Todays construction

Wired up the front end, EWP, Fan, Temp sensors etc. Found some hose! Fitted the fan and spent ages fiddling with it obviously had to bend the mouting stilts and brace the top of 1 stilt to stop waggle as its at an angle it'll just cut into the rad!


The little brace bar from the right slilt to the rad top took me a while to make... I spied the idea and started with a different bit of rod, bent it and it snapped! found some spring steel from a mountain/racing bike quick release wheel clip thing that will bend double and back without fracturing..cut it down and cut threads on it, then bent it etc...It also acts as a rear brace for the rad via the slilt....as its got a little pre-load in the alloy slilt when you fit the brace it makes a super rear support for both rad and fan! The rad is fixed in place very solidly! Also I could run the EWP wiring behind the rads lower lip now with 1 tiewrap - it hides some wire...

Have to make a rad shroud next, it'll be a work of art I assure you! just need to find some really thin alloy...It'll cover all the sides and top, left, right and it'll shape down to met the grill slot , ill need to work the opening sweep of the bonnet out and sort out a good seal from the grille via some means. Also make it a bit bigger than the current grille slot so i can enlarge the hole for more cooling if needed -without remaking the shroud!...

So....all the air from the front will be pressured through the rad...ALL the air...efficient? Also it'll only drag in cool air when the fans on...I was thinking completely sealed job. Need to get an oil cooler in first just need a rad and some hose's + fittings. That may effect the shroud design...the oil cooler will sit on the front member right behind the valance, the valance will have 3 holes drilled in it to get some air to it, also the holes can have some plates put over to adjust cooling etc...

Image one of those posh funnel like extractor fan shrouds that hang from the ceiling to a cooker and tapper out...

Want to ditch the kenlowe really, but it'll do for now... the stilts and mounting plates weight alot, so does its metal body...pacet lighter and better! When it breaks I'll get rid of it. Metro fans are good fit....and light...Atleast fit on this sized rad I think.

Horn sits here, single one, wiper motor inside cockpit...on the road you need one, I had not fitted one before bar for MOT! remember on several occasions wanting to give someone a blast!