Moving to the other side of the car, my focus turned to the water system. I have previously shown pictures of the buck for the duct etc, but now it was time for the final fit. After removing the cooler and grinding/filing the louvres out properly, which I advise anyone to do outside as the amount of dust such a small amount of grinding seems to make is inexplicable, I bolted it all back together. The pipes are the standard silicone type that you can get from anywhere, these are from raceparts as they give me a good deal on everything! Now, lots of people seem to run the whole system in the silicone pipe, but really you should run as much as possible in something like ally pipe, as when the water gets hot it doesnt expand nearly as much as the silicone stuff!
Archive for July, 2009
Water System
Monday, July 27th, 2009
Oil Cooler Connected Up
Monday, July 27th, 2009Not much I know, but the list is getting shorted by the day! The picture actually makes it look like the duct is bowed, but it doesnt appear to be in real life, perhaps its something to do with the digital camera an the weave?? the oil lines are left deliberately long to enable the sidepod to be removed without having to undo the cooler and drain the oil!
Top Ally Panel and Steering Column
Monday, July 27th, 2009After finishing off the extinguisher lines etc, the next jobbette was to mount the top ally panel to the chassis. However the wiring is not yet finished and the battery is below this panel. I also thought it would be a good idea if I could get to the battery a bit more easily than crawling down headfirt into the passenger footwell! So, I cut the strange shaped holw you can see below. (Its the funny shape to go around certain chassis members).
Fire Extinguisher
Sunday, July 26th, 2009I finished off the last few bits of the plumbed in extinguisher. The system is from SPA and uses the standard decabon tubing. This seems to be quite easily to shape by hand and reasonably easy to straighten up again if you make a mistake! I have plumbed it to have two nozzles front and rear, so there is a split almost instantly after leaving the bottle.
Bits and Bobs
Monday, July 13th, 2009Not too much done this week unfortunately. I spent Saturday at whizzing round Rockingham, if you ignore the rain, and then on Sunday we were phoned up by a stranded 964 Turbo on the M11. It turned out that whoever had built his engine had NOT done a very good job! the throttle cable had fallen off as they had not put the retaining clip in and whoever had assembled the rear of the CAM should be sacked! But we got it fixed and the chap drove home late afternoon a happy man!
That left we with a couple hours to get a few minor things done. I made up the clutch pipe from the copper pipe to the slave cylinder, it is only about 6 inches long, got the rear brake pipes on and connected up, the air lines in and clipped up and got most of the way through making up the fire extinguisher lines.
Next week we are testing the 935 on Friday and assuming everything is OK racing on the Sunday. Hopefully I can get a full day on the Arachnid on Saturday, so I hope to finish off the fire lines and make a start on the front suspension. I need to weld some tags to the front arms for the anti roll bar and some collars onto the bar itself. Time permitting I will try to get the radiator sidepod on and make a start on the water pipes. I also had a new seat moulding to try out, and new GCU software…
