ok here gose i was thinking you can get
fiberblass panels to make a MR2 look like a ferrari. so how about some fiberglass
panels to make a MGF look like a lotus elise... thoughts please

Why spend good money making a non-expensive car look like another non-expensive car? People make MR2's look like Ferrari's because the latter are rare and expensive. Elises are not (relatively speaking).

Utterly pointless in my opinion. Spend the money you would spend developing an Elise body kit on an Elise!

Wrong...... just wrong. An MR2 will never look like a Ferrari, just as an MGF will never look like a Lotus Elise. Unless your vision is impaired.........

Phil

is it just me who's really unimpressed with elises?

Th only people who are impressed by elises are other people with elises (like me!).

If you made an mgf look like an elise, all hat would happen is you'd see a lot of lotus's show you their rear end while leaving you for dead.

An elise S1 can be had for £7k these days, is fairly cheap to insure, infinately better performnce and handling and also better economy than an MGF. Stretch the budget a bit further to an S2 and things just get better.

ok thanks for you input i was
just woundering if it is possable to do
thats all and could it be done ....
ps i like the lotus elise. as my little girl is called elise after the car.

[Edited on 3/4/09 by marshall]

I think in principle it would be very difficult as the elise chassis is very different - I think a lot of parallels are drawn between the elise and mgf when in fact the only thing they actually have in common is the K-Series engine.

If you were to manage a conversion, you could at least do something about allowing access for easy maintenance - it was a 2 day job to take apart the entire front end of my S2 just to replace the rad fan and the skin is only just growing back on my arms from my recent experience of changing the alternator...

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Originally posted by marshall
ok thanks for you input i was
just woundering if it is possable to do
thats all and could it be done ....
ps i like the lotus elise. as my little girl is called elise after the car.

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anything is possible if you put your mind to it

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mediabloke - 3/4/09 at 09:35 PM

Mid-engined or not, the MGF, MR2 and Elise are very different cars. But if you're interested in a build-it-yourself job, go the whole hog: you have loads more options.

There'd still be an incentive: Elise is a perfectly good name, whatever you build...

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ettore bugatti - 3/4/09 at 09:37 PM

or ride....

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Humbug - 3/4/09 at 09:51 PM

I would personally prefer an Elise, but if you insisted on changing and MGF into something more interesting-looking, how about the Blaze F



I s'pose it would presumably still go and handle like an MGF, though

[Edited on 03.04.2009 by Humbug]

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MikeR - 4/4/09 at 12:12 AM

I keep wondering (and even had an ebay hunt) about taking an MGF, losing the screen, adding a cage, removing the seats, moving the ecu so i can sit lower and maybe welding up the doors.

Not sure why or what it would look like ...... just thinking fun, relatively simple mid engined summer car.

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chrisg - 4/4/09 at 10:38 AM

There is of course an alternative body available for the MGF







I'm not keen on the Elise either, what a miserable old sod I am

Cheers

Chris

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Mark Allanson - 4/4/09 at 10:45 AM

I made some panels and made a sierra look like a lotus 7!

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StevieB - 4/4/09 at 06:34 PM

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Originally posted by MikeR
I keep wondering (and even had an ebay hunt) about taking an MGF, losing the screen, adding a cage, removing the seats, moving the ecu so i can sit lower and maybe welding up the doors.

Not sure why or what it would look like ...... just thinking fun, relatively simple mid engined summer car.

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I had the same thoughts about my elise, but then lotus did the 2 Eleven and now I can see my idea was a good one (but I can't afford one yet...)

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