rapidos

[rapidos]

Those bolts will not fit into the hubs, as the hub bolts are mounted/sunken a few mm into a bore hole of the hubs. You need the CHC types. Ask forum, a Lotus dealer or look on Ebay.co.uk. You see them often under Elise or vx220 parts...

Look what they sell here for the hubs...

http://www.lir-racing.com/catalog/produ ... cts_id=184
http://www.lir-racing.com/catalog/popup ... hp?pID=184

[Arno]

Not gonna fit unless some sort of spacer is used under the bolt head.

If you look at the diagram:



Bolt number 5 is one of those we're talking about?

The bolt head sits in a recessed area in the mounting plinth.

Only an allen-head (or Torx) bolt will fit there.

If a normal hex-head bolt is used it will not sit flush/even as the mounting plinth does not have a flat surface.

Bye, Arno.

[rapidos]

Yep, thanks Arno, but I confirm they sell and use these ones without problems on all cars mounted. Eventhough, I will use the Hexagonal one...

[Exmantaa]

Here a crude sketch how the bolt is recessed in the front hub assembly.
A normal flathead bolt will not fit in there without some spacer bush...

[rapidos]

It seems they use the flathead for rear only.

[Exmantaa]

As it looks the rear hub bolts are not recessed, so the flathead bolts should fit there.

[rapidos]

It seems I need also the hexagonal screws for the rear...

and front

[rapidos]

I have got them now. Will fix with 65Nm

[rapidos]

dat is de inbraak ?




A 4 wheels boot...

[alain]

[quote="rapidos"]dat is de inbraak ?
Cool !!

Lotus Antwerp changed my bolts last week and they where realy close to brake !!!!
The bolts where vissibly bended from the stress !!

I think everybody should check them before its too late !!!

Alain

[rapidos]

Lotus Antwerp changed my bolts last week and they where realy close to brake !!!!
The bolts where vissibly bended from the stress !!

Ouch, so it was close...

[rapidos]

Here is my new sport catalysor in place. The engines works better with this, no doubt.


I also have a new exhaust simple exit. The main idea was to light weight the car at the rear, estimated by 0,6kg. Here the "old" two tube section :

And the new simple one:



Weight saved : 1,86 kg

[Rikster]

Looks like it will be loud!!!

[rapidos]

99.7 dB, but mainly coming from everything but the exhaust exit

I also changed the rear hub screws, that were still in perfect condition... So I decided not to touch the front.

[rapidos]

Here is the work of my day : -0.5kg




As I could not determine which resin was used to build the carbon leave, I had to build my owns with Epoxy resin, to avoid any fire problem, specialy for the rear one (coming soon...)