B Is For Build

[Polarbert]

https://youtu.be/4eW8HS3yuBc

This chap bought a smashed up Evora and is trying to get it back on the road for the price of a new Toyota. He seems incredibly dedicated and very clever in his skills. I wish I was that knowledgeable.

That was part 4. The others on his channel are well worth watching.

[Polarbert]

He is up to part 15 now on this. http://edukacyjne.5v.pl/prasa.html While some things have been bodged I wouldn't say it was unsafe, and its commendable that he has done so much of this on his own.

Edited by Polarbert on Wednesday 22 August 10:10

[Polarbert]

I know nothing about these cars, fibreglass, or structural rigidity. I wouldn't have thought it would be as strong as an entire replacement bulkhead, if such a thing exists. But once the sills, roof, and rear clamshell go on and all get bonded I wouldn't have thought it would be any less rigid.


Would people rather have a questionably repaired Lotus Evora or a brand new Toyota Camry? I'd take the Lotus out of the two, but again you could probably find something for Camry money that hasn't been rolled over.

[Polarbert]

He has started painting the body panels now. He is very nearly there.

[Polarbert]

Thorburn said:

Polarbert said:

He has started painting the body panels now. He is very nearly there.

Shame what he's done up front is lethally bodged.

I honestly don't know enough about the construction of cars to know that, but I can understand how it could be lethal.

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Deptford Draylons said:

He mouthed off about the supply of Lotus parts being so piss poor, then promptly did an intervention show saying how he had got it wrong.
In the latest show, someone at Lotus had some fun by sending a completely empty massive box !

Edited by Deptford Draylons on Wednesday 28th September 10:59

Yes that was a good one.

I'm looking forward to seeing it all done now he has the painting done. I never thought he would find a roof for the thing.

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Nightmare said:

And it's finished - thought it was absolutely brilliant (and bought a t shirt so my name is on the car, yay).

Don't like changing the front wheel size, and that subframe fix looked a little dodgy but prob more dangerous for pedestrians than the occupants....others just superb. Think the gae bumper looks so much better than standard.

Yeah agree with all of that. The wheels he got do look quite nice, but not a spot on the OEM ones. Really did cringe when he cut off the perfectly good frame rail, but overall he seems like a smashing bloke and very intelligent when it comes to thinking outside the box and getting things done.