Scottish Elises

Good morning,
So I'm not actually a Scottish resident and live roughly 4odd hours away from the boarder. However my car appears to be pretty well known and documented on here.
Roughly 2months ago I took a trip up to Edinburgh to collect a 135R it happens to be #001 so a pretty special car, it also for those you who don't know the car a Honda lump in it.

So hello from myself and my 135R - EGOR

Alex

Welcome Alex.

Great to see you join up, hopefully meet up sometime.

You’ll get lots of replies since it’s one of the best known cars and a big part of Scottish Elises history.
Although I’m a later joiner to SE so not as much contact with Egor or Robin as others.

Maybe you will be selling up soon when you hear all the stories !!

Steve.

IanD wrote: ↑

Sat May 23, 2020 8:32 am

Welcome Alex.

Great to see you join up, hopefully meet up sometime.

You’ll get lots of replies since it’s one of the best known cars and a big part of Scottish Elises history.
Although I’m a later joiner to SE so not as much contact with Egor or Robin as others.

Maybe you will be selling up soon when you hear all the stories !!

I've read through a fair few of the posts on here

Hi Alex,

Glad Egor has found a new home! That car has a long and colourful history, most of the colour during my ownership of it, though it had two prior SE owners and of course Jen had it afterwards - now you've joined SE I think it's safe to say that the car has been an SE car its whole life, apart from a brief period when Lotus used it as a press car.

I loved the car with the original engine in it, but it just became endlessly unreliable, despite spending plenty of money on it, it broke down repeatedly. As it turned out it was no more reliable with the Audi turbo engine that Craig W installed with a tiny bit of help from me. Finally gave in and went to Honda, but had no luck with the first engine (boom). Second (current) engine is much better, but by the time that was working I had got a new S3 s/c and never reconnected with Egor as a car I wanted to drive to/from Euro track days - it is too harsh for me these days.

It's had plenty of rough love by plenty of folk and will always be viewed with affection by all who know the car.

Cheers,
Robin

Hello Robin,

You'll be pleased to hear the car is running very well.
Since acquiring it I've tinkered with some of the wiring to get the Speedo working which was successful. I also stuck a kpro ECU on it and yesterday went to visit Dan Webster at HPE to get a full customer map for it. Very pleased the results, they mid range drivability is brilliant.
Got a big list of things to sort to make it my own.
I will start a thread up when I get chance.

Welcome, Alex.

An “EGOR Reborn” refurb thread is something you could probably serialise for Netflix

All joking apart, we all love a good resto read. Looking forward to it!

I had the privilege to drive the car a few times in its “original” guise. I loved it. Apart from the rock solid ride. Enjoy.

Campbell

eventually they all come home

Awesome . Keep us u to date with how you get on with the personalisations.

I am sure you will feel very welcome on our little forum.

Alex B wrote: ↑

Sat May 23, 2020 11:25 am

Hello Robin,

You'll be pleased to hear the car is running very well.
Since acquiring it I've tinkered with some of the wiring to get the Speedo working which was successful. I also stuck a kpro ECU on it and yesterday went to visit Dan Webster at HPE to get a full customer map for it. Very pleased the results, they mid range drivability is brilliant.
Got a big list of things to sort to make it my own.
I will start a thread up when I get chance.

Good effort! Did it make the full 200bhp? I never dyno'd it with the Honda in it.

Hi Alex.

Welcome to SE. I had Egor’s twin for a while, myself and Robin would drive them both very gently in formation around Europe obeying all local traffic laws. That was back in the good old Rover K series days.

Enjoy the car, the Honda is awesome and HPE have a great reputation from what I’ve read.

Neil

Alex. Great to hear from the new owner. It's a much-loved car up here in SE, and it's great that we'll continue to know where it is and what it's up to. Treat it well, but not too well!

G