I had a terrible time trying to find a reasonable price for leather covering the steering wheels for my Lotus 23 and 51. I finally found a local leather...
I just received a Lotus 61 from a friend of mine. The car is beautiful. I am a newbie to this type of race car and are looking for any information on putting...
John, I don't think you will learn much about the car on a solo2 course, but maybe you have some extra long ones in your area. You will need some fairly low...
John, WELCOME ABOARD! You've picked a great car, and a great 'e'group to discuss things on. Believe me, you should find plenty of advise on preparing,...
I should have given more information in my first posting. The car is basically ready to race. It's been sitting for 8 year so I want to go through it before I...
John, I would recommend 100 octane race gas but to 'test it' you could use premium pump gas. Does it have the original aluminum 'tank' in it, or a bladder? If...
First, don't start it yet! I would pull the plugs and squirt some oil in the cylinders and then turn the engine over by hand. Then I would do a leak-down...
Larry1
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Nov 16, 2005 12:23 am
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John, It's really hard not to push you off the deep end right away with advice...if you had an experianced FF person handy this stuff is easy. Do you have a...
Thank you for all your concerns and advice. I will take my time with everything. I posted on this group hoping to get the kind of help you are giving me....
John, Whatever you do, do not start the engine - the chances are that after 8 years just sitting evrything has dried out. This is the fastest way to having a...
John Oakley
JM@...
Nov 16, 2005 3:54 pm
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John, I'm 6'3" and I fit in my car -- after a fashion. In addition to the comments below you can adjust all the pedals forward. In my case I have adjusted them...
John, I have the same problem when driving my '22'. The solution here is to remove the seat then make up a foam swab as seat/back rest. This lies on the...
John Oakley
JM@...
Nov 17, 2005 4:54 pm
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Hi Guys, I'm about 6'2 and had some similar problems with the fit. I took out the seat and utilized a different fuel cell that was tall and thin. Once I was ...
Come on everyone, take a close look. I’ll admit that the body is… well… unique. I love the "wall" rear wing. But you could throw the body away and get...
I happened to be perusing the LFFR web site and came across an excellent write up by Mike Henry about his experience at LOG 25 in St Louis. Lotus race cars...
John, You may also want to consider an aluminum seat. I had never realized how important lateral seat support was until I got into a friends 51 that had no ...
Hi Everybody, I thought I sent this to the registry but I guess I didn't. Anyway.... here's the Palm Springs Revival Historic Race report... Carl Hi everybody!...
I know that I will be asking a lot of easy stupid questions, so here is the first one. What is the best way to charge a DMS/Varley Red Top Racing Battery? In...
John, I used an automatic 1.5 amp charger as well as a 2 amp job and it worked fine for five seasons. A 10 amp charger will fry the battery out. I recently...
John, Looking at the Pegasus catalog it says not to use a trickle charger on the Varley battery. I use relatively inexpensive (about $50.00 at Nevada Battery)...
I was surprised by this note, since I have always used the 2A setting on my charger thinking it was the right thing to do. I went to the Varley site for more...
For more than you probably ever wanted to know about charging batteries - here's a great site: http://www.uuhome.de/william.darden/carfaq.htm Basically,...
Happy Holidays Fellow Lotus Fans: I thought a little reminder of the Lotus Ltd. discount program for you was in order as we make our "Wish List" for our loved...
Is there any way to test the fuel cell foam with out removing the cell? The foam that I can see and touch seems to be in good shape. I the 61 that I have the...
John, The foam usually starts breaking down into dust as the particles of the foam slowly disintegrates. If the cell is dry it literally turns into a powder....
Hi John, The first thing to do is check the date of manufacture of your fuel cell. They time expire. The second thing is to try to determine the state of the ...
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