If you’ve been following the conversion and engineering of this project then you will be familiar with whats been going on. But if this is your first visit to our blog, welcome. The actual installation began back in late July leading into August… our Aussie winter. Its been a long hard slog. And as with […]
Double De Clutch Technique Explained.
You’ve probably heard about it, and you may be thinking what the dickens is double clutch?If you are old school, this will be nothing new to you, but there’s plenty of people out there who don’t understand the technique. If you know what a crash box is (No synchro) then you would know that the […]
5 Speed gearbox. Part 4.
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. This is part 1 of a series of blog articles that will detail the preparation and installation of the five speed box into the writers S2 lotus […]
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 […]