I hear tell of a Lotus adapter to connect ducting directly to the side scoop. Is this something that you can still get or has anyone produced an equivalent? I’ve searched the forum but details are hard to come by.
If there’s an accepted approach to doing this I’m interested in what you have don’t t stop sucking on the dirt and heat from the engine bay. 
Turns out ‘induction hose’ is the magic search term.
http://www.exiges.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10811&hilit=Induction+hose
Anyone know if this adapter is still available?
Ok, so I posted before having a serious delve.
A111E0023K Is this what most people have used?
I have always been careful not to seal the hose onto the air intake for two reasons. 1 Should the air duct get a large splash of water it will not go into the engine and potentially lock it. 2. Any air not sucked into the engine spills into the engine bay and aids cooling.
No idea if either is an advantage, but seams like a good precaution.
The proper duct that Lotus supplied fitted onto the rear of the LH intake. Wasn’t the best fit, but kind of worked. It also had a fairly large vent out so that any excess air or water ingested ‘should’ spill out.
It was more for S1 Elise 190 sports and never seen one fitted from factory to an Exige, as pointing a pipe vaguely at the rear of the intake duct worked just as well in most situations, and better if you went through a large amount of water.
Plus it saved some money!!
My Honda setup is connected direct but upon inspection the air filter was seriously gummed up with crud…found another 20hp lurking in there .
Makes one question the wisdom of direct connection !
Eliseparts do a kit to connect the scoop S1 Air Intake System | EliseParts
I’ve got one which I intended to use for ducting more air to the alternator on the other side, rather than feed the air intake
I carefully used heat shrink tubing to make a direct feed on my S1 Elise. It looked very neat with Revotec tubing. I then thought about the puddles in Derbyshire and cut a big hole in the bottom of the tube so water would run out and excess cold air would spill into the engine bay.
I’d seen that but Had thought the tubing diameter wasn’t as large as the airbox/filter on the VHPD. Could you confirm whether the tube is large enough to fit direct to the air filter?
If this is a direct feed option it could be opened up to bleed more air into the engine bay.
Sorry no, you’re right, the tubing with the EP kit is smaller than the airbox/filter diameter so it wouldn’t be a direct fit.
Thanks for checking.