Unusual Air-Box Cover

[Fredtech]

Guys. Sorting thru a selection of items that need to be moved out my garage, I came across this
rather unusual Airbox Cover. As you may remember, the early "Oval" Airbox Covers were single bolt thru the centre. Later Weber/Dell Airbox covers are "Square-End" and have 3 bolts into the Airbox plate.

This one is "Square-End" with a single, center bolt mount.

Can anyone identify what this will fit ?..... Thanks.

[elanfan1]

From the slight rather than sharp downward angle of the intake tube it would appear to be Plus 2 rather than Elan (or possibly Europa but no idea what they look like).

[elanman999]

As Elanfan says it's a +2 airbox. The early ones only had the one bolt and the later ones had three.
Cheers
John

[Fredtech]

Guys, thanks for identifying this for me.

I'll post it for sale as a +2. Cheers.

[rgh0]

As Elanfan says it's a +2 airbox. The early ones only had the one bolt and the later ones had three.
Cheers
John

There was a generation of 2 bolt air boxes for Elans around 1968 - 69 I would have thought Plus 2's would have had two bolt air boxes around this time also?

cheers
Rohan

[Elanintheforest]

Were they for Strombergs Rohan? My early Plus 2 cars had the single bolt, and the later ones had the three bolt, but not seen a two bolt, at least on the Weber / Dellorto setup.

Mark

[rgh0]

The two bolt cover was on my 68 Elan with Webers. I always assumed Plus 2 of the same period would have two bolt covers also as i would have thought they used a common back plate but i have never specifically looked to see if that was the case.

cheers
Rohan.

[types26/36]

The front airbox on my 67 S3 SE has two bolts to secure it but the backplate has provision for a three bolts.

[rgh0]

The back plate is probably a replacement one. The three bolt back plates were made when lotus moved to three bolt air boxes around 1969 /1970? but the bolt spacings were such that it also suited the earlier 2 bolt airboxes.

cheers
Rohan

[Elanintheforest]

The Mk 2 Lotus Cortinas had the three bolt backplates from Jan '67 !

But my Elan S3 S/E, from Jun '67, has the earlier curved front backplate with single bolt.

Blimey there are a lot of variations!

Mark