Fury Spyder Duratec build

[Darkspeed]

Cheers Jeff,

Any advice on the lights before we resign ourself to looking for a lemans bonnet to borrow or blanking off the lights and fitting Caterham/Westfield pod lamps to the wings for the IVA ?

Andrew

[adithorp]

I think the classic bonnet is always borderline for the h/lamp height at IVA. I've seen reports of the bonnet being mounted so high there's a gep along the side between it and the sill and also one car where the builder replaced the lamps with brackets (figure 8 shaped) and fitted the lamps to them for the test; Looked like snails eyes on stalks!
It might be worth speaking to Steve at Fury cars as I believe he has a new bonnet shape in the pipeline.

[Darkspeed]

Thanks for the info,

There are no thoughts of changing from the classic bonnet - None of the others look quite as good in my opinion - its just looking at what options to try and get it through. We now have a clear view of what is required and where the measurement is taken from so its just how we get the the height to squeeze the bonnet through as is, or any other options to get the required height.

Andrew

[Jek]

One option might be to get a pair of extended top eyelet sections for your shocks made up by Protech. I think I recall speaking to a Fury owner who had a set of these made up to raise the ride height for touring.

Jek

[Waggytee]

One step forward, two steps back

Wiring now virtually complete from the back up to and including the dash. We were going to start on the headlight wiring however since lifting the bonnet (so the headlight height will 'hopefully' pass IVA) we've now had to cut the radiator mountings off and move up by an inch.

Can't imagine much (if anything) will get done tomorrow - Loton Park hillclimb and the F1 on telly

James.

[Darkspeed]

Another good couple of weekends have really broken the back of the work on the car.

Last weekend we got stuck into the exhaust and cobbled together a suitable connector to allow us to mate the manifold to the silencer and sort out suitable mounts and cut the holes in the bodywork to suit. Later on we will look at getting the exhaust modified for a better collector and a better approach to the silencer.

Main car electrics are almost completed now and having lights and the dash in makes things really look like its on the final stretch

Engine management through the Omex is the next job thats needs a few plugs and sockets sorting out and then its time to look for a base map to get a fire going.

A few more photo's are probably in order whilst we peoduce the snagging list.

Andrew

[Darkspeed]

Had a good day on the car yesterday - having this week off has proven a bit of a result weather wise

I got an old laptop loaded with the Omex Map 3000 software and plugged it into the ECU and bingo it came up with a MAP = BPJ- Dura - Result the engine is already fully mapped from the engine builder who the whole engine kit was purchased through.

There were a couple of plugs missing for the coil pack and the crank sensor but these have all been ordered through Simtek who do a superb range of connectors and parts for electricals.

The instruments are ETB and have the old type sensors and senders that are not exactly the easiest of things to get fitted to an all ECU run Duratec - for the water sensor there is a spare boss on the water junction where the coil pack mounts - I reduced this in height by 5mm and then drilled and tapped it 1/8 NPT for the ETB sensor. the Oil switch on the Duratech is M14x 1.5 or something similar - adaptors are available to change to 1/8 NPT so that the old type switches and multi fit adaptors.

Its all getting pretty close to a churn over and fire up day

Then its the IVA manual out again to go over the car with regard to sharp bits and those bloody headlights

Andrew

[jeffw]

Looking forward to seeing it with the bonnet closed. Looks like an excellent build

[Darkspeed]

Another long day today - where's the knackered smilie - especially after being up at 6.30 to watch the Moto GP only to see Rossi fall off after a couple of turns

Went for some retail therapy yesterday getting the final odds and ends - bought an Odessey 20 racing battery - can thoroughly recommend Manbat in Shrewsury for those. Final fasteners etc. from BML Hayley and some oil and antifreeze from CES - A trip up to Demon Tweeks for some adaptors and a battery holder.

Final wiring up of the injectors, crank sensor, fuel pump and we were ready to plug in the laptop and check the sensors all looked good after a few adjustments so after some initial churning to ensure that the oil was primed and circulating we went for a firing.

Nowt - - was not having it

Decided that as there was plenty of electricery flying about - due to mighty cracking sparks whilst doing the oil pressure cranking - so we would try just throw some fuel down the pipes to see if that was the issue - Ran straight away - fuel problem then

Disconnected the fuel rail connection - no fuel. Got the thinking head on and the fuel pressure regulator plumbing looked wrong - broke the union on the filter and loads of pressure - applied some logic and decided that the regulator was not correct so started replumbing it whilst getting on the net to confirm thoughts - Yep should not be where the O/B had plumbed it.

A quick change over as the light was failing - return to this another time to make right - a turn of the key and VROOOOMMMMMM - She lives - took a minute to get a stable (ish) RPM but she runs up - no cooling so had to go off pretty quickly.

We dont think that noise will be an issue as the exhaust is a nicely subdued tone.

Overall a good weekends work - some more lists of jobs made and some more parts to buy but all in all

Andrew

[jeffw]

Well done