>>>Is the SCCA stock class issue with the rear shocks specifically? Also, would the Lotus versions have the same SCCA issues and is there any difference between the Ohlin shocks you purchased and the Lotus equivalent?<<<
Lotus does not design shocks specifically to meet SCCA rules and noone else does either unless that comes more or less automatically. We are dealing with a slightly strange set or rules but they are what they are. The Lotus PNs are the same I'm told. To develop something like this you have to buy stuff measure it go through various steps - that is going on now. I hope that they can come up with an SCCA version as well as a Non-SCCA version. The latter would likely have more convenient adjustments but would not necessarily function any differently. On the rear shock question, the Earlier Elise variations used shorter rear dampers than ours. They updated the rear suspension and subframe as part of the Toyota efforts. The Federal shocks are about 1 1/2 inches longer than prior versions, same travel though.