Nautilus blue 350s

[Jcx]

How is the crystal serum ultra holding up?

[MAG]

It's pretty impressive, in a different league to the light and exo which is what I had previously. Stays cleaner much longer and far more resistant to swirls.

[Diablos-666]

On 15/01/2022 at 06:30, MAG said:

It's been a little while...

Nice - 460 to 490 kit - what’s that just a larger throttle body and another remap?

[MAG]

Nope, bigger charger, new intake system and a map

[chumaxa]

It looks like the power of your car is following the general markets inflation ! 

[Seriouslylotus]

20 hours ago, MAG said:

Nope, bigger charger, new intake system and a map

Also bigger Throttle body i think as well as the larger air filter body

[MAG]

So, back in August I had my car coated with G techniq Crystal Serum Ultra at Petrol Head detailing in Peterborough.

Chris, the company owner liked my car and as an accredited G techniq dealer asked if he could take some pics and enter it into a competition to appear in the 2022 calender. Much to my surprise the results are below 😁

[Davey D]

Oooh shiny! 🤩

[MAG]

So back in December I had an unfortunate bump, it was sub 5mph while reversing in the dark. Never the less I was pretty heartbroken and annoyed with myself. Having had bodywork done before, in the guise of my carbon arch vents, there was only one man for the job. I got in contact with Robin at RJM body repairs and the earliest he could fit me in was February. 

As there was both damage to the clam and the diffuser surround I decided I'd need a new one of the latter. Having shopped around I came across South West Lotus centre and it became apparent that the upgraded carbon version wouldn't cost significantly more than a plastic one so that was an easy decision made.

In a further effort to turn the repair into a positive experience, I decided to have some custom work done at the same time. I won't go into great detail as I'll leave it to a reveal on my YouTube channel later but there's gonna be custom paintwork along with a lighting upgrade 😁

[GFWilliams]

Looks almost identical to what I managed to do to mine.   You did well not to get carried away and respray the whole car a new colour

[Jcx]

8 hours ago, GFWilliams said:

Looks almost identical to what I managed to do to mine.   You did well not to get carried away and respray the whole car a new colour

you kept that driving mishap quiet George! or was i sleeping when you posted about it?! 🤣

[MAG]

Collection Monday 🙂

[MAG]

Someone's stolen my number plate lights! 😬

[Edinburgh 111s]

@MAG looking forward to seeing your solution for the number plate lights. 
I always thought the factory solution looks awful and a real after thought. 

[Brendonian]

On 26/02/2022 at 14:34, Edinburgh 111s said:

@MAG looking forward to seeing your solution for the number plate lights. 
I always thought the factory solution looks awful and a real after thought. 

Don't know if it's true, but I was told that was intentional. Story was that as the Exige was always supposed to be be like the road version of a race version of the Elise, they wanted to create the impression of a homologation special, looking like a race car that's been retro fitted with the necessary bits to make it road legal. I'm not completely convinced by that argument, but it makes some sense, and I find the lamps less offensive with that idea in mind.

[MAG]

Proper update and video to follow...

[MAG]

Okay, so I will do a video for my channel going into the details of this a little more but basically, I picked my car up today after having both the repair done and a little custom work.

Robin at RJM body repairs has done an awesome job as usual with both the repair of the cracked rear clams bumper and deleting my number plate lights. In the lights place he's fitted LED Oxford bolts and simply rerouted the wiring back up into the boot.

As is normal, I couldn't just have a standard carbon diffuser surround either so I've had him two tone it. In line with the rest of the car it's gloss carbon on the rear face with satin black on the outer surface which has turned out really nice 😬

[MAG]

 

 

 

 

[Bibs]

Never knew those existed, very smart solution

 

[MAG]

New splitter...

[Mark.A]

Where did you get this splitter from? I have been looking for one with the turned up side fins that will fit the original front cam for ages.

[MAG]

 

[MAG]

Hi guys so here is the latest update and how I modified the spitter.

I decided that I wanted a new splitter for the car as the original Alias 23 unit was starting to get a little bit worn, I had repainted it a number of times but it has taken a lot of stone chips and the leading edge was starting to get a bit tatty. I was looking for something a little bit different and liked the look of the 400 series splitters with the additional upright fins. However I did not want to mount a carbon fibre splitter as my opinion is that if you mount 2 grands worth of carbon fibre 3 inches of the ground it's just asking for trouble.

I eventually discovered that Elise shop in Denmark did a fibreglass copy of the 400 series splitter so I took a punt and ordered one. The splitter is made of a single layer of fibreglass rolled over at the edges to create a thicker look. I decided I wanted to mount a rubber lip because I had had one fitted to my alias 23 splitter previously and had been happy with the way it took punishment away from the splitter itself. I also decided that I wanted to reinforce the single layer of fibreglass so ordered a large sheet of 1.5 mm aluminium. I cut the aluminium to shape using the splitter as a template and a jigsaw. The aluminium was bonded to the fibreglass using pu sealant. The fibreglass was then drilled and 3 m tape mounted using primer. 15mm rubber L section was then stuck down to the aluminium and reinforced with M4 stainless steel dome head bolts every 100mm.

The spitter was repainted using resilient plastikote satin black spray paint. In addition u-pol raptor super tough chip resistant coating was added to the leading edge only after masking the rest of the splitter off.

 

Mounting was fairly easy and all the the mounting hardware was reusable from the alias 23 splitter. There were no issues with hole misalignment.

Initially I thought it may be too much visually speaking in conjunction with the 380 style canards but but I really do like the look now.

[Mark.A]

Nice one, thanks for info 👍