Alex's v8 re-build thread warning pic whore inside >:)

[swindon_alan]

Hello again Alex, I got my new headlamps from PNM Engineering, they come as a kit with new stainless steel mounts, adjusters and brackets and are really cool:

As far as I know you can't get the convex main beam units any longer, so dip and main are both concave.

http://www.pnmengineering.com/lotus-lighting.html

[eeyoreish]

I got the PNM lamp kit too. Not too fiddly to fit and should last well being all stainless.

Happy.

[Alex Carter]

Thanks chaps I shall have a nose mine work fine but inside the chrome reflective is ageing and you know how anal I am . So rads on order I've repaired the lower pack holder and made my side and bottom supports . Painted today did a test fit for the coolers . 

[Alex Carter]

Edited December 4, 2015 by Alex Carter

[Alex Carter]

I have chosen not to put the metal inside the fibreglass as there is no point other than to encourage the cracking again the vibration and pinch of something that can me crushed and something that can't to me is moronic so it's staying out 

[Alex Carter]

I've also started building my self the ultimate tool kit for lucifer with a custom snap on box lol

Edited December 4, 2015 by Alex Carter

[Alex Carter]

in no particular order just fitted the new longer oil lines and pipe sheilding now to return the cabin back to normality

Edited December 8, 2015 by Alex Carter
im a dumbass

[top-plumber]

Ok Alex or Alan... Which one of you Swindon lads is selling the radiator on eBay? 

regards from gods county( Essex)

wayne

[swindon_alan]

3 minutes ago, top-plumber said:

Ok Alex or Alan... Which one of you Swindon lads is selling the radiator on eBay? 

regards from gods county( Essex)

wayne

I've got a secondhand V8 rad going spare for nothing. Not very good nick but the end cans are fine. It would do for a recore if you wanted to keep it original. It's not on eBay, so it might be Alex?

Alan

[top-plumber]

Thanks for the offer Alan.. Just being a bit of a nose ointment really... See the pick up was Swindon and put 2 and 2 together. 

Regards Wayne

[Alex Carter]

Nope not me either my rad is fine works fine just want a shiny one . It maybe that nick guy who's selling the v8 engine from the green cat D I went to see about buying the old engine off of him , he mentioned he was going to use it as a track car and was going to swop the engine for a yank ls v8 so I'm guessing it maybe him . 

[Alex Carter]

Also Alan I've bought a serck motorsport radiator after some digging around there is a lot of reports of rad tec stuff leaking and blowing a little worrying so I'm staying clear . The price of the serck one is a little cheaper and looks better built imo

[top-plumber]

Why on earth would he change out the beautiful lotus v8 for a hemi... 

Mods available possibly?

[rizla603104]

Good to see this thread (and V8 is alive and well!) Looks like you're nearing the end?

[Alex Carter]

um not quite but hard to explain all will become clear in the future

[rizla603104]

look forward to seeing the results!!

[Alex Carter]

Slow progress rad pack being disassembled 

After the blaster and some paint 

got one of these bad boys delivered . with some spal 11" fans that should be the front end finished 

 

[Alex Carter]

suppose to be shopping for wedding stuff but found my self balls deep in lotus playing and parts shopping could be the quickest divorce .

 

[Jacques]

I notice from your small Picture, that you have the "Lotus Outside Tele Up System" installed on your Esprit.

Jacques.

[Alex Carter]

On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 14:29, Jacques said:

I notice from your small Picture, that you have the "Lotus Outside Tele Up System" installed on your Esprit.

Jacques.

You what ? 

Look what's just arrived 

 

Edited March 1, 2016 by Alex Carter
because

[Jacques]

A lift...

Anyway, the fans looks good and so does the radiator. All aluminium and stainless frame?

And are you planning to suspend it somehow?

Jacques.

[Alex Carter]

Ahhh lol I get ya . It's an replacement for the stock ones it goes in the same holes .I'm just modding the fan cowel /holder 

[swindon_alan]

On 30/09/2012 at 22:18, Alex Carter said:

i have also started work on the other end too removed the exhausts and cats and realised the ticking from the right bank is a faulty actuator on the turbo no vacum ment a rattling gate.

Alex - possibly my rattle as well?

[Alex Carter]

I'd say no because it doesn't change pitch if it were rotational or flapping because of the air pressure I'd say it should change when revd and it doesn't I think it's either a bolt or washer loose . I'll put it up in the air we can check 

[silverfrost]

Holy cow ! 

Just read this thread from start to finish !   fair play to you for getting the spanners back out on that engine. 

 Things can go wrong on motors even when skilled folks have worked their magic on stuff, at the end of the day anything mechanical can break 

 You did the the right thing and got back on the horse and will soon forget he dramas when your bombing back down the roads. 

 

   excellent work on the car by the way and all finished off well .