Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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Now Steve, you will have to educate me on what all that Snow Tank is all about. Is it another name for the water reservoir for the radiator? Yeah I'm a use to be blonde person.

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Now Steve, you will have to educate me on what all that Snow Tank is all about. Is it another name for the water reservoir for the radiator? Yeah I'm a use to be blonde person.

Hi Whip. its a Snow water injection kit, lots of info here Snow Performance : Gasoline but basically water injection enables the blower to make more boost without detonation therefore making more power


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Finally got around to dragging my tig bottle to the front of the house so finally welded in the pedal/master cylinder strengthening plate I had made a few days ago.








Once welded in some black epoxy was brushed on.








Next job was to cut a 1/8" ply firewall panel (forgot to take a pic) this was then covered in black carpet, the various electrical gizmo's we then reattached. The gizmo's were placed to be practicle and easily reached for any adjustments.
Top left is the digital MSD ignition box, top right is the Rebel Wiring fuseblock, bottom left is the Aeromotive digital fuel pump controller, bottom right is the Snow water injection controller.

The black carpet reall tidys it all up.










While sorting out the various wires I got to thinking where was I gonna put my indicator switch, I didnt want it on the column and couldn't hide it under the seat like I usually do, decided to take it apart and see if I could squeeze it into my switch box between my seats.








Once the casing was removed I found there was just enough space for it, Its tight but it goes in ok.











Wiring next

nicely done Steve.

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Originally Posted by stovens

nicely done Steve.

Cheers steve, it's getting closer

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I think I have the same turn signal switch waiting to go into the truck, though mine has a red tip, not green I believe(bought it several years ago so not sure!) I like the way you made ordinary into extrodinary.

Wow! You've really come a long way since page one when you started with a shell and a taxi chassis. And you're coming up on two years--not bad for a scratch built car. This has been a great thread. It's nice when you can see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Cheers!

Still been slogging away doing wiring, everything is in a slightly different place on my Willys as I can't reach the dashboard once strapped in so a fair bit of the wires in the Rebel kit needed extending, plus there were relays to add and a fair bit of extra wiring for the various pump controllers etc etc, plus of course with this being a glass car everything has to have its own earth, these were extended with modern thinwall cable as its easier to hide, its very useful stuff, not expensive and usually half the thickness of standard cable

I got the switch panel finished and in position, the mount is a 1.5" stainless 90 degree bend cut in half and rewelded 180 degrees in the other dircetion. base plate is 2mm stainless.










I know there are some that expressed an interest in the wiring so heres a tip, this is the rear light wiring connectors, the earth (white wire) has the female terminal and the tail light and brake/flasher has the male terminals, this stops them ever being connected wrongly.








A common problem on fiberglass cars and cars with a wood floor is getting cables through them with grommets, this is my solution, I holesaw the required size hole then use the offcuts from holesawing on other jobs, these are 2" x 16swg stainless, then I just redrill the correct size hole for the grommet and secure with 3 self tappers into the floor.










The cables get hidden behind panels where possible but the ones to my main switch panel have to travel under the carpet so are just stuck down with racers tape, once the carpet is in place they are undetectable due to the thinwall cable, I route them side by side.












Finished the wiring today and switched and tested all the circuits and everything works great, At last the car has a pulse []







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Isn't it great when it works first time.

Originally Posted by cffisher

Isn't it great when it works first time.

I didn't expect anything else Charlie


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Have you seen this one?

Originally Posted by cffisher

Have you seen this one?

Yeah it's a stunning piece of work

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Is that one yours Charlie? It's gorgeous!

No I could only wish It belongs to a Jim Hume's look him up on yahoo or google Very nice car all aluminum NO PAINT

Steve you have done some majic here and its been a great build to see so far . Keep up the plugging .