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Front splitter extension now done, so front bumper now finally back on ready for next weeks trip down to Milton Keynes for the visit to MARLIN MOTOR ENGINEERS for the mapping session. Last of the welding done, welder can go away for a while...hopefully. When the car went in to get the head sorted ou...

Rob Bell wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:02 pm

Looks like it is coming together - when are you planning to start testing?

It's in for mapping 6 March, so looking at a test/track day @ Croft in April.

Mixed results today. As I have gone solid cam, have had to extend the oil temp loom, add a T piece to the oil filter take off housing, to allow fitting of ecu oil temp feed and existing mechanical pressure gauge. Now for the mixed result bit, overtightened the oil pressure fitting and shagged the fi...

With an appropriate amount of swearing and dropping things down the back of the radiator, resulting in having to remove the ducting again the front end is back together - well nearly, when the weather stops doing it's thing will get the bumper and refit so I can mask off the headlights for the green...

Oil cooler installation effectively done, with plenum and fans (carried over from when no air feed). It's not the prettiest thing in the world but function over form.

LHS rear wing upright test fitted...happy. Now a lot of measuring will have to be done, to ensure I get the fixing points for RHS the same. The mount bases are sat on 25m tall nylon blocks I have cut to match the slope of the body work, bolted together will Rivnuts in the bodywork.

Bracing put in after removing spare wheel well and battery trays. Should be stiffer now that it was with them in. One last bit of welding to do, for a bracket for the oil cooler.

Some more quality work in the Blue Peter workshop today. CAD design for the plenum chamber for the oil cooler, not decided on final placement of the intake duct yet. Just waiting for the GRP mat and resin to arrive.

Other headlight done, with air intake for the cabin. Slight run in the lacquer, but will sort it, when I do the green bit in the corner.

So I was never happy with the fit of the headlight blanks I had made from grp and I needed to add an air intake for the oil cooler I have moved inboard. So I have gutted the headlights and added an intake...much happier, just need to add the led lights and the green to the corner once the paint has ...

So made my single wiper 'conversion' on the race car full sweep, so now it is a conversion. Cut the O/S section off, remove the metal bar that is on the bottom of the spindle, by grinding the flange away. Use this for the new motor spindle attachment, had to weld up the hole that had been where it f...

Not come out as well as I would have liked and is going to need some touch up

This is now the droop limit Rob. I may have more droop on the rear due to the Protech coilovers I'm using, but I had to cut massive slots in the undertray to allow for the full sag of the rear suspension arm, when jacking the car up. Won't be a problem now.

Some more CAD today, powered by Amazon. Louvres to direct the air flow for the arch vent.

Devised a way to limit the suspension droop on the rear.

Sorry Rob, to late. But I have an idea for extending the green in to the door. Liner needs a little final fettling and I need to see about getting some different trim fasteners or might try taking the hole out to 7mm.

Arch liners arrived today, I've cut them out and made the last little bit of metal work to finish the arch vent. But before I paint it LQW and bond it in, I had a flash of inspiration about painting the vent recess green like the stripe and the rear intake scoop.
What are your thoughts

If you go for an aftermarket pedal box with brake bias adjustment, you can delete the whole lot, including servo. Steve Jackman has done this - obviously, brake effort goes up, but he seems to cope with it on sprints and hills well enough. Did that on the Metro with a floor mounted one, never again...

There is a wing support where the vent area transits to the outer body of the car - have you cut this off for now, or re-shaped/shortened it? Didn't need to, just removed the bolt and left in situ, as well as the rear of the 2 bottom ones. After some reflection, I also ended up drill in a hole in t...

I replaced the bias valve with a short copper link pipe, so it is nicely reversible as needed, but I'll probably get rid of this once I relocate the master cylinder and servo to the other side of the bulkhead ;) Holy thread revival Bat Man, Rob did you get round to moving the servo? Chris at Retro ...