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12 hours ago, LJR said:
Dropped the car at detailers this morning to look nice for the weekend..........
If you've seen my posts in the Evora picture thread, I am now past caring. I have my detailing kit with me which may or may not get used before the event depending on the performance of Eurotunnel on Friday afternoon and my subsequent performance on the M25.
Any awards going for the filthiest car in attendance could well be coming my way!
Sorry @C8RKH
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Sitting quietly in the back streets of Pinoso, Spain today, the dreaded tinmoth in the UK would have claimed these long ago.
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Loads of photo opportunities today (OK, OK I can hear the groans from here but do feel free to post pics of other than Laser Blue Evoras if you want) as I confined my activities to within a 30 mile radius of my hotel.
In the cold light of day the car didn't look any better - that dust had got everywhere, including the engine bay.......
........but I can almost forgive when the compensation is this......
Today's run was only down to near Fortuna to visit friends but that didn't prevent me using some nice little back roads with spectacular backdrops...
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Send me his address and I'll go rev-up outside to say "hello" on your behalf,
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23 hours ago, Ian Corse said:
Just read that the Cairn O Mount has reopened 2 weeks early.
Can I put in a request for that repair crew to come and work for our council's roads dept please. They're closing the main access road into our village, entailing a 9 mile detour to get to my house, for 3 WEEKS just to build a bloomin' speed-hump!!!!!!!!
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Today's installment. Starting out from the Hotel Ramon Park in Santpedor.......
.....it was going to be a comparatively short door to door drive of around 350 miles using the Barcelona to Valencia motorway but where's the fun in that when you're surrounded by mountains?
So, head for the hills it was.
Having used up all of the morning exploring any road in the vicinity that appeared on the map as a squiggle, it was time to cover some miles towards my destination, so onto the boring motorway was the only option.
Arriving in the town of Pinoso (El Pinos) about 7pm it was my intention to make a rapid stop to visit an ATM but on returning to the car it was receiving some attention from a guy who must have photographed every square inch of it.........
I got chatting to him and it turned out he has a car blog site and organises events locally. Anyway, over an hour later I finally made my escape, with the obligatory blast up the street (his dad's the local traffic cop - handy!) for his video.
By the time I got to my hotel, Casa Boquera near Yecla, it was pitch black, making their unpaved access road all the more 'interesting'. The car is now covered in a layer of white dust - not happy about that - but the place more than makes up for it.
@pete757 You would love it - they have their own winery. Daylight pics tomorrow.
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Very few pics taken today some of you will be relieved to hear - spent all my time driving.
Left my overnight B&B in Montigny-les-Monts at 0930........
...... then it was just a short drive, albeit in the opposite direction to where I really should have been heading, to my favourite producer to collect 12 bottles of his finest cidre fermier brut - not exactly following the 'added lightness' edict I know..........
.........9 hours, 2 pitstops and 550 miles later, it was a quick stretch of my legs before the Evora got a good workout through the Pyrenees........
....... for a further 2 hours and 100 miles to arrive at my stop for tonight in Santpedor in Catalunya.
As it was dark on arrival exterior pics will need to wait until the morning but suffice to say that whilst it might not look it from outside, the interior is petrolhead heaven.........
Damn cheek of the 911 guy pinching my reserved parking spot though!......
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I can't remember offhand @Techyd but it was pretty small - a little goes a long way. I'm currently overnighting in the Catalan foothills of the Pyrenees otherwise I'd offer to go take a look at the bottle for you,
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23 hours ago, theelanman said:
...... looks like I'll need to ring them then...lol
I heard that they recently announced that they are ceasing trading and are therefore not taking any new orders which could explain the 'rubbish website '.
Disaster I know as they had only just added Oyster to their database and the other place I tried previously was miles off in matching the shade,
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It's not even a particularly large motorhome in the scheme of things but it does somewhat dwarf the Evora.
WARNING: You can expect several more road-trip pics as I make my way down to Murcia and back,
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I haven't seen a single Lotus since starting the drive down from Scotland until about 18h00 yesterday (Friday) when I was 'proceeding briskly' along the A26 between Reims and Troyes and the spotted vehicle crossed above me on an overpass heading in the general direction of Paris.
Gratuitous "I'm on a European road-trip" post,
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I might as well have just used some plywood and sellotape - one enormous unseen dip (for that read "Grand Canyon replica") on a French back road encountered at an 'enthusiastic' rate of knots and the rubber splitter is no more,
. Got a nice scrape on the bottom of the bumper too and when I went back to retrieve the displaced aero, it had vanished somewhere into the Aube scenery.
What I have learned though is that it must have been having some effect as the car now feels decidedly nose-light at motorway speeds so it will be interesting to try again and this time get some data on it.
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Didn't I read somewhere that the Cairn o' Mount road was going to be closed for several weeks after someone demolished part of a bridge?
Not sure at this stage if I'll make this as I'm planning on staying in the deepest darkest south for a few more days after the 70th and might only be getting home late on the Saturday. Arriving back from a 3 week solo road-trip to Spain then going straight out again to a LEGS event wouldn't win me too many brownie points with SWMBO.
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5 minutes ago, Buddsy said:
Hate to tell you but thats definitely top right!
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It's top left from where I'm sitting,
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In any case, I've got t'other side filled as well with my Euroland emissions stickers,
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I'll just stick it in the middle and they can sort it out from there.................on no, wait a minute - that's filled with the interior mirror and a couple of toll-tags. Hmmmmm, now what?
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Andy's entire focus was drawn to the word/abbreviation 'BBQ' - he didn't get past that!
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I've already got a sticker in the top left of my screen, and another directly below that. Now what do I do?
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OK, yes I admit it. Just another shameless excuse to post a pic of my car,
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It's probably best done as a two-man job to keep it steady but I managed it single-handed.
Propped the tailgate open just enough to get into the mounting screws with an allen key and laid plenty of soft blankets on the surrounding panels just in case the wing slipped. On the subject of the screws, they're a different size from the OE ones - M8 rather than M6 but all the holes in the bodywork and mounting plates are slightly oversize anyway so no drilling required. Apart from that, less than 10 minutes and it was 'job done',
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I'm reckoning on a fair bit of downforce, judging by the highly cambered inverted aerofoil section that is clearly visible with the end-plates off. I've not had a chance to calculate even roughly what levels it's likely to be but I'm working on a front splitter which I'll be taking through various stages of development over the coming months.
For now I've fitted a deformable rubber lip to the existing 'chin' which you can see in the frontal shots. As the airspeed increases, so it should dip down further and further and so create an increasing downforce at the front. When I get back from my trip to Hethel via Spain I'll rig it up with some sensors to measure the deflection angles against speed, and also take some airflow and pressure readings from above and below the rear wing then use the results to design a permanent version of the front splitter, possibly incorporating some 'active technology' if I can keep the weight down to 2-3 kgs maximum.
I'm signing-off now as I've already divulged too much information on this secret 'Skunk Works' project,
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I've already posted these in my thread on the preparation of the big wing over in the 'Exterior etc' lounge, but I make no apologies for sticking them in here too - I'm well-chuffed with the finished article,
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3 coats of lacquer later and..........IT'S ON!!!!!!!!
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4 hours ago, SH said:
..................we cant have 2 laser blue Evora's in the Lothians!
FTFY - I don't remember giving permission for my exclusivity to be compromised!!!!
Seriously, good choice - best colour out there. It could be worse - at least you're in East Lothian. The last Laser Blue Evora to muscle-in on my territory was only about 5 miles along the road from me, wasn't it @The Lotus Position ?
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Back in April of 2016 I acquired a GTE-style rear wing from @Kalli when he was at the end of his pink period.
I wasn't quite ready to do anything at that time so the wing was put into storage in the rafters of the garage as a future project. Circumstances then took over (losing my mum, being made redundant at work, then my partner being diagnosed with cancer being the main priority refocusing events amongst others) so it had taken until now to get around, finally, to doing something with it.
As the wing was a genuine Lotus Motorsport one, in GRP, it didn't have the mounting for the high level brake light which was the first thing that had to be addressed. I looked at various aftermarket options but my first choice was always going to be using an OE light to convey that factory-fit appearance. Over the course of the past 6 months, I've tried in vain to source a suitable donor but in the end there was nothing for it but to use my existing wing so out came the Dremel and a cutting disc,
- many thanks to my current employer for allowing me to use their vehicle workshop facilities rather than making a mess at home with all the dust produced when it came to sanding back the filler.
No going back now! The bendy-wire was used to feed through the wiring for the light - that was fun!
Then after a load of sanding back to key the surface of what had been a mirror-finish Canyon Red paint job, it was off to my local paintshop (big shout out to Protek of Bathgate here) for the final finish.
After a coat of primer, first the gloss black went on.............
..................followed by some Laser Blue.........
The decals are on the end plates, which will now be lacquered to seal everything in.
Hopefully I'll get it all fitted at the beginning of next week (I'm working over the weekend,
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Note to self: "Must make the clues harder next time!"
I've finally got around to doing something about it having bought the wing in April 2016. At least nobody can accuse me of being impetuous,
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Sorry Gavin but unfortunately you don't win anything as you didn't abide by the T's & C's - 'entries on the back of a £20 note'.
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- many thanks to my current employer for allowing me to use their vehicle workshop facilities rather than making a mess at home with all the dust produced when it came to sanding back the filler.
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Another interesting non Lotus spot
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Being Spain, that one is the much rarer to us Seat version.