27-29th of December 2003Straps fuel fuel tank, welded on prop shaft loops, made first mock-up of fuel catch-tank and put in the transmission tunnel wiring sleeve. | |
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1. Made straps four fastening the fuel tank. |
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2. Here's a detail shot of the top mount. It serves two functions, to tie down the metal strap, but also, prevent the tank from moving forwards. |
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3. Here's a picture of the lower mount. Basically just a 3mm plate 20x20mm welded in and a hole made through it where I put a bolt and then securing the strap to that. Crude, but effective. |
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4. A couple of days later...in order to fasten the prop shaft loops properly, I've borrowed a bigger and better welding machine. |
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5. Here's the forwards most loop welded in place. Bad welds, but hey, I'm not an expert. That's why I bought a Westfield in the first place, so I wouldn't have to weld. Well...guess what, I've done LOTS of welding anyway to make it the way I want it. Practice makes perfect though. |
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6. Here's the rear loop. |
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7. The whole prop shaft. I put the loops at approx 1/3 of the way from each end. |
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8. The picture shows a vertical tube sitting next to the left differential side. That's going to be my fuel catch-tank. Here I've just welded on the mounts. Someone else (an expert welder) will take over and put ends to the tube and hose barbs to connect the pumps and everything else up to it. It is approx 0.74l of volume and should last me a couple of minutes of track use. It is needed because the Westfield supplied fuel tank proved to be "not so good as it was advertised to be". |
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9. Here is the convoluted cable sleeve that will transport all wiring from the front of the car to the rear of the car. In this tube will go the wiring to fuel pumps, rear lights, brake lights, reverse light, indicators and whatever sensory wiring for speedo and fuel level. Quite a few wires in other words. |
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