The Lotus Grand Tourers

Hi ,

I have a ‘77 Eclat 520 .

It won’t be used on track , but will occasionally have some spirited driving & European travel .

The hubs have been changed for the 4x114 alloy wheel type , but the brakes are still the original 2 pot calipers on small discs .

Does anyone know parts off other vehicles that can be used to upgrade it ?

I can get the 3 pot calipers & bigger discs from Lotus bits . Guessing that would be enough & not many people upgrade from that ?

Or there’s the Willwood conversion from PNM , but that’s on the expensive side & thinking it’ll probably be more braking than i’ll use .

Any thoughts or tips are greatly appreciated .

Cheers .

I'm using Escort (mk1 & 2) "forest stage" ventilated rotors on home-made bells. The original - and still available - rotors are made by AP, and expensive as a consequence, but there are generic versions available much more cheaply. Most small engineering companies would make you some "bells" - they are virtually flat! The last of the E-types used the same Elite/Eclat Girling 3-pot calipers with a spacer to accommodate vented discs - if you can get some spacers they just need surface grinding to make them suitable for the Escort disc thickness. You could even buy reconditioned calipers, split them, surface grind the spacers and re-build - they are about £125 each on fleabay. Add some Mintex 1144 pads and you're set!

Bash also has a good home-brew setup as well - hopefully he'll chime in

Pete

Thanks for that .

Lot of info to start looking into .