Got the gauge install finished at the weekend, the fitment ended up being really easy in the end.
For the previous 60mm gauge, I had to strip out the rotating innards of the vent pod and fit an adaptor ring to clamp the gauge in place. With the 52mm SPA gauge I could put the rotating bit back in without the flaps, then it pretty much slotted right in. Not even glued it in with anything.
Really happy with it, had a play through the (many) settings and got a backlight which roughly matches the clocks at night and set some high/low alarms to get me started. The button is mounted just beneath the steering shroud.
One of the jobs I highlighted just before the winter SORN’ing was that the heat wrap on my cat u-bend had gone to crap.
A bit disappointing, I’ve used DEI heatwrap loads of times in the past and can usually get a few years out of it - but this has barely lasted a year. I bought more of the same though, will see if it fares any better this time around.
I think I’ve said it before but I have doubts about this cat convertor. It’s not the original Lotus part, and certainly is not a performance replacement - it’s just a pattern part replacement that I guess was swapped at some stage in the cars past due to a cat failure (fairly common on the SC’d 2zz’s). I’ll start researching alternatives and hopefully it’ll be fine in the meantime.
The slip joint has been blowing for a while where the cat connects back to the backbox, it’s partly because I’m forced to use the wrong sort of clamp to force the badly fitting 2bular backbox in such a way that it doesn’t foul the undertray so I’m going to go back to a proper clamp and maybe look at spacing down my undertray a bit to fix the problem that way.
In other news I got my fuel pump assembly back from Spitfire, the original denso pump has been replaced with a Spitfire special - nothing wrong with the Denso, I just wanted everything inspecting to see if I could find a quick fix to my fuel surge issues and while it was apart I took the decision to future proof it with the spitfire pump. Should be good for 400+ bhp, not that I need it.
The Denso only has 5k miles on it so I’ll lob it on eBay/FB or whatever and somebody else can make use of it who’s planning the Lotus 260 upgrade.
Refreshed the assembly with all new seals, filters, etc - so good to go. (though again, at 20k miles nothing actually needed refreshing…)
Final job for the weekend was prepping for the two NS hubs I’d be replacing due to damaged ABS wires. (self inflicted)
I’ve got some SKF hubs due to arrive this week, so HOPEFULLY that’ll fix my ABS issue and allow me to finally bleed the brakes properly. Will tax it on Sunday 
