There has been a bit of a drought of updates, but this one is fairly long to compensate! It actually covers a LOT of work and writing it into a single post does not do it justice!
The updates to the car continue at both ends. The front wheels have been fully enclosed. The bendy shape here allows is for steering lock. You can see that the diffuser is now totally separated, well as best as possible, from the air circulating with the wheel.
The coolers are now mounted in their new positions, and it was time to start thinking about the ducting. The plan is to duct the air to roughly the centre line of the wheels. By this point the lower pressure out the back of the car should then draw the air out. Due to the current suspension design there are a few blockages in the ducts, radius arms and dampers etc, but there is not much that can be done at the moment. Hopefully it will still all work though.
The rest of the weekend was taken up with reprogramming/recalibrating the gearpot for the ECU and GCU (The gearpot has been replaced as the previous one was faulty, I think it got too hot…). Whilst lowering the engine the orientation of the gearchange arm was reversed so the solenoids also needed reversing, and of course the circlip holding on one of the solenoids, ended up being lost for about an hour! Eventually it was found though and everything sorted!
With, literally, a few minutes between customer jobs, I thought I should try to get something done on mine. The next job on the list was to panel in the second fuel tank. So it was back to the paper templates…
When sorting the passenger door hing I had to move the ECU. I then had a bit of a think, and noticed that any water getting in would drip all over it! This is obviously not the most intelligent thing, so knocked up a small cover.
While re-inserting the engine, I was a bit lazy and didnt remove the seat panels. However to put the exhaust back on I needed to get a hand in to replace the springs. I decided that a small quickly removable hatch would actually be quite useful for other bits and bobs so I drilled a large hole with the biggest holesaw we have.
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