S2 restoration

[shortjedi]

First post.
A few shots of my 1969 S2. I've been restoring for a few years.
It started out as a very rough example with the wrong Renault 18 engine and box badly fitted to a reasonable spyder chassis.
Having sorted the chassis and failing to find a  crossflow Renault  engine I've gone down the zetec route.
The body was pretty shabby, so underwent a rebuild with new bulkhead and lots of repair work all round.
I've had a couple of years off the project whilst building a new house and have recently started again.
Change of plan so I've sold on the original body and bought a Banks type 47 which I've just started to fettle.
Still got a huge amount of work to do.
Won't be a purists car but then I'm not building it for a purist.
Cheers

[shortjedi]

Sorry guys seems the photo files are to big to upload. Ah well. .

[BDA]

There are lots of ways to reduce the size of photos so you can post them. I run on Windows 7 and it comes with a tool call the "snipping tool". It allows you to capture a portion of your screen to a file. I display the photograph on the screen and use the snipping tool to capture the part of the photo - or all of it - to a file and post that. Some cameras come with editing tools that allow you to crop or save the picture at a lower resolution. I would bet that there are free tools available on the Interweb that can do the same thing.

Good luck! We want to see your pictures!!!

[shortjedi]

How's this?

[shortjedi]

And a few of the rolling chassis

[BDA]

Very nice!!! Are you going to be running a Zetec?

[Bainford]

Welcome to the forum, Mr jedi. It looks like you are well on your way to an awesome Europa. Looking forward to seeing more. Cheers.

[shortjedi]

Yes, 1.8 with delorttos.

[BDA]

Cool! That will be a lot of fun! 

[buzzer]

Does look good,  I like the rear suspension set up, are you fitting rear discs?

[shortjedi]

Yes, I've fitted MGF rear setup. It's a fairly common mod on Triumph spitfires etc.

[460384]

My 72 TC has Miata rear disc brakes.  It works good.  You might want to consider that as an option.

[shortjedi]

I've seen that done , looks good. I've already fitted the MGF brakes. Incidentally I've fitted S1 Elise disks and calipers on the front. Photos attached.

[BDA]

Very nice! It even says Lotus on the caliper!

[shortjedi]

Making progress with the body, spent many hours making the doors, bonnet and engine cover fit. lots and lots of filling and priming.
Firewall made and fitted.
Fitted the first fuel tank today and started to close off the inner arches.