Welcome to my Lotus 7 Replica Blog

I intend to use this blog to show the various stages as I rebuild an old Lotus 7 replica from a bit of a mess to something respectable.


Along the way i'll detail the procedures required and hopefully inspire others to do similar.



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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

New Badge complete

I spent an hour or two filing and polishing the badge components, have only done one at this stage.
Looks pretty good I think.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Laser cut components

Through my work we have access to a company that does Laser cutting.
I got my father a new stainless dash cut for his boat, and due to the minimum charge, I thought I'd get a few other bits done out of aluminium too!

I got some bonnet vent surrounds out of 2mm and 3 sets of badge components from 3mm.
Currently I've got some cheap Lotus badges on the bonnet/boot and will be replacing them with these!
Once they are radiused and polished they will look really nice i think!
The bonnet vents are going to go on either side of my bonnet at the front and have aluminium mesh behind them to help remove some hot air from in there.
Stay tuned and I'll post the installed pics.