More bits

Another eBay find:

Lotus odds & ends

Sorry for the lack of updates - I've been sidetracked with my Alfa Romeo project. The Lotus is still a priority and I would love to be driving the car. There are not enough hours in the day!

When I bought the Lotus, some of the insignia had been taken off it. Of course, it was the hard-to-find  (and expensive) items like the black & silver horn button and gear knob badge.

I found another horn button on Kajiji (an online classifieds website), and scored a NOS gear knob badge on eBay this week.

I also purchased some rear arms for a (future) Lotus Elan project.

ColorTune charts

New sprockets and timing chain on

The vernier sprockets made it easy to get the timing chain back on. New collars, lock washers and bolts used.

I think I'm going to have to pull the rad to get the degree wheel on the crank pulley.

The new carb linkage shipped today. Thanks to Emmanuel from http://www.classiccarbs.co.uk.

Carb linkage headaches

It looks like my carb woes are not over.

I put the Lotus throttle lever on the Weber 40 DCOE 149s and found the return spring does not clear the body. The new style carburetor has an extra ear that interferes with it (see below).

So, finally, I ordered a Mangoletsi throttle linkage, which should solve this problem and give me more room to work under the hood - a good thing!

Back at it

I finally got some time to work on the Lotus tonight. The first task was reconnecting the coolant hoses and temperature gauge. Hooray!

Here is one of the vernier cam sprockets from QED. These eliminate the need for offset dowels and let me set the valve timing accurately.

There still seems to be a lot of interest in this blog. I noticed a lot of people visit my Weber 40 DCOE 149 disassembly notes. Any engine or car pictures take 2nd and 3rd place. Good stuff.

Lotus air box

Ideas for a future project - I have a fibreglass cover, now I need to think about making a back plate.