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[oakmere]

You can get the hesitation when using the obd tuner but as chill say I have never had it happen though I would have only have expected it to happen when logging. I have the scan gauge connected all the time and only get the hesitation very occasionally and with light throttle inputs.

[ufods]

I have these hesitations by using an obd Scanner nearly every half hour. Using OBD Tuner software in my 2.2

[haggi961]

It must affect different cars as I get the hissy fit but that's onces in a blue moon and the scan gauge is plugged in 24/7 for that to happen. Never once has done it with the software tho.

[SteveA]

With a chassis that clean I hope you are not planning on driving it

[haggi961]

With a chassis that clean I hope you are not planning on driving it

I know it's scares me at the thought 😂 But it's been built to be driven hard and can't have it as a garage queen.

[CAHILL]

Your getting there now mate! Great work!

[mbes2]

First road trip the Hoon ?

[SteveA]

Not sure if you have used DAB a lot Luke but IMO those stick on aerials are fairly poor. I was getting dropouts about 40% of the time until I swapped to a roof mounted powered one.

[haggi961]

First road trip the Hoon ?

Yep 😂, well that my aim so I better get a move on as the front end is in bits atm.

[haggi961]

Not sure if you have used DAB a lot Luke but IMO those stick on aerials are fairly poor. I was getting dropouts about 40% of the time until I swapped to a roof mounted powered one.

I've only tested it inside my garage and it seems to work well. It's got to be better then nothing as the Exige areial runs inside the front clam so would mean getting another wire in that direction. I haven't the vx setup anymore with the wires so can't go down that route.

[haggi961]

Update time of where I'm at right now as I've haven't update this for a while.

Right it was time to start fitting my pro alloy tank and braided lines and fittings. I bought the first set of fittings which was the 180 and 150 degrees ones for inside the inspection hatch to go in the canister housing. They did fit but it didn't leave very much room inside with the braided hoses and to be able to take the fittings off the canister quick.


So a few measurements later and a couple of days later I received some more fittings. Two 90 degrees quick clip connectors and a 30 degrees and a 40 degrees in think it was.


New tank vs old one




Photo of where the tank lives after a good clean and the duct tape comes as standard.

[haggi961]

New tank now in 😍


The fit already looks miles better


I then got a AN6 inline fuel filter with stainless steel and changeable filter and it fitted the oem bracket perfect. So I decided to paint the bracket black to match the colour theme.
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All the hoses made up and the fit inside the canister was loads better and left me with lots of room.






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[haggi961]

All fitted along with the fuel filter and everything tightened up. I must say tho the Pro alloy tank and getting the canister to seal was one of the hardest jobs I've done along with the changing the cv joints.



Since the handbrake cable was off i thought I may as well replace it with a new one.



Cleaned the tank under tray


I also managed to get hold of an oem 2010 engine cover which was lucky

[haggi961]

All fitted

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Decided to make a start fitting my racelogic traction control. So I ordered all the correct wire colours I needed to make the extra looms. I also got some more new waterproof plugs and electrical liquid tape for the wires at the abs end as I didn't want to cut the abs wires but instead splice into them and add the wires to them with solder and then the liquid tape to seal them.



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[haggi961]

With the traction control you have to tap into the injectors wires so I decided to sort the mess of wires and shorten and change for the right colours so all the wires matched up then I added two male and female plugs to the oem harness and two to the traction control. This way means I can just unplug the traction control unit and pull it all out and plug the oem harness back together again like nothing has changed.

This is what it looked like to start with


Getting there


All done and wrapped in cloth tape

[haggi961]

The brain of the traction now lives next to the bulkhead and all the wires fitted perfect through the grommet there. Then all the wires that went through the sill were wrapped in heat shield sleeve and then threaded to the dash and the rest through the grommet under the dash to the abs.





The front all connected to the abs unit with a waterproof plug and also a filter added to help with the dirty signals from the abs under 30 mph.





Next job was to cut the inspection hatch in the new middle under tray

[haggi961]

All cut out and filed off



Fits perfect

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I then decided to make the oil catch tank on quick release connectors and cut down the other lotus impact foam so I can slide this in and out when needed.





Quick shot of the engine to show what it's looking like now



Next job was to cut the heat shield down for the engine cover release mechanism. Before the heats shield went over the cable where as I need to be able to get my fingers in to release the cable for when I flip the clam up. So i cut a small section out of the corner of it and then fitted it back up with nice new stainless bolts.

[The Batman]

interesting way to cut/drill the undertray!!

[haggi961]

New heater pipe as mine has always been about 1 inch too short to connect on both ends.



The front is now just about finished



Arch liners front and rear all cut to size and fitted to work with the flip up clam. The lotus liners are so much better then the vx version as they have rubber seals fitted on the edges to stop the crap getting in.





New cable for the dash2 so i can read inlet temps and also water straight from the obd port. This had to be wired into another switched live.



Decided while I was lining the doors up that the brackets could do with a lick of paint so I stripped them off and cleaned them up and a coat of por15 paint did the trick.

[haggi961]

Right I had the idea of changing all the interior for the lotus Interior and in the end gave up as it just didn't fit after stripping all the dash ect out. So that was a waste of money 😂





Few more things bought which was Interior trim seal, cig lighter, lotus front badge, plastic clips, cf leather handbrake gator and handbrake handle



Gave the vx a fresh service with new oil and filter. Trying a 5w 40 this time round to see how I get on from the 10w 50 i have been using normally.



Bought a lotus bulkhead panel and it fits so that's staying which is good news

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Fits perfect with the harness bar
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