After creating some freedom for movement after removing the "backseat" we created a nice bracket:



In the car:











The eventual bracket will be 5mm lower.

The only "problem" is that the hose comming from the pump is a bit short, so the filter will be either on a pretty high bracket or perhaps in another place?.........

 

I went on with the feulconnectors:.

Spent half a day trying to find a piece of thin walled 10mm tube, after failing that I did find a piece of 12mm tube with the same inner diameter.
Cut the piece in 2 and made some bends in them:



Reworked the weld pieces to match the tube inner diameter.

Before:



After:



Welded on the bracket:






Fitting!!:










And I made a cardboard template for the bracket of the surgetank:




After wrecking the last one I had to get another radiator so I just bought a new one:

 

looking good . cant wait to see the finished car

 

Thanks.

Started on the new radiator, same procedure as the FMIC:

 

i'm looking forward to seeing that front mount fitted...its mahoosive

 

Without reading back through the thread the engine looks set back more than normal to me, are my eyes playing tricks here ?

 

is is Si, your eyes are not deceiving you...surely as a Mod you should just know that now

 

I may be a mod but i'm not going back through all these pages
That is sat quite far back looking at it... is it a wrc cross member ?
It's going to change the handling a lot

 

Ehm, I'm afraid the engine has not moved at all.
At one point it was, and to certain extent still is, my intention to move the engine back 20mm or so.
But it has not been moved yet.

Because the FMIC/radiator are alot thinner than normal there is alot more space which make it look like the engine sits further back.

Btw, the radiator end tanks are being made this weekend, hopefully they can be welded coming week.

greets

 

That is suprising.... there is quite a gap there.

 

It's going to be even more, I need it for the shrouding.

 

dammit I was wrong...again

 

Sorry m8 hehehe.

I'm feeling a bit ill at the moment, but hopefully I can do some more work this week.

 

no worries...hope you get well soon

 

Feeling better already, tonight we do some more work, not sure if it is enough for an update though.

 

No, it's not enough for an update.

 

 

Well ok, a small one then.

Yesterday I spent alot of time making a cardboard dummy for the feulfilter bracket, lots of time little progression.

Also the rear brakeline connectors went in:






Today I started on making the chassis ready for the radpack.

First up is the bottom beam:




Endtanks are on the radiator!!
Welds?!?! Papertape is all we need!




A bit of sawing:






A bit lower but still a long way to go:





More cutting and hacking later!

 

that's certainly a large one...

 

Just been reading through this epic thread.

Such a great read and a brilliant car. Can't wait for the next update.

 

Strange enough, because it is actually smaller than a standard radiator.
The shrouding should apply better effenciency.



Thanks!

 

Hmmm..

Killed my second radiator today....
I made a mistake removing the original endtanks, damaging the material inside.
It had to welded a bit and that went wrong.
So another one next week.

Then I went to the positioning of the cores, I planned to keep the bottom part, but after much grinding etc. I had to conclude that it all had to go.
Making a new one from scratch.

Did some panel beating on the left and right front plates, they had been damaged during the crash.
I'm pretty happy with the result, when it's painted you won't know it had any damage at all.
Also because the bumper will be in front of them....

Finally I did a first trail fit for the 2 cores.
This position is too way low, will be fixed!

Leftover, not much but much to weak:



Be gone I tell you!!:





Hammered:



Dry fitting:





Tommorow more..

 

Keep em coming!

 

That fmic is going to take some feeding.... that's a core size and a half

 

Hehehe, it doesn't look that big in reality actually.

 

any thoughts on colour?

 

Hi,

My current colors are orange (Jagermeister) for the interior and semi-gloss dark grey for the outside.

 

Just pics, no story this time.

Radiator nr3:




Hanging out with nr.2:



Getting to this point quicker and better after 3 tries :



Then these:







Welded together soon I hope!

 

Be carefull this time Aram

 

I'm trying!