Adam's furio - 16v - Page 12 - Saxperience

Saaamon · 25th April 2010, 15:36

How did you reinforce the floor etc where the fire extinguisher bolts too? Doesn't look all that secure in the pictures.

adamskiTNR · 25th April 2010, 18:02

I just used plate washers and riveted it to the shell, making sure the points were as near to the strengthening correlations as possible. That's all the regs require, so it'll definitely hold

adamskiTNR · 26th April 2010, 18:42

Ok, now just waiting on orders for completion of phase 1.
Allt he electrical its and p clips should be here by the end of the week, harnesses are being picked up on wednesday and the new ones being delivered in 21 days (hopefully) and the passenger seat has a date to arrive at tweeks on the 5th of may, so then another few days after that, thank god!!

adamskiTNR · 27th April 2010, 14:38

Just thought i'd upload a little bit of stuff for anyone that's interested. i have finished doing the cad designs of my front wing end plates for the formula renault at college.
The wing that they are on is the standard front wing element, not to my design.
This is the pic. The design guides air around and over the wheel to try and minimise turbulence of sending all the air flow around one area of the wheel. It uses an open tunnel area with the walls extending upwards to form the vertical plates.
Please feel free to comment and critisise (if you must lol)

And on the wing

Soon they are being made up in carbon fibre by the college. I will get some pics up when they are complete and on the car. Yay!!!

VJOFurio · 27th April 2010, 14:42

This is looking nice now Adam! Keep up the good work, some good bits of kit going into this car.

samueljonburgess · 27th April 2010, 15:35

CAD drawings are good mate

front wing/splitter?
EDIT: should defo of read what you put before commenting

adamskiTNR · 27th April 2010, 18:16

Thanks guys, and yeah sam, that would make one awesome splitter lol.

adamskiTNR · 27th April 2010, 21:16

Just new avatar pic, thought i'd just whack it up on the thread

adamskiTNR · 28th April 2010, 16:24

On another nice dollop of progress today. Sent my harnesses off to demon tweeks to be renewed and got my electrical delivery.
I finished wiring the kill switch. At the battery end i finally got rid of that stupid citroen terminal and joined the positive feed from the switch using ring terminals and bolted them together and then taping over to avoid shorts.

could then finish mounting the dash centre.

Just need to put the sticker on it when i get nearer the end.

And got all the extinguisher cables organised and secured.

I also finished painting the cage, but will get pics up when it's dry and i can remove all the masking

adamskiTNR · 28th April 2010, 18:24

Planning to be buying some cabling and toggle switches to make up some controls for the fan and fuel pump etc etc

hard_corejoeboy · 29th April 2010, 00:18

Good job mate good to see you been at it all by yourself. But please change them wheels!

adamskiTNR · 29th April 2010, 09:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by hard_corejoeboy

Good job mate good to see you been at it all by yourself. But please change them wheels!

Don't worry, i wasn't planning on keeping them lol.
I should be gettign some vtr alloys soon and i'm gonna refurb them black

adamskiTNR · 29th April 2010, 17:52

Just started refitting the fuel pipe. Got the hole drilled and removed my snorkel and then i started to bloody rain!!! grhhhhhh.
I might get some pics up tonight if the weather clears up

S8TTG · 29th April 2010, 18:35

Love the red cage in a silver car !

Killeybh · 29th April 2010, 19:07

good job m8

adamskiTNR · 29th April 2010, 21:00

Ok, i finally got the fuel line in today after college. The bulkhead grommet was a bitch but got there in the end.
I would upload pics but it's pissing down outside.

I did run into troubles though.
I got the line in, went to start her and nothing. The immobiliser light came on and i feared the worst. I then realised that the starter wasn't wired into my positive feed, so i got that sorted and that seemed to solve things. The light went away, the pump primed, and still nothing. A minute or so after this i noticed a nice below of smoke rising fro the dashboard!!!! I disconnected the battery and started hunting for the problem.
I discovered that the killswitch main battery feeds were reversed. This basically ment that the ignition was switched off and that the battery was feeding directly into the resistor. The tape surrounding this resistor on the loom had caught light and was what was causing the smoke.
Easy enough right? just switch them over? No!
The dash centre was riveted on so the only access was underneath through a small passage. This was bloody fiddly trying to undo, move and reconnect various wires in little space. Got there in the end though.
Now she lives at last!!!

raunchz · 29th April 2010, 21:09

Got there in the end!!

Looks great !!

Anymore plans interior wise?

adamskiTNR · 29th April 2010, 21:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by raunchz

Got there in the end!!

Looks great !!

Anymore plans interior wise?

Thanks,
I got a few things like fan and pump switches to get and wire up. Then get labels for them. Not much else. There's not a lot of interior to work with

adamskiTNR · 29th April 2010, 23:46

Dashed out in the rain to get a few pics

And thge resistor after i had removed all the damaged tape. No damage in sight so all is good

btw the burnt bit is just tape residue, not the resistor.

adamskiTNR · 30th April 2010, 18:14

Fully fitted my seat, which is where it will remain.
The car is now complete except the passenger seat and the harnesses which demon tweeks have been grovelling for forgiveness about on top of the seat issue