The Birkin

The Birkin
The finished article

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Back end of the car

OK, some more details on the work done behind the driver.

It's pretty much all done now, with the fuel tank in, filler cap on, lights installed, fuel lines installed etc. It looks like this now:

The fuel lines are all EFI standard, as the fuel will be under some pretty high pressure through the system. I reckon I'll need about 4m of the stuff all up, and at $15 per metre it's another little expense to add to the spreadsheet ;-) I also installed a fuel filter from a BMW K-series motorcycle. Although when I went to buy it they tried to ask all sorts of questions about the bike, and they got a little concerned when I said it was going into a car...

I still need to get the charcoal canister - this takes the fuel vapour from the top of the tank and runs it through some carcoal to filter out most of the environmentally unacceptable bits before venting to the atmosphere. So there's one more line to run from the small silver thing on the right hand side to another canister which will go on the left.

What else - fuel filler cap is in, with the judicious use of the heat gun to get the pipe connecting the filler to the tank to bend. Bad bit of design, that.

I've also installed the rear lights - the number plate light, the two indicators / brake lights, and the reversing light (not shown). Took me ages to get them lined up, drilled all the holes, and I think the light on the right still isn't straight. Oh well, that can be fixed later. But it all definitely makes the back end of the car look, well, finished. I just have to put the rubber strips in between the rear guards and the body, and put the rear splitters on, and it's done. Oh, and move the reversing light so it doesn't stick out quite so far.

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