Update time!
The job I've been dreading actually turned out to be pretty enjoyable, which is nice! I got off to a bit of a dodgy start as I had 10m of aluminium tube but no bends and couldn't find anyone to make me any, but was rescued by a little-known place who had a bin full of them in the correct size - apparently no good for F1 but just fine for me!
Started off with the most restricted bit around the shift lever. I'm going to have to trim a tiny bit of the bracket away to avoid rattles but it's actually not as bad as I feared!
I had to come up with a way of securing everything that still enabled me to slip insulation over the pipes, so made some little P-clip brackets
..Which then attached to some L-shaped brackets that bolt to the floor. There's room above the pipes to secure the brake, clutch, and fuel lines too.
This is how close everything is around the shifter..!
It all looks pretty nice. :up:
Then I moved on to the front end, routing from the shifter to the radiator. This was a bit fiddly as the hot pipe is below the cold, but on the rad the inlet is at the top, so the pipes needed to switch around somehow along the way.
I opted to do the cold side first..
Hot took a bit of fiddling to get right, but the pipes are parallel which is what I like to see
Then to finish off the middle bit I made a little pass-through for the engine bay firewall
And finally I routed from the firewall to the water pump and thermostat outlet
Frustratingly I need ONE MORE bend, as the thermostat housing is 28mm and points in the wrong direction, so I can't 100% finish it this week! I'm pretty happy with how it all came out though, and the nice thing is there's no impossible geometry so they can be CNC bent later if required.