Before you start with the installation of the AliTech Shifter, it is advised that you first slacken the handbrake cabel.

This needs to be done as the handbrake mechanism sits higher and further forward than the stock Lotus shifter.

To do this, you will first need to remove the rearmost floorpan to gain access to the handbrake adjuster.

Unfortunately our pictures here aren't very clear, but they show the floorpan undone and removed with a number of fixings around the circumference.