Originally Posted by LantanaTX

Hello all,

The V8 is now in Phoenix with a happy new owner, but I wanted to say it has been an incredible honor to be part of this group. The last five and half years have been great and I have a lot of great memories. Sharring information and improving our cars has been great as well as the meets I attended such as The Dragon, Texas Motor Speedway and the run to Lockenback (spelled wrong for sure) with the Austin folks. I shared some good meals at Babe's and discovered a special kind of Apple Pie thanks to 32Crazy. I will still be around and checking in here. I will never forget the reactions by those who I gave a ride to... especially Pizza. at one point I wasn't sure if he was excited or about to die. Thankfully he was just having a great time!

It is nice to now have two cars so I don't have to worry about getting every project done before Monday morning. I now have a CLK320 for daily driving and the '89 Lotus as my new project. I was at Cars and Coffee this past Saturday and the North Texas Lotus club gave me a warm greeting. I am not sure the Lotus guys are ready for me I am already stirring things up. Get this... The best suspension setup is considered to be a combination of Bilstein's with 2.5 inch Eibach coilovers. You have to buy this directly from Lotus as a package for $3,300 plus tax! Many people have done this. Guess what?, by calling Bilstein I figured out what the components are and the shocks run about $450 on Ebay and standard 2.5" coilover springs are dirt cheap in any spring rate you could want. have looked into this becuase the racing coilovers on the car now is beating me to death. this car was raced on a regular basis. the nice thing about buying a racer is getting all the spare parts with it!! This car came with its own parts store! Here is a picture of the Esprit from last Saturday. I will be doing all the same mods I did on the Crossfire including the V8 swap. Take care everyone and take care of those beautiful Crossfire's.