Certified Lotus wrote:Thanks Mark & Tim. I can always depend on the two of you for the answers! Gotta wonder why an engine replacement 2 years from new and from another Elan.......
I just caught this scrolling through this thread... One (or two) such cases happened to my father's 65 S2. He bought his Elan off the line in England, and had it ferried back to the US. It was stolen off of the ferry once it got back here, but was recovered a few weeks later. Apparently, the car had been abused so badly that only a couple of weeks after it was returned to my dad, when he was driving up a hill on his way home from work it threw a connecting rod. I don't know what happened to that engine, but I believed it may have been swapped immediately.
Later, around 1968, the maintenance log says "New engine - Cortina". The car had 49,450 miles on it at that point. I believe I have this engine currently, but I'm not sure -- the engine block is stamped with LP5494LBA.
I also have a head on a different engine stamped LP6215 or 6245, I can't quite read the third digit.
If anyone has any information on these, I know this isn't lotuscortina.net, but I'm curious...