Spectacular weather day here in the Princeton area. Blue skies, crisp weather and fall colors on the trees. It was just magnificent.
Got up early this morning and jacked up the back of the car to adjust another inch on the rear coil over shocks. Lowered it and decided I needed to wait until I drove the car for everything to settle before making more measurements.
The drive to Peddler’s Village where the ”Brits at the Village” car show was located is about 30 miles of mostly back roads going through Lambertville and New Hope (river towns with shops and restaurants) connected by a small bridge over the Delaware.
Great turn out at the British car show, but only three Lotus’. A really nice Caterham, an equally nice Evora and my Europa. Spent the day answering lots of questions and receiving lots of complements on my Europa. A lot of people were stunned that I did the frame off restoration. The best ending was that I won first prize
More importantly, the new suspension set up is perfect! I should have left well enough alone when I first installed the 10” 150 lb springs instead of looking for a more radical “boy racer” stance and lowering with the 8” 140 lb springs.
The ride is much more gentle. No hard bumps or crashing onto the bump stops. The car isn’t as darty (the camber is now to spec) and I’m not scanning the road all the time for any possible bumps.
My friend Bruce showed up at the show and we talked about the shifter tube hitting the speedo cable. We shifted the tube through all the gears while parked and saw that it’s third gear that hits the speedo cable. Bruce also has a 72 Europa so he was going to check his car when he got home. Yup, he sent me a picture later in the day, his shift tube hits the speedo cable in third gear too. The difference is the PO installed a metal cable holder to keep the cable away from the shift tube. Anyone else have any insights on this?
