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I can't remember the details to be honest. The Elise S2 had a few different engines, basic one was still 1.8 K series, then one with the toyota 1zz and then the Elise 111R had the Toyota 2zz.

I really wanted an S2 111R but couldn't find a good one, then almost bought a VX220 on a couple of occasions but then decided i'd buy a house and then didn't do that in the end either.

I remember talking to a guy at work who worked at lotus about the VX220, he said vauxhall / Opel had a much bigger budget than the original Elise S2 and hence it was actually quite a bit quicker, esp the Z20LET powered one

I'm not particularly bothered if it does, the Subaru we have is rough to start with.

I could wrap the roof in clear though maybe to avoid making it worse

I think i'm going to get a set of these made by Curve, they do a soft rack for use with roof rails which suits the Subaru.

Annoyingly the ones i can get locally, don't seem to work nicely with cars with no door frames (like subarus)

I’ve looked at all of the brands I can find in NZ and all of them are over $400 new, I haven’t been able to find any much cheaper 2nd hand either.

I’ll see if the brand you mention is a thing here

Yeah, i might keep hunting for some second hand, and there's a real chance that if we change cars as long as the roof rails are proper ones like the suby has, I should be able to transfer them across as required.

Or buy a Ute.

Yeah, maybe i'll have to get some FCS soft racks in the short term, at least they're like $95

They would but I am conscious that a lot of the universal / lower cost ones are bad for fuel consumption and noise in use.

I'm currently looking for the Subaru OEM cross bars for roof rails as they're only $230 as far as i can tell.

I've been looking for 2nd hand on trade me but all the varieties of thule / prorack / wispbar are all $400+

It has the proper raised rails.

I saw those Thule ones but they’re $550, which is a 6th of the value of the car 😂

I moved to NZ, I looked at soft racks but I’d rather get cross bars for our existing roof rails if poss, and can then also use for other stuff

As I now own a 7ft surfboard, what roof bars can I get for my 03 Impreza wagon?

Whats the difference between a kit car and a low volume production vehicle....

there was a period where this was really common on Mercedes / VW vans, i assume because they're at a standard ride height where you don't need to jack them up and seemingly quick to remove

literally waiting for Honda Jazz

You can CAD up Lego in a package called Studio IO, it's a replacement for their own software which they discontinued called Digital Designer.

You'll see people talking about it a lot on Bricklink etc

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.page

holy aero bat man

i think its a 21"? maybe bigger, not sure

is the RSR the same scale as the defender?

I know where there is a Manitou soft tail in almost unused condition from probably 1997 hiding.

Interesting. I will check it out.

What software are you modelling that in?

Same on most VAG cars too

Those thermostat housings are common for breaking.

They're a glass filled injection moulded part, can be annoyingly brittle the more glass they put into the base material.

Nice SLS “inlet manifold”