As mentioned in the last post, we have been spending a month of Sundays re-doing some of the work we completed. After completing the placement of the battery disconnect and remote charging terminals in the trunk, my brother Larry had a what are you thinking moment and brought to light that we were installing open electrical connections right next to the fuel tank. If we were in a rear end accident, it could cause a ruptured fuel tank and a subsequent spark from the battery terminals - Ford Pinto in action (a famous engineering failure in the 1970's). So we are in the process of removing it and repositioning it in the engine compartment on the firewall. That leaves the fuel pump computer which we will mount away from the tank near the wheel well where it was at in the donor Lincoln Mark VIII.
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| The black box in the background is the fuel tank red and black posts are battery connections |
As you can see a real possibility, not sure how I missed this - glad Larry is paying attention. As we are building this car we are reading the many forum posts and build blogs. There are quite a few who put electronics and even the battery in the trunk. It's appealing because there is little room for it anywhere else on the car. They also don't want it taking away from the engine compartment wow factor. We will choose safety everytime over wow factor.
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