Hi, new subscriber here! I have an 83 Investor Edition #32, which had sat out in the elements for 8 years. When I bought it, I made the mistake of driving it a short distance to see how it drove before giving the timing belt some consideration of age/condition! You guessed it, I came to a stop light and TUD! Bent valves and piston divots! Ouch!!! I'm mechanically inclined, but not with the Lotus engine. After 2 mechanics failed, and I was seriously looking at an LS swap, my good friend in a local Exotic car club, racer/gifted Lotus mechanic and owner of my sister car #33, offered to do the rebuild! It's now ready to put in the car, but it fell into my lap to finish. I hope you cover engine install to help me through it! I also need to do the circlip fix for my Citroen box while I'm at it. After that, my car needs paint and leather work as well. I'll be tuned in!
The Install is really quite simple. Engine and transaxle go in as one unit. The key is to have a good load balancer and make sure the engine is hanging relatively flat and not tilted to either side. You want both motor mounts to hit chassis at same time. Install motor and transaxle without rear discs and calipers otherwise it wont fit. I have a video covering the circlip replacement and other transmission work coming up in the next few days... be on the lookout!
Thanks so much for the well done transmission video Matt! You have knack of being clear and concise! It really took the fear out of that task for me! I'm commenting here as the comments are turned off on that vid?
Great video - do you by chance still have the link to the spreadsheet? I can only seem to find an outdated version; I'm not seeing the one you have. Thanks in advance!
Header is from Alunox... fantastic quality. Also, upgraded to flame thrower distributor and coil. Ditched the original ignition amplifier setup. Turbo upgrade is in the works.. tough to find air water cooled options off the shelf, so having original rebuilt to custom spec.
First you should have done this on the bench before you put the head on. Magnets? hell know just use wheel bearing grease. Keeps the followers in place, and the shims from falling out. I did this for years on Jensen Healey and early Esprit. You want problems? try pulling the exhaust side on a Jensen, engine in the car. clankety clank, all the shims hit the floor. Add this to the range of gaskets and sealers used to keep the oil leaks down. I used no gasket (got to change all the shims) and no.3 permatec. This slow down the leaks. Of course this was the older 907 engines. Lotus did several poor design skrew ups that cost them several engines, like 30% of those early Esprit run. They did fix them before the Turbo cars. Anyway no computers back then just grease and a paper to right things down on. And my head of course ;-)
Have you bled the brakes on the '88 Esprit with a Motive Power Bleeder? I'm having difficulty finding an adapter to fit - doesn't seem to exist, yet others have done it.
Does the 88 have the Delco Moraine POS? I thought the Motive came with a clamp-down plate that fits over the odd shaped reservoir. anyway, I either use a kid or I have got the one-way speed bleeder screws on all four brakes now and will probably get them for the reservoir and the clutch slave.
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Thanks so much for the insight n love ur outlook,I'm the same way
Hi, new subscriber here! I have an 83 Investor Edition #32, which had sat out in the elements for 8 years. When I bought it, I made the mistake of driving it a short distance to see how it drove before giving the timing belt some consideration of age/condition! You guessed it, I came to a stop light and TUD! Bent valves and piston divots! Ouch!!! I'm mechanically inclined, but not with the Lotus engine. After 2 mechanics failed, and I was seriously looking at an LS swap, my good friend in a local Exotic car club, racer/gifted Lotus mechanic and owner of my sister car #33, offered to do the rebuild! It's now ready to put in the car, but it fell into my lap to finish. I hope you cover engine install to help me through it! I also need to do the circlip fix for my Citroen box while I'm at it. After that, my car needs paint and leather work as well. I'll be tuned in!
The Install is really quite simple. Engine and transaxle go in as one unit. The key is to have a good load balancer and make sure the engine is hanging relatively flat and not tilted to either side. You want both motor mounts to hit chassis at same time. Install motor and transaxle without rear discs and calipers otherwise it wont fit. I have a video covering the circlip replacement and other transmission work coming up in the next few days... be on the lookout!
@@west-cam Awesome! Thanks for the reply! I'll be here!
Thanks so much for the well done transmission video Matt! You have knack of being clear and concise! It really took the fear out of that task for me! I'm commenting here as the comments are turned off on that vid?
Cool stuff man
Great video - do you by chance still have the link to the spreadsheet? I can only seem to find an outdated version; I'm not seeing the one you have. Thanks in advance!
Can't recall where I downloaded it from... May have been Yahoo group, which I don't believe exist anymore. I'll dig around for a link...
@@west-cam I saw it was available via the old Yahoo group but as you said it no longer exists.
@@salokin9 happy to email you a copy.
@@west-cam Hello from Germany! Could you send the sheet to me as well?
awesome video!!!! What headers did you use?
Did you do a distributor upgrade? Turbo upgrade?
Header is from Alunox... fantastic quality. Also, upgraded to flame thrower distributor and coil. Ditched the original ignition amplifier setup. Turbo upgrade is in the works.. tough to find air water cooled options off the shelf, so having original rebuilt to custom spec.
Meant to say water/oil cooled....
Very helpful!
First you should have done this on the bench before you put the head on. Magnets? hell know just use wheel bearing grease. Keeps the followers in place, and the shims from falling out. I did this for years on Jensen Healey and early Esprit. You want problems? try pulling the exhaust side on a Jensen, engine in the car. clankety clank, all the shims hit the floor. Add this to the range of gaskets and sealers used to keep the oil leaks down. I used no gasket (got to change all the shims) and no.3 permatec. This slow down the leaks. Of course this was the older 907 engines. Lotus did several poor design skrew ups that cost them several engines, like 30% of those early Esprit run. They did fix them before the Turbo cars. Anyway no computers back then just grease and a paper to right things down on. And my head of course ;-)
Have you bled the brakes on the '88 Esprit with a Motive Power Bleeder? I'm having difficulty finding an adapter to fit - doesn't seem to exist, yet others have done it.
Sorry, I always use one of my kids to work the brake pedal while I work the caliper.
Does the 88 have the Delco Moraine POS? I thought the Motive came with a clamp-down plate that fits over the odd shaped reservoir. anyway, I either use a kid or I have got the one-way speed bleeder screws on all four brakes now and will probably get them for the reservoir and the clutch slave.
Btw I have 86 turbo hci
Clean your fried chicken greasy fingerprints off you lens before each filming. Or maybe wash your hands every now and then.