Fuel level sensor calibration today
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
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
https://youtu.be/6AcGOAA3QIU
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.