Tinkering again..

[Vimmy]

In order to keep an eye on my ageing engine I installed an oil pressure sensor in the spare plug on top of cylinder 3. However I am now on sensor numebr 3 as the direct heat from the block is cooking the sensors and blowing them open-circuit.

I made a wee bracket from a spare bit of ally sheet I had lying around, gave it a few bends and a few holes and mounted it via one of the earthing studs on the intake manifold. The sensor came with a rubber backed metal bracket, so this is attached to the ally bracket and arranged so that the sensor sits in free air with no direct contact to anything hot and metal like.

I have a few piccies below to show my Heath Robinson'ness

Original install

Bracket attached to the manifold

Sensor attached to the bracket

Voila finished

There are a few more pics here of some dirty engine pron

Cheers,

Col

[stum450n]

Col, I've got to say mate, I absolutely love your technical yet straightforward approach to motoring! Im always wondering what you'll be tinkering with next!

Yet another cracking post mate, well done!

[Vimmy]

Hi Stu, thanks for the comments I'm a big fan of the KISS method, nothing fancy or blingy, just something easy to reproduce that costs little and uses modest tools Now if were talking about heatsoak and engine temps then I'm totally anal

Ive got a whole wraft of other stuff planned, it's just getting time to sit down plan and research it all. I'm looking at measuring both above and below bonnet pressures to look at getting more hot air out of the bay, DIY Manometer on its way

If it works as planned im looking to remove the front bonnet covers to and vent them properly and possibly aided by an extraction system using a kick ass 4 inch fan to reduce the pressure behind the radiator and suck it under the car, and then also fan extraction on the bigger bonnet vent. Too many things to do, not enough hours in the day. I've still to finish off the 4 way switchable air temp sensing system but this other stuff required doing before it gets done. I'm looking at shiftingthe radiator across about 2 inches to stop the FMIC up pipe hitting the fan blades and then rebuilding the fmic pipework as its hitting the bonnet....

Cheers,

Col