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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