Update: went to my first trackday since doing this modification and oh my god it is so much easier to heel/toe now!!!!! I can't believe I put this off for so long.
Haha well hope this helps! I had it on my to do list for 7 years (my to do list is digital and has a timestamp) so I'm sure you can't have procrastinated that long. :)
You only got servo assisted brakes in the US.. we had the Elise years before you in the rest of the world. Series 1 and early series 2 didn’t have a Servo, so our Lotus brakes are unassisted and perfect. I recommend you remove the servo for better heal and toe and left foot braking and next level feel. It will blow you away!!
Another local guy also recommended this. He said just pull the vacuum line off the servo and cap it. I haven't been brave enough to try yet but maybe I will! thanks for watching!
@@AtypicalDriver, if you do pull the servo pipe off and block it and you have never used brakes that aren’t servo assisted before, it will surprise you how far and how hard you need to press the brake pedal. Don’t worry, it isn’t broken, it just means you have a much bigger operating window for the brakes. It will feel like they aren’t working, but they are. Just press harder and farther.. at which point, your accelerator pedal will magically be exactly where you wanted it..
I know! I can't believe I waited this long to do it. Was on my to-do list for 7+ years. The OBD method worked well since my beautiful assistant (wife) didn't want to be in the video. :) I have a trackday coming up to test it out more fully.
Hey thanks for watching and for the comment! Hopefully other people find these videos helpful, that's all I'm concerned about...views are nice but helping other people is better. :)
Thanks for watching! Do you have a 2005 Elise? This adjustment should help a bunch. I didn't include the brake in this video, but you can also raise the brake pedal a bit too, see link in the video description.
Great video, my only issue is that you didn't shown the new "up stop" hardware and your notes refer to them as a "set screw", which in my industry generally refers to a headless screw, which the "down stop" clearly has a hex head, but I am not sure on the "up stop". Is the "up stop" a hex head bolt or a headless hex drive set screw?
Hey Bryan - great question and thanks for watching. It actually is a regular normal hex head bolt. I had copied the verbiage from the technical service bulletin that Lotus had released (or maybe it was in the shop manual?) and I think maybe the brits define setscrew differently than what we do here in the USA. (I also think of a set screw as a headless screw, kind of like you will find on the front side of your gear shifter knob on the Lotus!) I'll edit the description to make that a bit more clear. Good luck with the project and happy heel n' toeing!
0:00 Intro
0:21 What is Heel & Toe
1:21 H&T in Elise
2:30 Infamous Lotus Position
3:09 Procedure overview
3:44 Upstop adjustment timelapse
5:14 Throttle cable adjustment
7:53 Downstop install
8:16 Recalibrate idle and max throttle
Update: went to my first trackday since doing this modification and oh my god it is so much easier to heel/toe now!!!!! I can't believe I put this off for so long.
Thanks for sharing. Been procrastinating doing this myself as I hate under dash contortionist work!
Haha well hope this helps! I had it on my to do list for 7 years (my to do list is digital and has a timestamp) so I'm sure you can't have procrastinated that long. :)
You only got servo assisted brakes in the US.. we had the Elise years before you in the rest of the world. Series 1 and early series 2 didn’t have a Servo, so our Lotus brakes are unassisted and perfect. I recommend you remove the servo for better heal and toe and left foot braking and next level feel. It will blow you away!!
Another local guy also recommended this. He said just pull the vacuum line off the servo and cap it. I haven't been brave enough to try yet but maybe I will! thanks for watching!
@@AtypicalDriver, if you do pull the servo pipe off and block it and you have never used brakes that aren’t servo assisted before, it will surprise you how far and how hard you need to press the brake pedal. Don’t worry, it isn’t broken, it just means you have a much bigger operating window for the brakes. It will feel like they aren’t working, but they are. Just press harder and farther.. at which point, your accelerator pedal will magically be exactly where you wanted it..
This is a must do modification. I did it with a partner watching the throttle cable, but I like your method with the OBD2 reader.
I know! I can't believe I waited this long to do it. Was on my to-do list for 7+ years. The OBD method worked well since my beautiful assistant (wife) didn't want to be in the video. :) I have a trackday coming up to test it out more fully.
Good luck with your channel! You deserve more views...
Hey thanks for watching and for the comment! Hopefully other people find these videos helpful, that's all I'm concerned about...views are nice but helping other people is better. :)
Thanks for the great video. One of my only gripes with my Elise is not being able to heel-toe.
Thanks for watching! Do you have a 2005 Elise? This adjustment should help a bunch. I didn't include the brake in this video, but you can also raise the brake pedal a bit too, see link in the video description.
@@AtypicalDriver Yes, I have a 2005 Elise. I wish I had an ‘06, then I’d cheat and buy an auto blip module.
hell yeah brother!
Thanks for watching!!!
Great video, my only issue is that you didn't shown the new "up stop" hardware and your notes refer to them as a "set screw", which in my industry generally refers to a headless screw, which the "down stop" clearly has a hex head, but I am not sure on the "up stop". Is the "up stop" a hex head bolt or a headless hex drive set screw?
Hey Bryan - great question and thanks for watching. It actually is a regular normal hex head bolt. I had copied the verbiage from the technical service bulletin that Lotus had released (or maybe it was in the shop manual?) and I think maybe the brits define setscrew differently than what we do here in the USA. (I also think of a set screw as a headless screw, kind of like you will find on the front side of your gear shifter knob on the Lotus!) I'll edit the description to make that a bit more clear. Good luck with the project and happy heel n' toeing!
Them extruded alumin(i)um pedals are a thing of beauty!
@forkmeupscotty - I know right? It took getting into the lotus position for me to fully appreciate them!
Yours is an 05, so I'm not sure if DBW ones have a different procedure.
Yes, DBW (drive by wire) is definitely different, good call out! I added that to the video description but maybe should put it in the title too.