Lotus Elan and Lotus Elan Plus 2 Forums

Hey guys,

Not an Elan owner here, but an Mk1 escort owner getting ready to fit a fast genuine webber twincam head using a 711M block.

I already found very useful advises searching in this forum.

thanks

Welcome to the forum. Building a Lotus twincam is one of the best and most enjoyable things you can do standing up

cheers
Rohan

welcome to the forum.....like your user name..!

rohan....what else is there? I've forgotten......

fred

TwinCam Escort! More fun than a barrel of monkeys

Mazzini wrote:TwinCam Escort! More fun than a barrel of monkeys

not much yet as the car is sitting in the garage. Hopefully next year when i have the engine in everything will change

rgh0 wrote:Welcome to the forum. Building a Lotus twincam is one of the best and most enjoyable things you can do standing up

cheers
Rohan

i agree, but that engine it comes with a big cost

Chrisis wrote:

rgh0 wrote:Welcome to the forum. Building a Lotus twincam is one of the best and most enjoyable things you can do standing up

cheers
Rohan

i agree, but that engine it comes with a big cost

Almost everything worthwhile has a cost attached, but if you do as much of the work yourself as possible the cost is not to bad

cheers
Rohan

Nice sounding project.

I bought a complete low mileage dry sumped Lotus tall block engine and gearbox from a crashed late 70's Caterham a few years ago with the intention of putting it into an Escort and making a TC 'replicar'

Still looking for a suitable donor but Escort prices appear to have gone crazy!

jono wrote:
Still looking for a suitable donor but Escort prices appear to have gone crazy!

Try Dave Paveley at Groupbmotorsport in Deeside. I visited yesterday, and although deeply involved in Honda, Toyota and Subaru rally cars, he seems to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the worldwide location of Escort shells.

www.groupbmotorsport.com

Malcolm

Thanks Malcolm - will look this up.

Just noticed Chrisis' location so he's lucky and has a head start!

Jon