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[Rangerscott]

What company engine does Lotus use?

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

What company engine does Lotus use?

Lotus has been using Toyota engines recently, but I would still call them exotic, simply because they are definitely rarer than Porsches

['73 H1 Triple]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

Holy fuck that first guy is lucky. He walked to the other side at the right damn time. I may have pooped myself if I were walking under that big ass truck and it started to fall...

Theres also this one. I know for sure this one was on here at some point....

That's what happens when you don't read about the car you're going to work on.

Right in the owner's manual it says that the front end must be secured to the lift due to the weight distribution. The Lotus in the picture was totaled since the glancing blow delaminted the frame ( it's epoxied together ).

As far as the engine, it's a Toyota block with a Yamaha head

[Adeptus_Minor]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Lotus has been using Toyota engines recently, but I would still call them exotic, simply because they are definitely rarer than Porsches

Small builder, limited line, performance oriented, expensive for what they are.
I'd say that fits well within the definition of "exotic car".

[Captain Morgan]

I worked in a Ford dealership in high school and they had a police car fall of a lift overnight. The lift was like the one in the 3rd video, with the two in-floor hydraulic posts. One side of the lift apparently had a leak and dropped slowly overnight, putting the cop car on it's side. The dealership instituted a policy of lowering all cars to the floor after that. Apparently, that shop in the 3rd video never heard about the problem since they obviously stored one car under another. Oops.

[Homeslice]

Love the 3rd video.......Too cheap to pay anyone to help.....

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by Captain Morgan

I worked in a Ford dealership in high school and they had a police car fall of a lift overnight. The lift was like the one in the 3rd video, with the two in-floor hydraulic posts. One side of the lift apparently had a leak and dropped slowly overnight, putting the cop car on it's side. The dealership instituted a policy of lowering all cars to the floor after that. Apparently, that shop in the 3rd video never heard about the problem since they obviously stored one car under another. Oops.

Shop I used to work at had automatic locks every 6" of lift. You have to release and hold them to lower the lifts.

[defector]

Originally Posted by Cutty72

Shop I used to work at had automatic locks every 6" of lift. You have to release and hold them to lower the lifts.

Yep. Even the short floor lifts have a mechanical lock.And even the old single post lifts had a mechanical lock. The bad thing about those, is you had to raise the lift all the way up for it to work.