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Chassis is looking absolutely ✨beautiful✨ George

Lightening the wedge! Great to see more Lotus content again. Thanks.

making thermite in that bowl?

George (I just clued in that your name is George) I have been following you for some time now. The videos are just so well done and funny enough, crazy relaxing! Look forward to every new episode!

Beutiful work yet again. Do you have a podcast version o these videos, as the audio is sublime.

While you're building this, have you thought about getting hold of a home zinc plating kit? Because for stuff like the rack mounting brackets and all the nuts and bolts it wouldnt be a bad idea. Even if you plated the brackets and then painted them it would last longer.

If I’m the first person to say this, I won’t be the last. - Nice rack!

AMAZINGNES!!!

Find someone local in aviation with access to brushable Alocrom 1200 and give the aluminium a golden sheen 👍

I love that you are adding lightness into the car by drilling brackets and rods. Have you thought about replacing some with carbon fiber. They even sell flat sheets and rods that you can cut to replace the sheet metal brackets. I'm sure you want to keep it period correct but I think even lotus would have used it if it was available.

George holy crap this is looking very very sexy ...taking all my strength not to make a rack joke 😳😋

So glad you're back on a regular upload schedule. Good for me, good for the Lotus and probably good for you too :D

Delightful! Thank you!

Self lubricating 👺

Lotus Leggera, yes.

Dude… I hit like before the video started.

Wonderful. Soporific music, relaxing narrative, creative and interesting visuals. What's not to love?

It’s almost going to be a shame to mount a body on that chassis…….what a work of art!

It's fun to watch Georges decent into madness. You could drillium the shit out of that chassis, just saying🤔

I'm sure the late great Colin Chapman would be proud of your methods of adding lightness. Lotus raided the Triumph parts bin for the steering and suspension on the oringal Elan.

your content is the opposite of mat armstrongs content lol

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The first production car to show off it's wonderful. cutting edge, rack and pinion steering, was the 1948 Morris Minor.

I'm a fan of polishing the steering rack too, but in all honestly I'm a bigger fan of future-proofing, rust protection, etc. Personally I would paint it thoroughly to protect it, and protect it further in any other way I can - especially if it's an old car Although if you paint it you'll be adding back the weight you removed by grinding down the extra material on the rack :D every gram counts

Excellent viewing as always. So is the weight saving more than a good s**t?

This is getting exciting

Pure talent!

Evolution of language. "Tie rods" was a term only Americans used when I were a nipper. Everyone else called 'em track rods. Hence track rod ends. Funny how times change

Drillium! A fine idea for your extra-effort work on your fabulous Lotus.

When can we perhaps buy posters, the green lotus versions?

Triumph racks are darn nearly as good!

When you're adding speed holes I imagine you vacillate between mad scientist laughter and intense "careful now" moments. Great episode George.

The silicone bushes look lighter then the rubber bushes,, Include them in operation slender ?

Are the Esprit shift rods steel? Is aluminium an option? They are aluminium in the Europa, but they are straight in the Europa.- perhaps the bends necessitate steel.

OMG your production value is off the charts!

Chassis is becoming a work of art. Nicely done.

WiffleShifter, let's gooooo!

Great video George. Surprising how lightweight that whole rack is.

Chassis is starting to look beautiful, just don’t drive it once you have finished the car, it will get mucky very soon!!

Nice weight off jobs

Got an email from Patreon saying that GK had ‘done something’ and that I needed to watch. Anyhoo a couple of three days later I bounce into UA-cam and here he is having ‘done something’ so I may as well watch this here. I will defo ‘bounce’ onto Patreon though as no doubt he’s ‘done something’ else on there.. currently say in an Amazon on the wifi.. feeling the need to melt stuff and break parts, tools and maybe a few fingers but alas, I have another three shifts before I get back home .. and stuck into my own ‘projects’ .. latest ‘drive’ is on Moby Dick had to weld the chassis at a shock mount on the rear.. that would have been unheard of when I started following George.. however it’s a weekly thing and two welders is the minimum that anyone who claims to work on their ‘stuff’ must have otherwise do you actually work on your stuff. Cheers George.. BTW. Dare those the original steering rubber boots refitted?

I’m simultaneously excited to see this finished and dreading the end. Beautiful work as always.

Again a great video about your resto story. Interesting to see that the rack looks the same as on my 1970 Lotus Seven. I totally dismanteled mine and after polishing the main assembly could not resist to let it galvanized (chrome). I fitted grease nipples to the flat plates. I was thinking about the quick ratio parts offered by Burtons but finally decided against this as the standard parts work great.

4 cyl to 6 cylinder conversion ?

I have Burman gearboxes in my vintage Ariel motorcycles. Not great, by today’s standards sure, but still reliable after 70-90 years.

Great content George. Excellent lighting and editing. I have missed your vids and it inspires me each time to complete mine to such high standards, I've never managed it though. Keep em coming.

Perfect video to ease your way into the weekend.

I too have an 80's rare fibreglassed vehicle, which i'm sympathetically rebuilding, unfortunately it weighs 4 ton.🙂

George Great content as always. What a journey you and us as spectators are on

There's nothing better than waking up on a Saturday morning to a new video from George. Heading over in a bit to work on my friend's '88 XJS, and this was the perfect inspiration.