Well i used to work for a trackday company, who were well into their elises and there were many discussions about getting 200bhp from an elise.
The K20A fitted the bill perfectly and with the 6speed box that comes with it, you had the perfect match.
I ended up working for BLiNK Motorsport that did the K20A conversions on elises and exiges for trackday customers.
It makes a bloody quick car we timed it
(uphill on the melbourne loop) at 4.5 secs to 60 and 9.5 to 100mph.
In all honesty its too fast for a road car, i've driven them extensively in the UK and eurotrips.
The manner in which it piles on the speed puts you into serious licence losing territory very quickly.
I also know people who have raced K20A engined elises.
They prove to be very competitive in Britcar.
Also the great thing about the K20A engined cars is that you can thrash them all day everyday and they just keep going.
In fact, we used to hire out a K20A engined elise, it was more reliable than the modestly tuned caterham superlights that we also hired.
I don't understand your point about preferring a 200bhp K-series.
The VHPD was synominous with engines going boom.
Also the 190bhp was a bit of a dream in all honesty.
After a few experiences of this people would generally opt for the K20A.
Yes it is expensive if it breaks, but the point is, it generally doesn't.
Possibly its worth remembering that the K20A puts out 200bhp out of the box whereas the K-series doesn't.
Fair comment about the price of the transplant, it isn't cheap, but then i guess if you are going to be keeping the car for a reasonable period of time, you have to add up how much its going to cost to keep a K-series making similar power in fine fettle.
Remind who you are/what you drive etc and why you are into this thread when you don't seem to post elsewhere.
Are you from SELOC per chance?
