had one of those days where nearly everything has presented issues.
first thing i went off to friends garage to drill and tap the manifold, i knew i had to tap it to 6mm and i wanted to get them as low as possible, this meant putting them on an angle like so
Before i had got this far i had encounted a dumb moment, i knew it had to be a 6mm threaded hole, but then grabbed a 6mm drill bit......
Fortunately there is a machine shop next door and they will be welding up the holes i drilled in error....what a muppet, the session finished well though, all the nozzels havle beed fitted and don't foul the injectors
Having finshed that i decided to move on to the tank, this arrived a few days after the front end kit and so i haven't had a chance to check it out so first thing was a 'stock check' first thing i noticed was the tank straps have been overlooked so this means that the tank couldn't go in today, however this didnt stop me from prepping the tank and fiting the pickup/sender unit
the instructions for the pickup/sender state that i had to fit a pipe tha would act as the 80% cut off, however this is what the unit looks like
from the other side
the unit has been fitted but there doesnt seem to be any way of getting the unit to lock out at 80% full.
finally decided to end the day connecting the heater hoses to the vapouriser, having spoke to a few people and looked at a few conversions i decided to take the spur off the heater bridge, this was the line into the vapouriser, the return was to go back to the HBV.
the flow from the heater bridge to the vapouriser was easy, this was nice gentle curve, the issue was the return back to the HBV as it has a sharp 180 degree curve in order to get round this i used part of the original hose
from there it is a case of connecting this to the return hose that comes from the vaporiser, my kit only came with T pieces so i had to use some copper piping to act as a joiner
in order to get this far i had to strip the manifold down to this point
i would always recommend using the tissue paper in each port to stop debris dropping into the engine, sounds really silly but you would be surprise how many people dont bother.
first fit together revealed a leak on the joint with the copper pipe, so strip the plenum off and tighten the hose clips, second time round the car was run up to temp and there was no leakage, ran the car up to the fans kicking in and it all got nice and warm.
Finally decided that the black filler nozzel would stand out, decided that i would have a go at painting it, after a few coats of primer and about 5 coats of top coat it looks like this
all in all a fair weekend, will have to pick the manifold next week after welding, next wekend i will be looking at mounting the injectors and ECU a well as doing a first fit of the tank
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