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Exige S1 Restoration (images changed).


jonnyfox

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could have sworn that dash panel with the EXIGE was high gloss finish earlier...???

when finished it will look better than a brand new car coming out of the Lotus Factory at this rate

Certainly was but it looked pants when I test fitted a few bits in the car so off to Allan Whites it went with the binnacle for some matching alcantara seat treatment. Shame because the black hard anodise was a beautiful finish, just didn't work sadly.
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Well the Exige won't get finished this year. Firstly all the little jobs are taking longer than expected and I'm tending to do every little job with as much attention to detail as possible. Secondly I've just bought an R300 and its EPIC!

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Well the Exige won't get finished this year. Firstly all the little jobs are taking longer than expected and I'm tending to do every little job with as much attention to detail as possible. Secondly I've just bought an R300 and its EPIC!

 

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That looks tasty!

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Jonny, tell me about it, I am eyeing up one and thinking of pensioning off the Exige, I will get BAT to look after it, just as you recommended. Looking at an academy car with 125bhp sigma.

 

I had not spotted your one for sale, but I want cheap, so I do not worry about bending it. I thought you got yours last year?

 

Will it be at Anglesey?

 

The one I like is on piston heads, orange, in Suffolk, 15k. Looks good to me.

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I bought it off Jonny, I made the commitment last year. It used to be BaT3 in its previous life. Yep it'll be there Friday and Saturday Keith. I'll be sharing a garage with Ben & Dave.

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Must seem like not a great deal is going on with so little updates but this couldn't be further from the truth. Big news is the bodywork is finished, I have done something a little out of the ordinary and possibly not to everyone's taste. I like it though, it should go well with the gloss black TMR's. 

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With regards to the engine there has been a change of plans. I've sold the trophy spec VVC back to Marc and have decided after taking advice to rebuild the VHPD. Now there is nothing wrong with my VHPD, it was running beautifully with 52k on the clock but it wouldn't have been right to do all this work and not give it a properly good rebirth. So the engine is also commencing it's rebuild this week and should be ready early to mid October. We haven't finalised the full spec yet but it's nothing out of the ordinary and will run using the OE ECU. I have no interest to increase the power. In the pursuit of long term reliability and high spectrum OCD we'll clean up the block, head, cam cover, a little porting, have the TB's rebuilt, fit Kent pullies, new water pump, new sleeves & pistons, new starter motor, new alternator, new clutch, fly wheel reconditioned with the usual new gaskets, belt etc. I'll post up the full spec and its build journey also later but today it looked like this....

Lots of bead blasting, zinc coating, sanding, anodising and a little bit of powder coating! And a thermal coating here and there for good measure. Starting with aluminium panels for the footwells, radio blank which I'll put the extinguisher control box on and a cover for the sill access behind the front wheels.  Divider, footrest, window winders, extinguisher nozzle brackets, bonnet hinge, shims and new floor panels.

 

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Head light bracket, clutch release (although I will swap for an EP one, cheers Martin), door striker and bonnet striker pins.

 

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New handbrake secondary

 

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