The Lotus Grand Tourers

If you are coming as a visitor (rather than to work the stand), you can apparently save £5 on the (exhorbitant) NEC car parking by booking in advance.

There will be a strictly limited number of car park passes for the club, which will be for those who volunteer to man our stand.

If anyone needs to book a hotel, there's a special exhibitor's link that promises "up to 30% off".

OK, I've just got access to the Exhibitor Manual. I'll have a more thorough read-through later, but to answer Pete's query for now: Cars can be delivered either Wednesday 10:00 - 6:00, or Thursday 8:00 - 7:00. I'll be there on Thursday (probably not for quite all those hours!), so probably better to...

The difference is that petrol power developed under the forces of a free market - more convenient, cost effective etc. Electric vehicles only exist because of government diktat and subsidy. What could possibly go wrong? Richard If Ford could make more profit building a car that throws a little bit ...

Oh yeah, that one!

Well, it's still listed on their own website, so they haven't given up yet!

Maybe someone should have a quiet word with them about their pricing...

Lotus Excel? Or Esprit? Or Eclat? for sale on Auto Trader. https://m.atcdn.co.uk/a/media/w1024/6c5c2e5c5dbd468cb6afad1d0dc206a0.jpg In the listings it's an Esprit. Click on the item for sale and it's an Eclat. Either way, the entire description reads "BARN FIND , White, 2 owners, £30,000". Odo read...

We’re running at temperatures at which water has no right still being a liquid… but it is.

(I’ll probably get in trouble if I say any more! Try asking me in person when we next see each other ).

Just been doing some Computational Fluid Dynamics on the Mercedes F1 engine. You really don't want to know what sort of coolant pressures that engine uses

My original header tank (1990 SE car) had a larger pressure cap with no ears, like this one from Lotusbits.



Unfortunately there is no indication what the pressure limit on this cap is.

R/B is Replaced By.. OK. Which would imply that they started with the 10 psi cap, but then Lotus in their infinite wisdom, for some reason that I'm sure is a good one but we don't know what, switched to 15 psi. Not wanting to second-guess their excellent engineers, I'll trust that there was a good ...

According to the parts manual , it says "R/B 15 psi cap A082K6031F", implying that whatever isn't R/B should have the 10 psi cap A075K6004Z. But I'm not sure what the "R/B" stands for? The SJ Sportscar parts page doesn't really make it much clearer. It does say that the 15 psi cap is for the early s...

Still WIP. Yesterday I found a split in the short fat hose that goes from the water pump to the inlet manifold. This is new, it wasn't there when I did most of this work over the New Year, and it was losing coolant rapidly (see FaceBook for a pic!). I've temporarily stuck a bicycle tyre patch over t...

OK, in the last month or so I've had more practice at this than I would like, so I thought it would be worth sharing what I've been doing. Undoubtedly the most useful bit of kit to help with this is a coolant pressure test kit. They can be picked up pretty cheaply from eBay, but you are welcome to b...

Just curious but have you noticed a dull glow from the interior lights when the doors are shut? So dull you can only see when dark. When I changed mine to LEDs I had this, caused by the time delay relay and wondered if I had a dodgy relay or they all do it. Not noticed this. But the door lights are...

Here's the Before and After with the gauge lighting: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV8550RQq162ZxP_mtQlgGsMwrUDdr2YNBzbRTdrJUrSItcpYvIIHS86v2X3E8uvyftWZCWt0poGfSuomz0dS5OiKQzr3TyACInVkNg3oG5Eg8aG4e_a_Ge_PZcl1o06BYGRl0XERCln46eWpqtdlOyt0=w1287-h965-s-no?authuser=0 https://lh3.googleusercont...