Exige S1 Restoration (images changed).

[Martin R]

Jon, a suggestion if i may. Get some pins that hold the trumpets on with holes in the heads for lock wire. Lock wire them together. If one comes loose as it is it will possibly be sucked in the trumpet and get very very expensive.

[jonnyfox]

Hey Martin how are you guys... I used the EP clutch release btw, thanks for that no brainer really. I won't do the trumpets but it actually leads me on nicely to a point I wanted to make about the work I've done so far. 

This car started out as a resto mod but over the three years I've been doing this it's become less of a mod and more of a resto.  I haven't and don't want to add a single hole that shouldn't be there, it's important I think. I have however done things like the clutch release, painted the centre consul, changed the dampers, TMR's, fuel tank etc etc but I have kept or purchased original parts to replace and restore once the car is back on the road. The black around the headlights was a little concern but then to repaint that area Orange is negligible.  So too removing the AC but again I have all the parts or at least the important bits. I guess the more I keep the car original the better it's value will be in the long term.  

 

 

[Martin R]

Jon, fair enough but they lock wired them on the S2 Sport 190 at Lotus motorsport. I expect it was because they know they had been a problem in the past.

[jonnyfox]

Tidied up the loom at the front of the car. Described by a friend as CRISPY 

Some before shots, difficult to see but you get the idea.

 

 

And after.  I reckon I painstakingly removed and recovered 85% of the old tape and split plastic sleeving. 

 

 

 

[jonnyfox]

A little bit more done here.

So that's a new engine and front clam loom and I've recovered all the wiring around the crash structure and engine compartment with just the rear clam loom to finish off. No issues with the interior. 

Test fitted the battery. I'm going to fit a 2 post box for the Earth and a Live disconnect both in front of the washer bottle using the existing rivnuts which I taped and cleaned today. 

 

 

 

Also reinstalled the handbrake secondary. 

 

 

 

[Dr H]

Lovely details.

I presume your garage has proper heating? I really can't face going out to mine at the moment to do anything on the Stratos. It's about 2 degrees in there during the day and too big to heat properly without some massive heater - which I don't have!

[jonnyfox]

Just a 2kw foot fan but It's properly sealed and takes 10mins to bring up to temperature. The garage door is quite excellent and insulated, it's all good as long as you wear footwear  

[Dr H]

Mine has an insulated roller door, double glazed window and a composite door, but it's a 35m2 detached single skin block wall with another floor above it. Worked in it on Wed this week when it wasn't this cold. it took the fan heater on the wall (3kw Dimplex job) about 3 hours to raise the temp by about 2-3 degrees

[jonnyfox]

It's that single skin wall Leigh, the outside wall to my garage is single skin and saps the heat right out of it.

Anyway stop bragging about how big your garage is 

Today will be spent with a snow shovel and sledge 

 

[Dr H]

Too bloody cold in the garage today - so after lunch it was a snowball fight in the garden!

[timbo]

I bought a load of interlocking EVA foam tiles which are excellent as a cold floor barrier  

Separately, did I see on exiges.com you were after a resonator thingy, jf?

[jonnyfox]

Thanks Tim. Replied to your PM buddy. 

[AlanS1]

Jonny- where did you get your loom stuff from? 

Its got to be getting close to being finished now 

[jonnyfox]

Car Build Solutions Alan.

It's getting close to be fair buddy 

 

[jonnyfox]

Big thanks to Timbo for all his help today, and Keith too for that matter. Not having a resonator valve I was unsure of the route of the hose's.  What we'd established is these were likely removed by the dealers at some point early on. The service book then is no use because of this and my thread pictures were not clear enough.  

Service book: 

Tim's car:

My car: