Need Help: Converting From Soft Long-Top to Soft Short Top Roof

[Shadow_iX]

Hi,

My dilemma is that I want to have the Short roof on my car, but i might need some help finding kits or a list of parts i need.

Any help is appriciated.

About my Car:

2001(2002) Lotus Elise S2 (once Rover Powered) Long Top (It has thoose silly "ears" at the back)

I once saw a 2003/2004 Elise with a short-top and that looked in my mind way better than my old shaggy roof, so now that i have the money to do something about it i would like to convert to short top, and get a short hardtop aswell (perhaps with a exige scoop that duckts air into the cabin too cool down driver at trackdays (no open top or windows allowed there, it gets too hot to be in after 10-12 minutes of trackday driving, even faster on really hot days)

Please help me, i'we searched ofr days now, and nothing is my current result at the moment...

[chotto]

There are going to be few here that can really help you. You should post on SELOC. I'm sure some of those blokes over there have done this.

[British_Marques]

Perspective is a funny thing. If you want to go from the long tail to the short tail there is a complete kit from LOTUS to do so. Then you can even have a hard top if you want. The kit includes the new bow cover that needs to be painted, the rear cleats to reseave the shortail, the softop, the new short bows.

I made a custom set up to go from short to the long and still use my hardtop. A real challenge but it worked out. But I have been driving Elise from 1996 in Europe and really loved the sleek long tail.

But I thinkg you can get the kit pretty easy to go from Long to Short.

Originally Posted by Shadow_iX

Hi,

My dilemma is that I want to have the Short roof on my car, but i might need some help finding kits or a list of parts i need.

Any help is appriciated.

About my Car:

2001(2002) Lotus Elise S2 (once Rover Powered) Long Top (It has thoose silly "ears" at the back)

I once saw a 2003/2004 Elise with a short-top and that looked in my mind way better than my old shaggy roof, so now that i have the money to do something about it i would like to convert to short top, and get a short hardtop aswell (perhaps with a exige scoop that duckts air into the cabin too cool down driver at trackdays (no open top or windows allowed there, it gets too hot to be in after 10-12 minutes of trackday driving, even faster on really hot days)

Please help me, i'we searched ofr days now, and nothing is my current result at the moment...

[Shadow_iX]

Thank you, I will go for the Lotus Kit rather than a aftermarket kit.

Thank you thank you!

You Just saved and made my day from a terrible one to a great one