Photo Gallery and Ongoing Projects
For those of you that have visited the workshop in recent years, you will be familiar with our long and ongoing project of Mr Smith's Lotus Elan +2, we inherited the project back in 2002, the vehicle had been completely stripped and put into box's, quite a few box's, well it is still ongoing although it has been running recently !
After many hours of hard work with our sand blaster tank, most of the mechanical parts have been cleaned, painted and overhauled, reassembly of Mr Smith's Elan is well on the way to being put back together, the brakes and clutch have been bleed.
With the chassis built and assembled, the engine rebuilt with the latest lead free valve seats, new pistons, bearings etc, it was now ready to be fitted to the body, the body was lowered onto the chassis, all the body mounting bolt holes were marked on the chassis. The body was then removed again, the chassis mounting holes were then drilled and tapped to the appropriate sizes and the body refitted and bolted into place for the last time.
Things have moved on still further since these pictures were taken, the cooling system has been fitted including the heater, the engine wiring harness has been fitted, the carbs have been stripped, overhauled and fitted, distributor, plugs and leads fitted, ignition timing set up, electronic ignition wired in, and the engine has been running, that is after a false start when the fuel pump didn,t work and leaked several litres of petrol all over the floor.