Lotus Europa Community

I will probably “wing” it …thought a drawing would be helpful

I have this stolen pic from my hoard.
I don't know if the dimensions are valid but it might be possible to check against yours.
It's for an S2 and I also don't know all the differences compared to a TCS seat - probably the recline angle and the seat cushion 'webbing' on the later cars?

Not worth the risk of having the window go down farther. I would tack the gear/arm to stop it from moving too far.There is a thermal protection switch in the window motors. I was parked outside all day near Az summer and one window would not go up on a 45 minute drive. I think I put more tension in the spring to disable it. They are both sitting on my shelf.

Great photos, until I saw them side by side I'd not realised just how much bigger the Emira is compared to our cars, the Europa looks "dinky" in those comparisons.  I do like the styling of the Evora and Emira even though I don't find myself wanting to buy one even though over here in the UK the prices of new or very low mileage (200-300 ?) cars are dropping and the waiting list premiums have completely vanished.

Like BDA I don't have anything special in terms of radio suppression. Petronix ignition, 5k resistance NGK plug caps with copper wires and that's about it.

These days I usually have an SD card with tracks played at random from a relatively cheap media player. The radio is hooked up with a small amplified aerial hidden at the front of the car and does work reasonably well with mainstream and local stations on FM.   

It might be down to modern electronics but I don't recall any problems with reception even back in the 80s/90s with FM, conventional aerials coming up from the front wing and decent radios like Radiomobile, etc.

Brian

I’m glad it wasn’t something serious like worn bearings!