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After puting the body back on the chassis. I had to cut out the wheel arches to fit the 15" tires & wheels (Lotus stock is 13"). Been remaking the fenders to cover the big tires. Gluing on foam blocks & reglassing. The nose & tail will get cut off & molds made. So I can have nice clean pieces not al...

Got my new Offenhauser valve covers & intake man. Very nice I think & I like the Offenhauser name on them. They have been closely associated with Indy & Can-Am racing here for many years. Started putting the suspention & wheels on the chassis. But have a bit of a problem with the rear radius rods. W...

Things are comming along. Not much to take pics of though. Been sand blasting & painting susp. parts. Got the roll bar bent & base plates welded on. Welding on the frame where I'd only tacked it before. Torch welding can be a pain to get into some of the tighter spots. But where I can run a bead I'm...

Been raining like crazy the last two days. Can't get much done (chassis is in the driveway). Went to Shore metals yesterday & got some steel & welding rod I needed. Then did some welding on the radius rods & brackets. I'll get them & some other susp. parts sand blasted today & ready to paint (still ...

A VW trans can take quite a bit more that most people think if built right. Not many Renaults around here in the states. It should handel 200 or so horses. They build Dune buggies with that much HP & more. I didn't really trust that the stock Renault trans would take it & I had a VW in the garage. A...

The transaxle is a VW. The new case & side plates are heavy duty as will the rebuild on the trans internals. I'm using a stock trans for set up. Ring gear will be flipped to run "backwards".

Got the new "rhino" trans case & side plates this week. Plus just picked up the new wheels & tires (295 50 15 rears) today. Getting the frame/susp cut & tacked together. Re-doing some things I'd done before but didn't like the way they looked. I'm my own worst enemy/critic when it comes to the way I...

I have a 76 Chevy Corvette with a 350 SBC. Don't drive it as much as I'd like though.

Thanks Ian yes I've been a member over at GT40s for awhile. I put the Lotus on the back burrner some time ago. But now back on it full steam ahead.

Maybe this was where I should have posted? I put it in the "engine swap" forum. But it's way more than just an engine swap. It's a total re-work of my Lotus. Engine, trans, Body & frame/susp. http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x470/skystone3/Lotus%20build/P5260001-1.jpg http://i1183.photobucket.com...

Well you know how expensive coil overs are. Besides I think soft rides are over rated LOL

Here's some pix of the suspention mods I'm doing & the body reshaping. I've always loved the Lola T70 & the Chevron B-16. So I'm doing somewhat of a hybred on the body. Besides making the nose & tail sections liftable (ala Spitfire). I had a 69 S2 Europa when I was in college. I got really tired of ...

Nothing really wrong with an LS or other SBC. But they are heavier & larger dimentionally. Would take more strengthening of the frame etc. The Buick is a nice small light weight (340 lbs) package. With the stock Europa only weighing in at 1,500 lbs or so. The Buick in stock form 4bbl puts out about ...

I'll try one here.


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Hi gang I'm in the process of puting a Buick 215 alum. V8 in my 71 Lotus Europa. I had to open up the "Y" section where the frame horns meet the back bone. Then reinforced the horns with 1 1/2" X 2" tubing. Because I had to cut the top & bottom flanges down for clearance to the oil pump. Changing th...