Follow-on chassis sub-projects

Posted by Craig Hendrickson On 2015/4/5 10:54:59

Cleaning...painting the chassis is pretty mundane, but it was only the first stage of a series of sub-projects on it. Following will be:

1) removal of the torsion bars and torque arms. The torsion bars need to be cleaned better and painted. The torque arm pivots need to be disassembled, cleaned and re-lubed.

2) The new fuel system will be plumbed. This will include a sumped fuel tank, an electric pusher pump at the back into 3/8IN feed line up to the front, a fuel pressure regulator next to the new high performance mechanical fuel pump and a 1/2IN return line back to the tank. This may seem like overkill, but it is not given the higher horsepower of the engine and the 115F temperature it may have to operate in during the Summer in Pahrump/Las Vegas.

3) New brake lines will be plumbed. Panther has 4-wheel disc brakes, so new flex brake lines were needed in any case. I will replace all the steel brake lines too.

More to come...

Craig