Recent content by steveklafeta

Great day.

I came to the same conclusion

I dialed my bellhousing in. The lateral numbers were in tolerance but the face was off. The tolerance is .002 in. I had to sand the paint off the block on one side because it was put on too think.

Nice start. Congrats!

Yes it’s tempered glass. You get 2 aluminum trim pieces for the window in the firewall from RCR. I brought one to a glass guy who cut a piece of tempered glass 1/2 inch bigger. Cost 50-60 bucks. I then used epoxy to glue it in on 1 side. I used foam strip on the opposite side to seal it in.

So I followed the recipe Tom used in his RCR 40 trackracer in make my the double firewall sandwich. I’m finally finished. And just to be true to my build, I had to take it out again and sand several areas back to fit the spider correctly. I missed one small detail. He brilliantly took a 1/4...

I paid 50% down payment then 50% when it was ready to be delivered. I live 2 hours from RCR and visited a couple of times. The place was filled with rolling chassis. While I was there a trailer dropped the fiberglass for 2 cars. Those are made in Canada and that seems to be the bottleneck...

Thank you. I will do that.

Just a local shop. It’s tempered. I brought the outline in and it cost $50

Wing nuts don’t fit between the petals. I’m using nylock nuts and the spring loaded deal in the front. I want to be able to move it but it will not be a quick endeavor.

I didn’t order the adjustable petals. Big oversight on my part. RCR didn’t have any but I found a similar part on a Volkswagen bug racing site for 1/2 the price. Needed a different top plate tho.

Oh Marty, I’m still relegated to 1 of the three stalls. But I have spilled over on all sides.

I used nutsert to attach the items to the back of the firewall.

I went down the rabbit hole with doubling the firewall sound and heat protection sandwich as detailed in Tom’s trackracer. It took him, a master, 14 hours. I have what seems like a lifetime into this and it’s not done. First I cut a mirror image out in sheet aluminum. Then glued some...

I really need to stop doing this to myself