Had a fun weekend working on the car. Didn’t get a ton done, but got closer. Installed the water temp sensor for Racepak. Got a new trans coolant line replaced and installed. Customized the bracket for the Racepak driveshaft sensor – so that part is getting closer to done. Lets talk about that:
With the collar mounted on the driveshaft and the bracket ready for install on the transmission, seems like we are really close. What’s left? Well, we need to find a way to attach the bracket to the tranny. I’m thinking hose clamps that have a rubber “insole” that is, lined with some rubber. This should give us the ability to tighten and have some “give”. Also – the customizing of the bracket was to Gorilla Glue a nut to the underside and give it enough height to be above the collar. So it sticks out far enough, and it is high enough to be within the limits of detecting the magnets go around on the collar. This is good. The next step is to find a safe place for the wiring. I’m thinking about putting a hole in the floorboard and on each side of it, putting wire tie mounts. this way, I can be sure to keep all my wires clear of moving parts and also not have any eye sores because we use the same hole on each side of the floorboard.
I have installed the racepak unit, given it power and a toggle switch to set. that toggle will get hit when I toggle the recording option on the tach. Different button, but an easy process to make sure both buttons get hit before i light the bulbs.
So what is left? Besides finishing the driveshaft sensor and finishing wiring up the front of the car racepak cabling, i will still need to figure out the EGT sensor install and the manifold air temp install. I am willing to take the car out with just the driveshaft sensor, tach, accelerometers and water temp setup. We can add the other pieces in the 6 weeks between races. I also need to replace the fuel regulators and then do some clean up on the car. I had intentions of installing a light inside the car because of how dark it is/was during eliminations. We’ll see if we get that far. Might not be necessary if we are going to be plugging into the racepak and therefore have a lit computer screen between rounds. We’ll see.