After quite a few hours of installing electrical cables the front of the car is almost ready.. The only thing left is the wiring harness of the engine.
We just need to connect the dash and install some sensors before starting on the wiring harness of the engine.
There is a small light at the end of the tunnel…
Neadless to say that we are quite anxious to start and drive the car…
Before the Sadev gearbox could mate with the S14 engine we needed to install some oil pipes. A dash-4 supply and a dash-3 vent pipe were the only things needed. Just a bit of measuring an puzzling and we screwed the switchbox against the block. We also noticed that the factory made shift rod is 5cm short ! This will be customized inhouse by a new bended CRMb tube that does not touch the tunnel.
We had some other priorities and therefore the electrical part was a bit delayed.. After checking the engine wiring harness connector a million times we definitively put it in a mould and filled it with epoxy.
The greater part is done but we still need some hours to finish the electrical part of the project…
Dirk already spent some hours in the sauna to get adapted to high temperatures but not to raise the temperature needlessly in the cockpit we are going to insulate the fire wall and the drive train tunnel. Again we need our kindergarten skills to cut and paste. Luc is not able to help so Bert has been given this frustrating job. The engine bay has almost no straight panels and a lot of holes, brackets and other enoying things.
As previously mentioned we are going to use Jenvey ETA-2 throttle actuator. This small actuator does not use up a lot of space and that is very useful because there is not much room between the engine and the M3 fire wall.
Just in case our engine decides to start panting because of the hard work we mounted a nice alu can to collect the oil fumes. It is even obliged by the (inter)national rules.
We are still aiming to finish the car around 1080 kg but the home made brackets made out of 25CrMo4 are not going to help… In some case we even decided to go for an extra mm of thickness to make sure it would last (forever ?)
We collectes all the “naked” pieces and they are going to be powder coated next week.
The cooling circuit is almost finished. We were short of 1 90° angle but the rest fits nice. Some shots of the test version. If this works out fine we are going to order custom made water hoses.
