal experience but we're definitely putting it through its faces right now we'll go do a cool down there the tires down we got uh the 37 up in the front yeah make sure she's in neutral lotus is never going to give me another car after that i don't know how they made a v6 toyota sound so good colette and me were talking about this last night it's got to be something to do with since it's a rear engine that can make like some sort of like six to one collector sounds crazy it'd be really cool if they could um kind of like put a uh like a tune on this and just give it a little bit more grunt i feel like if this thing had an extra 50 wheel it would uh really be gnarly but maybe people do that maybe that's what all the lotus people do after they buy them um but it like i feel like this is what a mclaren should sound like you know how mclaren sound like a v8 kind of almost like an american car when i hear them they don't sound like what i'd expect the car to sound like i feel like this is what i expected mclaren to sound like when i see one super exotic and kind of almost like like v10ish the throttle response is much better in race versus like normal mode racer damn i did not expect to like this car this much some closing thoughts on this video one on the evo i have to say the slicks definitely uh blew what i expected out of the water there was a lot more feedback than i expected there's so much grip that i could hear and feel the chassis twisting i could hear things creaking that never used to creak i could feel the need for a higher spring rate uh it's crazy the car felt like it was on rails i'm glad i was able to do it hopefully the engine situation isn't the biggest deal and that's something we can salvage maybe it's just a bad plug or some sort of uh stuck injector and hopefully no damage to the ring or anything but a compression tester will tell all now this lotus i have to say um i knew it would be good but i didn't really know that much of what to expect and i have to say like it handled a lot like my gt3 and that kind of drove it like a rear engine car because that's all that i knew and you can kind of get on the throttle earlier because of all the weight in the rear but i found myself really enjoying how much you could kind of manipulate the weight of the car uh with braking and kind of trail braking and getting on gas early and like kind of putting the grip where you need it was really fun and really uh rewarding to do laps and see improvements each time and i got down to like 118 with the car um i'll have it for a couple more days and i'll film some more exhaust clips and stuff around town but today was just about fun getting back at the firm getting some laps in a little bit more details on the car i haven't really filmed that much like all the car review people always show you all the fancy shots and pretty things but i'm just like here's me driving the car one thing also too the fit and finish of the interior is really nice i'm really bad at showing all these shots but i like how it looks the seats are really cool they fit really nice the only thing interior wise that i think is dumb is these vents they're like circle vents that look like they belong in like my f250 or something it's weird because the entire interior looks beautiful something that i would expect out of like a lamborghini or ferrari um but head unit doesn't fit in these vents don't fit in if they were black they'd look a lot better and then the back seats kind of tiny i wish the cigarette lighter was farther forward because it's kind of awkward and i didn't get to do a cup holder review on it yet but overall blown away with this thing i think even with a stock alignment there's a bug uh just uh doing some pads to make a huge difference um but i'm pumped i think it's crazy that they let me drive it on the track but i'm appreciative so thank you lotus um and uh yeah that's it for this video i know it's liked on the filming front please don't hate me i'll do the next time i promise also someone commented on one of my things on facebook saying that the track record is actually 111. what they have registered is 125 and that's what everyone always references but if there's a video that's a 111 that's going to be with my next target i think it's doable i ran 11258 with a really bad line and definitely a lot of suspension improvements that i can make so it's going to keep me gunning for more um i really want to turn this thing back into a street car but until i get the red one built it's fun yeah so okay thank you guys hope you enjoyed this video it's been a blast and i'll see you soon\n"