S1 Elise Motorsport replica project

[robin]

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

[stratosboy]

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.

[stratosboy]

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!

[robin]

That's an expensive 3 inches

[stratosboy]

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.

[campbell]

Tidy !

[robin]

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

[j2 lot]

looks tidy & nice colour combo

[stratosboy]

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.

[stratosboy]

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

[campbell]

Neat stitching !!

[stratosboy]

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

[stratosboy]

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!!

[stratosboy]

brief update, new wing trial fitted today,




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

[campbell]

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