Scottish Elises

Well as you know from a previous thread my car was damaged as a result of a women reversing in to the side of it. As a result of it the front clam needed replaced, bumper needed repaired and headlight needed replaced.

I've always been considering doing a respray of the car at some point but never thought of doing it so soon but I thought if I was going to do it now would be the best time seeing as the car was going to be off the road anyway. So after all the insurance work was completed I went for it.

My car is with Protek in Bathgate, the family has been using Protek for car repairs for the past 10 years and we've always had excellent results, not to mention they completely repaired my friends RS4 Cabrio after some git put brake fluid all over the whole car. It came back looking better than when it came out the showroom. Tom is a perfectionist when it comes to this sort of stuff so I know the car is going to come back to the highest of standards.

Tom (the Director) and his team are brilliant to work with, very patient with my constant mind changing about the colour and took a great deal of time explaining the whole painting process, types of paint and possible effects.

I was originally going to go with getting Ultimate Green (Focus RS) colour but after seeing various shades of it I decided against it and settled on Chrome Orange. This again changed after Tom called me back in to compare Chrome Orange with Electric Orange from the Focus ST and I’m so glad he did as for me Electric Orange is a much better colour with a more pearlescent effect so looks even better when the sun is shining on it.

It's not finished yet but they sent me some pics of the progress so I thought I would start sharing them.

Excuse the picture quality as they aren’t the greatest on top of which I had to make them much smaller and compress them before the forum would let me upload the but you’ll get the idea.


More pics now that I know how to post them properly.

The final few bits on slow bake in the oven.










New pictures from the rebuild of the car

























New pictures - wheels done and film applied
All that's left is a full polish and a bit of tyre gel and it's done hopefully i'll be picking it up tomorrow.







Close ups of the film protection, virtually invisible unless you go looking for it at close inspection.









All finished just before I picked the car up. Enjoy!
I'll get more pics of it in the sun as soon as it decides to shine.































Took these earlier in sunny Kent with the iphone

Looks great, please don't show my daughter it as you may end up with an R8 as a direct swap.
Looking forward to the final pics!

Peter wrote:Looks great, please don't show my daughter it as you may end up with an R8 as a direct swap.
Looking forward to the final pics!

Cheers.

By the way, what's her email address?

ace colour!

Wow Saj that's just plain awesome bud! Loving your work!

Mark

What have you done! Oh jeez you've ruined it.

(Just kidding, the outrageous colours are my favourites and that is going to look pulse quickeningly good)

Protek? Tom? Surely not Pollock?!

looks fabulous cant wait to see the finished car

Looks awesome!

Thanks for all the comments.

Front and rear clam are all that's left to do body work wise. Wheels are going to be painted gloss black as will the L O T U S letters across the rear clam. Then finally clear venture shield on the front bumper, front clam and side skirts. Basically the highly common stone chip areas.

Mark - I'll bring it round to show you and Ali first chance I get. I was considering lowering it 5mm more too.

SAJ wrote:
Excuse the picture quality as they aren’t the greatest on top of which I had to make them much smaller and compress them before the forum would let me upload the but you’ll get the idea.

How to upload pics properly to the forum: http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... f=9&t=1350

Looks good mate. Just remember when lowering it that the suspension has a range of operation and if you totally slam it then it'll handle like a ditch-finder, most likely. Decent geo obviously required, but if you take it out of the sweet range for the steering arms, you'll get all sorts of bump-steer issues - not sure if there are rack raiser blocks available for the Europa chassis?

Shug wrote:

SAJ wrote:
Excuse the picture quality as they aren’t the greatest on top of which I had to make them much smaller and compress them before the forum would let me upload the but you’ll get the idea.

How to upload pics properly to the forum: http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... f=9&t=1350

Looks good mate. Just remember when lowering it that the suspension has a range of operation and if you totally slam it then it'll handle like a ditch-finder, most likely. Decent geo obviously required, but if you take it out of the sweet range for the steering arms, you'll get all sorts of bump-steer issues - not sure if there are rack raiser blocks available for the Europa chassis?

Thanks shug, was wondering how to stick the pictures up properly.

Before I bought the Nitrons I checked with Nitron and Hoffman's about how much was the limit for lowering the car, I got Ali to set it 5mm lower than the standard Europa S which makes it still 5mm higher than the Europa SE and every picture of the SE I see it just looks like it is siting just right at the arches so my intention is to have it sitting at the same height as the SE, but I'm going to check how the car is over my regular speed bumps to see if I can get away with it before doing it is my dail driver.