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I found something, I think. It's a sleeve meant for protecting wires. Abrasion resistant, flexible, 300+ degrees F high temp working range. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJ29G3H6?th=1

Gadzooks! I have never seen holes that big in brake rotors.

That may be what I do short term. Or bite the bullet and get the PTFE spiral wrap, ouch. I don't think I can use them because my hoses are: 1) pretty short runs, and; b) not parallel. I may try to jury rig something to see if I could make them work though.

The plumbing is almost finished, woohoo! In the process I have become a world-renowned expert in AN fittings and assembly techniques literally overnight! I also finally threw in the towel and pulled the Webers off. I would have saved some skin and had fewer coins in the curse jar had I done that sooner. Now my problem is that the hoses touch one another, which ain't good. I kind of assumed it was not a good idea and a bit of googling proved me right. My problem is, how to separate them. There is spiral hose wrap, but stuff that will properly stand up to underhood temps is pricey. There are hose separators, but they assume the hoses run in parallel which mine do not. If I could find some slim separators that had a floating connection between the clamps, I'd be a happy camper. Pic below is looking forward from roughly below the oil tank; the red rectangle is the area where the hoses touch. (The yellow tape will be coming off eventually. It was there as part of the assembly process.) Here's a better shot of the oil pump spaghetti monster. The compactness of the pump + the motor mount arcing through + the need for all the hoses to head in the same general direction made for tight-ish routing. I wish I could have come up with some way to put the filter forward of the pump, but I just didn't see any good way for that to happen.

Love all the yellow!

And a 3.90 diff for the Elan, and a couple of roll bars, and on and on it goes.

Thanks for the encouragement. To be honest I really enjoy the thinking/designing/fab stuff, although I must admit that I have some work to do the patience department. Yesterday I fetched the rest of the Elan bits home including this. I now have 3 of them!

A quick update on my abysmally slow progress getting the dry sump system sorted and installed. After a LOT of measuring, a LOT of arranging, a LOT of study of the Pegasus website, a LOT MORE measuring, and a couple of orders to Pegasus (and others), I believe I have all the bits needed to assemble the system. A lot of back-and-forth went into arranging the bits where I thought I could fit them, finding places to run the oil lines, realizing that the arrangement wouldn't work, and starting over again. I finally gave up trying to fit everything down the right side next to the engine, which required me to find a different catch can that I can mount on the front face of the cowl. That brings a handful of hoses out of the space under the carbs and allows the oil lines to bend gracefully -- I think. It's kind of cool, and very handy, that hose ends come in a variety of angles; I believe I may be using at least one of each! When I start assembling the oil lines I'll find out how well I estimated those bits. Here are some pics showing the oil filter temporarily hanging in its final location, then the oil tank sitting in behind it. The oil pump is jammed in there too, and all of the fittings and hose ends are in place to make sure there is clearance. The tank is sitting on a plate that used to hold the battery, which will also be going up on the shelf in front of the cowl. I reworked that plate today, drilling out the rivets so that I could reshape it on the bench. When I tried to re-install it I had an "educational experience, i.e. Se7ens are held together with 5/32" rivets, which are not stocked by any hardware store. McMaster-Carr to the rescue however that won't be for another day. Which is okay because I'm planning to fetch the 'spare' twincam engine that came with the Elan tomorrow, along with some other bits that are still at the former owner's garage.

I acquired this from a forum member a while back. It hangs in my garage now.

My 1995 S3 imperial solid (Ital) axle fits... where?

Dibs on the Webers!

Closure on this: The engine mount I have does indeed work with an engine-mounted dry sump oil pump. Just not one with the filter housing. Burton Power, once they responded, was extremely gracious. They handled return shipping and fully refunded the payment. I have full confidence in ordering from them again -- in fact I just did. I never heard back from Arch Motors but it's okay because I have what I need there.

Lovely car. I'm surprised it hasn't been snagged.

OMG are those carbon fiber nylocks?!?!

I had fun meeting everyone and watching the 7s romping on track -- once I found the right track that is!

I’m at lightning and all I see is super cars!?!

OCD FTW!

Apparently they're not buying crabs by the bushel either. My uncle hosts a family crab feast every year and told me that this year, between the time he ordered the crabs and the time he picked them up, the price had dropped 30%. Still tasted good, and they were really huge this year too.

I use 10% ethanol pump gas at the highest octane I can find. Haven't had a problem, knock wood. My car is a 1995 build but the engine is a 60's twincam. Nothing in the fuel system is 50 years old I guess.

Because it's possible that a piece of the electrode detached itself and is floating around in the combustion chamber. Or, hopefully, has been spit out the exhaust valve and is safely laying in an exhaust pipe somewhere...

Fuel cutting out or spark cutting out are the things that jump into my head. How sharply was it jerking? Sharper = greater likelihood of spark issues. (These are all WAGs, hard to diagnose over the ether...)

How much the wings help depends on how fast you’re going. They make slower speeds much nicer.

Caterham wind deflectors help -- a little bit. Some folks warm them up and bend them further outwards, which helps -- a little bit. They make the car more of a barn door than it already is also. I don't see where half doors are going to do much, at least in my case. What I mind in terms of wind buffeting is that it clobbers me in the side of the head. I have a brooklands screen that came with my car; I'm going to try that, with additional face/head protection of some sort. Plus the brooklands just looks like the bee's knees.

And it's a Monday holiday over there so we get to wait a while for clarification. Meanwhile I managed to remove the air suspension springs from the back of my Merc wagon in only 8 hours! Success!! I think. Man were they ever locked in place.

Well sh*t. Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t. I just found this out yesterday, immediately reached out to Burton Power but of course they're closed and they take days to respond in the best of times.