My Lotus project...

so for those that dont know im a lotus obsessive...
but also a lover of all british marques... so when i realised i could shoe-horn an Jaguar XKR V8 into my Lotus Excel i started buying up parts for the conversion left right and centre...

this ended with me having a complete supercharger kit, a 4.0 jag V8 lump, and a partly stripped Excel...

then things went tits up with the house build i was doing and i ended up spending 2 years fixing builders mistakes and cockups and over £40k out of pocket...

so i am slowly getting back on my feet and working out the ExcelR8 project again now, so thought if your like me and love british cars this project might interest you...

here is the plan:



please feel free to discuss...

Oz

Wow amazing q true car nut if you ever fancy putting a cosworth engine in my tf for fun and have some spare parts to build it all I'll happily make cups of tea and spray things with wd40 and fix things with araldite

Which wheels will be driven?

Gotta strip the thing down completely to the point of body off chassis like this:

!!



now thats a proper rebuild

Luckymarine wrote: Which wheels will be driven?

the excel is rear wheel drive

front engine (Jag V8)
mid gearbox (Toyota Celica-Supra - W58)
rear drive (Supra Diff & Brakes on the Excel too)

Oz

I shall watch this thread with great interest

Sweet!

Looks like one to watch, lots of engine porn please :yesnod:

I love stuff like this.