{"id":87183,"date":"2022-06-13T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=87183"},"modified":"2022-06-13T01:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:30:33","slug":"lotus-exige-with-a-supercharged-honda-k20-racing-at-autodromo-riccardo-paletti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=87183","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Exige with a Supercharged Honda K20 Racing at Autodromo Riccardo Paletti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=87188\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87188\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"87188\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=87188\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lotus-Exige-with-a-supercharged-Honda-K20-inline-four-12.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,563\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lotus Exige with a supercharged Honda K20 inline-four 12\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Lotus Exige with a supercharged Honda K20 inline-four&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lotus-Exige-with-a-supercharged-Honda-K20-inline-four-12.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lotus-Exige-with-a-supercharged-Honda-K20-inline-four-12.jpg?resize=600%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lotus Exige with a supercharged Honda K20 inline-four\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-87188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lotus-Exige-with-a-supercharged-Honda-K20-inline-four-12.jpg?resize=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lotus-Exige-with-a-supercharged-Honda-K20-inline-four-12.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lotus-Exige-with-a-supercharged-Honda-K20-inline-four-12.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFeE8gz2kHJJZdRQKeg05FQ\">Ilkka Suominen<\/a> enjoys racing his Lotus Exige S2. What makes the car unique is the powertrain consisting of a supercharged Honda K20 inline-four and a Quaife QKE8J five-speed sequential transmission. Recently the pair traveled to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autodromo_Riccardo_Paletti\">Autodromo Riccardo Paletti<\/a> in Varano, Italy for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/challengellcc\/\">Challenge LLCC<\/a> event. While there Ilkka&#8217;s best lap was 1.15.368 and set a top speed of 194.9 km\/h (121.10 mph). Listen to the engine scream during the best lap below. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mWQ1XRlZfGE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFeE8gz2kHJJZdRQKeg05FQ\">Ilkka Suominen &#8211; The Lotus Honda Exige<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilkka Suominen enjoys racing his Lotus Exige S2. What makes the car unique is the powertrain consisting of a supercharged Honda K20 inline-four and a Quaife QKE8J five-speed sequential transmission. Recently the pair traveled to Autodromo Riccardo Paletti in Varano, Italy for a Challenge LLCC event. While there Ilkka&#8217;s best lap was 1.15.368 and set&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=87183\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lotus Exige with a Supercharged Honda K20 Racing at Autodromo Riccardo Paletti<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exige"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lotus-Exige-with-a-supercharged-Honda-K20-inline-four-12.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38241,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=38241","url_meta":{"origin":87183,"position":0},"title":"Lotus Exige with a Supercharged Honda K20","author":"swaptastic","date":"March 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This Lotus Exige S2 was built by Garage Calde' SAS in Italy for Ilkka Suominen. 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