If you can resist, do.agnoraan wrote:Hi Rog, if the header tank is mounted at the front, it's still below the level of the top hose. Unfortunately, the engine sits quite high in this car, so I still wouldn't know how much coolant is in the system, which I think was the problem for it over heating at Cranleigh. Mmm, wiring, I absolutely hate it with a vengeance, I can barely wire up a plug , and it's like listening to someone speaking martian when they tell me how to wire things up, my brain just switches off, it's the spawn of the Devil. At the moment the wiring runs along the top of the chassis rail on the n/s and is pretty inconspicuous, I don't know if I really want to go redoing that to be honest. It's never going to look original, this car is more of a very rough facsimile of a Cobra, so I think I'd best think about this one, but thanks for the heads up is it really worth doing this??Roger King wrote:Changing to the 'X' member would give you the opportunity to relocate your header tank, maybe. Then the stock Ford thermostat housing can connect up en route to the rad.
Don't how fussy you're getting, but you are obviously succumbing to 'the Cobra disease', so might the time to point out that your wiring loom coming to the front of the car to feed headlamps, ignition, fan thermostat etc. etc. should be fixed right under the bonnet shut along the top of the new aluminium showing in your last pic. It goes across behind the bonnet hinge and comes round to the R side for coil etc.
Nige
I got more and more tied up in getting closer and closer to an original, until it became clear that there was only one option. I'll tell you what that option costs if I ever finish adding it all up. Which I probably won't for all sorts of reasons.