Progress but with a couple of questions

[stephen low]

Brett

Thanks for the pics. A very practical location for the battery, and my first thought when the sparky mentioned it, but to my eyes it looks a little cluttered.

I'm going to run a std type battery in the boot for ease of replacement and of course less cost at the expense of having to fabricate a box and some loss of boot space.

But as it's going behind the LH wheel arch the useable space here is restricted. But I've made my boot space gains by keeping the tank below the fibreglass floor, so you win some and loose some.

Thanks all for the comments and the pics particularly.

Back to the oil sensor issue, Smithy's comment makes me think I've just automatically hooked up the cooler to the original diverter when the car had a filter hanging off the end. Since fitting into the cobra engine bay a second diverter was added that I just made the filter system. Clearly I need to swap the two and will try and do this.

But for my knowledge does the oil pickup not immediately send oil through the filter first, before feeding the oil passages?

If not then I assume it is oil draining back that is pushed through the filter and in this case then the cooler, so would it not matter if I had a sensor on the final return fitting post cooler and pre sump to measure oil temp just as it is reaching the sump?

Surely the temp post cooler wouldn't be far different over that in the sump, particularly given that the cooler is the major cooling function?

Please make comment, as this would be the easiest way for me to insert a point where the temp sensor can be mounted.

Cheers