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09-22-2018, 10:27 PM
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Wiring is done. Nothing interesting, will take some pictures for documentation once the car cranks over and everything works.
Went to a track even in my friends S2000 and singed my left leg on his trans tunnel. The current shell didn't come with any OEM heatshields and I forgot to pull them from my old shell before it went to scrap. I sat on this problem for a few days and decided to do heat reflective tape. All it is is simply adhesive and fiberglass backed aluminum foil tape. Bare aluminum has incredibly low emissivity coefficient of about 0.07 whereas tarmac is about 0,96 (out of 1), should be great against radiant heat from tarmac and the fiberglass should lower any remaining heat transfer. Ain't pretty but she'll do.
What else, revision 2 crossmember is in. end plates are 0.25" thick with a 4.125" holes in the center where the tube passes through. Welded in on each side of the backing plate with .025 wire to get good penetration since my lincoln welder is only 110v. Will monitor welds for crack propagation, but I highly doubt anything will show.
Radiator is in for good, squeezed 2 gallons of coolant in.
Water temp probe is in. Adapter has a ground bolt on it and I just don't understand why. Why do you need to ground a coolant hose adapter?
Oil temp and pressure probes are in as well. The sandwich adapter is a very nice piece but it had horrid burrs on the inner diameter. I understand why, at this price point it's just not tangible to create a deburr operation on the interior of the part. I had difficulty chamfering it, but my hand chamfers look like a million bucks, and no one will ever know haha.
Here are burrs of the 4 ports at 8x magnification:
port 1
port 2
port 3
port 4
port 4 at 12x magnification
The aluminum was very soft when I was deburring it at the lab, it took every bit of the Zeiss Axio Imager microscope and fisher tools to get in there and create an even 45deg chamfer. With the flow being perpendicular to the burrs I would expect them to fatigue eventually and follow the oil path. I may just be too anal.
Wiring runs along the steering rack
Went to a track even in my friends S2000 and singed my left leg on his trans tunnel. The current shell didn't come with any OEM heatshields and I forgot to pull them from my old shell before it went to scrap. I sat on this problem for a few days and decided to do heat reflective tape. All it is is simply adhesive and fiberglass backed aluminum foil tape. Bare aluminum has incredibly low emissivity coefficient of about 0.07 whereas tarmac is about 0,96 (out of 1), should be great against radiant heat from tarmac and the fiberglass should lower any remaining heat transfer. Ain't pretty but she'll do.
What else, revision 2 crossmember is in. end plates are 0.25" thick with a 4.125" holes in the center where the tube passes through. Welded in on each side of the backing plate with .025 wire to get good penetration since my lincoln welder is only 110v. Will monitor welds for crack propagation, but I highly doubt anything will show.
Radiator is in for good, squeezed 2 gallons of coolant in.
Water temp probe is in. Adapter has a ground bolt on it and I just don't understand why. Why do you need to ground a coolant hose adapter?
Oil temp and pressure probes are in as well. The sandwich adapter is a very nice piece but it had horrid burrs on the inner diameter. I understand why, at this price point it's just not tangible to create a deburr operation on the interior of the part. I had difficulty chamfering it, but my hand chamfers look like a million bucks, and no one will ever know haha.
Here are burrs of the 4 ports at 8x magnification:
port 1
port 2
port 3
port 4
port 4 at 12x magnification
The aluminum was very soft when I was deburring it at the lab, it took every bit of the Zeiss Axio Imager microscope and fisher tools to get in there and create an even 45deg chamfer. With the flow being perpendicular to the burrs I would expect them to fatigue eventually and follow the oil path. I may just be too anal.
Wiring runs along the steering rack
09-24-2018, 04:12 AM
#22
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Pet peeve of mine, the sticker on the Mishi radiator caps never line up.
09-26-2018, 01:57 AM
#23
Since you're building it to be a dedicated track/race car, why not put a full cage in?
09-26-2018, 04:13 AM
#24
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I wonder why the pictures aren't showing.
I'm not planning on doing wheel to wheel racing anytime soon so caging it is not a priority at this point and would just lengthen this initial build. Car will go through multiple revisions undoubtedly, just need a solid baseline first. And yeah it may be driven to the track so street car or I might tow it if I'm not lazy, I don't know yet at this point
I'm not planning on doing wheel to wheel racing anytime soon so caging it is not a priority at this point and would just lengthen this initial build. Car will go through multiple revisions undoubtedly, just need a solid baseline first. And yeah it may be driven to the track so street car or I might tow it if I'm not lazy, I don't know yet at this point
09-26-2018, 11:55 AM
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