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The radiator and the wiring look just like mine! Guess it must be a design feature...

There are a couple of driveshafts on eBay right now. No hubs though.

The door’s not shut so I’m not worrying about that. And I thought it was an Elite and Eclat design decision that the headlamps sat slightly below the bonnet line?! Mine always have! Anyway that sunshine is about twenty years old now. And the door and pop-ups are of little worry, they’re currently not attached to the car. Nor is the interior. Or the front suspension. Or the engine for that matter...

Still deep into the complete rebuild of my Elite, everything takes longer than you hope and real life has a habit of getting in the way. But I managed to contact some of the previous owners and get some snaps of past glories. And these are my new inspiration. One day...

My old Riviera had A/C but no PAS from factory so there's no guarantee that that's an indication. But there should be a 'Riviera' decal on the rear wing rather than the Eclat decal shown. A call to Andy at the archive will clear it up.

If they’re the diodes that control current flow to the courtesy lights then they’re found just inside either end of the main console near the push switches that are operated by the doors. At least, that’s where mine were!

Is it different to the condenser on an S2? And is it the condenser or the compressor you’re after? I pulled mine out a while back, must be in the back of the garage somewhere!

You still need a fairly delicate hand to reach through the various access holes. And I don't have the smallest hands..!

This is invaluable! Thanks for this, it's my next job. Got everything back together yesterday but was squinting at the handbrake adjustment and decided it needed some thinking time. You've now done the thinking for me! The new compensator might be the key, I have replaced mine but the downside of that is that it's so new and stiff it's very hard to manipulate to get any access to the nuts. But bolstered by your success I'm going back in tomorrow!

Here’s a related question. I’ve just spent months getting everything together for my rear suspension rebuild including all new brake lines. Today was the day I was going to put everything back together - only to discover that that my new brake lines foul on the chassis and mean that the differential won’t fit back in despite the brake lines being modelled on the originals I’d removed. Has anyone else had this problem? What am I missing? I’m obviously being stupid but I’m buggered if I can work out how. The only solution I can see would be to add very tight bends immediately after the cylinders but the doesn’t strike me as ideal.

To be boringly precise it's from an S1 Elite or Eclat so @tom kilner it is the wheel you need. The S2 steering wheel has an upholstered panel in the centre and no Lotus name.

They’re a standard size across both Elite & Eclat, S1 & S2. I replaced mine from Lotusbits. Definitely worth a call.

If you can be bothered to drag it out of the field it’s worth three times that stripped for parts alone. Be very interesting to see if anyone on here bought it...

KW stands for Pink/White so possibly refers to the high resistance wire that leads to the positive on the coil. The wiring diagram must bundle both these components together or was possibly drawn with the thinking that a ballast resistor wouldn’t be necessary. My S1 just had the coil, no resistor.

There’s several on eBay right now. The red M reg is particularly tempting...