Parting of the bell and gearbox case. We take a deep breath, because now its time to get a bit more serious about the project, IE, the process of parting the bell from the front section of gearbox casing, the point of no return, there’s no turning back from here. So, first off we need […]
5 Speed Gearbox – PT-2
Tail Shaft Modifications. Here we go again, concentrating on the minor things. You may think that concentrating on the small things is doing things in reverse, well, but don’t be too concerned, what this will achieve is to get a lot of the fiddly engineering jobs out the way, and will actually help to speed […]
5 Speed Gearbox-PT 1.
Will this 5 speed Isuzu/Gemini gearbox conversion fit into the Lotus Elan? The short answer is yes… But not without a considerable amount of preparation and engineering work. The modern freeway or motorway begs the addition of an extra gear or overdrive on the elan, even though the Lotus twin cam engine was designed to […]
Brake Upgrade – Elan S2.
Its exhilarating to drive a fast sports car, but its also important to be able to stop that fast sports car with excellent brakes. The disc brakes on the S2 elan were OK, but not brilliant, and with an increase in power and other go faster upgrades, they were found to be wanting. Throughout the […]
Protecting The Lotus Aluminium Diff Housing.
Up to the time the writer purchased the basket case S2 elan in 1981, for more than a decade, it had a pretty hard life being flogged around many Australian race tracks, we still have the log books of competition history… and the car was even featured in the book: Racing Elan’s In Australia, and […]
Lotus elan rear strut hub and tube.
Today we explore the removal and replacement of the rear strut tube of the Lotus elan. The day could arrive soon when you may need to tackle this job, the videos below outline how to carry out that operation using the correct tools and methods. There could be a reason to think that this job […]
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