The Lotus Marque – About the elan. The cute little fibreglass bodied sports car that has the ability to embarrass, and harass much more powerful sports cars out on the road, or even on the race track. The lotus elan, evokes many emotions to different people, some go all gushy and mushy at the site […]
CC Combustion Chamber
You’ve probably watched the guru video’s and experts doing this, and now you are led to believe that the process is a bit on the technical side, and requires some expensive scientific instruments? Would that be correct or not? Of course the first thing you’ll need is a TC cylinder head to work with, so […]
Engine Block Pressure Test.
At long last, you’ve finally got around to the rebuilding of your twin cam engine? With a pull down and dismantle, there are always plenty of parts to inspect, measure, and make notes about what to do during the rebuild. One of the major items to check is to make sure the engine block is […]
Lotus Cylinder Head Rig.
During the past thirty four years of owning and maintaining an S2 Lotus elan, there have been many times when I could have made a wish to the automotive Jeanie that some special equipment would just magically appear in the workshop that would make the job of rebuilding and maintaining the elan just that little […]
To Flare Or Not To Flare
There are two schools of thought on whether one should flare the guards of the lotus elan? The purist would never become involved in this kind of project, and one can understand the thinking behind that. But what if you acquired a car with a body that had been considerably bastardized, molested, and altered, (For […]
Rear hub flange assembly
During a casual visit to the forum lotuselan.net, there was a discussion thread re the process of dismantling, re-assembly and re-torquing of the elan rear drive hubs to the stub axles. The post was intriguing, because of the process, method, and procedure the poster was being advised of how to, lap, fit, assemble, and torque […]
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