The amount of work involved in this conversion is more than I anticipated -- but that's okay. Things doing in life are often more complicated and more difficult than we believe they are going to be going in.
1) Wiring Harness. This will either be hugely labor intensive....or I'll spend 150 bucks and have someone do it. Probably the later.
2) Size chassis -- I might have to cut the frame after all. I have a papier mache mold of my engine curing in the garage, which will be used to see if the motor, with all the trimmings except the exhaust, will fit. If it will be problematic to remove the engine in the future, I'll bite the bullet and modify the frame. It won't be two bad -- I'll have to remove two pieces of tubing and re-triangulate the spaceframe, probably with a removable piece.
3) Exhaust manifold: I'll mock one up with flexible tubing and have the fabrication farmed out to a specialist.
4) Fuel system: I need to fabricate a surge tank, replace all the fuel lines, retrofit the fuel cells to accept a return line, install 2 low pressure fuel pumps, 1 high pressure pump, and a regulator.
5) Cooling: This one's not so bad. Rubber was used in part of the system, that gets yanked and replaced with silicone. The rest will be aluminum tubing.
6) Pedals: This will require cutting away the old support, welding a new support in place, moving the brake pedal over 1.5 inches, cutting away part of the gas pedal, adding some metal to the gas pedal, and figuring out how to mount a foot operated clutch. Tight fit, I only have 8.5 inches.
7) Run new control cables: Clutch, Gas, Shifter.
8) Engine Mount: I need to figure this one out, still. I'll probably build something out of 1/4" steel plate.
9) Fab paddle shifter: Nothing fancy, this is aluminum plate.
10) Fab shifter cable-to-rod assembly: Need to find a reliable method to actuate the shifter rod.
11) Heat shielding and firewall upgrades: Don't want a fire. Don't want to get soaked in 200 degree oil. Don't want to burn to death in previously-200-degree-now-burning-oil.
12) Oil Pan Modification: I haven't decided whether I'm doing this, or farming it out. Either way, I've decided to go with a modified oil pan rather than a billet model.
13) Remote Oil Filter + cooler: Dan McMahan has definitely earned my business on this one. 125-ish bucks.
14) Modify engine bodywork to accept new profile.
Those are the major tasks I currently have. Actually, that's not too bad.
Some other stuff that must be done, outside of conversion work:
1) Repair cockpit sheet metal -- currently fractured, and hasn't been properly drilled or patched. Easy fix.
2) Replace bad lug studs in rear wheels -- they're stripped. Hopefully it's just the stud, and not a stripped out hole.
3) Strip paint and repaint frame (spot painting)
4) Repaint car.
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