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snowrx

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  1. On my car the three fans are wired with two wires to ground as fitted, I wired them with three, and a jumper to the frame to maybe take some of the current out of the crusty old connector pin.
  2. I had good luck dimming generic LED's with an Ebay PWM speed controller, although you need to float the grounds back to the module. I think the CAN bus bulbs run hotter as they are dumping current through a resistor to simulate the current draw of a filament.
  3. I had a bad experience with the wrong size being listed for a K&N, it seemed to fit, but after running it a bit I found dust in the intake and saw that the rubber did not seal in the airbox on my '85 carbed G-car. I think there are two fitments that are close to the same dimensions, take care you check the size of whatever filter you get. That said, most of the comments I see on the K&N style is they don't filter all that well, this from someone who's had them on many cars.
  4. Too much lightness, fooled again
  5. This is surprising, with the many threads I've repaired on my head I thought the alloy was too soft to crack
  6. Driving the car with the spoiler fitted in the passenger seat totally ruins the car's performance.
  7. Does look like the cam housing to head joint from the pics, although I would clean it and run it once to rule out the cam cap o-ring. This will get re-sealed at your next valve clearance check, if you can wait, or at least be ready to do both at once.
  8. That's what I used on mine, until it went to live in the attic.
  9. You had a COLOR monitor??!!!
  10. Shorter spine is a bit extreme; as to lowering your eyeline, here's what I made to replace the seat sliders, which on my car sat on a set of spacer washers which also could be deleted. We sturdy folk were not the target Lotus market
  11. Here's a few pic's, two commercial and my rough cast approximation. I don't notice the eccentricity, most of the time the wheel is in upper 3/4 of travel. I've removed the sliders from my seat, 6' 1" with a 33" inseam, but in the older 1985 G-car.
  12. I made an offset steering wheel hub to regain the view of the top of my gauges. It put the wheel ~16mm higher relative to the column centerline. Just a spacer with two offset screw patterns. They're commercially available for the common six screw patterns (Momo/Nardi?) But I don't know how the '91 mounts its wheel, it might not work for you.
  13. You'll have to tilt the assembly at least this much to clear the body. A hand cranked leveler is v. helpful. Have a helper and wrap some protection around the body bits.
  14. If you use the threaded rod, try to find some flanged nuts to fit it, they will locate the rod better and give more bearing area for your top plate. https://www.ebay.com/itm/190819407269
  15. M6 x 90mm bolts through 82mm long tubing?
  16. I've found many cars to have minimal rear illumination, I tend to at least find a brighter bulb for the stock socket to help backing in dark locations. The Elise may have fine illumination. With those halo lights presumably already having white centers, they could have been tapped into the reverse light circuit. Although they are mounted pretty low.
  17. Any playa still inside the wheel barrels? That'll shake your teeth.
  18. snowrx

    TLF Stickers

    TBH, I'm not a sticker person generally. But I did add this to remind me to hold the filler nozzle just right when filling the Esprit.
  19. If you ground that Brown/Yellow and turn on the key will the dash alternator light illuminate? At least then you know you have the right wire and continuity through the BHC & RHC. The bulb must be good also- (don't try an LED for that socket)
  20. Interesting how we who will drop tens of thousands on a car that almost surely will not cover cost of ownership, are getting the pencils out for solar. Here in the states, barring a reluctant utility or a adversarial state government, a simple grid tie system is now generally cheaper than an economy car, and more durable. I figure it's my carbon offset for when my Esprit goes to 11.9:1 AFR on boost!
  21. Depends on your use case. For me my rural electric company has frequent service interruptions, so I look at my battery as a whole house Uninterruptable Power System, with a subpanel that feeds my lights, home office and entertainment. I can go a couple days of conservative use without starting the generator, and if I'm in the middle of work or a movie when the power goes, I don't even notice. I never looked at the economics of the system, (or my Lotus) I just wanted to offset my grid use as much as I could and have some independence when the grid went down. But extra expense, complexity with a grid-tied system and maintenance needs need to be considered before adding a battery. In my case I was adding the grid to my battery...
  22. The black/ blue layer looks undefined in photos, but it is a trapezoidal belt as used on some Nissan Z cars. I'd switch to a round tooth if someone wanted to post me some pullies, but this does for now-
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