My Lotus Esprit S3 on Air and V8 power

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Looking very good.

[V8-ESPRITS3]

Yes I do plan to take it to shows, its on display at Route 66

https://digitix.co.uk/event/97PT25Z

A few more pictures

Rear end showing locking catches on hatch, I can adjust these to have it open more or shut

Not the best location to take pictures but at least its not on my drive

Just love it low…….

[Mehowski]

I presume it'll be done for some of the shows this year right? I'd love to see this live.
Grand job!

[V8-ESPRITS3]

Thanks again, Painted the inlet manifold again, and this time matching rocker covers.

[JONOD]

This is seriously impressive. Well done sir!

[V8-ESPRITS3]

After all my Paranoia and wows with engine bay temps, turns out the sender in the inlet manifold is faulty! Bloody intermotor crap! My Davies Craig controller for the EWP was at 90% and my dash gauge was at 120%!! I Have fitted a manual switch to the rad fans, also given the Davies Craig controller full control of the fans and done away with the old stock otter switch.
Have on order a new sender, will test it with the stock smiths gauge, Racetech, and also have a digital probe coming to check temps as well!
Totally redone all the water hoses, much more efficiently now, done away with the heater matrix as I think this is blocked? water flow was very slow in that area so bypassed it. Fitted the booster bump off the rear of the inlet manifold, also fitted a mechanical Racetech water temperature gauge in the engine bay this is the capillary type so are supposed to be very accurate? I chose to mount it direct to the alloy head as to get an idea of engine temp. I can also view this from the drivers seat very handy and very cool.(well it had better be!!)




Plan to wrap the sender line with heat shield wrap as to not affect the reading with exhaust temp, also have to repaint the inlet manifold again! I did it with VHT crinkle affect paint it did look good when done but may be I didn’t put a thick enough coat on? Can any one recommend a good paint for engines?

[JordonVW]

It should be good to go then now?

Sweet build, I did assume it would be the silver one on bbs rm's but yours is so much better with the v8 engine build and not just focusing on the aesthetics!

[V8-ESPRITS3]

thanks again, it has already been driven but took it off road again to fix over heating issues and install the e-level system.

[Dome]

Amazing what you have done to this Esprit, love everything about it

[loekaaz]

So when will it have it's first dive?

[Nicl]

soo a nice ride! i love it.

[Spawn613]

So glad you're keeping this up to date. One of my favorite builds on here.

[exoticse]

Sooooo sick !!

[lamsv]

Just absolutely wonderful.

[Funk]

ya dun know