Scaffolding poles + old VW bits + Rotary engine....

[PhillipM]

I'm beginning to regret this suspension, finding springs is being a complete nightmare, I think it's going to end up on 4 different springs on each corner just to use the travel whilst still having the right rates at the rear and not having it change spring rates right at the intended ride height (which is not a good thing for stability, or driver confidence either )

But, it's sunny, so I've thrown all the spring catalogues in a heap and sat outside with a pint instead, maybe the fairies will fix it.

[PhillipM]

Fairies have been in, apparently they do panelwork, who knew?

[chuntington101]

Just doing some maths and your supercharger shifts approx 1.8 ltr of air per rev! Cant see you needing to spin it very fast to get some cracking boost.

[PhillipM]

Yep, nice low rpms for plenty of airflow without too much heat, which is the usual Eaton problem, it's why an M112 was stuck in there even though a '90 or even an overspun MP62 might have managed it.

Plus, plenty of headroom

Those paneling fairies also make oil and water header tanks to fit in tight spaces, nice of them:

[chuntington101]

Air you still mounting the intercooler in a V with the main rad? will you pull air through the intercooler (out the top of the car) or let air come in through the intercooler, maybe with a scoop?

Think you should make some mounting brackets for the Honda engined lotus guys. They seem to love spinning the bks off little M62s to make boost!

[PhillipM]

Intercooler will have it's own scoop, on top of the existing roof scoop. Scoop on a scoop

That way the radiator fans can be switched on at the start line to pull air through and keep the charge temperatures down while the launch control is running and it the slow technical sections.

I think you'd want to make a short snout version for wedging in the elise though!

Edited by PhillipM on Thursday 6th June 00:43

[PhillipM]

Well, as you could guess from the header tank locations, space is getting kinda tight now, and there's still some more plumbing and fibreglass/ally heatshielding to go in yet, you don't even want to see it with the dampers and some panels on.....

[Munter]

PhillipM said:

I've got a Mr Hawkin on the phone. He would like it if you stopped buggering about with the laws of physics. Makes him look silly apparently.

[PhillipM]

That's not the buggy, that's his new wheelchair.

[PhillipM]

Oops, broken my photobucket account again. Will you lot stop looking at shiny pictures and just read the words instead? Sheeesh....;)

[PhillipM]

Bit of framework to make it easier to shape the rear bonnet/scoops, yeah, you know how I said the engine bay was quite tightly packed?

[PhillipM]

Spaghetti junction time this week:

[rhinochopig]

That engine bay looks like you dropped all the components into the space and then shook the car until they all found a natural resting place. Should be fun if you need to spanner between stages.

[PhillipM]

I was thinking the same think whilst looking at the crank sensor through the oil lines, remote filter, belts, pulleys.....

Crank sensor gone? Feck it, stick it on the trailer....

[anonymous-user]

PhillipM said:

Fairies have been in

Cripes, your fairies are quite a lot faster than the ones living in my Man-Cave! They have been trying to finish the CF door cards for my car for ages! ;-)


(looks like good progress BTW !)

[PhillipM]

I'll send them over when it's done. Although I must warn you, they'll probably try to weld the carbon together with the TIG, they don't seem to understand glue...

...and CF door cards?
I'm disappointed, there's a surplus word there....

Edited by PhillipM on Tuesday 11th June 20:06

[PhillipM]

Wiring fairies aren't very fast though, only just finished the engine bay wiring. Bah. Taking ages, and still got the main connector to put on and the rear lights (once we've made a bonnet).
Although in my defence I did modify a few crimp tools as I wasn't happy with the quality of the crimp, now you can swing off them

On the other hand, all the connectors are on, everything is sealed and lubed, every wire has strain relief loops before terminations (so does the main loom before the bulkhead connectors, etc), and has the heatshrink over those bonded on with polyurethane to make sure the insulation takes any strain rather than the conductor even if it gets some serious abuse. Which, lets face it, is bound to happen when we end up taking something off with a hammer
The whole lot is shielded from EMI, and has heat reflective foil under an abrasion resistant braiding, and any connectors that didn't originally have seals I've made some for using some high-temp silicone and some creative use of heatshrink for moulds
Basically, made it as bulletproof and ham-fisted-idiot-proof as possible, so should last a few years, even if we keep up our normal routine and end up unplugging it every week to fix something

Still, only the dash loom, cabin loom and the forward loom for the PAS/horn/battery/fuel pump, etc, to go.....anyone want a job?

Edited by PhillipM on Saturday 15th June 20:45

[PhillipM]

Shiny Shiny Shiny Shiny Shiny....





Much more fun than wiring anyway.

[Ranger 6]

LOL - definitely, I could never do cables or sparky stuff!!

[PhillipM]

I can do it, I just happen to hate it