Elan Engine Bays - stock, modified, restored, and 26r
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Salut
Here's mine:
...just after fitting Cliveboy's bits. The PO painted the exterior very nicely but used a kind of gritty paint for the engine bay. Don't know how I'd be able to rectify that easily.
Apparently I have a rare-but-not-sought-after cam cover with forward-facing lettering.
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Vernon
Here's mine:
...just after fitting Cliveboy's bits. The PO painted the exterior very nicely but used a kind of gritty paint for the engine bay. Don't know how I'd be able to rectify that easily.
Apparently I have a rare-but-not-sought-after cam cover with forward-facing lettering.
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Vernon
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vernon.taylor - Fourth Gear
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vernon.taylor wrote: Apparently I have a rare-but-not-sought-after cam cover with forward-facing lettering.
Were they fitted to Lotus Cortinas for viewing from the front?
Meg
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Quart Meg Miles - Coveted Fifth Gear
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Quart Meg Miles wrote:vernon.taylor wrote: Apparently I have a rare-but-not-sought-after cam cover with forward-facing lettering.
Were they fitted to Lotus Cortinas for viewing from the front?
No they were made after the LoCort was out of production, I believe I heard a story that they were made for auto shows but got out when they were short of production ones. Sounds like a Graham Arnold kinda story...
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pharriso - Coveted Fifth Gear
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Not an Arnold story, just some supposition. From my web site:
The fins on the cam covers and the ?LOTUS Big Valve? legend became more sharply defined, with the Lotus font changed, the legend also being read from the cabin end of the car, having initially been read from in front of the car, at some time in mid 1971. Presumably new castings were made, either by a new manufacturer if they were outsourced, or by a change in casting at the factory. Apparently only 50 cam covers were made to be read from the front, perhaps so that it was easier to read when viewing the car at motor shows!
Tim
The fins on the cam covers and the ?LOTUS Big Valve? legend became more sharply defined, with the Lotus font changed, the legend also being read from the cabin end of the car, having initially been read from in front of the car, at some time in mid 1971. Presumably new castings were made, either by a new manufacturer if they were outsourced, or by a change in casting at the factory. Apparently only 50 cam covers were made to be read from the front, perhaps so that it was easier to read when viewing the car at motor shows!
Tim
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trw99 - Coveted Fifth Gear
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I don't suppose anyone has a picture of the plate so I can fabricate something. However, I am tempted to glass and fill the holes as the engine bay is being painted anyway. For a rhd car which holes do I need on the left hand side? Two holes on the top left have grommets, so may have been used. Are any used for the wiring loom?
Cheers,
David
Cheers,
David
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