Esprit Turbo project car - part3 - the further continuation

[hopo]

How have I just stumbled across this thread?!?! looks mega!

[Lotusfab]

Nearly there!

[Lotusfab]

[stephenwhyte]

Now we’re talking! What’s the hole to the left of the right lens cluster hole for?

[RichardJGC]

12 minutes ago, stephenwhyte said:

Now we’re talking! What’s the hole to the left of the right lens cluster hole for?

Is it for the number plate light wiring? That’s all I can think of right now.

[stephenwhyte]

7 minutes ago, RichardJGC said:

Is it for the number plate light wiring? That’s all I can think of right now.

That would make sense And looking at it again the rear panel is put on top of an already painted surface (ie the look of the S2) - wouldn’t have realised that either

[Andyww]

I just checked that hole on mine and there is nothing going through it, the number plate wire goes through the large slot in the middle.

Must just be to add lightness

[stephenwhyte]

14 minutes ago, Andyww said:

I just checked that hole on mine and there is nothing going through it, the number plate wire goes through the large slot in the middle.

Must just be to add lightness

I’m now off to check mine.......2 ticks

ok edit - mine has a wire going through it

[RichardJGC]

45 minutes ago, stephenwhyte said:

ok edit - mine has a wire going through it

Andy is now off to re-route his wiring ;-)

....and Stephen is off to find a grommet.

[Andyww]

That must be the plate light wire, thats probably correct routing and mines wrong. I wont be able to sleep at night now...:(

[DaveyT]

Disappointed...

I  thought it was for the machine gun barrel 

[stephenwhyte]

1 minute ago, DaveyT said:

Disappointed...

I  thought it was for the machine gun barrel 

There might be oil in that cable/pipe Dave.......for slicking the baddies

[Lotusfab]

Number plate light wire.

[Lotusfab]

I believe the above drawing is wrong. Here's why. The upper sandwich pipe is the engine out. The lower connection on the thermostat is the engine inlet. Maybe they drew it like this for clarity, but the above connections are wrong! I also think that if you were to connect it back to front the cooling would be impaired. 

 

[Lotusfab]

Fan harness

just about to upgrade this with waterproof connections. Female connector to cooling fan side. You don't need much for this apart from a good pair of crimpers and the following video.

 

[Lotusfab]

The original fan loom is very simple. All three fans are connected in parallel.the loom also contains two wires for the thermal fan switch on the radiator pipe.

[Lotusfab]

£3.56 for 10 plus £7 for crimp tool. Harness and fans are now done. You can't connect double wires to these fittings, so must joint to a single wire first them the waterproof connectors. New Battery rubber mat is in and battery is secured.

Brake servo pipe also fitted.maybe someone could help with the clutch master cylinder. What thread type is it? I need a straight union to connect the line M10x1 doesn't work??. Is it UNF?straght male/male union to connect them??.

The Esprit fan harness is very very simple.

I hate it when I can't find the correct thread type.  😡😡😡😡

Servo rubber  pipe is 10 mm/3/8. The wingnut on the battery is 6 mm. Don't forget the nut under the battery clap. The rubber battery mat came from S and J. 

[Lotusfab]

I hope to put the radiator and fairing back on tomorrow.

[Lotusfab]

Compomotive wheel valve size 10 mm.

A bit of poetic license here they are better than the original valves.

[Lotusfab]

Clutch hose braided

I stumbled across the solution. The new braided hose came with a kit that I forgot about. It includes these bits which can be used to make it work. There's no instructions like all these things!

 

[Lotusfab]

Anyone know where these go and why there are two seals? Pics would be nice.

[Lotusfab]

Ok I have looked into this in more detail, here's my guess? The right connector in the picture is a swivel connector. The long thin bit fits inside the cable and the fitting rotates to allow you to tighten the nut, the steel cable will not flex and you will not be able to tighten the nut without this connector. It would make sense one washer goes on the master Cylinder and the other at the slave end. The straight unions join it all together. Only problem the threads don't fit! If it did it would be far too easy!

[Gis]

The master and slave also come with their own connectors Fabian, the only way I could get them to fit was a jumble of connectors as shown in the photos. The slave is a non-lotus version from S and J.

[Gis]

[Lotusfab]

Thanks. You would think these cables would be sold with the correct fittings! 

Can you remember what size thread the master and slave were? I'm guessing 3/8 UNF master and 7/16 UNF slave? 

I'm going to end up with a drawful of unuseable parts!