marshall
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 08:27 PM |
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mr2 & mgf ?
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
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gingerprince
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 08:33 PM |
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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!
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Hellfire
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 08:35 PM |
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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
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blakep82
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 08:41 PM |
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is it just me who's really unimpressed with elises?
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StevieB
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 08:49 PM |
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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.
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marshall
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 09:11 PM |
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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]
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StevieB
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 09:20 PM |
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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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omega0684
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 09:27 PM |
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quote:
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. quote:
anything is possible if you put your mind to it
[Edited on 3/4/09 by omega0684]
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mediabloke
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 09:35 PM |
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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
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 09:37 PM |
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or ride....
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Humbug
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| posted on 3/4/09 at 09:51 PM |
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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
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| posted on 4/4/09 at 12:12 AM |
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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
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| posted on 4/4/09 at 10:38 AM |
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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 
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 4/4/09 at 10:45 AM |
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I made some panels and made a sierra look like a lotus 7!
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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StevieB
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| posted on 4/4/09 at 06:34 PM |
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quote:
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.
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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