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82-Rear bow below-You can see the gearbox issue I have here better.
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| 83-Closeup of gearbox problem- You can see from this shot the touching gearbox. For all that room in the engine bay, this is just a little too close for comfort.
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| 84-Gearbox in situ- Side shot.
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| 85-Above gearbox in situ-
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| 86-Gearbox above after clearence work-I solved the gearbox/body clearance issue by welding and then glassing in a curved bar to pull the body away a few mm.
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87-Gearbox bar work-Another angle on that bar to pull the body away and get gearbox clearance.
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| 88-Gearbox showing clearance-Here you get an idea of the curve I needed on the bar to get the clearance. It was hard bending that believe me. I need to work out more..
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| My BMW V12 Engine on a hoist. I spent the day steam cleaning it. I bought it off Ebay and have all the auxillaries (not mounted) as well as complete loom and ECU's)
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| My BMW V12 Engine on a Hoist- shot fron tne Dizzy side(this side will be against the firewall bulkhead)-again most Auxillaries are missing here
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| My BMW V12 Engine and Trolly- Due to its size and bulk (plus the fact I had only borrowed the hoist) I decided to make a trolly to wheel the engine around as needed. I welded up some 2"x1" box steel and added sections to mount trolly wheels. Works well and is very strong.
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Ancillaries and Brackets - I decided to take a break from bodywork and cleaned up some of the associated ancillaries and brackets for tghe engine. Most were dirty so a quick cycle in the dishwasher, followed by a sandblast did the trick. Here are just some of the pieces. At this stage I etch primered them all (seen above) before giving them all a coat with aluminium high temperature paint.
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| Another shot of the cleaning and prep of the engine parts. Here you can see from top moving clockwise- Oil Filter housing, Aircon pump mounting bracket, 2x brackets for the belt tensioners, thermostat cover, Alternator positioning brackets and water pump in the middle.
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| Naz's Drawing of the BMW oil cooling connections. I have sent the original 6" pipes off to be modfied as they need the ends cut off and these welded to new bespoke pipework.
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| BMW V12 oil cooler fitment. These endes needed cutting off as you cant seem to source them, and these were welded to new pipes for the oil cooler system.
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| I decided to overhall the Alternator while I was at it. Here it is all in pieces. Again I diswashered the aluminium parts and painted these. I cleaned up the core and terminals before reassembling the whole thing.
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Alternator- Here it is all cleaned, painted and reassembled.
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| I'm changing from my original plan of going with a Rover V8 to the BMW V12. Part of this on an injection system requires an output from the petrol tank through the fuel pump and a return. As the BMW has 2 flow and returns (one for each set of 6 cylinders- 2 fuel pumps and filters), my petrol tank needed modifying. Its aluminium so I got a specialist to weld on an extra flow/return nipple. They are different diameters, and not off the shelf so I had to manufacture them myself. Parallel do a slightly larger tank with 2, and I could have swapped, but this involved extra cost and the fill neck comes out of the top in keeping with the 6.0 or GT style filler cap setup. As I'm building an SV and wanted my Aerocap to remain on the side of the wing, it was easier to modify my existing arrangement.
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| For a while now I've not been happy with the arrangement for holding the radiators in place. On my chassis they are held simply by 2 small bolts on minimal thread via one side of the radiator. To me this is unacceptable and I can see in time a problem developing with this as it was. After visiting Stoneleigh 2006 I noticed Parallel have since started to modify this by adding a rod welded to one of the rails to pick up on one of the bolts on the other side of the radiator. I decided to copy this and also add a 2nd so all 4 possible bolt positions are used. Here is the lower fixing I designed. It picks up te lower offside mounting and uses the inside of the wing, through the rear bumper as a fixing, also adding support for the bumper :-)
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| Here is the lower mounting in situ, bolted and sprayed up. Coupled with the additional extra mounting, this makes for a very strong mounting with no play or chance of water leak/cracking. I did this on both sides of course. I may need to put a thin layer of insulation under the mounting at the bumper end if heat transferrance from the radiator becomes and issue, but I suspect it will be fine as is.
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| To complete the set up I welded a mounting to fix the top as well. The radiator is still totally removable.
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