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Engine Plumbing: Part 1 (Water)
I found this by far the most confusing section of the Build to date. It was easy to find the all the hoses and both the three oil pipes and the two radiator hoses were obvious and easy to identify. My trouble began when I tried to make sense of the various other (mostly) water…
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Radiator & Fan
The mounting brackets for the radiator and fan assembly needed a little “fettling” to install correctly/ In particular I wanted to ensure the radiator was mounted without any inherent stress from the mounting points as I know this can be a failure point. Radiator … meet Fan I first installed the fan to the front…
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Catch Can & Bracket
Quick job and great to tackle alongside the expansion tank since both involve some drilling and riveting – although note that the Catch Can uses 1/8″ rivets whereas the expansion tank uses 5/32″. I totally failed to take a “before” picture of the chassis plate but it should be clear what the problem is –…
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Heater
Another pretty straightforward task with no “gotchas” just a pleasant time spend figuring out the process 馃槉 Heater came in its own box and needed to be split into two halves and with one half installed in the engine bay, mated up to the other which is wriggled into place above the transmission tunnel. In…
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Expansion Tank and Bracket
Another relatively quick task although I struggled a bit trying to figure out the orientation of the tank, bracket and mounting plate – mostly because the diagrams in the Build Manual (Dry Sump in my case) show these parts in various configurations, none of which are correct! Hopefully the cover picture for this post along…
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Primaries: Part 1
This was a quick one! My plan is to have the primaries ceramic coated, at least as far as the opening through bodywork, so this was a test fit only before they get dropped off for that process. Do not attempt to fit the primaries without protecting the chassis – it is really easy as…
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Engine Install
The Big Day! Having never installed an engine or transmission before and it being such an obvious, large change, I was excited to complete this step early in the Build. Per my previous post, I relied heavily on some of the build blogs, in particular Chris Collins’ Alternative Build Manual and Brownmonster along with Tigger’s…
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Engine Prep
OK, having lined up a friend and my brother-in-law as helping hands, and having arranged to borrow a hoist I needed to be ready for action! The hoist came from the owner of Auto Europe, the local & very friendly Lotus & Morgan dealer who even offered to drop-off and pick-up their very beefy (8…