Lucky chap.I’ve been confined to barracks with Exige.
Bit early for SORN lad! Haven’t you heard I ordered an unseasonably warm October 
No pressure then! Updates will be good, always appreciate the opportunity to steal ideas off of other people…
Lee had to to talked out of taking it to bits 2 months ago Kyle 
Lovely:ok_hand:
Well after a final drive this morning for a hour and the weather turning, the time has come to start the strip down.
When i start a build first thing i do is fully detail the paintwork and wax so i know when i start putting the bodywork back on its perfect.
I even gave the wheels a full decontamination and wax too so they can be wrappped up until spring.
Looks lovely 
Are you going to do a complete strip and rebuild, or just the suspension and underside?
Its getting the full works over the winter
A good early start in the garage this morning, first job was to get the arch liners out, then onto the clam. As it had previously been off before for it was pretty straight forward.
As the pictures show its pretty grubby, usual lotus suspension corrosion and rust bolts but nothing that cant be sorted.
This little part fixes the side repeater and are bonded to the panel simply dust.
Excellent, always satisfying to fix all the grubby bits under the car.
Is that the AC condenser bracket that’s rotted off into dust inside the crash structure?!
The front clam, side panels and lights have all been stored on a shelf i knocked together, this should keep everything safe.
As i got on so well with the front clam removal i decided to get on with stripping the interior out in readiness for the rear clam coming off.
Seems like deja vu, after having seen photographs of #138 like that for the past 5 months.
Is this the first time such a refresh has been attempted?
Look forward to seeing it all finished.
The condenser is dust and fallen apart and the brackets dont look to hot either. The plan is to do everything at the rear first before i start the front so further investigation will have to wait.
Ño i have done quite a few before both for myself and for customers, and usally do a rebuild over winter but this winter its my cars turn to get done.
Indeed, I should have been clear in that I was referring to your own car - I guessed that you might have done many before this one.
Great work, Lee. Keep us posted👍
Well this evenings entertainment was the removal of the fuel filler surround, unfortunately 4 of the allen head screw did not want to move. No choice but to remove the heads. I have done this before loads of times but this time a friend got me a HiNox stainless drill bit which was like a hot knife in butter.
I carefully covered the area around the filler with tape and cloths and set too and once the clam is off i can get the filler neck off and remains out.
Always a nice start to the project when the drill has to come out
Is the surround/ring stuck on with anything other than the bolts? I had my bolts out a while ago but the ring stayed in place, had no reason to remove it so didn’t try particularly hard - but does it just need a bit of brute force to pop off?
@LotusLee if you find a cheap source of those bolts can you let me know. They were something daft like £10+vat last time I looked.
I just checked my eBay order history - I picked some up for pennies ages ago, but the listing is no longer active.
You can however search around for MX x YYYmm countersunk hex flat head bolts. I wanna say they were something like M5x20mm but take one out and measure it rather than taking my word for it…
Is that part no.18 on this diagram?
Screw, M5 x 15, skt, cap hd., filler neck to clamshel
https://www.deroure.com/diagrams.asp?TBL=12490&MAK=1&MDL=12&SMA=1&SMO=12&ST=dash&SC=0