House's ITB XE build and re-build
Fuel level sensor calibration today
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Tested with water but will call it fuel cos I’ll confuse myself otherwise, set the tank as level as possible as it would be in the car, got it to hold 38.5 litres of fuel.
Set the dash to display in litres remaining as this to me is more useful than a percentage, also as litres it also means that if the tank holds 41 litres when fuel it should display 41 and not 112% for example.
Here displaying 15 litres
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It’s also pretty accurate, during the drain down test it registered each 5 litre increment pretty well so I’m confident it’ll work.
Set the 0 on the dash with around 3-4 litres of fuel still available in the tank, with the alarm at 5 litres, I’ll have to be pretty dumb to run out!!
Here is a video of the last 6-7 litres of fuel coming out of the feed to pump fitting, this was done with no return feed and back to the pot and just gravity drawing the fuel out, very happy with both the flow rate and the level at which it runs dry
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Also spoke to Quaife and have ordered a gearbox oil cooler system to fit to the new box, not from Quaife, it’ll be one we make up ourselves, drawing oil from the drain plug and returning it to the redundant reverse sensor hole
Should be relatively easy to manage, nice little pump that will draw from up to 1.5m below the pump head, mocal oil to air cooler and a 200 micron in line filter.
Luckily the Quaife gear indicator also displays oil temp and can be set to alarm at a certain temp, say 95 degrees and I’ll just manually turn on the gear oil cooling at that point. The pump manufacture doesn’t recommend pumping oil below 60 degrees.
House's ITB XE build and re-build
Few little pics today from Ben
Wheel well is no more, it was bent and battered anyway so had to come out.
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Brake balance adjuster added to the back of the shift tower
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Also some bracing under the shift tower to stiffen things up a little
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In an idea shamelessly stolen from Craig, fuel pump pre filter, pump and post filter will be mounted in a box under the flat floor, with direct AN fittings in the side with the tank supply and feed to the fuel rail.
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House's ITB XE build and re-build
Few little updates from Ben this week
Cross member off
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Drop plates made
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Welded in place
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Nice chassis leg mod for the dry sump pump
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After a few words with Craig and hearing some issues he had with standard crank sensors, I spoke to SBD who relieved me of a few quid for this bottom pulley and crank sensor. Big thanks to Harvey for sorting the links out for me to just click and buy the alternator pulley from Brise.
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Also popped to see Nick (Totalnova) in the week and picked up a set of wheels, which I'll be using as wet tyre wheels
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