This non standard equipment needed some brainstorming because we did not want the pump, radiator and filter to be damaged by flying objects.
Luc made some cardboard moulds before making the final (pump)support.
Since welding aluminum is piece of cake nowadays the support was ready in a trice.
We just needed to fold a protection plate and everything is safely tucked away.
We needed to develop a big radiator because we did not choose a traditional oil cooler but a Laminova heat exchanger (oil-water). This means we also cool our oil by means of the cooling water flowing through the radiator.
We bought a custom made “high efficiency” net and we needed to make the rest of the radiator ourselves. It is not finished yet but it only needs some final welding.
The building has started.
I’s been a while since we updated the site.
On thursday we got the beemer back from the carrossier.The car has been painted white as snow.
We are going to try to keep the site up to date the next coming days and Bart is going to modify the site layout.
Enjoy the pics !
TBC…
Since we needed to deliver the car at the paint shop on saturday morning some guys of the team did not sleep much on friday night.
Dirk (=handy man) does not like silicones at all (watch out ladies !) and therefore Ivo was prepared to make the BMW waterproof by filling all the holes and gaps with sticky silicone.
Because Ivo is not a real giant he fits very well in between the roll cage pipes but sometimes we heard a loud curse coming from the trunk…
Since the body work has come to an end we would like to thank all the bodyshoppers for all their “voluntary” work been done ! It is much appreciated !
After a few houndred/thousand hours of work the BMW has left the R-Box workshop to be delivered at “de Carrossier” to be painted in a nice white colour.
We needed to adjust the dashboard we bought to make it fit into the car and to be abe to mount the TFT’s . Luc (navigator) also gets a wide screen TFT in front of him and that part was missing.
It needs to be finished , polished and the final step is the “flocking”…
We are obliged to make a fire wall between the cockpit and the trunk because of the fuel tank and pumps in the trunk.
Luc – a former geometrician – likes to make wooden models before starting to cut in metal.
The result of his hard work is a very solid back wall and trunk cover made of aluminum.
We finally made it ! This week the body is going to be transported to “de Carrossier” to be painted.
Just some final polishing to do and the R-box garage will be dust free.
It is even beginning to look like a car…
Due to a last minute change in the PWR-BOX we needed to do some extra testing to validate the accuracy and repeatability of the current measurements.
We decided to measure the current in each channel at a non invasive manner by means of hall sensors
Now we just need to wait for the proto’s to arrive..
