Boot flooring

[john122S]

My 1972 +2S has home-made replacement carpet boards for the shelf over the spare in the boot. These sag, although the brackets appear sound. The parts book shows the shape of the left & right 1/2s from the top but gives no indication of underside reinforcement. Should there be a reinforcing (steel) strip running fore & aft on the underside of each ? shelf that connects to the holes in the main support brackets front & back?
I would want to support my luggage in style should I ever leave the garage.
Cheers from rainy Virginia, John

[ncm]

Hi John , my '68 +2 has two wooden strips screwed&glued to the underside of each half shelf running fore & aft . From memory they are probably 3/4 inch square in section.

Brian.

[andyelan]

John

The original floor isn't really that good, this is my '73 Plus 2 130/5

The floor is 5.5mm thick, the stiffner to the left is 22mm square and the one down the centre is 31mm x 18mm. The light pieces of wood are what I've added so the floor clears the spare wheel

Hope this helps

Andy

[andyelan]

Sorry John but I got my left and right mixed up. The 22mm square stiffner is, of course, on the right

Andy

[john122S]

Thanks Brian & Andy.
I had expected something more complicated from Lotus. This should be an easy fix.
Aren't left & right switched between US & UK? Or is that front & back?
Cheers, John (in US but born in Lincolnshire)

[CBUEB1771]

I found that the original boot flooring touched the battery terminals. Being plywood there was no electrical short, but I did not like the idea of a permanent mechanical load on the terminals. I added a wooden perimeter frame to the underside of both panels to raise them about 1/2 inch above the original location. Mine did not have the relief I see cut into Andy's panel. This relief is right above the battery.

[rgh0]

The cut out around the battery was standard on the later cars at least I believe. With the battery being just covered by the boot carpet. The carpet in mine is full of holes in that area from the battery fumes over the years !

cheers
Rohan

[Carlos A]

Does anybody has the templates to make these panels?

[kcrossle]

If you know the basic dimensions you could take Andy's picture above and map it out to a close template. Then refine it. My brother had good results that way with my dash.

[Carlos A]

I am going to try... but I think I would not know how to do that with that picture.

[andyelan]

Carlos

You could print out the picture and then scale it up, however, the originals don't fit very well anyway, so you would probably be better getting some card and making templates to suit your own car. Just dont make them such a good fit that you can't get them in and out.

Andy

[mikealdren]

I copied this of this site, sorry I can't credit whoever drew it because I didn't make a note of the name.
Hope it helps
Mike

[Carlos A]

Thanks Mike. Is that the floor of a Plus 2 trunk, right?

[theelanman]

Thanks Mike. Is that the floor of a Plus 2 trunk, right?

correct.......
and thats my drawing....
posted it on the site about....ooo...5 years ago.....

[Carlos A]

correct.......
and thats my drawing....
posted it on the site about....ooo...5 years ago.....

Elan Man: Thank you man! You are indeed the Elan man!

Should not your name be there?

Thanks again.

Carlos