Scottish Elises

stratosboy wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 9:14 pm

cheers Robin,
appreciate your thoughts on this, I'll check out what your saying here, with my engine builder. Should be ok, as this is a tried and tested conversion, with plenty of Audi turbo engined Elise's out there now.

Yeah I think you'll be fine 'cos you've got a dump valve at the throttle - that's what I think the S2 240 S/C was missing. Obviously you need to tune it to go "woosh" in a pleasing way

cheers Robin, I'll let you know when I'm up and running ....meanwhile my inlet is done and on, just needs a filter now to fit onto the end.
it's all very snug, I may need to add some heat protection later.

so finally my clutch bleeder block arrives from the USA, ordered in March! - yes I know there's a global pandemic going on....but this is the last time I order anything from USA, unexpected customs charge of £30 puts the total cost of this little fella at a whopping £160!!!!
- it's about 3 inches long!

That's an expensive 3 inches

yes it is.
meanwhile, as it's going to be a while before this gets finished I've been wanting to find a nice S1 Elise, and brought this home today:

it's a really nice. low mileage (30k) 111S, brought back from Japan, it's very clean underneath, no corrosion at all.

Tidy !

Is the trip to Japan and back included in the 30K miles

looks tidy & nice colour combo

bit of an update...electrics are being sorted. I'm having a new loom made specifically for this as a modified car, rather than buy a Lotus loom and modify it.
Fuse box being made up:

switch panel with starter button & toggle switches:

stack gauges:

front and rear clam looms:



new main loom being fitted to car this week with GAWR dash fitted too.

a bit more done...fuse box fitted to car

main loom completed

gear lever shroud finished with electrics in place



all electrics being fitted and tested just now

Neat stitching !!

coming together now, switch panel, new loom and ECU/fusebox fitted - battery compartment completed, rewire finshed this weekend - collecting on Monday

big day for me - we have power!! - all rewiring work completed, ECU loaded with basic map - everything else working as it should, (except GARW dash, -still trying to configure that)
some small plumbing jobs to finish and then it's fill up & start-up hopefully!!

brief update, new wing trial fitted today,




what colour do you think it should be, satin black or body coloured?

What were the originals? (It’s so long ago!)