We now arrive at part four. The engineering work becomes a little more serious and more exacting as we progress through each stage. Part four is no exception, as we prepare the gearbox case to accept the special aluminium adapter plate (Still to be made) that will help to mate the Gemini/Isuzu 5 speed gearbox […]
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 […]
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 […]