Finishing the Fuel system

Apologies the blog posts are few and far between at the moment. I have a number of things going on at the moment such as my MBA modules which I have to complete by November, a kitchen that still needs finishing and a major contract to do at work.

It doesn't help that I seem to have a number of ongoing tasks on the cob.

This weekend though I managed to finish up a few tasks so here's an update:

First up was to complete the fuel hose and fix the visit from Mr Cockup as Tommy would call it on his blog. After filling in the hole and re-shaping I used some bonnet rubber to make the hole IVA happy and made a separate smaller hole for the breather pipe.

After IVA I'll seal this properly with filler.

The blue think you can see in the picture to the right is a breather valve that has a ball bearing in it which closes the hole if the car rolls over preventing fuel escape, simply held in place with P-clips.

Next job was to fit the earth bar. I am running an earth cable to the engine after advice from the ECU manufacturer saying that most of the car electrical issues he deals with are poor earths on the engine.

This extra wire along with the earth from the loom, earth from the fuel cap and earth from the fuel sender meant a lot of wires in the boot that I didn't want to mess about attaching directly to the battery. Easy sorted with an 8mm bar 100mm long fitted through the chassis and bolted with a nyloc and normal nut on either side of the bodywork. This gives a good bar that all my earth connections can go to before being connected to the battery. You can just see the head of the bolt in the picture (left) to the left of the fuel hose.

My aim at the moment is to finish the back end of the car so next we move onto the boot locks and latches.