Fuel Lines Installed

Fuel lines are installed and ready to go! Still lots of green tape on the fuel lines and hoses labeling where they go.

Carbon Fiber Update

Good news… I was talking to a local company who does carbon fiber fabrication about what I am wanting to do and they looked at what I was doing and they told me “Why would you want to pay me to do this, you can do it. It’s a lot easier than what you have already done!”

So they told me how to do it, what all to get and that Composites Canada is just around the corner from my work.

So I now have in my possession:
– 2 yards of 2 x 2 : 6Oz twill
– 1 gallon of Clear Epoxy Resin
– 1 spray adhesive for CF

Drivers Panel Sanding

I was able to spend a couple hours on the engine bay panels today. They’re pretty much where I need them to be for “smoothness” before I have them laminated with carbon fiber. You can see that I have drilled the holes and fastened the bolts in place where they connect to the car. The panel slides in and out beautifully!!

They’re all 80grit smooth now. I just have a bit of work to do near the inside/top of the strut and I also need to make the section that will reach down from the panel to the frame beside the valve covers.

Here are some shots of today’s work:

Various Updates

I now have the PS tank all ready for the -10 and -6 AN weld ons… and I also drilled a vent hole in the top of the PS tank cap so that it will let the pressure out as the fluid heats and cools.

I also picked up my last powder coated parts. PS bracket and the rad brackets:

Engine Panel Clean-up

I was able to clean the panel up a little bit. I finished a couple of coats/sanding of body filler and short strand for shaping.

There will still be some work to get it looking right. As well I will need to add a section on the bottom so that it comes down and meets the frame along the engine and provides a tab to bolt onto the frame.

I forgot just how messy and itchy body work was 😦

I also have one of these for both sides once I’m done

After looking how solid things are held in place and how the fender lip will hold the panel in place all along the drivers side edge, I think I’m going to cover up the bolts from the strut so that it is just one smooth piece across there with just the bump for the dampener adjuster.

So there will just be 3 bolts holding it in place along with the pressure of the fender all down the drivers side.

These will be the connection points for the bolts:

More Hoses

P&L power steering line came in…. Now I just need to get that -10AN fitting welded onto the power steering pump feed line and I can get the Power Steering pump re-installed and the lines run.

I also managed to get all of my braided fuel lines cut for the -AN fittings. Hopefully the fittings will be on and lines installed on the car this week.

Oh.. and my shiny spectre hose end.. another one is on order for the connection point on the motor and a few smaller ones for various coolant lines. I had to trim the fan shroud a bit to get it on there.

Fun with Fiberglass

As a quick FYI, I’m actually not going to glue the panels into the car.. they will be removable. The threads above the nuts for the struts actually stick up enough so I can put 3 new flange nuts to fasten it on the top. I’ll also be using a bolt on one of the threaded holes on the strut tower where the stock fuel filter used to be attached.

Then I’ll have it connected by the two fender bolts. One at the top of the fender near the wiper cowl, and one where the hood strut attaches. I’ve wrapped the fiberglass around on top of this area.

Then there will be one tab that reaches down to the threaded hole on the chassis down where the ground wire’s located near the rad.

This should give it lots of wiggle room as the chassis flexes. It actually floats above the battery tray and gives an area to hide items. the amount it floats is the same height that I will need on the passenger side so that I can tuck the harnesses and boost solenoid out of view.

The panel managed to pop out fairly easy.. I had to do a bit of trimming, but overall pretty good.  Now to do some smoothing, some fitting and re-enforcing

Is this a BBQ under my hood?

Hmm… what the heck is going on here?

Well there’s lots of tin foil.. maybe it’s a BBQ 🙂

 

Ohhh.. Now I see…. Here come those templates again with lots of holes drilled in them to make something stick!

First layer of Fiberglass cloth and Resin:

And now with a couple of layers of fiberglass matt and more resin:

Tomorrow morning I’ll pop it out and start smoothing it. Then it will be off for a layer of Carbon Fiber. Hopefully it pops out with very little persuasion!