[donour]

Here's an interesting one. The Vapor Charcoal canister and plumbing is from Volvo. The parts that I found are for S80 and XC60. It seems exactly the same as the one I pulled from my Evora.

The Volvo part #: 30684417
Manufacturer part #: 17203270

 

[TNEngineer]

How long have Lotus and Volvo been related, i.e. owned by the same parent?

 

[agentdr8]

How long have Lotus and Volvo been related, i.e. owned by the same parent?

I don't believe they were back when the Evora was first developed/built (~2008/2009?). But it's the pinnacle of "parts bin car", since it seems to have parts from a ton of different marques. I think Lotus did a great job making our Frankenstein cars, aside from the early clutch hydraulics and sketchy wiring harnesses.

EDIT: Doing some digging, and it appears Geely bought Volvo from Ford in 2010, but at that time, they were a majority stakeholder in Proton (where the lovely S2 mirrors come from), a majority stakeholder of Lotus, and a very small percentage of Daimler. I'm guessing that the S1 Evora was already in the works, and whatever parts bins they raided at the time had less to do with the Geely transaction and more to do with saving as much as they could on every single part.

 

[TNEngineer]

I agree they did a great job. My interpretation is they focus their R&D on their core competencies and use off the shelf parts where possible in other areas. Their use of off-the-shelf radios is a perfect example. That is very smart.

 

[donour]

The Volvo/Lotus/Geely connection is just a red herring. There probably isn't anything very "volvo" about this part; it's just an appropriately-sized volume part that was available for cheap. Some OE provider had them and it fit. It's likely that lotus didn't even know what other applications used it.

 

[agentdr8]

Clutch pedal position sensor (Clutch Potentiometer) - AC/Delco 13597418

The part # on my OEM sensor is 25889337, which cross-refs to a GM 20995840. Do you have any more info on that AC/Delco part #? To me, they're visually identical, but maybe the pinouts vary?

 

[fsmtnbiker]

The Evora dash vents are a slightly modified version of the dash vents from a 1996-2003 Alfa Romeo GTV. ALFA ROMEO GTV SPIDER 916S 916 1996-2003 CENTRAL DASH VENTS | eBay

Both of my center dash vents were broken when I got the car, due to a thief breaking in and breaking them for... reasons? These are NLA from Lotus and none in stock. The center dash vents are exactly the same as these Alfa vents, but with an airflow flapper removed. The door units are the same, but cut in half due to the short depth of the door socket. Easy to modify these units if needed to replace a broken one.

 

[Grady]

Did not see the exhaust valve solenoid listed but con confirm it is a.

55557806 Turbo solenoid valve compatible with Opel Vauxhall Astra

 

[Dr.Hess]

I now have 199 records in my Evora Parts database table. Should I post this? Wait for 200? The board software refuses to take any type of list formatting I can figger out, so can't really just up in a post. Cut and Paste columnar data and you get a blank post, for example.

 

[Catsailr27]

I now have 199 records in my Evora Parts database table. Should I post this? Wait for 200? The board software refuses to take any type of list formatting I can figger out, so can't really just up in a post. Cut and Paste columnar data and you get a blank post, for example.

Have you tried cut and paste and then save that file then try posting that file?

 

[agentdr8]

I now have 199 records in my Evora Parts database table. Should I post this? Wait for 200? The board software refuses to take any type of list formatting I can figger out, so can't really just up in a post. Cut and Paste columnar data and you get a blank post, for example.

If you toggle the BBcode editor (gear icon), you can input a table in HTML-ish format. Tags need to be uppercase IIRC though. Something like:

[TABLE]
[TR]
[TH]heading1[/TH]
[TH]heading2[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]entry1[/TD]
[TD]entry2[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

That should make it easy(ier) to maintain if you have the source in like Excel, which can export to web page. Or there are a lot of online converter sites that'll take in xlsx and spit out HTML tables.

 

[Dr.Hess]

I've tried cut and paste. Best I could do was paste into notepad, then copy and paste into the editor here, which gives the data but no real formatting.
Gear icon, cut, paste from Access or Excel gives about the same as using notepad as an intermediary:

Description Manufacturer Part_number Lotus_Part_Number Comments Source Confirmed
A/C Compressor UAC UAC CO 10856C FROM A USA TOYOTA RAV 4 3.5L V6 2006-2012 agentdr8 FALSE
A/C Compressor Toyota/Denso 8832042120 agentdr8 FALSE
A/C Dryer/Receiver 1400604PAC (cross-ref) slightly larger agentdr8 FALSE

I do databases, not HTML.

 

[friss]

Could throw it in a google sheet and link that

 

[Dr.Hess]

I think the best I can do (that the board will accept) is a PDF. Or I could put it in the temp directory of my web page and link to that. XLS? That seems to be something everyone can tolerate. Or XLSX? I don't think enough people understand or have Access to use that file format for sharing. Not that I like Access either, but for a simple stoopid database, it is there, and that's what I keep the data in. I took SQL Server off my box as I wasn't really using it for anything and I needed portability for little projects like scoring the car show.

 

[Ruud]

* * * * *
Hi, Dr Hess,
Thank you very much for your effort to open an Evora parts cross-reference list......! ! !
Best regards,
Rudolph

 

[Dr.Hess]

Niets ta danku, Rudolph.

Y'all pick what your want and I'll put it up.

Choices:
1. PDF loaded on the board
2. Link to a XLS hosted on drhess.net
3. Link to a XLSX hosted on drhess.net
4. TXT file loaded on the board. This would be tab delimited, not that readable with a txt editor like notepad, but would load in Excel if you know how. Just launching it would give you a text editor, not Excel, so those not really into data manipulation and/or file management with Windows Explorer, etc. would have issues. I would recommend against this option, as I would like to keep it simple for all, including the computer challenged. Also, opening it on a phone in a spreadsheet would be a disaster. I would have trouble doing that.

Something else? I'm open to suggestions.

 

[Grosbard]

@Dr.Hess Yes, please! We'd all really appreciate it!! How about both PDF and txt files so we cover both the non-technical and technical users? (Minor point, for the text file I wonder whether comma separate values (CSV) is more versatile than tab separated values (TSV)?)

 

[Dr.Hess]

Well, as I have >25 years experience importing data extracted in various formats between different systems, in my professional experience I have found that it is very easy to put a comma in a text field. Systems will put quotes around the comma so that they are not treated as a field delimiter. Then you get quotes in a field, and those get quoted to show that they are not quotes setting off a comma, etc. So 8" becomes 8""", and 8,0" becomes 8","0""",. Somewhere down that line, loading a gigabyte+ file ever day for years, it all will break. Not every time, but often enough to totally destroy your load routine several times a year. Than I would have to track it down and fix the flat file. That is, find the extra " or missing " in a 1 or 2 gigabyte file and make the correction, as sending an email to whoever gave you the file would be useless. You'll get another file just like it. And, you ever try to open a 2GB file in Notepad? Better have the right tools for that. It is extremely difficult for an idiot to put a tab in a text field value. Not impossible, as I have seen it, but extremely difficult and I can probably count on one hand the number of times I have seen it, certainly less than 2 hands. That is why I always go with tab delimited text files versus comma delimited whenever I have any choice or say in the matter.

I could put a PDF and a TXT here in the thread, if that's what y'all think would be must useful.

 

[Grosbard]

Ah, great points! TSV makes sense!

 

[NorCalGT]

JSON?