Oil Pressure gauge I think is fixed, but will see how it gets on. Wiring was definitely pinched somewhere, so may have pulled some connections out internally… but we’ll see.
At Blyton it was just flashing and alternating between:
and…
I rerouted the wiring, patched up a couple of exposed areas and it’s now reading correctly… for now.
Mine did this when the sensor was failing
Very unnerving when it starts blinking on the way to a trackday…! Also typical that the pressure one fails, it’s the most critical one AND the most expensive to replace 
Indeed.
Imagine test driving your new exige and it reads correctly on the test drive but when on the motorway the blinking light comes on and FL appears.
Clench time.
Small update, probably in vain… but we can only try.
I mentioned from the TD Report that the intake noise was a little grating by the end of the day, so I’ve made an effort to try and mitigate it. I don’t have high hopes for it, but the intake kit ‘design’ that I ripped off (ITG do an all inclusive kit for this car, rebadged and sold by a few retailers like BOE) includes a 100mm flexi duct feeding the airbox from the side scoop. Whether this is for acoustics, airflow or both/neither(?) I really don’t have a clue - but it’s worth a go.
My first job was to shorten the TB to filter silicone joiner as it was pushing the airbox too far into the clam, not leaving enough space for the 100mm feed duct.
With it shuffled back towards the engine a couple of inches, this allowed me room to fit a short length of ducting.
If it just moves the noise a foot to the left, then I’ll consider it a success… in fact, providing it doesn’t make anything worse I’ll still consider it a success - as at least I have the ‘complete’ kit now.
Aside from that, I’ve finally got off my backside and started setting up something I’ve been wanting to do for years… which is setup a redneck alignment rig in my garage.
I’ve got a pretty fresh geo on my car from Seriously Lotus with known figures for toe and camber, so I thought now would be a good time to get the rig setup and compare. If my measurements are a match for the measurements I got from Dave… then we can consider the rig a success!
So far so good, my toe angles all check out and I need to do a bit more work to make sure my camber measurements are properly calibrated (might need to make some small platforms to make sure the car is completely level) but I’m feeling pretty good about it. I’ll probably not make any big changes as I’m happy with the car, but knowing I have a setup at home which I can trust will help me later when I inevitably start replacing parts or taking stuff apart. I’d really like to try running some more camber up at the front, so that might be my next job (shims are maxed, so will need to make a steering arm change or do some machining).
Alignment rig is looking great! Hope the fishing line is straight 
Have you bought all the bits or made the wheel mounts and added a magnetic camber gauge?
The ducting might make a slight difference to noise, but I would think if it was thicker (i.e. silicone) you’d notice greater noise suppression. But like you, I haven’t a clue! Worth a go, and looks neat 
I’ve actually upgraded my fishing line already
Started with some 8lbs mono I had lying around in the garage, it’s fine but it’s stretchy by design and very hard to see… may have tripped over it once or eight times.
I’ve now got some bright yellow fluro braided line, no give in this one so easier to hang tight and measure up against. It’s the small things that count 
I did 40 or 50 miles on Friday lunchtime with the new airbox setup, it certainly is no worse and has moved the sound. Whether it’s any quieter or less annoying is hard to say, my gut says yes but there’s always the danger of confirmation bias. If it doesn’t hurt my head by the end of my next trackday, I’ll call it a success.
Oh, and as for the camber gauge they’re both Gunson items, magnetic gauge plus camber arm. You could take measurements from the brake disk in theory but with lips/grooves/etc it’s hard to be accurate.
Kyle if you need more camber the machined upright is the way to go
No need for spending on alloy arms etc etc, My elise, and Exige 360 both had machined uprights,
Very happy with on track performance etc etc
Yep I reckon that’s my next port of call. I may fetch them round next time you’re feeling hospitable I imagine you’ve got the gear to machine them down with more accuracy than my belt sander? 
at Belt sander
surely the most sensible option for more camber at the front would be to run the Spitfire VRSAS ? you can gain an extra 4.5mm of camber.
Sold!
I’ve had an offer to loan some steering arms that are currently sat in a box for a project that’s a little stalled. I may look at them after Anglesey so I can experiment at a circuit a little closer to home.
I had my AC guy back round last thursday. As a reminder, quick summary of my AC journey is as follows:
Towards the end of summer, I noticed some residue on top of my OSF archliner and suspected it was from the new custom AC pipe. I wanted a fully flexi pipe but Lotus had a pressure relief valve fitted so we had to splice in a bit of solid and a bit of flexi together to accommodate it. The AC still worked absolutely fine but I stopped using it until I could get the leak verified.
Fast forward to last week, and I finally verified the leak. AC was still working a treat, but after a few mins of running at max pressure we saw bubbles of residue coming from one of the crimp connections on the custom pipe. Since we made the pipe, I learned that Lotus no longer supply this length of pipe with the PRV as it was deemed redundant, if we knew this previously we could have made it 100% flexi and had no issues, so that was the plan going forward… BUT I have very little faith we can unscrew it from the condenser whilst the clam is on. With the clam on, we can’t clamp the condenser side of the union.
Rather than risking my condenser, we recrimped the pipe without removing it. It seemed to survive the follow up pressure test, and we’ll come back to it the next time my clam is off to replace the pipe properly.
A couple of days later I was headed to Wales via and overnight stay in Cheshire to meet some friends and explore some of the North Wales roads. Not an area I’ve driven before, but so glad I’ve got to experience it.
Some belting roads, good company and no real traffic/cyclist issues all day. Long day though, was in and out of the car for 12 hours so I was pretty broken when I got home but luckily… the car wasn’t!
I did have a couple of snagging issues to address on the car though after so many miles, but should be easily sorted this week before I head back to Wales for an Anglesey trackday:
Worryingly it seems like both pins have wobbled out, maybe as a result of the poor wheel balance vibrations, maybe the Welsh cattlegrids that we flew over at “speed” but I checked a photo from the ‘AC’ work a few days previous, and they were definitely there then!
Anglesey next weekend, can’t wait 
Oh, and AC worked all weekend too. Compressor is rattling a bit though when in use.
Great news on the AC. Not jealous one bit at all. Honest 
Don’t incriminate yourself, but how many cars were there? And whose was the S1 Exige?
6, but we ran into another group of 5 who we had definitely never met before. On a serious note we careful to stagger arrival/departures and we didn’t clump together on pee breaks
S1 Exige is a recent purchase, he posts as adesmith on SELOC… I’ll try to bully him into registering here too. It’s a cracking example with a recently built Scholar engine, it doesn’t hang about!
Nice one Ade, enjoying it? Busy on the 1st August?
