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    Purging air from remote oil filter and cooler

    So because of tight spaces in my Miura chassis and to optimize the hose routing in those tight spaces, I oriented the oil radiator with ports on the side. In on the bottom port and out on the top port with an oil thermostat being directly upstream/downstream of the oil radiator. So unlike...
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    Vapor lock challenge

    I suspect fuel boiling at the fuel pump impeller more than injector heat soak at this point. Maybe I'm wrong but relocating the fuel pump into the tank will tell me. This car is using a GM ECU (early 2000 Camero). I don't know if it is measuring injector impedance or not but I'm hoping the...
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    Purging air from remote oil filter and cooler

    I can only halfway answer that question at this point. The installation is complete but I have yet to do an oil fill and/or attempt an engine startup. As to installation, the MMR external cooler kit appears to have good quality parts and I didn't have any major issues with installation other...
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    Vapor lock challenge

    After having the engine stall from this issue, the engine would start fine after waiting about 20 to 30 minutes for the fuel to cool down. Until the fuel cooled, the engine wouldn't restart at all. I could tell by the sound of the fuel pump pre-start if fuel had cooled enough for restart or...
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    Detached Workshop Garage Design

    Thanks for the compliment! Not my intent to start envy but to share some ideas for things that can make out hobby more enjoyable. We are under going a major remodel on our primary residence. Part of the "grand plan" for the garage is to use it as a warehouse for our belongings while the house...
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    Detached Workshop Garage Design

    So my garage/workshop build is winding down (which is a good thing) but the last couple of things came in very large containers that required trailering in and a couple days of assembly time. I've been thinking about getting a 4 post hoist for a while and finally pulled the trigger on it...
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    Modern-day Miura

    Hmmm...interesting question. First off, it's driver/passenger safety I'd worry about, not inspection (because there isn't really a "safety" inspection from my experience with homebuilt cars). I'm guessing the pictures shown don't do a good job of showing the context so I took some...
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    Modern-day Miura

    Dash Console for Gauge Panel On the Miura, the center dash console housing the small gauges flows downward to seamlessly connect with the center console. As such, I need to make sure I keep this in mind and design in a way to interconnect the two while fabricating the dash console. My idea is...
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    Electric Water Pump How to.

    Thanks Howard. I think I have a good understanding of what's going on. I'm guessing a person who could back this up with actual quantitative analysis is likely busy in a day job in auto industry and not hanging out playing with their automotive toys. I dug up the Davies Craig Installation...
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    Electric Water Pump How to.

    Thanks for the information on "bypass thermostats" (it's helpful) but is somewhat of a different topic than the question posed in post #58 https://www.gt40s.com/threads/electric-water-pump-how-to.57366/post-588792 I think the question of how best to quickly get the coolant system up to target...
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    Electric Water Pump How to.

    Hmmm...all the recommendations I've seen for EWP use is to eliminate the Tstat and use a sensor based EWP controller. Certainly that's the recommendation from Davies Craig in their installation instructions. Does anyone know if the OEM cars that use an EWP do so without a Tstat? For example...
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    Modern-day Miura

    Test fit of gauge panel I bought a Mitler Bros. 2 1/16” two piece hole punch to make the holes for gauges in the panel. First is to drill a ½” hole centered where you want to larger hole, thread the bolt through the hole and use to bring the punch pieces together and make the larger hole...
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    Electric Water Pump How to.

    So I'll dabble back in the theoretical with this question (that is unless someone here has actual field experience with this scenario). The scenario is a mid-engine car with an "adequate" coolant system and then it's changed to go from an "inline" physical thermostat to a sensor/electronic...
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    Electric Water Pump How to.

    I guess the basic question to answer for this type combo tank is on a mid-engine street driven car (assuming a well designed coolant system), how often does boiling temperature coolant actually make it to the expansion tank? Especially when the expansion tank is mounted in the front of the...
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    Electric Water Pump How to.

    My thought on locating the expansion tank up front in this scenario is basically about simplicity. Making the feed from expansion tank to EWP intake a straight shot downward of about 18 inches instead of having it go horizontal for about 6 feet. I worry less about the "bleed line" feed from...
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