Top off-roading too 
Parking in Milan is hard man!
Ditto. Agreed
I picked up the Exige yesterday and drove around the Como lake for a bit. Itās hell but itās heaven and I am super happy with it.
I left it at a shop which carried out some odd old recalls and calibrated the APS. He also said that there was a breather pipe that was disconnected, fixing this helped quite a bit with idling and in general the car felt more responsive.
I enjoyed my little drive of 200kms, finally passing total of 40k km. The only unpleasant thing is that I discovered that this car does not have LSD. This will be addressed soon when I will decide to fix the occasional 2 to 3rd gear grind.
I was able to secure an Emerald K6 so I will drop the car off at Cerini Lotus for install and tune. Additionally I bought some Magnacore cables, Verniers and O2 wodeband.
I will also ask them to check and adjust the valves tolerances. Anything else āwhile you are in thereā?
I will also install a sandwich plate for the oil gauges - currently need to source the oil temp and pressure ones.
Fun fact, one of the first owners was in Monaco and his name is Alex Pasta, apparently he was a WRC driver at some point.
I just now that the door line of this car is lower than a truckās tire: scary.
The s1 exige looks simply stunning. Always helped by a beautiful Italian backdrop.
I think so - I always liked its looks, I didnāt know I was going to like it as much in grey
Italy has wonderful roads. I recommend also the area near Panoramica Zegna and the Oropa monastery, just west of lago Maggiore.
Thanks for the tip. That pic is from 2016, I think but, sadly, I donāt expect to be back anytime soon.
Did another 200kms before dropping it off for the ecu map work.
I swapped cars with a friend who has a base S1 and man, what a difference. Overall the S1 felt more ātouringā and GT, with a lazy turn in and an engine that said everything it needed to say at 5000rpms.
Very cool car anyway, with more torque down low to make it friendlier to drive. Butā¦I will keep my Exige thanks 
Picture to show how rich the map is 
Yep thatās certainly rich
Got the car back after a tune at a Lotus Dealer shop. We did valve adjustment, verniers and emerald k6. Dynoed at 190hp now, the idle sounds perfect and the whole drivetrain is much quiter. And now it pulls really hard past 6000. It was impressive to feel it pushing even more from 7000 to 8000.
The K series is definitely an agricultural engine but this tune has refined the car.
Highly recommended and in hindsight I should have never bought an Exige that had not been tuned.
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