Lotus Elan and Lotus Elan Plus 2 Forums

Who’s fitted one of these Coolex rads to a Plus 2, I have a question or two.

http://www.coolexperts.co.uk/product/lo ... struction/

Well I’ve fitted one now

That's one seriously shiny and tidy engine bay!

Looking good! Did you have any issues fitting the radiator?

And did you buy your brake servo as a kit? i've still got the Mk2A which I'm having issues with and looking at the Lockheed units. Haven't seen that front bracket before.

Fitting the rad was OK as I was lucky enough to find a fellow Plus 2 owner locally and was able to take some measurements off his car. Because I’d fitted a complete new front end I had no pre-drilled mounting bracket holes in the body, so needed some accurate measurements. The rad comes with the mounting flanges pre-drilled and I believe it is meant to line up with the existing brackets. I did need to slightly adjust the mounting flanges but that was just a case of filing a few mm off the lower sides, no big deal.

The Lockheed servo came with the main bracket which I used, but the front bracket did not really fit where I needed it to so I turned up a stainless steel collar to fit the servo and attached that to a threaded rod and simple bracket also in stainless