70 S2 0044Q

[gideon]

How did you carry the skis? 

In my head I'm seeing a ski rack mounted on the engine cover, with the ski tips poking up over the roof. 

[dakazman]

  Nice design Sandy. 
Dakazman

[BDA]

I’ll bet she does! 

[Sandyman]

The upside of being on the volunteer ski patrol is that I can store my skis at the hill.

[TCS4605R]

Sandyman,

PM me - tell me about your skiing - I’m a Level 200 Alpine Coach.

Tom
74 TCS - 4605R

[Sandyman]

Spent some time on the Europa this week. Redirected the tail pipe and installed a 3rd. brake light.

[Kendo]

Sandyman, did yuo put the 3rd brake light on the rear window's rubber gasket? If so, how did you mount it? I'm thinking of putting one there.

[Sandyman]

Kendo, I used bathtub silicone to glue the light to the lip above the rear window. I think the silicone will keep it in place but be easily removable when I get the car repainted in the future. the 3rd. light is a inexpensive one I picked up at Princes Auto (Canadian equivalent of Harbour Freight). I sanded the top and bottom of the light flat to reduce the profile. It came with a chrome surround that I discarded.
Sandy

[RonPNW]

Re the air scoop.
Definitely a good thing to do. I read (and sadly could not find it again) that some Lotus owner in Sweden? installed a cold air intake and picked up about 10HP and dropped intake air temp about 20 degrees. What he did was to cut a whole into the fiberglass floor just in front of the right rear wheel. Adding a little ducting to direct the air from under the car to the carbs. Not a direct connection to avoid odd mixture changes do to ram air at different speeds.
Seems like a good solution since it does not fight the existing air flow direction which is from under the car and up through the vents above the engine. I am in the middle of fabricating just such a system for my 70 S2 while the body is off and easy to work on. I also intend to add a small wheel spat / spoiler directly in front of the rear wheels to help direct more air into the engine space. It also should slightly reduce net air drag, many newer cars have such spoilers in front of the rear wheels. A google search will uncover a few articles about the impact of such a mod.
It's all speculation since I have not finished but it does seem to be a reasonable idea.

[BDA]

For your edification, I found A few takes on that. I hope these help:

http://www.lotuseuropa.org/LotusForum/index.php?topic=3684.msg38896#msg38896
http://www.lotuseuropa.org/LotusForum/index.php?topic=2658.0

[Bainford]

For your edification, I found A few takes on that. I hope these help:

http://www.lotuseuropa.org/LotusForum/index.php?topic=3684.msg38896#msg38896
http://www.lotuseuropa.org/LotusForum/index.php?topic=2658.0

Thanks BDA, for bringing these links to attention. I just had a good read through these (again), lots of great information there on improving cold air intake. I wonder if these two threads can be combined some way and added to the Technical Articles section of the forum.

[BDA]

Great idea! Maybe SOMEONE could edit them into one tech article for the Technical Articles section...   

[Sandyman]

Long weekend here in the frozen north (+30 C). Time to attack the wheel alignment. Once the car is level front to back. How do I establish the vertical centre line of the front to set the caster?

[BDA]

I set the caster by measuring the camber at both steering lock positions. It’s not really adjustable though.

[Sandyman]

BDA, I have a Spyder Chassis and suspension. Totally adjustable. I need to be able to find the true vertical of the front and then adjust the caster slightly negative so the car tracks better and returns to straight  leaving a corner.