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.
I was somewhat dreading plumbing up the fuel filling pipes. Only because I could see it was going to be very fiddly and take an inordinate amount of time! The first job was to make some ally T pieces. These were just made of 2 inch ally tube, although I had noticed that 2 inch pipe and samco all seemed to be about the same size, whereas what was sold as 2 inch necks on the filler plate appeared to be more like 2.5 inch! Anyway, the samco stretched enough so it wasnt really a problem, just very awkward!
As I have two fuel tanks, although often a good idea anyway, I have decided to use a fuel collector. The one I have made is approx 1 litre capacity, which should give plenty of running without picking anything out of the main tank. I have used #4 pipe from the main tanks to this, and for the return both from the engine and to the tanks to try to keep down the weight. Below is the position of the collector, at the rear of the car on the drivers side.
Today task was to try to get the position of the dump churn plate finalised. I have previously guessed a position for the plate, and my rough plan is to mount it from the rear cage somehow. The first issue is that the angle of the cage support doesn’t match the angle of the body so the rear of the plate would need to be lifted up. For a first guess I taped the quick lift hadle across the gap.
OK, so after a bit of a clean, although not a full clean, it was time to start thinking about putting the engine back in. However, before I could put the engine back in, and the reason it is still out of the chassis, I needed to modify the fuel pump arrangement for the new system. As I now have two independent fuel tank, I am using two lift pumps to pump fuel from the separate tanks into a, not yet finished, fuel collector. Then the pressure pump takes its feed from here to the fuel rail, and the fuel rail returns to the collector. This however means a bit of a reshuffle of the pumps etc.
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