Hi all, here's some pictures of my Europa.
I got the car beginning of this year from the US. I especially went for this car as it was already fitted with a Spyder chassis.
I did quite a few updates in the last couple of months to it...
What I have done so far:
PO informed me the wiring was redone, but turn signals didn't work and also one of the window motors wasn't.
So, my first job was to get the wiring sorted. It was rebuilt but with an original style wire harness.
The original wiring is crazy routed. The guys at Lotus (or Lucas) must have been on acid when they designed that wiring. And a fuse block with just two fuses? I didn't want any of that so I built a complete new wiring from scratch. Could have (should have?) gone with a Painless but decided to built my own.
I did a 1951 Ford F1 last year with 8 circuits, but this was something different...I now have a separate fuse for each circuit in the car and added a bunch of relays which are each separate fused as well. In total just under 30 fuses and 9 relays. And it all works
One of the struggles with my new wiring was going to be the rear lights: I didn't want to reuse the Lucas DB10 module so had to find EU units. Missed out on a few on the 'bay but then I remembered the Overhaulin' Europa with the Elise/Exige rear lights. Found a set with a guy local to me who converted his car to LED and fitted the outers to my car. I think using both inners and outers would have made the reaer end look a bit busy on mine with the exhaust which exits near where the inner light would have been. I think the final result on mine looks pretty good too.
I also changed the dashboard to a homebuilt one in alumin(i)um as I was not happy with the original and, here too, wanted a less cluttered design. I'll post pictures of it later.
Next on the to do list it to build a new center console as in my design, I cannot reuse the original.
It's equipped with a 45 DCOE which I had rebuilt as the engine wasn't running very well and I've also switched to breakerless ignition (had to change the Tacho for this). Immediately I noticed a big change in starting the engine with the points removed and the Pertronix installed. Still need to have the carb fine tuned now, but it's already running very nice.
Now for the pics:
