Me n Ethyl

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Started on the remote water pump installation today. I am eliminating the tensioner on the passenger side and wonder if anyone might know of an aftermarket tensioner I can replace the fixed tensioner on the driver's side with?

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After, sorta

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Had a pretty good day today. Spent some time mocking up the remote water pump layout and trying to determine how to solve the tensioner issue.

For the layout, the battery goes to the trunk and we will mount the electric water pump on the frame rail where the battery tray was. The remote thermostat and filler neck will mount on a brace on the passenger side head. That lets me run all the hoses to the engine in from the passenger side and clears away any interference from the Power steering pump. The return from the pump goes into the radiator bottom mount while the return from the filler neck will be the longest run from the passenger side head mounted bracket back to the driver's side radiator fitting. All in all it will clean up nicely and keep the heat on the passenger side. Steve is going to mount the Moroso Power steering pump on the driver's side back near the master cylinder. At the end of the day we will have probably moved 50-60 lbs off the nost of the car to the trunk.

For the tensioner, the Whipple had an 8 rib tensioner for the serpentine belt. That tensioner was mounted on the front bracket and was used to achieve better belt wrap. It is already aligned with the accessory drive. We might have to trim the outer ribs off, it was a ten ribbed serpentine tensioner. Final bits coming from Moroso include the rear mount battery kit and cables and some black anodized fittings. We are just waiting for the tensioner spacer for the Cog tensioner now. Pictures is with everything mounted more or less except the cooling hoses.



Here is a view from a different angle. You can see the 10 rib Whipple Serpentine pulley. I am going to use that as a tensioner on the accessory belt. We are waiting on the fabrication of the spacer for the cog tensioner in the mock up it appears to not be stuck out enough..

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These are the finished shots of the new ball joints and bushings to include new struts with Lovell's 90/10s.

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Here is the final mock up with the mounting bracket for the remote thermostat in place. We may have to shim it all out a little more. Also instead of the NPT to 1.25 hose connection we will probably go with an 1" NPT to -12AN fitting.



Better view of the remote thermostat mounted.

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Got a little more done today. Began to test fit the -12AN fittings with the remote water pump. Have one issue I will heave to solve with the driver's side lower fitting. Solution may be to reroute the belt, the 90 degree -12AN swivel fittlng hits the belt on the traditional tension pully mount. Still waiting on 4 -12AN Fittings from Jegs. Also got the plugs for the back of the remote thermostat and the temperature sending unit opening.









One of the biggest projects was to weld the heat exchanger coolant reservoir to the XS Power battery tray. I think it looks pretty good and gives me a place to mount the tank flat and secure in the trunk. SNL is working with a new fabricator who does an excellent job.

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We intend to finish the battery wiring tomorrow, mount all the fittings for the water pump, and the coolant reservoior in the trunk. Wednesday we will hook up the hosing and have the final meeting with the machinist who is designing and building the tension pulley bracket. Hope to be tuning in a week or two. Really quality welding getting the PS reservoir bracket set up and notching the valve covers/welding in tabs so they won't slide and welding in the 90 degree fittings for the evac system.

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ton of work, good job.

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Thanks, quite a bit done today. Finalized the electrical system setup with the rear moutned battery. We should have that in in a couple of weeks. The welder finished most of the valve covers and the evac system. Also got the water pump bracket roughed in. Going to mount it along the passenger side frame rail where the battery came out using battery tray holes. Running the outlet down through the frame and bending it 90 degrees into the engine compartment.

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Fabulous day today. Got the bulk of the remote water pump fittings mounted. All that is left now is to resolve the heater issue and string the hose. I think the pump mount was pretty cool, drilled a hole in the frame and fed the -12AN swivel fitting through the frame. This way if the wheels somehow get up and we bounce hard, the water pump will have a backup brace to hold it and keep the unit out of the belts and hoses.









Bruce began the remote battery mounting. He has studied it for a while and decided to mount a Ford solenoid in the back instead of using the OEM solenoid with the starter. This will keep the wire to the starter from being hot all the time. It will only be hot when the ignitioin switch is turned on to start the car. He's going with breakers instead of fuses and got the rear grounding hooked up.

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Bruce finished wiring the battery, at least on the trunk side, connecting the Ford solenoid, the breaker switch, cutoff switch, grounding, and alternator wire. He ran the cabling to the front of the car through conduit.









We had to weld tabs on the bottom of the valve covers to prevent them from slipping off under pressure. Other than that they bolted right up after fabricating them to fit beneath the vacum on the driver's side