More build pictures!
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This is the first time I fit the body. The fit is very good.
I haven't modified anything yet. Maybe there will be some small modifications before painting.
The steering rack is from GTD (some Ford part) and the braking system is a Tilton
with balance bar and Girling cyliders. Note the hydraulic accelerator system from CNC.
Rather than using a long wire bent in a variaty of angles which can jam easilly this
is just a plastic pipe filled with hydraulic oil and a master cylinder in the pedal end
and a slave cylinder in the carburator end. The biggest advantage is that you can bend the
pipe in any possible angle without it jams.
I found it in the Summit racing
catalogue.
The small water container for the windscreen cleaning is taken from a VW Golf Mk I where
it's used as a rear window cleaner fluid container.
I've heard it can be really hot in the cockpit and the pipes for the engine coolant runs
just outside the tub of the cockpit. Trying to get a cooler cockpit I isolated the pipes
as much as I could. I've got some insulating material between the radiator compartment and
the cockpit as well as from the engine compartment to the cockpit.
The engine is a Ford 302 (5.0l) from 1968. The cylinder heads have been worked on and a
different camshaft have been fitted. A Torker II manifold was fitted as well.
The gearbox is Renault Turbo transaxel which I bought from GTD together with an adaptor
plate to fit the engine. I use a four puck AP racing clutch. The clutch is hydraulically
operated.
Here are all the things that runs between the tub and the fuel tanks.
On the drivers side are the electrical wiring, the brake pipe, the clutch pipe and the
oil pressure pipe to the oil pressure gauge. On the passenger side are the coolant pipes
and the battery cable to the starter motor.
Trying to save weight I've used thin wires to stop the front and rear sections to open
too much. The disadvantage from conventional openers is in case of windy weather the
sections may close accidentally and hurt you:-(
Here is a photo of the electrical system. I had some trouble getting the central locking
system to work properly. Now I'm happy with the function and you don't need external lock
cylinders in the doors. There is a defroster fan as well. I'm thinking of taking fresh air
from the outside, but that's a later modificaiton.
This is the first time I could take the car outside the garage and drive it!
This is just before the first test drive. It was really exciting.
As you can see some details are missing.
Everything went well and it was just to continue to complete the rest.
A firm was hired to put the windshield and the glass window to the engine compartment in
place. I would recommend to use people that knows how to put windshields in cars
because the windshields are really expensive in case you should break one.
After the single vehicle approval testing I got remarks on the rear brakes.
After some small adjustments I had to test the brakes again.
I brought some friends with me and a second car and took of to an industrial area where
I tested the brakes. The brakes worked perfectly but the engine started overheating badly.
I had connected the expansion tank on the pressure side of the cooling system and it made
the water escape through the expansion tank under pressure.
It was corrected and after that I haven't had to top up one single time.