The Lotus Grand Tourers

Welcome to the joys of Excel ownership! We look forward to hearing more about your car and your adventures with it. That's some pretty good Lotus spotting around yours, I'd be lucky to see that many Lotus in a month (outside of car shows). Maybe a consequence of the fine weather we've been having re...

Fair enough!! Yes, your methodology ensures the same load on both, so your approach is sound, at least within the limits of how accurately you can measure the length.

Both springs are the same rate - (set end to end with an M12 stud down the centre. With 25mm compression on each spring, the longer spring still 6 mm difference). That test doesn't tell you they are the same rate. If you take two items, one 6 mm longer than the other, then reduce the length of both...

Hi Tony - I don't know if you've come across Northampton Motorsport . I read an article about them in a Practical Classics several months ago. They took their car along (I forget what it was), then they can put it on the rolling road and they have a full range of all the Dellorto (and other carb) pa...

Hi Dave, I had an aftermarket immobiliser/alarm fitted to my car too, I think the alarm may have been a Cobra but I cannot remember for sure. The immobiliser has long ago lost any label to indicate its origin! By the time I owned the car, the alarm (located under the bonnet) had been disconnected, a...

Not that I'm aware of. The part-fabric trimmed cars, in particular, every car seems to be different, I've not seen another with the same cloth as mine.

Thank you - in the end there were 16 tickets sold using our club code. This is a good amount more than last year. Unfortunately the bulk of these were sold within 4 weeks of the start of the show, so they did not count towards getting extra wristbands for volunteers on the stand. I suspect the new r...

I've put in an application for next year's Resto Show at the NEC. No need to make any detailed plans yet, I'll put out a call for display cars 2-3 months before the show, although you are all welcome to make suggestions before then. I'll try and arrange my life so I can actually attend all 3 days ne...

Good morning all. At the NEC Resto Show last month I was approached by Brian Thomas from Lancaster Insurance, with a very open offer - "what can we do for your club?". My initial thoughts were related to publicity, and maybe sponsorship, of our 50th Anniversary celebrations in some way. However, sin...

For the manifold on the other side... I know some of the exhaust manifold nuts are a b@$t@rd to get to even with the engine out of the car, so will be worse still with it in the engine bay. I cannot remember for sure, but I suspect that when I changed the head gasket with engine in situ I took the h...

That's odd. I take it you have an original starter motor, not some aftermarket one? It should only be able to spin when the solenoid has engaged the starter motor gear with the flywheel. The ignition switch activates the solenoid, but the solenoid itself closes the circuit for the starter motor. If ...

Any small, independent garage, run by someone over 55 (maybe 60 these days!) who's been in the business all their life, will be more than capable of doing anything on your car that isn't highly Lotus-specific. These businesses are pure gold, and need our custom!

Nothing inherently un-Lotus about 4WD:



Size and weight... well, we'll just have to console ourselves that it is more "Lotus" than the other big, heavy, luxo-SUVs out there. And (hopefully) is earning some money!

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Quick decision to be made here! I've just been contacted by Alison (main organiser for both the NEC shows), asking if we want a stand at the show in November? She's been in contact with Richard W but he hasn't put in an application yet. I've dropped him a message but no reply. TOMORROW is the closin...