Two Steps Forward No steps backwards

Only had time to spend on the car Sunday, though we did put in a total of 7 hours between us today. (Chrissy has mock A/S exams to revise for, Tim and Chris managed to see Arsenal on Wednesday pm - the less said the better - and Tim went to see the Gunners at Birmingham yesterday).

Anyway the car -

We finished off fitting the radiator, one of the problems here was that M6 bolts were required, but the holes in the two welded on chassis mounting brackets were much bigger ca. 10mm. Mark from Westfield said to use some big washers on each side of the hole, but this still seemed a poor mounting, so we improvised a rubber collar around the relevant part of the set screw by cutting about 5mm of the tubing supplied for fuel tank breather (which was overlong anyway).

You have to bend the welded steel chassis brackets fairly enthusiatically to get pointing in the right direction and with the bent end sections in something like the right plane.

The finished article is here....


We were also able to finish off the rear fuel system, as Westfield had sent us the missing breather tap that goes in the top of it and fixes to a breather tube that needs to be fixed on the chassis. Therefore we finished securing all of the fuel pipes and putting convoluted plastic tubing around them.

We have trial fitted the battery as we have also started on fixing the main battery cables (as Westfield have also supplied us with the loom saddles ....little plastic things with holes in that can be riveted into the chassis (which then allows you to fix cable ties onto pipes, wires etc.)

We also now think we have worked out all of the wiring for the engine and the ECU by asking Westfield some further questions this week, we now have three separate loom diagrams, which almost, but not quite, tie up with what we have.

They have also at our request sent us a replacement temperature sensor which is specific to our (as yet undelivered) dashboard dials... [this is punishment from the Gods for our vanity for ordering white dials, which has meant a number of sensors need changing as they are specific to them] ...

Current worries...

1. How to secure the ECU loom in the transmission tunnel, give gearbox is already in it.
2. How to mount the ECU mounting plate onto the circular tube at the front
3. Can't find an M8 x 70 bolt to use as an accelerator pedal stop
4. oh too many to list...

Bye for now