The Lotus Grand Tourers

I’m considering it, but I want the system leak free before I fill it with expensive coolant! It's worth it. Mine is still leak free. Stops the expansion tank corrosion too. I had reported higher oil temps using Evans, but since correcting ignition timing that seems to have corrected too. Just compl...

North of Rotherham. Around midday Tue 19th Dec 2023. Early 1983 narrow body. Pristine white with very shiny Toyota 14 inch alloys. Sounded nice too. We were in the Woodley Edge car park to your left, scoffing, but you didn't look our way ! AND, for a change we were in our pristine 89SE in red. The m...

Good idea Bash. How did you pick up the connection from the fuse box? Did you use a fuse tap? I've never used one, but fancy the idea as long as there's no potential issue. I can't think of an issue for this application (low power DLR) but someone might? https://onedrive.live.com/embed?resid=752EB03...

Jeff, what do Australian Lotus badges look like? I'm expecting my order to have British badges. It's been a long wait for mine btw. Original ETA was September. I'm assuming that Jeff is referring to the fact that all the models delivered so far seem to have their Lotus badge on upside down. D'oh! 🥴

Jeff, what do Australian Lotus badges look like?

I'm expecting my order to have British badges.

It's been a long wait for mine btw. Original ETA was September.

I like the idea of ebony! 8) In the guitar world, solid black ebony is now in short supply and so 'streaked' ebony is appearing on even high end guitars, like from Martin. The purists don't like streaked ebony guitar fingerboards. But for a dashboard, streaked ebony would look fantastic. A dark, mod...

I hadn't thought about labels at that point, probably because the positions were second nature to me. Also, I never gave any consideration to the Elite's originality and how it would affect resale values. I look at it differently now. Btw. I found the window switches at the top of the console ('76 E...

When I ran an Elite 501 as my only family car in the early eighties, I hated the fake wood dash. So much so that I soon planned to replace the main centre consol switch panel with black vinyl-covered aluminium. I got as far as drawing the switch positions on a sheet of aluminium then family life got...

You must have developed those arm muscles driving an Excel without power assistance Peter! Or did you have a manual rack fitted? Yes Sierrra manual rack with a bespoke u/j extension by PNM. Weight wasn't too bad due to the stupidly high 3.6 turns lock to lock ... and there lies the REAL issue ... s...

I spotted thazt car too and think it looks really good in that green colour and with the whitewall tyres. It also shows how much better Elite wheels fill out the arches with their greater negative offset when compared with the Excel. I wonder why Lotus decided to reduce wheel offset for the Excel H...

Alan_M wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 17, 2023 14:55

You need to be logged in via a web page NOT on an app on a phone, iPad etc.
ie go to Onedrive via Microsoft edge, chrome, safari etc.
it will then be as the video.

This is what I found too. Annoyed that MSoft omitted the embed tool from their app! But yes it's there when using a browser.

Hooray! Three cheers for Bryan.

According to TOYO Spec sheet for TR!s, a 205/50/15 has a width of 214mm so IF correct, then near the OEM. https://www.toyo.co.uk/tire/pattern/proxes-tr1 You're have a good point there Stu. Here is a part worn Toyo 205/50 versus an original UNWORN 215//50/15 Goodyear! https://onedrive.live.com/embed...

Btw I got the 4 Toyo 225/45s for £200 delivered form Camskills this summer. Reduced as date code was already over 2 years old...

Will49 wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 13, 2023 19:57

How do I get tp put photos on this like you have as opposed to google Photo links?

You have to host the photos on an external cloud site, like oneDrive. There is an explanation on how to do photo hosting on this forum somewhere IIRC?