{"id":264,"date":"2017-09-19T16:33:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/?p=264"},"modified":"2017-09-19T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:33:41","slug":"tunnel-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/2017\/09\/19\/tunnel-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another one that has been years in progress.\u00a0\"smiley\"<\/p>\n

The GT40 as a mid-engined car\u00a0runs the water pipes front to back, these run through the “tunnel” in the middle of the car… along with everything else!<\/p>\n

Now as everything there are trade offs with sizes but settled on 1.5in (OD) tubing but this is a bit of a squeeze. The limits of the tunnel are hard, defined by the “box” section in the chassis.<\/p>\n

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The biggest issue really being in the air-con lines. Everything fits but with normal barrier air-con hose things are *very* tight.<\/p>\n

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I really need to find either reduced diameter barrier hose *or* run hard-lines. I’m struggling to find anywhere that will make me some up in the UK (I’ve found plenty of places in Aus and the US, especially Florida for some reasons\u00a0\"wink\"\u00a0)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I decided I would cross that bridge when I came to it and cracked on with things. First off was to consider the sides, these were pretty easy. A simple “side”<\/p>\n

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Then with a folded piece on top.<\/p>\n

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Then\u00a0as foot room was tight I wanted as much as possible… Seeing as the first ~20mm of the “tunnel” would be wasted space I put the front end of the tunnel to the left as much as possible, running flush against the inside of the hard limit.<\/p>\n

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Still not a lot of room!<\/p>\n

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The other side, I made with a dividing wall, the wiring, clutch and brakes will run down this in an attempt to keep them cool and also to allow access. There is no “access” to the rest of the pipework, it could be replaced but would be slid through.<\/p>\n

That was way back in 2015. With the floor installed\u00a0I could finish it off.<\/p>\n

First issue was that I’d raised the handbrake up. So I cut down the top section, I still need a new bit for the front (it looks like it’s sorted here but the bit at the front is too short) as well as the sides. but the back half is sorted.<\/p>\n

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Then it was onto attaching it to the floor as well as sorting the bulkhead end. Long story short, here it is.<\/p>\n

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There are a *lot* of clecos hidden in here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another one that has been years in progress.\u00a0 The GT40 as a mid-engined car\u00a0runs the water pipes front to back, these run through the “tunnel” in the middle of the car… along with everything else! Now as everything there are trade offs with sizes but settled on 1.5in (OD) tubing but this is a bit … Continue reading Tunnel vision<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,13,3,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircon","category-brakes","category-electrics","category-gt40","category-interior","category-panels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}