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#1 addled

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Posted 25 November 2014 - 04:23

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I'm building - slowly - a 1/12 scale model of the Lotus 49. It's more or less the setup driven by Hill in Players Gold Leaf livery in the Tasman Series and at Jamara in '68.  Without access to an actual car, my research is based on photos of 49s of various vintages and in various states that I could find on the web, plus some guidance from Michael Oliver for which I'm grateful.  Unfortunately those photos are mainly taken from the right side and there two gaps (probably more to follow) about the left side which I'd like to fill!

 

Gap 1: The 'plumbing' from the fuel line to the electric and mechanical pumps.  I've got some pictures from the web of the underside of a 49C and wondered if the plumbing of the 49, first half of '68, was basically the same.  If so, where did the fuel line begin on the underside.  The first two pictures are linked below.

 

http://s819.photobuc...ses49C.jpg.html

 

http://s819.photobuc...Cagain.jpg.html

 

Gap 2: The piping from the "oil overflow tank".  I'm not sure about the description/purpose of the lower tank in the third picture, linked below, marked with an arrow.  I don't have any pictures of, or information about, the plumbing on the other side of the tank.  I assume there was one or more 'exit pipes' and I don't know to what it/they are connected.

 

http://s819.photobuc...nsjpg.jpeg.html

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thank you

 

Mark



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#2 Garsted

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Posted 08 January 2015 - 19:54

It's going to be one heck of a detailed model!

 

I can't help with the fuel lines, but have a theory about the third picture.  If your query concerns the pipe welded into the tank under your arrowhead, then I think it goes to the oil level sight tube.  It looks like it goes forward from the weld, can be seen just under the kinked tube that locates the water radiator, then turns upwards where it connects with a clear plastic tube by means of a jubilee clip, mirroring what happens at the top, as can be more clearly seen.

 

Steve