Lotus 7 S4 1974: light restoration and modification

Lotus 7 S4 1974: light restoration and modification

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delavay

7 posts

123 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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Hello, I would like some advice about my front suspension arm lower right & left
bush begins to leave its housing .is that when I turn the wheels to the maximum? no vibration while driving, nor right nor left.
, Thanks for your suggestions
Delavay

framerateuk

2,730 posts

183 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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Great stuff Kghaas, I really enjoy reading your updates!

With regards to your diff brace, it looks very low! Have you had any ground clearance issues?

Kghaas

Original Poster:

173 posts

150 months

Tuesday 9th September 2014
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Thanks smile

If you by diff brace means the crossmember under the bellhousing, I have indeed had had clearence issues.I hit the edge of my trailer when rolling the car off. I have now made a new which is higher and also removable. I had no clearence issues on the road with the old design.

framerateuk

2,730 posts

183 months

Tuesday 9th September 2014
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I guess you don't have many speed bumps around then smile

My lowered floors bottom out quite often on our roads thanks to the speed bumps!

Kghaas

Original Poster:

173 posts

150 months

Sunday 14th September 2014
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Last trackday was a real disaster. Waterpump broke after 1m! Nothing else to do than putting the car back on the trailer and go 2h back home again. There was also some heats for racecars this day, and some cars form the Seven Eleven class was there. This is a locost class whit a Seven chasis but with a more modern look to it. The colour was nice too smile







This was the last trackday of the season for me, and I am now planning for the winter projects:
- New workshop, which will be about twice the size of the existing one, with all the right tools..
- Paint the rollbar
- Mabye widetrack, and all new coilover suspention
- New exhaust. I tried once more to get in contact with Raceline, but these guys just don't know how to answer phones and mails. Amazing customer service! I will probably make one local or buy OEM from Caterham
- New cams
- Oil cooler
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Edited by Kghaas on Saturday 19th January 13:32

Kghaas

Original Poster:

173 posts

150 months

Monday 27th October 2014
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New workshop...







Farlig

632 posts

151 months

Monday 27th October 2014
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Yesss!!!

Kghaas

Original Poster:

173 posts

150 months

Sunday 2nd November 2014
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Farlig

632 posts

151 months

Monday 3rd November 2014
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Cool - looking good, where´s the bar going?? (hæhæ!!)
What drawing package did you use for that?

mickrick

3,700 posts

172 months

Tuesday 4th November 2014
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Nice project! thumbup

Kghaas

Original Poster:

173 posts

150 months

Monday 10th November 2014
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Thanks guys smile

Drawing package is Sweethome3d, and all the models are converted from Sketchup.

Kghaas

Original Poster:

173 posts

150 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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7s4whatelse

156 posts

167 months

Wednesday 14th January 2015
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Knut, we are sure that there are any updates... so, don´t hesitate to post

Kghaas

Original Poster:

173 posts

150 months

Tuesday 3rd February 2015
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I guess one or two things has happened since I posted here. I just think there is too little feedback in this thread for me to post on a regular basis. But requests will of course be honored smile

The bunker is now done. I have started on the interior and the emphasis is on a working garage, not a showroom. So at the moment I am building about 50m of shelves to store stuff in. I have a tendency to never throw away stuff...

Som pics:


The car is outside under a cover. It is only for another couple of weeks


Fresh concrete creates a lot of dust. You can ses the different passes with the vacuum cleaner. About 10 kilos of dust!


When all dust is gone, you can put on 2K epoxy. I was thinking also considering tiles, but ended up with epoxy as best option for a working space


Bought some interior from Bauhaus, but it was a pain in the arse to assembel. I was also not happy with the design or quality, so I returned som pieces and bought some IKEA stuff instead.


I had already assembled the workbenches. If I was to do this again I would go IKEA for the lot. The Bauhaus stuff is bespoke garage interior in metal, but I just think the IKEA is better for a hobby garage where space is of the essence.

Today I received the two post lift. One package of 550kg! It was delivered 3 meters outside the garage, and I spent 3 hours to wrestle it in!!!
Hopefully I will have it up by this weekend

downsman

1,099 posts

155 months

Tuesday 3rd February 2015
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I'm so envious, your workshop is brilliant smile

mickrick

3,700 posts

172 months

Saturday 7th February 2015
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A proper man cave! Coolio smile

Kghaas

Original Poster:

173 posts

150 months

Monday 9th February 2015
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downsman said:
I'm so envious, your workshop is brilliant smile
thanks, but the bill might not make you that envious..


Mancave progress:
2 post up, and 50 meters of shelves
Electricity next week.




mickrick

3,700 posts

172 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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Lovely! What are you doing for heating?

anp

23 posts

220 months

Friday 13th February 2015
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What a pain its been nearly there now !

anp

23 posts

220 months

Friday 13th February 2015
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The wiring was the main problem there were only a few wires in the loom that are made from actually coloured wire the rest is white wire with painted stripes which due to the passage of time & sea air had faded away however if the loom tape was peeled back the original colours were visible that was ok till I realised that some of the colours had also marked the other wires where they were tightly bound but by a lengthy process of elimination all the wires were identified its just the brake and handbrake lines to run now its only taken 4 years so far