We are working on our list of improvements one job at a time. Right now we are fabricating the mountings for the oil cooler . While doing this we wanted to plan how to quickly disconnect lines if by chance we lost and oil line or if the oil cooler failed. One of our plans is to carry in the car a by-pass line for an emergency. it is quite well known in the La Carrera to always expect the unexpected. Tom and I are able to do all of our own metal fabrication and I must say having to work with engineers every day at my job Tom is a top notch engineer. So far we have been able to figure out how to fabricate everything we have needed for the race car. Give us a good vise c-clamps some wood and angle iron and we can make it .
Here I am making the lower mount for the oil cooler. Below is the finished mount
We also made hinges for the hood this was done because a certain unnamed person (Tom) ran over the hood when we removed it to check things over outside of Puebla. At first when we got to Puebla Tom told everyone we hit a buzzard some people believed him. We still have a lot of laughs over this. I personally think Tom hates the hood because he put another ding in it so hinges were needed before he hit me in the head with the hood. We have always had fun working on the car and our friendship has gotten really close while doing this.
2 comments:
An emergency by-pass hose is exactly what you should have. This way if a hose or the cooler should have any issues (like lets say a donkey runs into it) either one is no problem to quickly repair.
I thought you said Tom was the old buzzard that hit the hood so in reality his story is sort of true isn't it?
By the way, when picking a screen for your oil cooler it's very important to get screen that is heavy enough and far enough away from the cooler, that rocks cannot damage it. On the other hand many times guys tend to get screen that has such small opens that it only takes a few bugs, butterflies, dragonflies or grass to plug it up. Instead of a wire screen get more of a grate type material.
The screen we have chosen has 1/4" openings the wire is 1/16" thick and it is stainless steel the cooler is a couple inches back. Tom is an old buzzard who tends to get quite gassey at times so I tend to have a cigar when we are working but not working to close to him. We really appreciate your input.
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