Category: My Projects

Attacking the rearward tubes on the Lotus Seven

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I needed some flat steel to transition from the 1″ wheel archs on the Lotus 7 chassis to the 3/4″ tubes behind the seat back bulkhead.  I thought “washers would work great” only, you really shouldn’t weld chrome.

An hour immersed in Muriatic Acid, and now they are de-chromed.

I wonder if the acid might be a bad thing when welding….

This was SO not fun to make.

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I know, it’s not a “Project Car” per se.

But it was finally completed, and performed flawlessley on its maiden voyage to the dump today.

Backing it up the driveway, however, that’s a different story….

Read more: The Terrible Trailer

Muffler #1 – Stock – rotted off.
Muffler #2 – Magnaflow 2-1/2″ – Wicked Awesome at full throttle, but drone drone drone drone drone
Muffler #3 – Walker SoundFX – “unusual sound” from get-go, now (new issue) suspect blown baffle inside
Muffler #4 – Flowmaster – we’ll see. Some of the drone is back…

Read More: Hideous Exhaust

I’m really kind of done with this. It was a lot of work, and most definitely not worth the effort. I added a new page to celebarate.

Read More: Hideously-De-Arced

I de-arced and Frankensteined the leaf springs from The Hideous Hardbody, combining the 2WD main leaf, with 4WD everything else. It still needs some tweaking, but I ~think~ I like the results.

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I had to give my head a shake on what I was doing with the chassis. Offset the drivetrain 1″?  What was I thinking?  I cut out the entire transmission tunnel and seat back bulkhead, centered it, and got it mostly all back together this evening.  Stupid me – I’ll just get the driver’s axle shortened 2″ and all will be well.

At least now, the seats will fit, like, humans.

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Yay!

Read More: The Lethal Locost

I’ve been working on the transmission tunnel for the Lotus 7 clone (based initially on Pat Prince drawings circa 1981).

I’m using a 240SX transmission that I will be adapting to a Ford Duratec 2.0L.

This isn’t your typical tubing layout. It makes sense in my head, and it’s coming together alright….

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