Throttle connections

It's kind of hard to see in these photos (click on'em to see them bigger) , but more progress is happening. A new throttle cable is installed and attached to a sideways mounted, Jenvey racing throttle body. Each intake tube gets a fuel injector and the throttle body has a fifth one for an emergency get-home device.

The end of the throttle cable housing has to be securely secured, which was yet another problem for this installation. I wound up embedding a couple of Clickbond studs on the side of the carbon fiber oil sump and attached a bracket to hold the throttle. The photos aren't the greatest, but I'll get more when things move on a little.



You can see the fittings for the fuel injectors, along with the obligatory duct tape. Since the fuel will be pressurized at 42 psi, it's imperative that nothing leaks - so I'm spending a lot of time cogitating on the matter and searching for fuel proof duct tape.


Photo of the right side of the oil sump, showing the attached throttle and sump support brackets.


The goal is to fire up the engine started by the end of the month on January 2009.