Lotus Elan, range rover, TR7, Streetka, mx5, minor,

Picked up the new trailer, it's old but everything seems in reasonable condition and works should be quite a usefull little thing.




It will be a problem reversing with the range rover you can't see it at all from the drivers seat, will need to add a couple of canes to the corners.

Wheels are interesting look like mini cosmics, they might go eventuslly though, we will probably fit midget rostyles the same as the minor.

Cut back the paint and gave it a going over with G3 and the polisher.







There are still a few swirl marks but now it's presentable I will leave for a while now to fully harden before having another go.

Andrew is using the minor most days now seems happy with it. So with that back in it's lock up and the ramp free I have been getting on with other jobs. Bought the TR home gave t a quick going over, fitted some clips to stop the carpets sliding around and decided we are going to have to invest in a new hood, the current one is falling apart at all the seams and the rear window is going brown. We were going to take it to a local car show at Hyde hall advertised as no need to book but apparently that was only to look not partake which was by invite only so we took one look at the que to get in and left, and went for a drive instead.
Then today gave the Street KA a once over fitted new front brake discs and pads gave it a service couldn't find anything else so hopefully everything should be OK for the MOT due in a month or so.

Hopefully I will get the Lotus all one colour this week.

Started the re- wiring, horn and headlamp lift relays done, need some more terminals before I can do the rest.

The tie straps are temporary I usually build a loom using these then cut them off as I wrap it.

bit of mission creep here, the cooling on these is somewhat marginal, for some reason Lotus reduced the radiator to about 2/3 the size of the original on the later ones, It's never overheated but it does get a long way up the gauge on hot days even when driving along (not been a problem this summer!) so while I have it all apart and before I fit a new fan I have bought one of these



The eagle eyed will notice its a triumph spitfire one, Lotus used a spitfire rad with the top hose straight rather than angled towards the centre plan is to modify this in the same way, (it was £109 rather than well over £300 for a elan one).

Thanks, I hadn't even looked to see if a fan will fit behind the radiator, I'll hold off making a bracket for it until I have the new rad in now.

Wiring is almost finished, plan is to  lay it back in and sort out a couple of branch lengths, check it all works then lift it out and wrap it again. New rad has led to more mission creep, the fuel filter king sits where the new rad will go, something else I have always planned to do is lay a new fuel line in with the pump and filter in the boot and a pick pipe up in the sender so it can have a filter on it and be easily removed for cleaning if required so I've ordered a roll of kunifer fuel line too.

Yesterday went out in the mx5 for the day and today spent most of the time fixing central heating (2 failed control valves), did get time to paint the windscreen surround on the mx5 before the new screen is fitted on tuesday though (lifted screen edge trim and pushed electic cable under it to hold it up) far from perfect but it's at least all one colour and finish now.






And the box of connectors for the Lorus arrived.







Probably better ones out there but they have got to be vastly superior to 50 year old corroded bullets.

The only thing I was worried about was using them on the headlamps, they are only 55w though so around 5A and the connectors are rated to 10A so it should be OK. many modern cars seem to use similar sized pins on the headlamp circuits.

Have you got a link for the connectors?

Thanks.