The Lotus Grand Tourers

That's going to make a great car when it's done .

Pete

The number of parts has been reduced!

When can I visit?

Well the engine is in



Now to hang the doors..

Just noticed something, my car appears to have the front bumper from an earlier car.. is this the case? (It's a 1990 car with the center bonnet vents)

From the one photo I can see with the front bumper, it certainly looks like the earlier one.
Missing the black over riders also.
Tony

MetBlue wrote: Fri Feb 04, 2022 22:53 From the one photo I can see with the front bumper, it certainly looks like the earlier one.
Missing the black over riders also.
Tony

I concur.

MetBlue wrote: Fri Feb 04, 2022 22:53 From the one photo I can see with the front bumper, it certainly looks like the earlier one.
Missing the black over riders also.
Tony

The overrides are on the bench in the garage.. one is a little 'distressed'. The bumper is currently fitted to the car as a safe place for it to be! but looks like I may have to hunt down the correct bumper.. this displeases me!

SJ Sportscars supply new front bumpers for a '90 car (or at least they did about 7-8 years ago when I needed one). Downside was it was a 2-3 month wait, so I presume they are made to order, and not with any massive urgency.

Alternatively Lotusbits may have a serviceable used one from a scrapped car.

Watch out though, because late front bumpers come as two discrete moulded parts. Lights and overriders will transfer across and the grills are easily made with a bit of chicken wire of suitable size. There's also a heavy duty rubber strip running along the bottom edge, retained with a steel strip that rots away.
Best bet would be a full bumper from LB if they have one
Tony

Todays progress, brakes are all bled, last weekend was fitting of new flexible hoses and replacing the steel brake pipes with copper, bonus was I found all the rear ones were already copper. Brakes appear to work, however the clutch does not. I seem to have nothing like the 15-18 mm travel it should have according to the service notes, more like 2-3 mm..

Well the engine had to come out to investigate the lack of clutch travel.. however no faults found The carbs are back and fitted to the engine and I have acquired a '90 bumper from lotusbits

Well The negine and box are back in the car, and this time the clutch appears to work.. the exhaust, speedo cable and reverse light switch are all back on and the fuel lines are back on, and the electrics all wired back up.. I now need to refit the fuel pump and fill the cooling system, after that its add battery and fuel, see what it does..

just a pic of the engine status as it is today..

I'm fast running out of parts to put back on!

New plug keads arrived yesterday, so this morning they were fitted, and then I spied the easy start can so I just had to find out where the engine was. The result was with easy start the engine does fire so later today I think I will feed it some unleaded for further testing..