Got my beer keg mounted, floor is cut..need to do a whole lot of patch work to make it weather tight. I started w/ the gauges and the shifter console, it's just a support frame and will be covered w/ alu sheets.

 

Looking good.

 

Looking good, keep us posted. Everyonce in a while it's good to see progress even if it's on somebody else's stuff. I also picked up a couple of ideas from you (although my keg is going to filled with beer Keep us posted.

Steve

 

What do you need a bear keg in the car for????
That will be a source of heat when it is filled with hot oil. Not to mention cutting down on luggage space.
Your cage what I can see looks good
Still have a long long way to go.

 

 

luggage space? come on...what's that? I don't intent to haul stuff in this car and the outside won't be that hot, I'll throw a blanket around it.

 

Looking good TT. What seats are you planning on using? Are you planning on an all business interior, no carpet, no insulation?

 

Thanks for posting this - I feel much better now about how long my project is taking.

Is the keg for a dry sump system? Where are you running the lines?

I see there is plenty of room in the new console now for the stereo system...

 

I'm probably going to use Kirkey Ultra Light seats, these stockers are for the birds. No insulation but I will use carpet, I think it looks ratty without carpet because the floor boards are ugly wrinkled from the stamping process and I don't feel like cutting it out and replacing with a clean bead rolled floor, way too much work.

Yes, it's a 5 gallon dry sump tan. The feed and return lines (both -16) will run under the console tucked away to the side.

The stereo system sits forward of the firewall )

 

A man after my own heart...

Shopping for a bead roller now

 

Not using the stock steering wheel are you? Sparco has a great line, but you probably already know that. They fit with almost no modification... unfortunately I've been severely sidetracked from something like the last 13 months and haven't installed mine...

-Chris

 

I don't like those modern steering wheels, I also have a grant one and it will be one of those, I want a classic style wheel, not some flashy looking gizmo that looks like it came out of TF&TF

 

I tried many different racing seats in my car and none seem to fit. The cage really screws things up. Most seats are 20 1/2 inches wide with flares near the shoulders. These flares hit the side bar. The 20 1/2 hit if you run a low bar. Alot are too tall and hit the roof.
I actually cut my stock seats down to 19 1/2 inches.

 

the kirkeys will fit, litevette has them also. It's really cramped in there with the cage but not too bad. Thee kirkeys are just thin sheet aluminium, the seats that I have (stockers) are just too big, not sideways but to the back and above the shoulders.

 

Marck are you finding things rusting in your new shop. I notice alot of surface rust on the tubing???
My floors are all heavy wooden with carpet over them so I am not bothered with rust the same as concrete floors that sweat.

 

The tubing has sat outside for quite a while and the fact that it was on a boat and sat on a sea side dock didn't help either, it's only surface rust...no biggie, I removed it from some pipes already and will clean all pipes before final welding. Nothing rusts inside the shop..it's all from "before" A little scotch brite easily takes off the rust, I cleaned up the "harness" bar a bit, it's clearly visible in the pics. The shop is really dry, in fact it's still dusty from the construction.

Here's some more stuff (the seats are in there for mockup purposes only)



some nice oil hoses running there


still not decided on this whole dashboard deal, I changed it again so the shifter plate angles up to a stock dash that I put in, I'm probably going to cut up the dash to use just the upper panel and the sides and then reshape the rest and have it covered in leather w/ aluminium inserts for the gauges.

 

I know those are only mock up seats but if you used a seat like that the belt should pass through the seat to hold the shoulder harness comfortably on the should and not constantly sliding down.
For those seats, if you ran them the way they are the rear bar is too low. The rear bar should be within 4 inches of the shoulder height.
It is possible with a low rear bar to rotate within the seat belt webbing until your face is touching your knees. It offers no restraint in an accident.

 

I know, if I were to use these seats I'd have cut 2 holes in them at top shoulder level to have the belts pass through. These belts tend to squeeze your neck when not routed through 2 seperate holes so seats without those are not an option.

If I sit in the seat the bar is pretty much in the right spot, it's not welded in so I can adjust it still. I'm aiming for 2" bvelow shoulder, I don't want it too low because then you run the risk of compressing your spine in an accident

 

that 5 gallon oil tank is overkill. You may want to put a smaller one in somewhere else. Do you really want 250 degree oil right behind your head......assuming you ever run hard enough to get it that hot.


why put uncomfortable racing seats in if you don't plan to track the car that much? You aint gonna like that while crusing the autobahn.

 

I will insulate it and there will be a wall around it, you won't be able to touch the tank at all. The pics are deceiving, the tank is not much higher than the seats so it won't restrict the view to the rear (not like you can see anything w/ the window tint anyway) so a large plate in the back will over the entire area and only the filler cap will stick out but it will be secured in place (lockwire) so it won't come off.

As for 5 gallon being overkill, you only fill these things 1/2 way so it's 2,5 gallons and only the bottom part of the tank will get hot, also I have a very large oil cooler so the oil won't be near 250F when it returns to the tank, most likely not even 150F. The tank is there for weight distribution, some race cars have it on the passenger side, others have it there in that same spot. Can't put it behind the axle because of the fuel cell, don't have room under the hood anywhere...this is where it goes and where it stays. I feel safer w/ 2,5 gallons of hot oil behind me than w/ a full tank of gas under your behind on a 57 3100 pick up.

As for the seats, how comfortable are the original ones then? They are really uncomfortable, too little support and I'm quite used to sitting in uncomfortable race seats (hard shell carbon go cart seats) and I don't have a problem with it, I don't care for comfort and the autobahn is smooth anyway. It's not like I'm going to be doing 100s of miles on single trips, certainly not w/ gas over 6.75$ a gallon here.

Uncomfortable is what it is, yes...no insulation anywhere, stiff suspension, uncomfortable seats, cramped roll cage...sounds good to me