20th Feb 2016 – Repositioning the heater box
While we were looking at installing the wiper box motor, wiper mechanism and wheel boxes, we realised, not for the first time, that we had a problem. We had originally installed the heater [...]
6th April 2013 – Oil temp, coolant temp & Oil Pressure capillary pipes
Next job we decided to do was to connect up the oil temperature, coolant temperature and oil pressure gauges. This involved feeding the capillary pipes from the back of the gauges through the [...]
15th September 2012 – Heater demister vents
We've been having some supply problems with some parts over the last few weeks which has held us up a little. Even so we decided to get another day in on the build [...]
4th August 2012 – Heater matrix pipe fitted
We gave the heater matrix a good polish before we did the final fit with the silicon pipes. Mark had made the pipes back in May - read post here
27th July 2012 – Silicone water pipe arrived
We received all the water pipes and T-bolt clamps. A few week before we had used some old off cut pieces of pipe to make templates of the sizes and angles we required. [...]
8th June 2012 – Fitting the radiator fans
The radiator fans arrived from the supplier. We original spoke to Gerry about what to go for and he suggested getting twin 10 inch blow fan kit from Pacet that would sit at [...]
31st May 2012 – Making coolant and heater matrix pipes
Mark has been busy over the last week or so getting things welded and made. This included the coolant pipe to link the radiator to the header tank and also the heater matrix [...]
31st May 2012 – Water temp gauge & heater outlet union
We look at fitting the water temperature gauge and heater matrix pipes but before we could do this we needed to get some new unions in order to fit them. The problem we [...]
6th May 2012 – Mounting the header tank
As Mark had spent the time polishing it up we now thought about mounting the header tank into the engine bay. It sits in the space between engine and radiator and the chassis [...]
21th April 2012 – Polishing bits up
Mark had bought a new polishing set from the internet and decided to put it to work by polishing up the newly wielded throttle linkage bracket and header tank. They look amazing and [...]