Another Wreck, another Race Car.....

**Peter Jones** · 05-08-2012, 09:05 PM

The clamps above were so I could mount the oil tank.

There wasn't enough room in the engine bay for the tall tank and it's fittings so It had to come inside with me.

CAMS won't allow this unless it's shielded off from the driver so I re-purposed a lightweight aluminium tool box from Bunnings!

Rather than use bulkhead fittings to get through the metalwork I used nylon cable glands and saved about $1500 in alloy hose fittings. I'll use the same in the firewall.

Meet my co-pilot!

Here's where those clamps went to.

Lid is quickly removable and held in place by cam over latches. I put a foam seal around the edge.

**Jarred** · 05-08-2012, 09:21 PM

nifty pete.

Good to see its all still progressing!

**GoLfMan** · 07-08-2012, 08:56 AM

awesome Pete! Will have to drop around and see the progress in person!

**Peter Jones** · 19-08-2012, 10:32 PM

Moving into the fuel system now.

I won't be using the vacuum port on this reg so I'll replace the banjo fitting with a plain screw and o ring.

This is the low pressure side of things Fuel comes from the tank via the FRAM filter to the Carter 4070 pump and on into the surge tank.

I'm still roughing everything in at the moment, there's tidy up work required yet.

This tank will contain the high pressure pump, a Bosch 044.

I've just temporarily mounted it for the moment to size the hoses. I still need a couple of fittings for the 044 before I can lock it in place.

More hoses and pipes to come.

tidied up the hoses through the cabin by making some aluminum restraining clamps backed with neoprene foam.

I'll trim those cable ties in a week or so once everything settles in and takes on it's new shape.

Firewall penetrations came up nice and neat.

Catch can mounted up.

Note the modified bonnet hinge, The roll cage leg is the way of the stock hinge.

Wheels are being sorted this week and the tyres are on their way from Tire Rack.

With a bit of luck I'll have the race rubber on the car next weekend.

**alex g** · 20-08-2012, 10:05 AM

Looking great Pete. Cable glands are a nice idea. Great solution.

**Jarred** · 20-08-2012, 10:47 AM

Looks great Pete.

So many details!s

**GoLfMan** · 20-08-2012, 10:53 AM

nice one Pete! Getting forever closer! Really looking forward to seeing this on the track

**Peter Jones** · 21-08-2012, 09:00 PM

Woo Hoo! Tyres!

Shipped in 5 days from tirerack.com

I would have bought local but Toyo don't bring this size into Australia.

Plan is to use these for wet and dry until I save up for a set of Hoosiers for dry use then these will be used for rain days.

With a bit of luck I'll have some wheels to put them on this weekend.

**Peter Jones** · 21-08-2012, 09:31 PM

In other news, my new race support vehicle arrived this week.

**Volksee77** · 21-08-2012, 11:45 PM

I see great minds think alike hey Pete, I have a 2012 Rok to tow my rally car and it gets vinyl wrapped this week in the VW motorsport race support colours. It's a great support car for a great race car.