Front Brake Bleeding #1

Struggled with bleeding the front callipers due to the odd size bleed screw, established that the bleed screw head was 1/4 inch. Managed to get a spanner from eBay that fits perfectly. Will bleed the brakes over the weekend.

Rear Uprights #4

A new set of rear uprights arrived from MNR, removed the incorrect ones and fitted the replacements. Made sure to use thread lock on all bolts without nylock nuts.

Headlights

Fitted the headlight mounting bar and bolted to the chassis. Marked and cut the nose cone to accommodate the bar. Marked and the cut out with the Dremmel. 

Bolted the headlights to the bar and wanted to hide the cables inside of the bar. Drilled the end and also underneath on both sides. Extended all cables and soldered he joints and insulated with sleeving. Fed the cables through the bar and fitted grommets to stop the cables catching on the edges.

Wired in the lights and tested side lights, dip beam and high beam, all worked fine. Lights will need proper alignment when the car is on it's wheels.

Going Back Together

Re fitted the exhaust and installed manifold pipes from the left to right, the bolts have limited room so mostly completed by fingertips and a 13mm ring spanner. Not a job that I want to repeat that often.

Re assembled the front end and push rods. Fired the engine and let it tick over and warm up for a while, the body tub has not cracked so it would seem that the different thicker tub and the heat resistant foil is making a difference. Tub still gets very hot but does not crack or distort.

Gear Shifter and Clutch Setup

Fitted the new M6 shifter cable to allow connection to the flat shifter which is mounted at the engine end of the cable. The flat shifter will allow clutch less up shifts by telling the ECU to cut the ignition at the time of change.

Fitted the new bracket from MNR to provide better alignment to the engine gear shift. Tested movement and adjusted the cable ends to the mid point.

Filled the clutch reservoir and bled the SBD slave cylinder. Removed the clutch engine casing to see the movement of the plates to make sure that the clutch was set correctly. Observed the clutch operating correctly with approx 5mm of movement in the plates. Adjusted the end stop on the clutch pedal.

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Fuel Swirl Pot

Had a Fuel Swirl Pot made up by Alloy Fabrications, really impressed with the service, I drew up a basic design and sent it over and they made the pot to my spec. 

Bonded the swirl pot to the top of the tank. The pot has AN6 connections for the bottom outlet to the high pressure pump, side input from the lifter pump and the fuel rail return and finally a top vent back to the tank.

This will ensure that there is always fuel available even under heavy cornering. Set fuel pressure to 3 Bar on regulator.

Replacement Tub Fitted

Managed to find some time over the weekend to get the new tub fitted. Used the templates to mark hole positions and then cut with various sized hole cutters.

Fitted the gold heat shield to the inside if the tub in the exhaust area. Once the exhaust hole was shaped I cut back the heat shield with a scalpel. This area now also has a double thickness fibreglass panel with a high temperature resistant layer of fibreglass and resin. Should now cope well with exhaust temperatures.

Pleased with the result, nearly back to where I was a month ago! Need to get cracking to get the car finished.