Cheers guys! - probably over 300hrs to get it where it is now, lots of time to do things properly.
Anyways over the past couple of weeks the following jobs have been sorted.
- Fuel pumps installed
- Twin relay setup for fuel system power
- CAS wires permanently run and heat shielded
- Neutral switch hooked up (confirmed working with ECU)
- Reverse switch hooked up
- Battery box bolted down
- Battery tray made
- Battery bracket attached
- Adjusted throttle body bypass so idle solenoid doing its job now, idle set at around 800rpm
- 1” sump spacer added, increased oil capacity by around 1L (around ~6L in total).
- Reconfigured turbo oil return, dash 12 90deg fitting directly into sump
- PITA coolant leak resolved
- Header tank fully installed (coolant taken from the two highest points of the cooling system and plumbed to lower radiator hose)
With the header tank installed I was able to idle the car for around 10 minutes with the engine holding steady 88deg (ECU coolant sensor). The twin 10” SPAL fans seem cool it down quickly, well so far.
Having the car running for 10 mins also gave me a chance to checkout how effective the exhaust lagging is, seems to be doing its job brilliantly. After 10 minutes idle I was able to hold my hand on the exhaust & exhaust housing bag wasn’t even hot to the touch.
So what’s next.
Shifter.
Have ordered a new factory shifter from the US, the short shifter I have installed now is rubbish. The shifter incorporates the reverse lockout (which is currently non existent) so I have no doubt that’ll require some ‘tweaking’ once that arrives.
Fuel.
I can’t decide if I should run this car on E85 / eflex or BP 98.
The entire fuel system has been specd for E85. SAEJ30 R9 fuel hose, plenty of injector (ID1000’s), twin 255l Walbro pumps, and decent reg (genuine SARD) but I can’t commit.
Closest eflex service station is 32km from home being a 64km roundtrip (plus 2 x tolls). Probably won’t drive the car there so it’ll be all jerry cans.
This is a massive pain in the arse, even if I don’t drive the car that often I can see this getting old quickly.
Where as my local BP (98 octane) is basically at the end of my street.
Decisions decisions.
