One of the tasks when in the Netherlands was the construction of the sump protection. Since carbon is ridiculous expensive, we selected a decent 6mm ALU plate. Because we are not equipped to bend and cut such material it was a job for Ger from HSP.
We know Ger delivers always perfect work and he is always concerned about the looks too. Some pictures, judge by yourself.
It’s getting more and more an endless discussion about the roof antennas , especially the one dressed as a huge ball. Luckily we found the perfect solution, or at least we think we did.
At least it looks like if you ask Cosmo one of our incredible lovely chats in the R-Box team. When the car was in the Netherlands it was the ideal time to continue writing code. So we made some important progress on this, although Cosmo did not look very impressed :-)
To encourage our self a bit we have split up the ready phase in 3 steps. Looking to the pictures I could say the external body trim is almost done. It took again the full Saturday but it starts to look as a car.
To check if our refuel procedure is dummy proof, we checked with our ICT guy and let him do a dry run. If computer nerds can do the job,… it must be foolproof :-)
As most of our parts have been installed once, mainly to check if they fit perfectly, there comes a time that you can stop puzzling and fix the parts for real.
Some electronics still needed to be done for the refuelling. We wanted to have a audio visual indication that the tank is 100% full. As usual when we don’t design a custom PCB we use a breadboard and pot it in epoxy to be resistant for vibrations, humidity, dirt, ….
Because we had some additional potting tasks, we sealed also some isolation “boxes”. We use this to have a galvanic isolation between 12V and our logic signals.
A few pictures from the internals of the fuel tank On the 2nd pic you can see we use an extra optical level sensor to detect completely full. We use 2 suction sides L and R to make sure we always transfer fuel even under heavy acceleration, braking or cornering.
By accident we discovered that an electrical kitchen knife is ideal to cut foam. After some last DIY actions finally we can close the top plate.
