The Lotus Grand Tourers

Thanks Pete - I saw a cut-away of a drier at the air-con shop, and I'm surprised that they are as big as they are - it's pretty much an empty vessel with a layer of desiccant balls taking up maybe 15% of the volume. Apparently some cars come with very small driers - I think they mentioned the Merc "...

It's been a while since I last posted - work is still progressing.... Inspired by Bash's aircon revamp, I thought I'd get stuck into my own aircon project. A few major changes were required - firstly the Lexus a/c compressor is on the left hand side of the engine as opposed to the right on the Lotus...

Pic of the back of the fuses and relays in my car - ignore the wiring in the background - that is for the Lexus ECU.... https://dsm04pap003files.storage.live.com/y4mf7_ceJDe9NluDCCfjWd18rej_nQjWLvV5ycp1aN5zhVq-fR0AfugSPygRZL6OeZ41Lku69kNS3kFeifxq8BQ6VUURQTVczQGdVoVbZ7l9M-afhAHG1l186eYlj25WjIXgwwlSDQ...

This is what I have, I will try to get a picture of the back a bit later - no guarantees that it hasn't been fiddled with in the past though. https://dsm04pap003files.storage.live.com/y4m7BQFmGL6mcmkteoTEbvnUrVh_hUUJrkNVJxXiKXuoc4x8fOQzLyuB7zhF4utIl-IeuoXurL0zmdJcY6gjYLLtEAQTD6G8qJWXO4wcCYYNFW2ZMokC...

The adapter is nice - hard anodised in an interesting colour.... It will still be hard to spot when installed. A good deal of the front of the car suffered damage - it's still a matter of finding the damage and repairing it bit by bit. Below is a collage of another repair - to the section that sits ...

Me too, looks like we needed Richard...

Neil

The body work has escalated in scale way beyond what I ever expected, but I've decided that as I'm at it, I may as well try to get everything fitting together as best as possible, with the minimum of body filler. I will nee some filler to clean up smaller imperfections though. I just received this, ...

The left hand side of my car is a lot better off than the right hand side, but it's not 100%. It's parked in a garage where the left side is inaccessible, so I rolled it out on the weekend to get stuck in a bit. Below is that side of the car, after some work had already done: https://dsm04pap003file...

Thanks Pete, the vacuum bagging is definitely worth doing where you have some tight corners etc. to get around. Oh dear, now you've given me the idea of replacing my wonky and bent boot floor cover with the honeycomb cored fiberglass.....

Neil.

I started this replay a few days ago, but my computer froze and I lost the reply.... Thanks for the comments! The second attempt at getting the boot edge fit right hasn't been particularly successful once the clamps were removed, it did relax back t pretty much where it was - I may have to apply to ...

Wouldn't your average locksmith have generic blanks over there for car keys? I have copied a few car keys here in South Africa - for a Mazda etc. where the original was starting to break.

Neil.

https://am3pap007files.storage.live.com/y4mKk5JeJhy8ehyuInl2w2WWjN3ni1ZfE2ddmzbuK7iI6AAchS__xmFCIaNWltJ7ISmqVkTZWeSoEHS5lmyMls_0u9BkrgGI7nFf24lflz_O7SuZVG-BbjWplo7Gj3rdTAoTZpXb1lBBVlPis1Nm0sqT5ntmsrKozZN6L079cyv2N6KzGZM6Wqhejn5V1jEIuwU?width=1024&height=768&cropmode=none I don't have an Elite, so d...

The internal ducting is also important for good airflow. :) Could someone with an Excel measure the air intake aperture please? :D Pete Hi Pete a quick measurement of the aperture for the front grill on my Excel is about 730mm x 90mm - it normally has two vertical bars in the space as well, I'd gue...

- how some of spend our time - reading the Lotus Service Notes and paging through the parts manual Biggest surprise for me was the fact that I remembered that I had read it somewhere

I'll need the same info when I cobble all my aircon bits together.

Neil

Hi Bash, There is some info in the service notes - some posted below: https://dsm04pap003files.storage.live.com/y4m7RhQTM_7YG81KsCc0ZJUCREYhI4lobd4QXEv46K-AEiApq2A1AVA6Lfe0zYzWeSUyPh_58sj4qMirvpcfj1AMZJdqLzuH2jB6Bq4JZXCQCMEzq2TiQ_A8o_BywLFh2DK_hSRpF0YcqndPs4wGOiEhBRN7PDw1olHBi3rkC3BA9jmcQhfMtVZvC3Im...