Build Day 10- New Toys and Cooling Hoses

Day 10- New Toys and Cooling Hoses 

Annoyingly we haven't had any time to do anything for a while and doesn't look great for the near future. However while at home I can still have a little fiddle so not a fully day today, just an hour while dad is at work, just to figure out what we are going to do next and to open a new toy which arrived this morning.

New Toys

Firstly unwrapping the trolley jack just to realise just how big it is...  

3 Ton, 98-535mm Trolley Jack, By SGS Engineering.

Now we "technically" are able to get the car off of the stands we have made...

Cooling Hoses

After playing around with the new Trolley Jack I went on to dry fit the cooling hoses, which, as usual was harder than planned due to the standard insufficient number of parts. However I was able to get one of the hoses into place and figure out where on of the others goes.

Bottom radiator hose passing along stearing rack.

Bottom radiator hose connecting to LHS of block.

Oil Breather pipe, has to be cut to fit to dry sump tank.

Having a look at the other three hoses it was clear that none of them were were going to fit. Pretty sure the 'J' hoses are heater hoses for connecting to the modine, which is useless for us as we have a dry sump system (Modine on wet sump engines only). Also the small 'L' hose is another oil breather pipe.

The other three hoses.

Supplied 'J' Hose ends are way too big to fit onto the end of the water outlets.

Went to offer up the throttle cable as it looked quite short to say the least, only to find it barely stretches the width of the car.

This is how I Believe the car should be plumbed, however if it changes don't be surprised as it'll be due to the confusing manual having detailed instructions for Duratec engines and a couple of sentences and a picture for the dry sump version. (Image styled heavily on Tom's on his Supersport R Blog)

So to sum up we'll have to send an email to Caterham to get the required heater hoses (orange and red), the water expansion hose (Purple) and to get the right throttle cable.