Progress, sorta…

With the brake booster gone and compact Wilwood master cylinder now mounted on the firewall with the adaptor I machined, I had a heap of space behind the strut tower to fill. Enough space I could fill it with a catch can. Made a paper prototype to check the fit and then as usual left it in the good hands of Adam at C’s Garage. Hes become my regular ali welding expert lately haha, works out good though as he often needs bits and pieces machined up here and there.

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Exhaust Revision Number… ahhh…

After Taupo, the car was still in one piece and running good. But it got a few battle scars and few other issues arose that I want to sort out. After clipping the tyre in the morning it had bent the exhaust some where, along with scratching up my freshly paint fuel tank and denting some of the panels/floor under the car. Tried to tweak it back into place at the track but it no longer sat where it used to, which caused the hot muffler to melt a wider cut out in the bumper. So new exhaust was in order.

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Bling Blang Kapow

Carrying on from last weeks update with the surge tank, I have now finished off the fuel pump cradle for the lift pump, bought some fittings (not all) and got a surge tank.

Added some -6 bulk head fittings. Fuel in from lift pump, surge tank overflow,  fuel rail return and fuel out from the Bosch 044 pump. Had to make some 3mm thick aluminium washers as the sheet metal was too thin for the bulk head nut to do up tight.

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