solder_guy
12-16-2005, 08:18 AM
ROTUS LTD
7315 Parkview Drive
"Eastview"
Frederick, MD 21701
ROTUS SEVEN - The Great Get-a-Way Machine
The car you have just seen is a Rotus Seven. A car quite obviously derived from the venerable concept of the "wind in the face" English Ford powered Lotus 7. We of Rotus Ltd. have labored to create a motor car with some of the technical and physical problems of that Old English Forebearer and to engineer into our car the legendary reliability of the Japanese Toyota automotive componentry in conjunction with our state of the art formula car suspension geometry.
The Rotus Seven is available as a kit car, consisting of every single piece needed to drive your finished vehicle away with about one easy weekend's worth of your own effort in installing a new, used, or rebuilt Toyota Corolla 2T or 3T engine and transmission.
If you have an older Toyota Corolla whose body has seen better days, with our kit is is very easy to transform its still healthy mechanical pieces into an exciting Rotus Seven roadster. You may instead wish to source such pieces from your local auto salvage yard where an even lower mileage newer care may lie waiting to be recycled.
Although the Rotus Seven has been designed for a bolt-in any of the various versions of the 1600 - 1800cc T series motors, any mechanically inclined individual can fit whatever motor he wants, within reason. Yes, a Datsun, Mazda, Porsche water-cooled, VW Rabbit, Pinto, Chevette, Volvo, MG, Triumph, etc. motors will fit. No, a 350 Chevy, 302 Ford, or Chrysler Hemi won't. There is, however, enough bay space to house one of the new lightweight Cadillac aluminum block V-8's, or one of the old aluminum Buick/Olds/Pontiac V-8's will work - if you simply must have cubic inches.
Of the T-series motors, an older stock 1600 of about 70 H.P. will make a reliable, dependable day-to-day fun car. The 1800 cc version of the same engine is about 90 H.P. The Japanese 2T/TEUG (see sources) motor is about 1600 cc double overhead camshaft engine of about 115 H.P. and that engine with a set of 85mm pistons and a 3T crankshaft will end up at about 2000cc which with proper camshafts and a carburetors can produce 155-165 exciting horses.
The car was designed with the 3T power train; however, because for many years the "T" series cars were the largest selling models in the entire world and there are many such power trains in late model, low mileage wrecks at reasonable proces and excelleent condition in the salvage yards of the U.S.
The most recent version of the 3T motor is found in the home market Toyota Celica and Cressida models where it is doing duty as an 1800 cc double overhead camshaft - 16 valve - electronic fuel injected - Turbo charged - 170 H.P. power plant. The American market will probably receive their version at the latest in 1986 and possibly in a 1985 vehicle. This "strictly stock" engine will undoubtedly transform a Rotus Seven into a veritable Tiger of a road car.
The rear light assemblies, radiator hoses, brakes, ignition system, brake and clutch master cylinders, instruments and switches are all stock items from either a used Toyota or new from your nearby Toyota dealer, as are the tires and wheels should you choose not to go the custom after market route.
What makes the car outstanding, however, is the inboard mounted coil-over rising rate front suspension system engineered by A. Lee Kaiser. Truly original amongst road cars, it is the common to the finest handling race cars of the world. It is this highly sophisticated front geometry that enables the Rotus Seven driver to drive both safely and swiftly over any road surface. With a modified Toyota Tercel Rack and pinion steering assembly and another pair of famous Koni coil over shock absorbers at the front end of the car, it's superb handling qulities are almost limited only by the competency of the driver.
All four fenders and the nose cone of the body are of molded fiberglass. The chrome Quartz - Halide head lamps sit low between the front fenders and the louvered aluminum hood.
7315 Parkview Drive
"Eastview"
Frederick, MD 21701
ROTUS SEVEN - The Great Get-a-Way Machine
The car you have just seen is a Rotus Seven. A car quite obviously derived from the venerable concept of the "wind in the face" English Ford powered Lotus 7. We of Rotus Ltd. have labored to create a motor car with some of the technical and physical problems of that Old English Forebearer and to engineer into our car the legendary reliability of the Japanese Toyota automotive componentry in conjunction with our state of the art formula car suspension geometry.
The Rotus Seven is available as a kit car, consisting of every single piece needed to drive your finished vehicle away with about one easy weekend's worth of your own effort in installing a new, used, or rebuilt Toyota Corolla 2T or 3T engine and transmission.
If you have an older Toyota Corolla whose body has seen better days, with our kit is is very easy to transform its still healthy mechanical pieces into an exciting Rotus Seven roadster. You may instead wish to source such pieces from your local auto salvage yard where an even lower mileage newer care may lie waiting to be recycled.
Although the Rotus Seven has been designed for a bolt-in any of the various versions of the 1600 - 1800cc T series motors, any mechanically inclined individual can fit whatever motor he wants, within reason. Yes, a Datsun, Mazda, Porsche water-cooled, VW Rabbit, Pinto, Chevette, Volvo, MG, Triumph, etc. motors will fit. No, a 350 Chevy, 302 Ford, or Chrysler Hemi won't. There is, however, enough bay space to house one of the new lightweight Cadillac aluminum block V-8's, or one of the old aluminum Buick/Olds/Pontiac V-8's will work - if you simply must have cubic inches.
Of the T-series motors, an older stock 1600 of about 70 H.P. will make a reliable, dependable day-to-day fun car. The 1800 cc version of the same engine is about 90 H.P. The Japanese 2T/TEUG (see sources) motor is about 1600 cc double overhead camshaft engine of about 115 H.P. and that engine with a set of 85mm pistons and a 3T crankshaft will end up at about 2000cc which with proper camshafts and a carburetors can produce 155-165 exciting horses.
The car was designed with the 3T power train; however, because for many years the "T" series cars were the largest selling models in the entire world and there are many such power trains in late model, low mileage wrecks at reasonable proces and excelleent condition in the salvage yards of the U.S.
The most recent version of the 3T motor is found in the home market Toyota Celica and Cressida models where it is doing duty as an 1800 cc double overhead camshaft - 16 valve - electronic fuel injected - Turbo charged - 170 H.P. power plant. The American market will probably receive their version at the latest in 1986 and possibly in a 1985 vehicle. This "strictly stock" engine will undoubtedly transform a Rotus Seven into a veritable Tiger of a road car.
The rear light assemblies, radiator hoses, brakes, ignition system, brake and clutch master cylinders, instruments and switches are all stock items from either a used Toyota or new from your nearby Toyota dealer, as are the tires and wheels should you choose not to go the custom after market route.
What makes the car outstanding, however, is the inboard mounted coil-over rising rate front suspension system engineered by A. Lee Kaiser. Truly original amongst road cars, it is the common to the finest handling race cars of the world. It is this highly sophisticated front geometry that enables the Rotus Seven driver to drive both safely and swiftly over any road surface. With a modified Toyota Tercel Rack and pinion steering assembly and another pair of famous Koni coil over shock absorbers at the front end of the car, it's superb handling qulities are almost limited only by the competency of the driver.
All four fenders and the nose cone of the body are of molded fiberglass. The chrome Quartz - Halide head lamps sit low between the front fenders and the louvered aluminum hood.