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Offline blasterdad

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What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« on: Thursday,December 18, 2014, 04:06:19 PM »
Mine asked Santa for a new windshield & radius arms.
A dozen or so elves to work on it would help too!


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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #1 on: Thursday,December 18, 2014, 05:09:44 PM »
     My Lotus only wants an engine, transmission, interior, pedal assembly, and cooling system.  May take a few Christmas's to get there!

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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #2 on: Thursday,December 18, 2014, 05:18:00 PM »
      May take a few Christmas's to get there!

Mine too.  ::)

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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #3 on: Thursday,December 18, 2014, 10:19:02 PM »
 :)

Mine's up for a new center console from Banks Engineering, one of the vinyl trimmed ones that he does to replace the ABS one which has a few cracks around the edges now. (a bit like the owner I suppose....)

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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #4 on: Friday,December 19, 2014, 07:00:42 AM »
 :coolpic:

New, long lasting and effective O-rings for the carb bowl plugs.
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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #5 on: Friday,December 19, 2014, 10:53:43 AM »
Mine has asked for a complete set of rear wheel bearings and axel u-joints. Perhaps some axel shims will find their way into the stocking as well.

Winter hibernation is now well under way. Looking forward to spring  8)
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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #6 on: Friday,December 19, 2014, 07:19:37 PM »
i got a lotus for christmas. or a lot of one, at least.
it wants attention.

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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #7 on: Friday,December 19, 2014, 08:23:37 PM »
Congratulations on your new acquisition!! Good luck with your new toy. Let us know if you have any questions.
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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #8 on: Saturday,December 20, 2014, 02:23:24 AM »
40hp and a close ratio gearset :)
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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #9 on: Saturday,December 20, 2014, 03:30:06 AM »
A new cylinder head for Dellorto or Weber carbs. I think they are as rare as Santa's reindeer.

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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #10 on: Saturday,December 20, 2014, 04:28:49 AM »
A new cylinder head for Dellorto or Weber carbs. I think they are as rare as Santa's reindeer.

They both would fit nicely(carbs and a head) thru my chimney also...I will leave extra cookie's and as much milk you desire Santa. ld

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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #11 on: Saturday,December 20, 2014, 06:19:15 AM »

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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #12 on: Saturday,December 20, 2014, 07:08:44 AM »
Dave is a great guy and his TC weber head conversion (which I think is really made by http://omnitech-engineering.com/) is really great (and so is his cassette water pump also for the TC), but he hasn't updated his web site in a long time. In fact, it looks like that page is from 1999! So it might be a bit more expensive now.

On the other hand, if you want a better TC head, you won't be able to do better than these. In this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL0kcA2shRk) he explains why his weber conversion is better than the original weber head because the inlet ports can be ported much more accurately.

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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #13 on: Sunday,December 21, 2014, 03:59:17 AM »
Mine want a pair of Aluminum gas tank (custom made here in Bangkok), throttle cable and a set of oil pressure pipe, that would do for getting her back on the road again. Hope Richard sent them already  ;D

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Re: What does your Lotus want for Christmas?...
« Reply #14 on: Thursday,December 25, 2014, 09:51:24 PM »
Me to get off of my duff and begin the restoration.  There is a huge sale at Harbor Freight on New Year's day and I'm going to buy the racing jack and another pair of dollies so I can stuff the Lotus in the back of the garage if I need space there to work on the MGB.  I had a friend point out to me that although the Europa as is has the extra radiator to accommodate the extra heat of the Mazda rotary, there isn't a suitable way for the from the extra radiator heat to vacate the nose area.  I don't like the idea of louvers...  Still another reason to move forward on restoring the car to its original Renault engine...  Has anyone here tried a block and tackle arrangement to pick the body up off of the frame?  Got pictures of the process?