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Charge Cooler Installation

Posted by mambosasa, in Supercharger Installation 10 April 2013 -

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Lotus Elise Charge Cooler and 7 more...

Charge Cooling

As per my other blog entries, as it stands the car now runs about 317bhp on the Jackson Racing Super Charger and oil cooler.

I am still running Stark's standard 4:2:1 exhaust manifold as I am yet to convince myself that I can shell out the £1K plus for a 4:1 system (watch this space...

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Side Air Scoops

Posted by mambosasa, in Exterior Upgrades 10 April 2013 -

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Elise S1, Side Scoops, S1 Scoops and 1 more...

This is one mod that I have been wresting with for a while. Although I have dramatically changed/ updated my car, one thing that I have been trying to do is keep the standard look.

Unfortunately, with the addition of the SC, the engine bay temps have gone up somewhat and reading through various forum entries, it seems pretty inconclusive as to whether...

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Lotus Elise S1 Headlight Covers

Posted by mambosasa, in Exterior Upgrades 25 June 2012 -

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S1 Headlight Covers

I have been toying with the idea of adding the headlight covers to the headlights for some years now. To be honest, the S1 looks really good both with and without the headlight covers, so it has never been something that I felt strongly about.

Anyway, I finally decided to give it a go.

The Covers

I bought the headlight covers from...

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Shift Beeper Installation

Posted by mambosasa, in Other Mechanical Upgrades 21 May 2012 -

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Shift Beeper, Shift Lights and 4 more...

So, if you follow my blogs, you would have noticed that many years back, I installed a Head Up Display unit to project revs, shift lights, road speed onto the windscreen. This turned out to be a great mod that enable me to read where 'things' were during hard driving.

Downside

Now, I am not sure whether or not this happens...

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Intergrated Key And Alarm Fob

Posted by mambosasa, in Exterior Upgrades 21 May 2012 -

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Key, alarm, fob, unikey

One of the most irritating thing about the standard key is the attached Cobra alarm scrotum. It's cumbersome and it does tend to break off. For years now, a few people have had a go at coming up with a workable alternative that would combine the key, with the alarm fob to have a more integrated key - pretty much inline with most car manufactures...

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Uprated Gear Linkage Assembly

Posted by mambosasa, in Other Mechanical Upgrades 01 April 2012 -

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Upgraded gear linkage assembl

As you may have read on the conversion entries, as part of the Stark kit, they provide you with a gear linkage assembly that bolts to the back of the gearbox. You end up having to remove the Honda original assembly, along with the original selection weight.

I have seen the gear cables being routed in two ways.

1. Through the front of the bulkhead...

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Jdm Cams Upgrade

Posted by mambosasa, in Other Mechanical Upgrades 31 March 2012 -

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JDM Cams Upgrade

One of the simplest engine upgrade is to get the OEM cams swapped out with something a bit more aggressive. Once again, the forums are full of details around which cams are the best depending on what you are looking to achieve.

As for me, Toda A3 is where I really want to end up, however I am advised that for this, I will need to upgrade the springs too. ...

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Oil Pressure Gauge

Posted by mambosasa, in Other Mechanical Upgrades 31 March 2012 -

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Oil Pressure Gauge

Some years back, I knocked up digital gauges that I managed to squeeze in dash and covered with sunglasses lens.

I was very keen not to have additional gauges mounted on the dash, spoiling the interior simplicity of the S1 dash. By getting the digital gauge 'hidden' in the dash, they are only visible once the car is on, however they are completely...

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Carbon Lorraine Pads - Cl5

Posted by mambosasa, in Other Mechanical Upgrades 31 March 2012 -

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Carbon Laurraine Pads - CL5

So, nothing seems to divide opinions more that what brake (friction pads) to use for what application. I for one, have tried various compounds over the years and yet to really settle with a favourite.

Of late, I have been running SBS Pros all round and to be honest, I found them to be a big step from the Green stuff I used to have. Once hot, they have...

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Oil Cooler & Ali Radiator

Posted by mambosasa, in Supercharger Installation, Other Mechanical Upgrades 24 August 2011 -

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Time for more installations.

As you may have noticed reading through the installation, I opted not to install an oil cooler and upgrade the standard radiator as part of the original installation.

Apart from time, I really wanted to see whether or not the charger installation would work effectively without having the need to install these two elements -...

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