I have found no reference to the 120E engine being supplied by Lotus so far - [should be a 116E] ... so this may be a later modification. I understand the 120E was supplied with either a high or low compression head ... anyone know how to tell the difference ?

Remaining items such as gearbox and axle, I need some help with as well:

Gearbox has cast along the side of the remote housing ... something that looks like the Ford logo followed by ... WYF J4076 118E 7K006 B ...[ may have a couple of letters wrong ... difficult to read hanging upside down with a lead light burning your ear! ]

Axle I suspect is a Standard Triumph as car has the narrow rear wings of a SII, but I can't find any ID number ... so if anyone can tell me where to look and if any such number with tell me what ratios are fitted, or any help identifying the gearbox, it would be greatly appreciated.

I bought the car back in 1976/77 ... I was looking for a fun car for just that Summer and had intended to get a Beach Buggy VW or some such like .. [shame on me!] .. but saw the advert for the Seven, in Motorsport I think, and it wasn't too far away from me [it was somewhere close to Castle Coombe as I remember], so I decided to go and take a look. Well several hours later I was its proud owner, my friend, who had accompanied me, driving my original car back home. They say pride come before a fall though, and my first attempt at parking the Seven, having decided to stop for a bite on the way back, resulted in a close encounter with a brick wall! Fortunately, it was only a very slight dink/scratch to the nose cone ... the bonnet didn't look that long !!! For the next couple of years I kept it on the road using it regularly in local Autotests and once, rather tongue in cheek, took it out on a local Rally [which resulted in us being towed back home with a leaking sump ... the LEFT!, NO RIGHT!, SYNDROME] and generally enjoying the car.

Then came girlfriends, career, etc... while the car languished away on a trailer, under a cover, for some 20+ years!

So, its finally time to make amends and keep those promises of putting it back on the road some day.

I feel that my Seven is of such late vintage for a Series 2 (1968) that a lot of the mods done for the Series 3 were incorporated into mine (black dash and interior side panels - flash repeaters on clamshell wings - certain electical components)