What did you do to your Lotus today...

Post by: **MrBonus** » Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:34 am

Rebuilt the master cylinder that was starting to slowly leak.

Post by: **jk952** » Wed Feb 19, 2020 8:28 pm

Made left and right of these...

Huh? ...

S3 crash pad on S2 car..so one needs to fill the space..

Post by: **David1953** » Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:29 pm

Drove it on the road for the first time since 1983.
Only to end of the lane and back and that was all puddles and mud but, I am not waiting any longer for the rain to stop.

One or two things to fix, like the speedo right angle drive, but nothing fell off and no leaks yet.

Post by: **nmauduit** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:49 pm

David1953 wrote:Drove it on the road for the first time since 1983.
Only to end of the lane and back and that was all puddles and mud but, I am not waiting any longer for the rain to stop.

One or two things to fix, like the speedo right angle drive, but nothing fell off and no leaks yet.

gorgeous ! beautiful color, too...

If I may, at some point you may consider painting satin black the flat part at the bottom of the sills : it makes for a nicer overall impression at a distance...

Post by: **englishmaninwales** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:09 pm

That’s the colour lurking on my S3 under the gold leaf colours applied (poorly) later in the car’s life.
One day......

Post by: **David1953** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 9:20 pm

It is black under the sills, only that white mark you can see is wax polish I have not cleared off the very matt finish. It is also now muddy as I did about 60miles today, now got a longer list of things to fix.

Post by: **DJW** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:31 pm

Last time out in car was 4 months ago, so thought I would pop to local garage to top up the fuel.

Funnily enough a 2 mile round trip turned into a 50 mile blat around the Cotswolds, returning with a huge smile

.

Post by: **JonB** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:31 pm

Lovely.

I washed mine, and swapped out the gear oil (put the Redline back in). Big improvement in change quality.

Also, finished fettling the pods and bonnet. All solid now.

Took it for a quick spin and discovered the fan wiring is still playing up. Bother.

Post by: **Mazzini** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:37 pm

Engine and box into the chassis and tomorrow I'll reunite the chassis to the shell

Post by: **The Veg** » Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:09 am

Various and sundry small tasks getting ready to put the head back together.

Post by: **baileyman** » Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:20 am

Shaped a wooden form to wrap a sheet of aluminum around to serve as a cover for the wheelwell cutout for the clutch master required by the TTR race pedal set LHS. Soon all the master cylinder rods will need to be sized to fit the pedal arm distances.

John

Post by: **rgh0** » Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:04 am

Finished preparation for racing next weekend at Phillip Island. New Ferodo Dot 5.1 brake fluid, adjusted LH front
wheel bearing as end float had increased a little to much, greased the front trunions. Usual check over of all fluids, brakes, chassis, drive train suspension etc. Found a small crack in chassis where LH roll bar drop link bracket connects , need to put reinforcing patch next time engines out which will be soon, I guess this sort of issue to be expected after 40 years of racing with a big roll bar. Also found one CV adaptor bolt slightly loose so re-torqued that, all the others were OK.

I have got some adjustable front top links to fit and just got an electronic camber and caster gauge for setting it up but ran out of time to get it fitted. Planning on using some A050R Yokos with the soft compound versus the medium compound I have been using and will need a bit more front negative camber to make them work properly and not chop out the outer edge to much

cheers
Rohan

Post by: **davie489** » Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:30 pm

Hello all

Just done the mx5 fuel non return mod!
Absolutely brilliant , just booted the car out on first day of spring with not a drop of fuel over the rear wing ! Here’s to a good spring summer in the plus 2!!

Post by: **alanr** » Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:14 pm

Still not got my ordered since last September MX5 non return valve! However I have finished off today the main fuel tank breather and filler pipe Mod.