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[CocoPops]

Oi you pair!

[Mangham54]

 

least its not yellow

Evora's in yellow, the red neck cousin of the silver VX.

 

 

Better than Transit white. 

[Stevie Dubyah]

 

 

least its not yellow

Evora's in yellow, the red neck cousin of the silver VX.

 

 

Better than Transit white. 

 

 

 @rob999

[JG]

its perfect in white.

 

 

[Foxy]

just keep away from dogs and you'll be fine.

That's worth a cheeky MMC

[Andrew aka Stuwy]

I don't see how he is going to repair the crash structure. I would not drive it that for sure.

 

[smiley]

New episodes on his channel.

He's starting to find out about oem parts pricing  

[chris_uk]

Lol. I watched this up to date last night and was laughing at some of the stuff.. "Does anyone know what this speaker is for?, if its just a speaker i dont need it, why would i need a soeaker in the front of a car" Good luck to him.. But like fcuk i would want to drive it.

[FLD]

I don't see how he is going to repair the crash structure. I would not drive it that for sure.

Portapack would do that nicely. You'd be surprised what you push about.

[smiley]

uk lorus centre may turn it into a vxora in case it all goes sour.

[james_ly]

Just watched the first episode. Funny how similar the Evora looks to a VX once the interior is stripped back

 

Doesn't seem to know a lot about the chassis, cringing at the thought of what he will do in the next few episodes.

[Bargi]

Soooo hats off to the guy. Lots of work stripping it down and rebuilding the damaged fiberglass. Got sponsored from a aftermarket Lotus parts company which will help. Just not so sure on the front chassis direction. Especially mixing different metals in building a new front crash section. I just hope the guy who's building it knows what he's doing. https://youtu.be/OtQBPtAD9Kc

[smiley]

Main thing is when it comes to resale.

Lotus community will not touch it with scafolding for a crash box.

Such a shame. So much money poured into clam parts, then this with the crash box

Edited by smiley, 05 August 2016 - 10:16 PM.

[Mopeytitan]

why didnt he buy a new crash box and replace it that way?... seems a silly way to go with it!

[smiley]

Seemed to have ruined his budget on clam parts, and the 3k for the crash box is the gap.

 

[VegyBS]

I stumbled upon this today, started watching the fibreglass stuff after someone linked it on the facebook page. Was quite impressed actually as it seems helpful.

 

Then I got to the crash box episode, really worrying to be honest. I really can't see that steel crash box add on doing anything more than maintaining the previous shape of the the crash box (somewhat). I'm not an engineer by any means and happy to be told why I'm wrong, as I often am!

[Spitfire Engineering]

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[font="Helvetica;font-size:11px;"]heard enough.[/font]

 

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[Samwise]

To be honest it could be worse.

Atleast it has no risk of spontaneously bursting in to flames due to dodgy turbo, fuel line and exhaust placement like a certain time attack monstrosity

 

Besides if he didnt re-create the crash structure DIY I doubt he could truly source a replacement from anywhere

[Bargi]

wow, 8 months on and he's done!

 

[Nev]

Incredible, I didn't expect to see a success story TBH, good on him for the perseverance.

 

Fast forward to 8m40s to see how cheaply he did it too.