We installed the petrol tank where you normally find the spare wheel. This ment that we had to find a solution to install the spare wheel somewhere else. We looked at a lot of options like the roof, on the rear bumper,the trunk,…but sometimes it looked a bit ridiculous or there was not enough room because of other components like a battery or petrol pumps..
We welded a smal rack that was mounted above the petrol tank The spare wheel now slides in the trunk in its rack and can be locked.
Because we don’t want to drill or weld after the paint job we’ve tried to mount as much as possible clips and other tools.
This took an awful lot of time and we run seriously behind on schedule because of this.
We hope to regain the lost time in building the car with these preparations.
Some pics…
The display controllers are being produced by GDM Electronics and meanwhile we tried to find the right positions for the units. Eventually we use 4 simular controllers and the only difference between them is the PCB assembly. For each display an extended temp 7inch TFT panel with touchscreen is used.
The gear box adapter has become a nice piece of craftmanship.
It took quite a lot of time and effort but we are very happy with the final result. Special thanks to Nick ( Pro-E guru and the students from the Sint Paulus Technical Highschool in Mol (led by Jorn and Peter) for the CNC work)
For the radiator we initially tried to find our salvation in something that exists but for 1 reason or another it turned out not to fit. Both the Mitsu and Subaru radiators are a few cm’s too big. The Sierra Cosworth radiator came closest in terms of width but is then a bit too low so that you also lose cooling capacity there.
We didn’t find a strut brace on the market that satisfied our needs. Therefore we decided to make one ourselves…
As mentioned before, we weren’t really blown away by the original Sadev shift mechanism. The shifter itself is okay, but the suspension bracket is not a high flyer in terms of design and aesthetics.
It took us some time to find the right place to mount the oil cooler for the gear box.
We didn’t want the cooler to be trepanned by little stones or other projectiles so we were thinking about placing it at the back of the seats.
Since we didn’t like the looks of the bottom of the Sadev gear lever we decided to adjust this. We also wanted to place the hand brake somewhere near the gear lever so the pilot didn’t need to buy longer arms.
We still needed to make the fixation points for the seat belts.
This is the result.
