Plus 2, what the ***k is it.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 2:39 pm
This is the question I have been asking myself all day, let me explain. A while ago a bought a Plus 2 for restoration. This is a full restoration and I?m a fair way through it now. I bought it not having done my model homework so subsequently discovered that the car is registered 1972, with a big valve engine and appropriate interior but the shell is a much earlier one, so no fog lights, side exhausts, boot handle/ lock etc.
Having done much body work repairs including a new front end I?m doing the final interior stripping prior to it going to the paint shop. So this week I have pulled the old dash board and have been carefully labelling up all the wires. So here is where it gets really confusing. I have the Lotus manual and if I read it correctly there were three basic looms for U.K. cars. The Plus 2, then the Plus 2S and finally the S130 loom.
My car has 6 small gauges and ONE fuse box of 4 fuses behind the dash, so according to the wiring diagrams this makes it the S130 loom The +S would also have 6 small gauges but it would have 3 fuse boxes. But and here is the big but, the speedo and tacho have various warning lamps in them and this clearly makes it an early Plus 2 loom which does not support 6 gauges or have a 4 fuse fuse box behind the dash.
Just to complicate matters, the wiring from my fuse box is certainly different to that of the 4 fuse S130 fuse box.
There are a few non standard wires floating around, but none of those modifications explain the above.
Not havining a wiring diagram is going to make it quite awkward putting it all back together. So as my posting subject says.... what the ***k is it?
Having done much body work repairs including a new front end I?m doing the final interior stripping prior to it going to the paint shop. So this week I have pulled the old dash board and have been carefully labelling up all the wires. So here is where it gets really confusing. I have the Lotus manual and if I read it correctly there were three basic looms for U.K. cars. The Plus 2, then the Plus 2S and finally the S130 loom.
My car has 6 small gauges and ONE fuse box of 4 fuses behind the dash, so according to the wiring diagrams this makes it the S130 loom The +S would also have 6 small gauges but it would have 3 fuse boxes. But and here is the big but, the speedo and tacho have various warning lamps in them and this clearly makes it an early Plus 2 loom which does not support 6 gauges or have a 4 fuse fuse box behind the dash.
Just to complicate matters, the wiring from my fuse box is certainly different to that of the 4 fuse S130 fuse box.
There are a few non standard wires floating around, but none of those modifications explain the above.
Not havining a wiring diagram is going to make it quite awkward putting it all back together. So as my posting subject says.... what the ***k is it?