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The follow on from this was today his mum and I helped drop his kit of at Cranwell to start training, going to be quite an intense but exciting year for him. Needless to say very proud parents but tinged with a bit of sadness that we wont see much of him going forwards.

Many thanks have ordered 5 . Its worth a gamble, the worse that can happen is its US just like it is now. Ive got more pics it does look like grey band to me.

It looks like red, brown, black, black, grey or silver, brown. I will photograph it in sunlight tomorrow and hopefully get a better picture.

Yes sorry they are tiny. Those 2 little f%^&ers are going to cost me £500 if I cant find some and replace them. Its a baxi fan control board only 3 years old but out of guarantee. The gas fitter has had them go on 3 of this model boiler. Its half the cost of the boiler. Not happy. If I can find the surface mount ones is there a problem fitting the through board ones?

Can any one advise me what component these are the burnt out one and the one to the left please.

Once the fame has gone and with the aspergers it would not suprise me if she ends up with a whole bunch of mental health issues and none of todays hangers on to help her through it.

I bet it costs a lot more that £10k to go from usable to concourse.

Somebody will have a lot of explaining to do looking at that photo.

I agree. I put mapped iginition with a lotusbits stage 1 engine and a full alunox manifold and exhaust and it heads well on the way to carb turbo performance not the same but not to far off. There is a thread on here some where with my print out from it being mapped. I imagine £10k would get you all the way to efi etc.

Depends what standard you want. I put well over £10k in parts only plus a £5k engine into my old n/a and didnt touch the body. These cars really really dont like being dumped in a barn and left.

Why does the Senna one have the black JPS at the bottom rather than yellow?

Wonder if it will last as long as the 86-88 lozenge logos which reallly were quite nasty.

From memory and I may be wrong one of the pipes on the lotusbits manifold wrapped around the chassis rail rather than the alunox where they all went inside. Mine also had a port already welded in for an o2 sensor incase efi was fitted later. At the bottom of the thread below is a pic of the alunox n/a system I had.

Alunox did make 2 HC N/A systems. One for a customer and one as a spare which I bought for my 89 n/a. I know it was never meant to be a stock item but they may make another although I guess its not an HC engine.

Plusgas should be better than wd40...................but your still going to shear a load, its a right of passage for lotus ownership.😁

Eldest son graduated on Wednesday and Thursday gets confirmation of job he really wanted after a long interview process. Chuffed to bits for him.

Its personal opinion but for me wacking a spoiler on it looks a bit wanabe se. Its very clean and unclutterd in its original form and better for it. The only thing I did was replace the no plate surround for a later one without the ribs. Mine even had the deep dish se wheels when I bought it but swapped them back to originals.

Not mental but quite classy, the back end is a cracker. I like the e shape to the side scoop and sill area on the lh side from a straight on side view.

If you do a bit of engine work, fit a good exhaust system and mapped igintion you can move it close to a turbo ( without the wooosh😁). You do get a nice induction roar as a bonus. My old one is up for sale in Ireland http://www.prestige.ie/viewanad.php?ad_id=2207580&r= . I sold it a few years back ( without the wanabe spoiler). It had about £15k worth of parts on it right the way through in depth not a tart up. The engine alone was £5k from lotusbits Its gone up from 18k pounds to 28k euros. He may have had it painted which might account for the uplift in price. Its been up for 2-3 months.

If you have the right keys for the radio it should pull out of the cage ( silver bit you can see around it ) then you can bend the tabs back and remove the cage ( you may not need to do this even). From memory no need to remove the lower face plate, could be wrong it was a few years ago did it last. You can get a pack of all the common radio keys from halfords from memory.

You were 7-8 cars ahead going up to the Chilten Hundreds roundabout and down the side of Penenden Heath. Nice to see an esprit on the road, must be first I have seen in 6 months.

You dont have to lift the hard top on for the Slk at least although I can do the MR2 by myself just. If you do manage to persuade the Mr2 route theres a few things to look out for but parts are so low cost it almost doesnt matter. For what we need at the moment its as near to an Elise whilst being disposable, and after tinkering today so well screwed together. Not had to get the angle grinder out for a nut and bolt so far!!! 😀

They just past Maidstone 7-8 bunched together at the front and then at 40 second intervals. Blimey they are slow by comparison to modern planes. 1st and last had invasion colours on them. Sorry no pics as would just be a spec on phone camera.

Eyes in the sky tomorrow 2.37pm over Maidstone. Unlikely to see this again any time soon. 34 Dakotas flying from Duxford towards Europe. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/where-you-can-see-the-d-day-flypast-over-kent-205923/

Truely sorry for your loss.