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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #425 on: May 02, 2019, 02:56:12 pm »
Wtf happened in here.



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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #426 on: May 02, 2019, 03:36:49 pm »
What man put together, man can rend asunder and then also put it together sometimes what's all this left over stuff
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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #427 on: May 02, 2019, 03:48:02 pm »
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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #428 on: May 02, 2019, 04:45:30 pm »
Welcome to the rice fields.
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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #429 on: May 02, 2019, 10:13:08 pm »
Hey guys.

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #430 on: May 02, 2019, 10:19:35 pm »
uckfay, Johnny with the back-handed slap. You're clearly the Oracle.

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #432 on: June 24, 2019, 11:17:08 pm »
Ooooo buddy.

Gated shifter, here Jeff cums.
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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #433 on: June 25, 2019, 12:28:57 am »
Happy birthday man
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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #434 on: July 13, 2019, 02:02:22 pm »
ordered that gated shifter this morning as soon as it went on sale.

so.

excited. >:D

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #435 on: July 15, 2019, 12:15:29 pm »
ordered that gated shifter this morning as soon as it went on sale.

so.

excited. >:D

Looks pretty heavy. lol 

Glad you got in on the buy.

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #436 on: September 28, 2019, 10:57:20 pm »
Welp.  since its snowing and i cant drive lil red, i finally got my assay around to doing some maintenance ive been putting off, along with test fitting my new team dynamics wheels and installing a new deck.  deck isnt done yet so no pics of that.  I also cleaned out my photobucket account to below 250 photos so lets see if this works.

Lifted her as high as i could


draining the coolant was reasonably easy other then trying to find the damn drain tube at the back of the engine.  the thing is tiny. 

Unlike a subaru where coolant is like a 1h job tops,  this took me upwards of 5 hours.  takes me almost an hour to get all the panels off and get the damn car on jackstands.  Then draining the coolant was a miserable pain. 

I used a Uview Airlift 2 to fill the coolant as much as i could.  Was able to hold 22PSI of vacuum in the car and then fill the coolant that way.



after doing this i realized that it wasnt going to be that easy and i needed access to the bleeders.  yes.  all uckfaying 3 of them.

First one is located behind 3 panels in the front passenger wheel arch, second is below the upper res, third is part of the upper res.

Ive still got bubbles in the system so its gonna take more dicking around tomorrow to get it all done.  I was able to vacuum fill about 7L but it looks like im still probably 500ml low or so.

Also discovered my new to me rear wheels have a different hub bore, so im going to be looking for some hubcentric rings for the rears and some centercaps or something



Looks alright on the new wheels.



upgrade from a 175 tire to a 205 up front and from a 225 to a 235 in the rear.  Apparently i cant get up to a 245 in the rear without issues so for now, itll be 235.


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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #437 on: September 29, 2019, 12:01:44 am »
I'm surprised you couldn't cycle the airlift a few times and get the air out. Kinda the point.

Just fire it up and touch the rev limiter a few times, it'll purge.
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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #438 on: September 29, 2019, 12:09:16 am »
Nice!!

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #439 on: September 29, 2019, 10:00:20 am »
I was able to vacuum fill about 7L but it looks like im still probably 500ml low or so.
Is it not also possible that 500ml of the old coolant was still remaining in that maze of a system? Or did you measure what came out of it?

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #440 on: September 29, 2019, 12:45:36 pm »
Is it not also possible that 500ml of the old coolant was still remaining in that maze of a system? Or did you measure what came out of it?

The system holds 11-12 litres.  So ya

I think the car was slightly tilted forward to the airlift worked in the radiator but it didn't work great for the rear of the system.



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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #441 on: September 29, 2019, 03:55:04 pm »
Done.

Successful weekend in the garage.

Installed this Joying deck, which sounds miles better then the BOSS one i had before.  and you know.  Android Auto in a 13 year old car is nice.

Also show: Gated shifter :)


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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #442 on: September 30, 2019, 07:32:25 am »
Would you buy that Airlift system again? I've seen them for sale and I hate bleeding coolant.

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #443 on: September 30, 2019, 06:27:07 pm »
Mmmm mixed feelings.   But probably yes.  It did save me a ton of time

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #444 on: March 05, 2020, 02:01:05 pm »
And after a quiet winter, and in anticipation of a nice summer, a special order has been placed with Greg's racing parts using trudeau bucks. 

Stoked.

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #445 on: March 05, 2020, 03:07:50 pm »
And after a quiet winter, and in anticipation of a nice summer, a special order has been placed with Greg's racing parts using trudeau bucks. 

Stoked.

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #447 on: March 05, 2020, 03:14:20 pm »
"Clam Hinge"

That's what she said.
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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #448 on: March 05, 2020, 04:18:19 pm »
Jeff wishes his clam could open that big.


Tight as.

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Re: Emma; CanehdianJ's 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
« Reply #449 on: March 05, 2020, 04:29:12 pm »
Jeff wishes his clam could open that big.


Tight as.

Think you need a clam spreader for that. That's what you use to get Jeff out of the car if he gets in a fender bender.