Re: [doc] advice please

[Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE AMOUNT OF WORK THIS WILL TAKE  

There, I said it :-)

The major fun you'll have is:

- Working out that although there is enough room on the right for brake 
and clutch hydraulic assemblies, you can't swap them around, which is 
what would be required if you wanted to duplicate the left-hand on the 
right. You will have to cut the floor out under the bonnet and make a 
new one to put the spare on the left.
- The steering rack is 2" longer than a Lotus Esprit rack but otherwise 
identical. With a combination of bits from a right-hand Esprit rack, 
your left hand rack and a custom made rack (because it has to be 
longer), you can make one.
- The dashboard is not the same shape on the right. Most right handers 
have their binnacles pointing down because of this
- The radiator pipe interferes with the lower steering knuckle on the right
- the vent box has to be cut up, swapped around, reassembled and then 
you'll discover that it doesn't fit. Special ducting needs to be made 
for the air intake which is part of the underbody on left-hand cars. 
Because the ac box is now on the left, one of the hoses from the 
compressor is now too long and the only place to put the slack is in the 
engine bay which means lifting the underbody off the car (and inch or 
two) to be able to pull it through
- you'll have to remove both wiring looms from both doors to be able to 
un-pick the wiring for the mirror switch from the left door to put in 
the right. This means removing both doors.
- the wiring loom has to be swapped around at the dashboard end, but the 
main loom for the front end goes down the left fromt wing, so that has 
to stay.

I could go on.... and I've left out all the interior trim too...

We have sold a car that's being converted by a guy who really knows his 
stuff, and he's still working on it after nearly a year.

Martin



tracey ann steele wrote:

> hello all
> This winter my project is to convert my D to a right hand drive could
> anybody tell me what stearing rack it is,also how do i go about
> fitting the pedals in the other side,as the leg room the other side is
> smaller,has anybody in the club done this them self,if so i need all
> the help i can get, my hubby is gonna do most of the work and my
> neighbour who builds lambo repilca`s is gonna guide us, i also am
> gonna get my hands dirty too seeing that the D is mine anyway.
> cheers
> thanks
> tracey
> vin 6484 (marti)
>
>



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