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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by campbell » Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:42 pm

Neat.
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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by Mikie711 » Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:54 pm

Ferg,
it's 16mm x 5mm diamond aluminium mesh and it comes in a number of colours.
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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by Dominic » Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:15 am

Top work! Looking good.

Just an aside from a non-expert; with the extra cooling in the boot lid, would it be worth adding a couple more cooling ducts in the under tray to help air flow? :scratch
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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by Mikie711 » Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:53 am

Dom, don't think it'll need any more cooling that engine cover is well opened up now, but always an option.

Post 1 updated. There does seem to be an awful lot of people watching this!!

Edit: I am getting well pi55ed off with Flickr, the amount of times I have had to sort broken links to photo's is doing my nut in. Is photobucket any better? or is there other good free picture hosting sites anyone can recommend.
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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by Shug » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:30 am

I've never had a problem with Photobucket dropping a link...

Looks like it's well on the way mate. Glad to see Elaine's old ECU being put to better use than a shelf ornament :thumbsup
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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by robin » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:31 am

Sign up to dropbox ... then you just copy the photos into a folder on your machine, they shuffle off to Dropbox and you can generate a link to embed on the website.

BUT you will need to resize the images in the first place to make it reasonable image size and reasonable resolution - presumably you're happy enough to do that - pretty sure even the noddy windows photo editor allows you to save a photo as suitable for "web" use.

If you decide to go for dropbox, send me an email to robiniddon at googlemail dot com and I will send you an invite - gives me an extra 250Mbyte of storage :-)

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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by hiscot » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:41 am

Mike I agree with dom to get more air flow you will also require more inlet , with the turbo I have the clam open behind the rear number plate , however with the under tray,s fitted it has quite a large impact on engine bay temp ( compared to no trays ) I also have the side pods opened up but this winter I intend fitting another nact duct or two to the tray
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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by Andy G » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:54 am

Looking good Mike :thumbsup :cheers
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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by Dominic » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:14 am

Mikie711 wrote:Dom, don't think it'll need any more cooling that engine cover is well opened up now, but always an option.

Post 1 updated. There does seem to be an awful lot of people watching this!!

Edit: I am getting well pi55ed off with Flickr, the amount of times I have had to sort broken links to photo's is doing my nut in. Is photobucket any better? or is there other good free picture hosting sites anyone can recommend.
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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by campbell » Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:39 am

Google Picasa and Picasaweb are excellent. These handle multiple sizes quite well too.

I do like Dropbox, but have only really used for data files / docs and some videos.
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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by graeme » Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:12 pm

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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by Mikie711 » Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:55 pm

Thanks for the suggestions, will check them out and probably upload the whole photo folder for the build and edit the 1st post when I get some time.

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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by Shug » Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:49 am

Cool.

I was crossing your fingers that you'd be able to keep the extruded pedals, but kinda thought there would be a reason that Lotus changed the whole kaboodle when they went DBW. On the plus side, the brake pedal feel was a lot better with the newer box when we test drove a pre and post 06 car, when Elaine was buying hers.
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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by Mikie711 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:05 am

Shug, will be a shame to lose them, but it's not like you really notice them.

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Re: 111R rebuild

Post by H8OAG » Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:49 am

Mike

Your have a very understanding wife to allow you to disappear into the garage for days on end...............after returning from long periods of " Africa"

Can I ask a trite question?

How do you know that the Engine Lid is going to fit with all your chargecooler/Supercharger kit and kaboodle crammed underneath?

Apologies if you have covered this already in your immense thread

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