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[chris_uk]

 

 

finished 

 

 

i did both 

 

 

painted my heat shield in heat resistant paint so you cant see the silver through the clam 

 

 

i started putting the fuel rail in and noticed that for whatever reason my MAP sensor plug wouldn't reach, so i had a fiddle about and noticed that one of the injector plug wires were snapped, so i decided to open up the loom because when i first did the wiring some 5 years ago i remember wrapping them in electrical tape so i thought since im here i might as well re-solder them and heat shrink the joints.. 

 

i found this. 

 

 

 

 

im going to strip it all back and start again with all the joints  

 

currently sat like this ! 

 

[Nev]

How on earth did the car run with a snapped injector wire, surely you noticed when-ever it was that you last drove it?

[Kieran McC]

Chris use the Tesa loom tape to wrap the wires cheap on Ebay

[chris_uk]

today i tackled the wiring and because i had to split most of the connections apart i thought i might as well re-route them. 

 

 

not sure how this will work but i covered the AFR plug in Nimbus to reduce the heat getting to it. 

 

 

i found online some "Milano" Alacantara with a foam backing so i thought i would try and cover the inside of my hardtop.. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[chris_uk]

How on earth did the car run with a snapped injector wire, surely you noticed when-ever it was that you last drove it?

 

well, the last time i drove the car was the last national, or to be more precise "to" the last national, the car cut out on me and i lost everything would turn over or anything so i had to be towed home .. i think it had been loose and when i started messing about it must of snapped.. but they were all corroded as you can see in the pics, very turquoise corrosion on them.. 

 

i removed every trace i could find and re-did every connection this afternoon. 

[chris_uk]

Chris use the Tesa loom tape to wrap the wires cheap on Ebay

 

I do.  

[Nev]

Glad that loom atrocity will be fixed, did the previous owner have a TC system installed or something? BTW, wrapping Nimbus around remote objects (like your AFR plug) won't stop convective heat warming them up, shields like Nimbus are only useful against radiant heat sources.

Edited by Nev, 24 September 2017 - 08:39 AM.

[chris_uk]

Glad that loom atrocity will be fixed, did the previous owner have a TC system installed or something? BTW, wrapping Nimbus around remote objects (like your AFR plug) won't stop convective heat warming them up, shields like Nimbus are only useful against radiant heat sources.

 

the previous owner owned it over 10 years ago... it was totally bog standard when i bought it. 

 

If you are looking at those tiny wires they are the water injection wires. 

[chris_uk]

I dont need the dash off anymore so i thought i would clean it and stick that back in. 

 

 

next job is to clean out this shitfest.. :

 

 

 

im going to find a way of nicely putting the return pipe up and out of the way.

 

 

 

arches back in and the front just needs the bells & discs putting on which are in the final stages of being made.

 

 

 

and i gave one side a quick wipe down, then i decided i couldnt be bothered so finished for the day  

 

 

[Edited on 24-09-2017 by chris_uk]

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Looks like she should be ready for next year, lots of work gone in to this Chris Any plans on track days or competition next year ?

[Johnboyhgt]

Looking good Chris keep up the work. It's easy to loose motivation half way through, especially if your fixing them day in day out. Sent from my SM-G903F using Tapatalk

[chris_uk]

Looks like she should be ready for next year, lots of work gone in to this Chris Any plans on track days or competition next year ?

 

 

competition, no. i have no desire to compete, just from relatively short time in time attack i just cant be arsed with the hassle. 

 

track days however, yea i will hopefully do a couple next year, i have some interesting things i'm going to do with aero etc so i'm looking forwards to testing those out. I plan on doing a couple euro trips when they pop up.  

[chris_uk]

Looking good Chris keep up the work. It's easy to loose motivation half way through, especially if your fixing them day in day out. Sent from my SM-G903F using Tapatalk

 

tell me about it, currently doing a massive re-build on that black turbo and i get confused sometimes what i've done on what.. i have to double check everything! luckily that project is coming to a close and i will be able to concentrate on mine  

 

but your right, after 12 hours at work, the last thing i want to do when i get home is open my garage up and start tinkering.

[chris_uk]

this weekend i set about making a custom water tank with a mate. 

 

we had to design a tank which : 

 

Holds 5L of water or more 

Sit in the sill for lowest centre of gravity (the pump is a heavy lump)

Gravity feed the pump

had surge protection built in for the output. 

 

with all these things in mind i sat to in my garage and created a couple of designs of tank, lots of drawing and measuring and chatting with steve and we came up with a concept which ticked all of the boxes.. 

 

Some  of the early designs. 

 

 

 

I went to steves armed with the mockup and a final idea and we set to on Friday morning.

 

 

 

cut more pieces, and tacked into place. 

 

 

had a quick trial fit

 

 

 

final design

 

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made a baffle for the float sensor, wasn't needed but it will stop the G forces effecting the indication.. just makes it a little more accurate. 

 

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baffle and mount plugs welded in place. 

 

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hopefully this is the quality of the whole tank once its finished..  going to brush the finish and try make it look nice. 

 

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unfortunately the gas ran out on us and we had to call it a weekend. 

 

Made from stainless steel you would think it weighs close to that of a cruise liner but in reality the whole tank weighs less than a bag of sugar.. using 0.7mm stainlesss sheet really helped on the weight saving and it is super strong!  Total capacity not including the filler neck piping was circa 6.2L 

 

 

 

[FLD]

That looks a great job. You must be pleased? You could bead blast it for a nice satin finish all over.

[chris_uk]

That looks a great job. You must be pleased? You could bead blast it for a nice satin finish all over.

 

to be honest we'd not really thought about how were going to do the finish on the tank, my immediate thought was a high grit sanding on an orbital or some such as its free (ill use steves stuff ) but media blasting sounds like it could be a good idea  

 

cheers.

[chris_uk]

had a little bit of time in the garage today waiting for someone to turn up to look at the signum so i thought i would have a clean up.. 

 

 

 

 

[chris_uk]

new brakes are here! 

 

Crabash and myself decided we wanted some proper brakes, we did lots of research and came to the same conclusion that Alcon are currently the best rotors on the market.. so between us we got all the dimensions etc and i did the drawing on CAD (thanks to Sutol for titivating it) and had Gaz at spitfire machine and anodize them up all in all i'm quite proud of the project

 

 

 

 

saved 11.06 kg over my worn discs, compared to new i save over 14kg! 

Edited by chris_uk, 09 October 2017 - 07:10 AM.

[ChrisS1]

[chris_uk]

a couple weeks ago me and a friend started making out new water tank and it started to turn to sh*t as we were just not doing things properly. so we decided to start again, taking what we learnt from the first one we did a couple things different and i think we have ended up with a better result. 

 

this was the old pump mount face which we didnt cool and it just warped like mad. 

 

 

 

when we re-did it but this time made sure we had loads of cooling.