Solved -PJ351- Jörg Helmling "nur so zu Spaß" Lotus-based car

[Allemano]

From the infos the website provides it's not obvious if this is a Lotus test vehicle for their own products or only a self-built spare part car. I would rather say it's the latter.
They write "nur so zu Spaß" which means nothing more than "only for fun" and like that mini-scooter below there's nothing mentioned about its purpose/history.

However: what makes you find these obscure mysteries again and again?  
(for me the biggest mystery at all... )

[Amsterdam]

Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Jörg Helmling

Fragen / Questions ?    Mail to      Lotus@kanzlei-helmling.de 
Impressum:Jörg Helmling, Willstätterstraße 30, 90449 Nürnberg  Tel.:0911/4622390 Fax:0911/619442

Was this all you where looking for? As said by Allemano no further info then ''/And just for fun, we have the / testing just for fun.''

[Paul Jaray]

Amsterdam, you found it!
No other info I need (because you saw yourself the source isn't that generous) and I'll move it soon.
Sorry for being late...

[Amsterdam]

No problem, glad the answer is sufficient.  Great puzzle and indeed a very strange combination of activeties on his site

[Jörg]

Hello Guys,

I am the builder of the car you were looking for. If you are interrested some details:

The chassis is a Lotus Excel SE from 1987. The engine has special cams and is completly worked. It has 190 hp at 6960 revs normaly. With a switchable ZF-charger it has about 280 hp at 6850 revs.

Rear differential is changed from 3.9:1 to 4.3:1 and has a LSD out of a Toyota rallye-car.

The car is streetlegal.

The weight is around 850 kg. The bodywork of the car is designed and built by myself. It is a mixture of an anti-roll-cage which holds the seats and the steering and some alloy strenght with gfk. That was the easiest way to built. And the chassis is much stronger. That's good for a well working adjustable suspension with race coils and dampers.

I lowered the chassis/suspension about 10 cm and placed most of the parts as low as posible.

I built the car from 1990-1995 on my own an use it since 1995 in daily traffic. The car did about 50.000 km in the new dress. Last year in August I drove in one day 1.621 km through France to Spain. 5 Days later back. The only problem I had, was the heat in and outside the car. No technical damage!

Equiped with semisportive tyres the racetrack is the place it does it's best. The car knows the Hockenheimring better then me.



Regards 

Jörg

[Allemano]

Great post, thank you Jörg!


Danke für Deinen Kommentar!
Einer der Gründe warum dieses Forum so fasziniert, ist, dass sich hin und wieder die Erbauer/Besitzer der Autos melden, die hier als Rätsel eingestellt wurden! Und dazu auch noch eine Vielzahl von Informationen liefern.

[Paul Jaray]

Thank you Jörg!

Have you got other pics of it? The front view is quite original, I wonder how it is in the other views.
Nice job! 

[Jörg]

Hy Guys,

tried to put some pics in. But I can't. The system didn't work to copy my file.

I need an advice. Sorry

Jörg

[Paul Jaray]

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=17103.0 

If you need to post more than a picture there is the "(more attachments)" option...if it's still not working, make sure they are of the right type: jpg, gif, png, jpeg, mpeg, etc...

if it is still not clear, just ask!

[Jörg]

Ok, if anyone gives me his email adress, I can send him the pictures

I don't find a more attechments button

Regards

Jörg

[Paul Jaray]

Email sent!