TF Race Car Build
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Re: TF Race Car Build
Looks excellent: what colour then?
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Re: TF Race Car Build
Kawasaki zx greenRob Bell wrote:Looks excellent: what colour then?
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Re: TF Race Car Build
Of course
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I like!
Reminding me a lot of the TF 500 concept:
Reminding me a lot of the TF 500 concept:
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That's the inspiration
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That is looking good! I guess you don't need wheel arch extensions, but it would go with the "look"
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Looking good
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Re: TF Race Car Build
Superb
Cheers
Mike
Cheers
Mike
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Wow - quite something
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An now my inevitable question: where did that lip spoiler come from? It looks like one of the universal spoilers on eBay? Looks good to me, and should do the job. Although, as you have the same racing hard top as I do, I don't know what the airflow down to the boot lid surface is like. I've been meaning to undertake some ticker-tape experiments to find out...
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I got the spoiler off amazon, but yes it's a generic pu one. Just trying to change where the air breaks away from the boot.
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Some more progress this weekend. Finished welding the spare wheel well bracing and added an additional tube where the remainder of the front section of the wheel well was. Painted the inside of the rad ducting, ran brake cooling ducting in, just need to buy 2 90 degree elbows to get the air from the intake area to the ducting.
At the backend made the new mounting for the header tank move to the boot.
At the backend made the new mounting for the header tank move to the boot.
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Why does everything take so long, 4 hrs work has got the rear hardtop fixings and mounting point fabricated and fitted - still need to be painted and the exhaust tail pipe fabricated from 90 and 45 degree tube cut and welded together.
Need to trim the bumper a little bit more, then get the hangers made and welded/fitted.
Need to trim the bumper a little bit more, then get the hangers made and welded/fitted.
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I know - the little things always take 5-10x longer than you think...
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Well, race car has had a break, but I'm back at it again. I've now plumbed in the mechanical oil pressure gauge, and filled the engine with oil. I'm now back into the wiring loom and have realised the wiring diagrams i have aren't right as the fuse box used is different from mine .
I've also done the side scoops using paul jakobi's ones.
I've also done the side scoops using paul jakobi's ones.
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Funnily enough, I've just bought a cheap electrical oil pressure gauge. It's some Chinese eBay cheapie, but it isn't really the actual value I'm interested in - more whether the oil pressure is "good" or "bad". It might just as well have a smiley face and a sad face painted on it.
Yours a mechanical with oil capillary line (rather a nightmare to plumb in on an F/TF) or an electrical sender type?
Yours a mechanical with oil capillary line (rather a nightmare to plumb in on an F/TF) or an electrical sender type?