If I were you, I would buy a fire extinguisher, or move next door to a Fire Station.Wingnut wrote:And I've always given mine 3 prodsRedexcel wrote:This is also why the 'two prods on the throttle' cold start procedure is risky.
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- Wed Mar 26, 2008 02:52
- Forum: Servicing, Belts, Fuels and Oils
- Topic: Air Filter
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6128
Re: foam filers - erm
- Mon Mar 24, 2008 15:14
- Forum: Servicing, Belts, Fuels and Oils
- Topic: Air Filter
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6128
Re: foam filers - erm
Personally I wouldn't go with any sort of foam filter on a Lotus 9xx engine. They can easily have a flame back situation, in a normal paper filer that has a nice long tract that's not too bad, but a foam filter mounted like the ones I've seen will simply burn. And we all know what that leads to on ...
- Sun Mar 23, 2008 23:57
- Forum: Servicing, Belts, Fuels and Oils
- Topic: Air Filter
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6128
- Sun Mar 16, 2008 19:22
- Forum: Servicing, Belts, Fuels and Oils
- Topic: Genuine oil filter
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7609
It depends where the pressure is measured, if it's before the filter, then filter size could impact oil flow to other areas. If it's measured after filter then a given pressure will result in the same oil flow to other parts of the engine as if it had a larger filter. It seems from the manual ours ...
- Sun Mar 16, 2008 09:19
- Forum: Servicing, Belts, Fuels and Oils
- Topic: Genuine oil filter
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7609
I think the question that needs to be answered is who supplied Lotus with the oil filter in the first place? They certainly don't make them in house. I don't think that would be of much help, unless it was a standard type without any modification for the Lotus application. If it's a 'special' to Lo...
- Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:49
- Forum: Electrics and Electronics
- Topic: Starter circuit problems
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2256
I've had starting problems twice in my 13 years of ownership. Once it was the earth connection on the block, as per Steve's suggestion. The return current was using the speedo cable as an earth, and it melted the speedo's innards :shock: The other time it was the start relay, one of the bank of rela...
- Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:38
- Forum: Servicing, Belts, Fuels and Oils
- Topic: Genuine oil filter
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7609
The Lotus filter is larger (much) and so I guess the no return could be holding more oil. As I see it, a bigger filter means a higher flow rate through the filtering medium due to greater surface area. If the flow rate was too low, it could mean that the oil doesn't reach the extremities of the the...
- Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:13
- Forum: General
- Topic: Supra diff and power steering info
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1707
- Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:24
- Forum: General
- Topic: it keeps dropping cylinders....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2981
- Sat Feb 23, 2008 17:13
- Forum: Spotted/New Owners
- Topic: Spotted in Aylesford, Maidstone.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1079
Spotted in Aylesford, Maidstone.
White F reg in car park of Aylesford Retail Park at about 3:45 this afternoon. You were just leaving as I arrived (not in my Excel).
- Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:11
- Forum: Events, Meetings and a "Run Out"
- Topic: Cars in the Park
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1327
- Sun Feb 17, 2008 13:48
- Forum: Servicing, Belts, Fuels and Oils
- Topic: Cambelt tension again.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1835
Trytonypoll wrote:Excellent article - thanks for posting it.
Can you give a link to the Yahoo Lotus 4 seater forum? (I've tried looking, but haven't found it). Thanks.
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/lotus4seaters/
- Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:11
- Forum: Servicing, Belts, Fuels and Oils
- Topic: Cambelt tension again.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1835
Cambelt tension again.
Another extremely interesting post by Tim Engel on the Yahoo Lotus 4 seater forum. This was written in reply to someone who was concerned that his cambelt was too tight...... The belt tension increases as the engine temperature rises... it does get tight when hot. Always check the tension with the e...
- Fri Feb 15, 2008 13:49
- Forum: General
- Topic: Motor Insuance Database
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2390
- Wed Feb 13, 2008 23:20
- Forum: General
- Topic: Engine Noise - Rebuild, replace or transplant?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3352
Depending on the age of your car, you may have the "engine management" series of valves which increase ignition advance qute dramatically when the engine is cold, from around 10 deg BTDC to around 30 deg BTDC at tickover ... This temperature operated valve disengages at around 60 degrees (water tem...