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[JG]

yup, also acts as crash structure

[CocoPops]

Aftermarket stainless mudguard brackets:

[Wolfstone]

Stop spamming JG's thread Coco.

[CocoPops]

Stop spamming JG's thread Coco.

Oi They're my brackets but given it looks like Earl Gray wants them, they'll be his soon

[Wolfstone]

Rip him off for them.

[JG]

Front bumper is about to come off.

[ChrisS1]

Haha you can't help yourself can you James.

[JG]

No

 

 

A five year old lotus bracket

 

 

replaced with shinny new ones which someone made and sold a few

 

 

 

 

Now lining up the bumper properly, though it will be impossible to get it perfect, Its already much better.

 

 

 

 

and a pile for stripping and powder coating tomorrow

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ChrisS1]

Wow that's some serious corrosion for such a short time!

[JG]

Its actually 6.5 years old (not 5..), and some parts have 08 stamped on them.

 

the brackets are bad as they sit in a build up of mud and grime in the wheel arch.

 

The lovely thing about it, is that there is very little on it to corrode. The wishbones are gorgeous.

[CocoPops]

the brackets are bad as they sit in a build up of mud and grime in the wheel arch.

 

Yeah, thinking about it, given it has carpet inner arch liners that hold the water against the bracketry, I'm almost surprised they don't have a plastic layer to keep moisture on the wheelside and stop it wicking through to the inner side, but given everything else... it's little more than "almost" surprised  

[JG]

The whole thing is only just above kit-car levels of sophistication.

 

I actually think the VX is better thought through. But then again, evora was 18 months in the design phase (and clearly continued to be improved in production, evidenced by the number of part numbers succeeded with a,b,c,d,e and so on).  I wonder if lotus has to get GM sign off which might have been harder than their own internal stakeholders.

 

The evora is an order of magnitude more complicated, though the general way lotus builds cars hasn't really changed. there is just more stuff on the evora.

[Captain Vimes]

....I wonder if lotus has to get GM sign off which might have been harder than their own internal stakeholders.

 

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I spoke to one of the people that worked at Lotus when the vx was being designed/produced and he made it very clear that the requirements from GM in terms of quality were a significant step above what they were used to. There were GM people at the lotus factory to oversee and approve the 'vx project' at every step.

 

Presumably this oversight & rigour helped the S2 Elise chassis/design be the enduring success it is today (although I'm pretty certain that no one on SELOC would ever admit it).

 

PS - lovely car. I'm generally not a fan of black wheels but they really work well on the Evora.

[2GOOD]

....I wonder if lotus has to get GM sign off which might have been harder than their own internal stakeholders.   ....

  I spoke to one of the people that worked at Lotus when the vx was being designed/produced and he made it very clear that the requirements from GM in terms of quality were a significant step above what they were used to. There were GM people at the lotus factory to oversee and approve the 'vx project' at every step.   Presumably this oversight & rigour helped the S2 Elise chassis/design be the enduring success it is today (although I'm pretty certain that no one on SELOC would ever admit it).   PS - lovely car. I'm generally not a fan of black wheels but they really work well on the Evora.

We were told during training that there were over 50 GM quality control employees based at Hethel & that this wasn't enough during early production! Did hear a few tails about some of first cars to arrive at dealerships too.

[JG]

i'm not surprised. New Vxs felt very solid compared to the elise at the time

 

i still remember my first drive in 2004 in cheltenham very fondly 

 

 

 

 

 

Interstingly, here is a pic of my evora when it was new. Clam and bumper didn't line up properly then either

[JG]

looking at there, i might get the original wheels done gloss black

[2GOOD]

That place looks familiar JG! All knocked down now with luxury flats going up, quite weird when I walked past a couple of weeks ago. In fact the Debenhams opposite closed in Febuary the whole arcade is now empty & about to be redeveloped.

[ChrisS1]

That place looks familiar JG! All knocked down now with luxury flats going up, quite weird when I walked past a couple of weeks ago. In fact the Debenhams opposite closed in Febuary the whole arcade is now empty & about to be redeveloped.

 

'I remember when this was nowt but fields car dealerships'
 

[2GOOD]

That place looks familiar JG! All knocked down now with luxury flats going up, quite weird when I walked past a couple of weeks ago. In fact the Debenhams opposite closed in Febuary the whole arcade is now empty & about to be redeveloped.

  'I remember when this was nowt but fields car dealerships'  

it was a very old (antiquated) town centre dealership Chris, council had wanted them out of town for years.

[JG]

The first of set brackets are back:

 

It needed new discs and pads as the old one were ruined, it didn't stop on a six pence as an Evora should so with those on, its actually going back together.