Got a few hours here and there on the car over the last week or so.
First off after realising how high my inlet manifold sits I thought I best check the clearance to the bonnet.
It's very tight as can only just about get a finger between the two.
I'm going to be cutting part of the inner skin away on the bonnet, especially in the throttle body area to give a little extra clearance. If I still have issues I have a few options including dropping the motor slightly (don't want to do this) or could remove my phenolic gasket spacer. But will wait and see how it goes.
Car looks rather strange with the bonnet on
Some hose had arrived over the week to allow me to continue with the fire extinguisher install
First off I mounted the other in cabin nozzle, I was going to position it so was central trying to get both passanger and driver, but I changed my mind being a selfish person I directed it all at me and under the dash. In fairness whenever the pins pulled on the system it will most likely be just me in it and I'll be on track.
I used p clips to hold it in place down the side of the tunnel
The under bonnet nozzles were next on the menu.
I made some brackets for these and routed the pipework accordingly securing it with p clips and using grommits were possible
This nozzle I pointed a bit off diagonal but I wanted it to be able to reach the brake lines and abs module should something spring a leak over there
I've now pretty much made my mind up on how I want the bay laid out. This meant I could start designing my breather tank ready for AD Fabrication to make up for me
I applied the prototype standard of cardboard aided design. I did originally make it far to big, to the point it was going to interfere with the fuel rail inlet pipe and was well over the specified 2L volume required, to reduce the volume I cut a section from the middle out.
I also produced a little sketch to help explain the design in my head.
To mount the tank where I want it I removed the brackets etc that were no longer required.
Only problem is I got a bit carried away with the grinder and removed all other studs etc that are no longer required
Then continued on my trigger happy style on the passanger side lol
I was just going to touch up with a bit of black paint to protect the metal but decided that would look diabolical! So I decided to just put a couple of coats of hammerite on to perk it up.
It's not to be a smoothed show car by any means as I've not got it in me to even clean the car myself so will never be going that route! I just like the idea of it being clear and nothing unnecessary present, as and when I want to fix stuff now I'll weld or make my own fixings and just touch back up with hammerite.
When down AD fab they pressed my bushes in for me as I no longer have the luxury of using work equipment and workshops to do so now being a clean environment wearing white lab coats and hair nets in pharmaceutical.
Am hopefully getting a load of bits back soon from AD fab to allow me to start progressing and pushing on a bit more again.
That's all for now