Remote oil

A local workshop made the oilhoses yesterday. Now the pump is connected to the oil filter.

Oil filter reference and new position right behind the fan.
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Wide Track

The new coils arrived on Friday just in time for the weekend. While I still wait for an answer fromWestfield about the right type of spring, I ordered a pair of Faulkner springs weighted 275lbs/in and measuring 11in (1.9in ID). This will be my starting point for the set-up. I based the weighting on different forum posts ranging from 225 to 300 with some authors recommending to go stiffer with wide track. We'll see.
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Oil pump and remote plate

New Pace oil pump mounted together with the remote connection plate.

 

The big hex in the middle of the pic is the remote connection plate from underneath. Mounting a full size oil filter in this place means that it will foul the chassis and/or the brake line. The hoses will be made to my specs and connect with the oil filter housing shown in the last post.

Cheers.

Oil filter's new home

The oil filter fouls the chassis rail in it's original position. Furthermore it sits quite low and could be damaged. Mocal sells parts to mount the oil filter remote. And if it wasn't my car, it wouldn't have been modified. First cut off the unneeded part ...

... cut, drill, thread a piece of steel ...

... weld it to the chassis. Done.

Air from the fan will additionnally cool the oil in the filter. Together with the bigger oil-pump, I hope I can avoid mounting an oil-cooler (saving weight). The pump can now be mounted and connected.

Cheers.

Shock absorber workshop

Spent the larger part of the evening with the front shock absorbers. Unmounted the original springs from the old shocks and discovered that they are too short for the new shocks. Later on I found out that those are rear shock absorbers. No problem since they are compatible with the wide track suspension.
The only thing is that those brackets I mounted last time now are superfluous ...
For the record:
Original set-up shock length 32cm, spring length 23,5cm (both measured uncompressed).
New set-up shock length 36cm, spring length to be determined, but probably also 4cm longer.
Inner spring diameter is typically 47,6mm.
Looks like I have to place an order some time soon!
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Vent

Most Seven drivers with the exhaust and the steering wheel on the left side suffer from lots of heat. Not only near the feet but the whole driver's compartment is very hot. Some air comes from the exhaust manifold under the hood and some comes from the side pipe. My idea with the rebuild was to add a vent just behind the manifold. A panel will guide the hot air through some grill mash to the outside. That's why I had to bent the panel inwards.

The trial fit shows where everything is intended to go. From front to back, the damaged part which will be replaced by a new panel including the exhaust outlet, then comes the vent and the rest of the old panel. With some imagination you can see how it should look in the end ;-)

Cheers.

Turning point

Impact was on the left side (driver's side) and the body panel has been damaged severely. First thing to do was to draw a pattern for the exhaust manifold hole.

Mounting it one last time for measuring.

Drawed a line and ...

... cut !

Bad souvenirs ... GOOD BYE!!! 

(Well not yet, I will keep it as a pattern for the new panel.)

Next step is to fold the panel inwards and build an outlet for the hot air.

Paper pattern together with the damaged part will help to draw and cut the new panel. 1mm aluminium sheet already in stock ...

Cheers.

Wide track

The story so far ... as written earlier, the original wishbones are not available anymore and the wide track kit was on offer, so here we go for 50mm more track width per side. No description, installation manual or instructions available, I got a headache to try and find out how to mount the shock absorber brackets.

Have a look how to position it, drill a hole ...

... and fix it with a bolt. British engineering!

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Gear gater

Last item missing to finish the transmission tunnel cover arrived yesterday, a nice patent leather gear gater with chrome surround. Fits nicely between the handbrake lever and middle console.
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Light head

Currently drooling over this one but have to wait for the right time (and money) ... after the complete rebuild which will take some more time anyway. Sold at Webcon for around 800.-£ it comes with valve guides and seats for unleaded. They claim half the weight (9.5kg) compared with the original cast cylinder head.

Add 200.-£ more and drool over this aluminium head from CNC , and read about the race engine specs they intend to reach with it. We're talking about a design from 1967 here !!! 

Just allowed myself some dreaming while fighting the "summer weather" depression (the rain has an approximate temperature of 18°C).

Cheers.

Extra adrenaline

The quaife shifter being too long, it had to be cut and the thread redone. Homework on the lathe.

Handbrakebox ready clothed in fleece.

Here we go for some extra adrenaline ... drilling the selfmade rear body panel to mount the wing. The smaller holes will hold the wing, the large one is for the lighting connector.

Right rear wing mounted with wheel.

Passenger seat, passenger safety belts (Willans 4 point harness) and rollbar. With the new seats, I will have to relocate the eyelets for the shoulder straps.

Cheers.

Some assembling

Did some assembling this evening without big progress to report, just some more work done.
The seats backrest reclining system must be removed to come to the maximum 38cm width. The big bolt (M14x30) replaces the whole mechanism but the backrest can still be set if needed.

Handbrake cables connected to the lever ... works.

Let's call this the inner-handbrake-lever-cache ... phew!

Cheers.