72 Club Racer Resto and Modernization
- Thread starter bdigel
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Beautiful!
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Baikallackierung
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This dude is a hard worker! Looks amazing.
After sitting in Harolds shop for decades the fuel cell needed some attention, also snice I am going to running the car with modern fuel injection a higher output fuel pump will be needed for the fuel system. A high output pump installed in a surge tank ( aka the black box) some new foam , fresh hoses and new wiring
I decided to basically rewire the entire car , One to make it easier to install the electronic fuel injection, and different pumps , electric fans , etc, I removed the 50 year old harness and installed a painless 8 circuit system , and made from scratch the stuff I needed , Made a center council to hold gauges and switch s for every thing including kill switch and starter button . made a panel to hold the electronics , ECU and relay , fuse bank
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the remints of the old harness extricated from the car . modern deutsch connectors built and some bulk head connecters making the harness modular if thing need to be removed for repair .
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bavaria
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Steven Landis AKA Turtle completed the rear suspension swap by fabricating some plates to hold the e28 style rear sway bar , then we built from scratch a strut tower brace out a nice cromo tube and rodends
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Baikallackierung
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I'm curious about the weight of the finished car. Any weights for E3 race ready cars out there?
I have not weighed the car and I don't know what it weighed when Harold ran it But as I get closer to completing the project I will post up what it weighs along with corner weights etc , Form previous experience I would guess with driver and fuel load its gonna weigh 2800 to 3k eventually I would like to find a composite hood and get rid of the glass
Speaking of weight one small weight reduction project I did was to remove the headlight buckets , which got rid of 10 / 15 pounds of the front end , I made aluminum plates that I fixed in the grills and applied decals I had made that make it look like there are still headlights
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The cage in the car was basic 6 point deal that lacked some features , and had some bars in places I didn't like . So the next step was to cut out the entire old cage and prep the car for a more modern cage that tied into some place to stiffen up the chassis a bit . Regretfully I started this undertaking when I was physically exhausted and knew better , I kept pushing and while cutting the last bar I lacked the strength and it swung around and broke the windshield ughhhh
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continuing with prep for the modern cage , and trying to reduce weight , I cut out any unnecessary metal , like the seat brackets , the parcel under the back seat, and to make it easy for the Cage builder to tie into the rear suspension I cut out the rear panel behind the back seat and trunk . Also ground down any tabs , old cage pieces , e brake brackets , etc Burned up a lot of grinding wheels !!
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'69 2800cs
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What are the rear wheels?
They are old Weds Bavaria with 10 inch wide barrels regretfully I'm struggling to get barrels that fit the front .
The fuel cell was mounted high up in the trunk and would be in the way of how we wanted to tie the cage into the diff mount , I cut out the old fuel cell mounting bars and the entire trunk . Just about ready to send the car to cage builder
