Progress had been slow since I last wrote in September but it’s all moving now.
New wiring looms were made for the front and rear compartments which are all connected with new blocks and into a modern fuse box which is now located inside, on a sliding tray, and accessed from below the glove compartment.
The battery is in the boot which helped make space for the oil catch tank and the huge acusump, both now fitted to the LHS inner wing on a bespoke bracket. Earlier ideas of fitting the acusump below the front crossmember were scrapped in fear of it getting damaged so whilst it’s a big piece of kit I’m happy with the chosen location.
I went for a bespoke radiator and Spal fan in the end, both of which are set at a slight forward angle to maximise space for the carb air box (yet to be fabricated) and the oil cooler now fits neatly low down and to one side.
The starter motor has been reconditioned and the alternator has been replaced by a high power Wosp unit from the Betaboyz shop. The distributor is standard, and was reconditioned recently, so although I had a think about modern programmable ignition systems I’m not following that path yet.
New Racetech gauges were supplied to GCRE for Oil P, Oil T and Water T; to match these, and to give a useful rpm display, I’m adding a Racetech Tacho plus new Speedo and Fuel to complete what will now be a custom dash. The capillary fed gauges will probably be on a panel where the radio was (for simplicity) while the others will be arranged with an appropriate lighting/caution panel where the original instrument panel was.
I’ll take and post some more photos in the next few days.
