Sloppy Mechanics

Water Supply

Well today we started to remove the stock reservoir for the heat exchanger and install a 5 gal fuel cell which Ice and water will be installed in to keep the blower cooler, because the stock reservoir and cooler get hot way to fast and don't cool down easily. Increasing the capacity of cold water in theory should work really well, people sell kits and whatnot of a more efficient exchanger and other junk we figured this would work good and be a hell of a lot cheaper. So we had to dig the cobra out of the snow at the shop and get her on the lift, then we just drilled out the holes and ran the lines. We then realized the line was too small to hookup to the factory pump, we got 1/2 inch hose and we needed 3/4. So we called A&A and asked if we could exchange it and pay the difference they were really cool about it and said sure. So we nabbed some 3/4 inch hose and got to work, disconnected the stock reservoir and removed it, pulled the line out we didn't need and reconnected everything. Filled the tank in the trunk and fired up the pump, we knew this would be the hard part because it has to prime it and get the air out difficult for the pump sometimes. After some squeezing of the hoses and letting air out, and Corey sucking on the hose and eventually swallowing a nice amount of antifreeze it was flowing fine. It actually pumps really well considering its such a small pump in the front of the car. Also while we were under zipping the lines up out of the way Corey had bought some nice rubberized undercoating stuff, which we sprayed everywhere we could hahaha.

Also after we cleaned off the cobra stuck in the snow, we needed to move the quads out of the way of the lift, so we fired them up and me and Tim ripped up some of the snow around the shop. That 700cc Kawi is really nasty. Now Monday we just need to make mounts for the tank in the trunk and make a drain and get a shutoff for the drain etc. Finish putting the harness in for the driver seat, and probably something else i am missing but will eventually get done. Here are the pics