Europa TCST

[TurboFource]

Small progress this week …. 

Made a “seal”  for lower radiator hose to body …. Some other misc.

[Cheguava]

Small progress this week …. 

Made a “seal”  for lower radiator hose to body …. Some other misc.

Is the seal standard fitment, or because of the issues you had lining up the hose mentioned in your previous post? Or alternatively, there's no seal but there should be?

Feel your pain on the seat pans - mine had also rusted but not as badly as yours.

[TurboFource]

Not sure...just thought it should be sealed to try get all the air to go through the radiator ...

[BDA]

Sealing that is a good idea. Apparently, there can be hot air "backwashed" from the radiator that can find its way into the cabin via the backbone. My car also had a slab of foam rubber that lived under the elbow pad. I realized that one purpose of that is also to keep hot air in the backbone from coming into the cabin.

[Kendo]

Turbo, what material did you use for that hose seal? I want to make some, too.

[TurboFource]

Kendo,
It is the same 1/4” closed cell adhesive backed neoprene foam I bought off Amazon
to use for the chassis insulation …. I made a “seal” for my steering shaft with it too.

[GavinT]

Sealing that is a good idea. Apparently, there can be hot air "backwashed" from the radiator that can find its way into the cabin via the backbone. My car also had a slab of foam rubber that lived under the elbow pad. I realized that one purpose of that is also to keep hot air in the backbone from coming into the cabin.

Yeah...
On the Type 54, the front T section of the chassis has two large central holes - one on the front face and another on the rear face. Presumably all models are the same/similar.

My car had the large rubber bung in the front hole but nothing in the rear one adjacent to the backbone. I don't know if the factory installed a bung in the rear hole but that seems the obvious remedy for the hot air "backwash".

Did we all only get one bung, or was it just me?

[TurboFource]

The “Distraction” is now alive after no spark yesterday at first start attempt … bad pick up in distributor.
Back to Lotus stuff     Build thread is here if you are interested in all we did ... https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/the-distraction/261035/page1/

[TurboFource]

Back at it!

- Found a set of usable seats  (Thanx Grumblebuns) … should be on the East Coast soon ….
- Routed turbo coolant hoses etc….

I think this thing is like building a ship in a bottle using only one hand most of the time!

[BDA]

Neither of us should complain about space! That's what we get for monkeying with the original design! 

I'm sure you have set up oil lines for the turbo, too. Where did you hook them up?

[TurboFource]

Feed line goes to a tee where the pressure gauge is, drain goes to where the fuel pump was bolted to the block. Lots going on around the turbo!

[Kendo]

Who makes that blue filter you have there? Looks pretty compact.

[TurboFource]

It’s for a Harley …. I think I found it on Amazon

[dakazman]

Checkpoint American was also known as Dan Gurney’s Checkpoint America - a ‘sort of’ franchise operation.  I bought my 74 TCS from Checkpoint America in 1978.  The guy who owned it will remain nameless.  When I asked ‘nameless’ if the car ever had any body damage, he paused, stroked his chin and said no - $6500 later the car was mine.  About 10
years later I had an attack to brain fade and drove into the woods about one block from our house - necessitating a new frame.  Upon removing the body from the frame I discovered the original frame had undergone a ‘body off’ repair - ‘nameless’ strayed from the truth.  Came to find the fellow who repainted the car possessed the truth and passed it on to me - he was a fellow Lotus Espirit owner and a member of the local Lotus club.  Love the car regardless’

Tom
74TCS - 4605R

   TCS , The only thing you can do is move on. OUCH.
  HE probably never thought you would have an accident. Just make it better .
Dakazman

[TurboFource]

D’Man,
Did you mean to post that here?