[DeTomaso] Tinker-in-place?
Julian Kift
julian_kift at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 23 11:08:53 EDT 2020
John,
Although there are several tracks farther afield I'd really like the opportunity to run I haven't ventured east, it just becomes a logistics constraint around work and the required travel days. With an engine rebuild cycle of roughly 4 weekend events I also tend to cherry pick events. I am thinking to switch from predominately SCCA to vintage events and would definitely like to run COTA at some point.
Julian
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From: John Taphorn <johnftaphorn at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:15 PM
To: Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>
Cc: De Tomaso Forum <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>; Mike Drew <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Tinker-in-place?
Julian
I wish we were competing in the same events. Heading east for any tracks?
JT
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:25 AM Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com<mailto:julian_kift at hotmail.com>> wrote:
That's great, the challenge will be keeping it as a work bench and not
a storage shelf!
I spent a good potion of the day yesterday inserting a new fuel bladder
in the Formula car, no mean feat getting a 24" x 20' x 10" fuel bladder
into the carbon tub with an oval access panel of 8" x 10"!
To make matters worse the weight ballooned on the new bladder to 8lbs
from the 4.5 lbs of the old one. This made it a lot stiffer and more
difficult to scrunch up to get through that little hole with very
little room to move. But warming it close to the garage heater combined
with a dictionary's worth of cuss words and it it's in, I have the
bruises to prove it was a workout (or work over!) this morning!
This all started because I purchased a new AIM data logger and dash and
went to mount the data logger under seat with the fuel bladder and fire
bottle. I noticed it was a little sticky and turns out the old bladder
was hardened and cracked around the fill hole, leading to minor leaking
from fuel slosh (despite the foam fill) around the fill access. It was
dated 1997 so had served it's useful life, so a call to Fuel Safe
helped me lighten the weight of $2100 for the pleasure of making a new
one.
So I get back on the primary task of installing the new electronics
only to find that with the new cell and fire bottle there is just no
way to mount the data logger in the correct orientation/location
(internal 3 axis g sensor require specific orientation).
Today will be filled with fabricating an alternate location for the
data logger behind the switch panel, but now all the cables are the
wrong length so will have to be remade! Well at least I have time,
there's not likely to be race anytime soon....
Stay thirsty my friends,
Julian
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Subject: [DeTomaso] Tinker-in-place?
All,
With much of the nation on lockdown, we are faced with the prospect of
having all sorts of time to attend to long overdue projects. After 30
years of working on the floor of my garage like an animal, or outside
on a board stretched between sawhorses, I finally achieved a
long-standing dream and made this:
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I recently got a big box of steering rack bushings, and I have six or
seven Pantera steering racks needing an overhaul, so I will be getting
after them in the upcoming weeks and rebuilding them here.
What are the rest of you doing with your forced time at home?
Mike
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John,
Although there are several tracks farther afield I'd really like the
opportunity to run I haven't ventured east, it just becomes a logistics
constraint around work and the required travel days. With an engine
rebuild cycle of roughly 4 weekend events I also tend to cherry pick
events. I am thinking to switch from predominately SCCA to vintage
events and would definitely like to run COTA at some point.
Julian
__________________________________________________________________
From: John Taphorn <johnftaphorn at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:15 PM
To: Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>
Cc: De Tomaso Forum <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>; Mike Drew
<MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Tinker-in-place?
Julian
I wish we were competing in the same events. Heading east for any
tracks?
JT
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:25 AM Julian Kift
<[1]julian_kift at hotmail.com> wrote:
That's great, the challenge will be keeping it as a work bench
and not
a storage shelf!
I spent a good potion of the day yesterday inserting a new fuel
bladder
in the Formula car, no mean feat getting a 24" x 20' x 10" fuel
bladder
into the carbon tub with an oval access panel of 8" x 10"!
To make matters worse the weight ballooned on the new bladder to
8lbs
from the 4.5 lbs of the old one. This made it a lot stiffer and
more
difficult to scrunch up to get through that little hole with very
little room to move. But warming it close to the garage heater
combined
with a dictionary's worth of cuss words and it it's in, I have
the
bruises to prove it was a workout (or work over!) this morning!
This all started because I purchased a new AIM data logger and
dash and
went to mount the data logger under seat with the fuel bladder
and fire
bottle. I noticed it was a little sticky and turns out the old
bladder
was hardened and cracked around the fill hole, leading to minor
leaking
from fuel slosh (despite the foam fill) around the fill access.
It was
dated 1997 so had served it's useful life, so a call to Fuel Safe
helped me lighten the weight of $2100 for the pleasure of making
a new
one.
So I get back on the primary task of installing the new
electronics
only to find that with the new cell and fire bottle there is just
no
way to mount the data logger in the correct orientation/location
(internal 3 axis g sensor require specific orientation).
Today will be filled with fabricating an alternate location for
the
data logger behind the switch panel, but now all the cables are
the
wrong length so will have to be remade! Well at least I have
time,
there's not likely to be race anytime soon....
Stay thirsty my friends,
Julian
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Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2020 4:58 PM
To: De Tomaso Forum <[4]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
Subject: [DeTomaso] Tinker-in-place?
All,
With much of the nation on lockdown, we are faced with the
prospect of
having all sorts of time to attend to long overdue projects.
After 30
years of working on the floor of my garage like an animal, or
outside
on a board stretched between sawhorses, I finally achieved a
long-standing dream and made this:
[[5]cid:9a22147c-55a5-4d0b-b503-3e0798f3bc95 at namprd08.prod.outlook.c
om]
[[6]cid:b02ad44b-545d-4daa-aefe-88553236bf11 at namprd08.prod.outlook.c
om]
I recently got a big box of steering rack bushings, and I have
six or
seven Pantera steering racks needing an overhaul, so I will be
getting
after them in the upcoming weeks and rebuilding them here.
What are the rest of you doing with your forced time at home?
Mike
Sent from my iPad
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