Saturday 16 February 2013

N/S Side Panelling

Finally got back to doing some panelling.

Following the same approach as used for the O/S the N/S side panels have been aligned, clamped, measured and drilled:

The plan is to get some of the panels powder coated on the inside surfaces (at least), to match the chassis, and provide a consistent interior colour and finish for the passenger compartment. I'll see how this turns out.

Once the floor panels are powder coated I can get them fitted and sealed at which point the chassis can stay the right way up and I can fit a lot of the suspension, diff etc.

FSC delivered some more parts a while ago, the rear uprights (along some other smaller parts):

And the first FSC supplied Duratec exhaust manifold (although it may be missing a Lambda sensor mounting boss, I need to check whether the sensor mounts instead into the silencer...):

Friday 1 February 2013

Denso Alternator - auxiliary drive belt

To complete the auxiliary drive belt arrangement to drive the alternator a final pulley mounting was needed along with the ability to tension the drive belt. Rather than do the adjuster at the alternator itself (since it's low down on the engine and potentially hard to get to once in the Fury engine bay) the decision was to make the top pulley adjustable.

Since I'd done something almost identical on the Tiger, although not adjustable, and I had some aluminium billet left over decided to make up the pulley mount as follows:

Mocked up using an old auxiliary drive belt cut down and stapled together to establish the length: