Lotus Elan Central

by **Cesare** » Mon 07.04.2008, 14:36

Hi to all !

Im new on the forum and looking for different things.
My english is quite not extended so I m facing problems to source parts... :lol:

Can anyone help me with these ? I don t know how to find them.

Thanks in advance

Cesar from France

by **rip** » Mon 07.04.2008, 15:07

If you mean the seals, I cannot remember what the top one is called.
As for the side ones, do you mean they are rotting away so you can see the sponge inside? If so, these are the A post seals. See here and here
These are not currently available. When they are, it will be big news...especially if they are made out of rubber instead of the foam stuff.

by **John_W** » Mon 07.04.2008, 21:47

Cesare,
From your photo I think you are looking for the hard plastic trim "finishers" which go round the windscreen.

The current Lotus sale list has the top part quite cheap just now:
Part No A100B0727F ; Finisher-Windscreen Top 1129MM ; Elan 1989 on; original price £15.64 ; Sale price 5.00

They don't mention the side pieces, but maybe you can just buy another two top pieces and cut them to fit. You will also need the corner pieces, eg on ebay just now: see here.

For the Lotus sale list see here. See also here for some discussion and a form which Paul Watkins posted for you to fill in and send to Lotus to get the parts.

John

by **Cesare** » Wed 09.04.2008, 11:09

Thnks John

Very help full
I did order them ! very cheap !

I have a little problem , recently I had a Heater Hose coming from the intake that splitted and it makes a lot of "air noise" when accelerating. I was about to fix it and yesterday I started the elan and it felt like there was no gas at acceleration like If i runned out of fuel ?
Do you know if that can be linked to this hose ?

Best regards

Cesar

by **dermotbell** » Wed 09.04.2008, 19:51

You may need to take another photo to be a little more specific.

It may be one of the hoses from the turbo which would explain the whistling and lack of power.

by **rip** » Thu 10.04.2008, 08:08

Cesare wrote:Thnks John

Very help full
I did order them ! very cheap !

I have a little problem , recently I had a Heater Hose coming from the intake that splitted and it makes a lot of "air noise" when accelerating. I was about to fix it and yesterday I started the Elan and it felt like there was no gas at acceleration like If i runned out of fuel ?
Do you know if that can be linked to this hose ?

Best regards

Cesar

Yes, quite probably.
If it is sucking air, the ECU won't know this so will not provide enough fuel. The air will also be dirty.
If it is blowing air, the ECU not know the air is escaping, so will provide too much fuel.

I expect it is sucking dirty air.

Either way, your engine will run badly.

by **Cesare** » Thu 10.04.2008, 15:23

Hi and thank you much for help !

Good analyse Doctor ! It was actually blowing air and I did took pictures which I thought about posting until I found a big electric wire that I emptied and put my damaged hose in it (quite a dirty repair !

) but seems not to blow air anymore !
But I think I will still need the part , it s quite special it is 1cm piece of rubber reducing at the other end at 2mm. 1cm being the part fixed to the intake .

With best regards

Cesar

by **Cesare** » Thu 10.04.2008, 18:04

here it is

by **Gazza** » Thu 10.04.2008, 19:10

I tried buying this part from Lotus and it was not available.

Just remove the elbow and push the pipe straight on, job done. :wink:

Has lasted me 3 years already.

Gazza

by **dapinky** » Fri 11.04.2008, 10:04

Last year i replaced all of my vacuum hoses/pipes with sillicone stuff (to match the Samcos :roll:

). I found that normal 3mm bore hose was easily flexible enough to fit everything!
(i bought 10m of the stuff from a local motor factor for £15)

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