Evora GT Clutch, Flywheel & Delay Valve Replacement

 The Evora GT is an amazing sportscar that has true supercar potential.  We've successfully tuned one to 500hp and enhanced it's brakes and handling.  The feel and sound of this car is still quite thrilling and dramatically better than most modern sportscars on offer.  The Evora has one issue that should be considered before purchasing one - it's clutch.  If you are considering one of these cars, make sure to have the clutch operation inspected by someone who knows these cars.

We received an Evora GT from a new owner who bought the car from the East Coast.  Upon delivery, he noticed the clutch did not operate the way he expected.  He immediately sent it to us and we confirmed that the clutch needed replacement.

A clutch replacement is an engine out job which requires a rear clam removal.  We got to work...  

The clutch and flywheel both showed hot spots that caused the performance issues.  

We replaced the parts with factory parts but one key part we replaced was the Clutch Delay Valve with our Evora Clutch Line (Delete Pipe).  We Blogged about this previously: HERE.  

We believe the factory delay valve may have caused the previous owner to slip the clutch in response to the delay they were feeling when driving.  Or they were simply dumping the clutch and doing drag strip launches.  

This is much easier on a GT with the engine out but can still be done on cars with an engine still installed.

We installed our ESWkit as well to smooth out the shifting of the car.

Oil Cooler Delete - Highly Recommended

 Lotus fit two oil coolers to the 2005 Elise.  Oil Temp testing by the community revealed that we have an over cooling problem with our cars.  These cars have significantly more oil capacity thanks to the twin coolers and associated piping.  We firmly believe cold oil is contributing the cam wear that many have experienced.  

Lotus deleted one of the coolers starting in 2006 - unless you have a Sport or Track Pack equipped car.  They used a hard line pipe in place of the oil cooler (as shown above) on the passenger side of the car.  We have been purchasing these lines to delete the extra cooling in our own cars - including our 111RS.

The OE part is no longer available so we decided to create our own using some parts that we have used in other oiling solutions that we offer.  So we stole some bits from our ULTRAliteLINES and HOTplate to create our own oil cooler delete pipe.  We are installing this onto a good clients car.

We now have enough experience to recommend deleting one cooler on all street-only cars and most track cars.  As a result. we will create a part for sale based on this first article soon.