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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

More AC, copiied from Kurbmeister again I went with stainless steel hardlines in the front and tunnel for the look and to save space in the tunnel. They were silver soldered. The lines in the cabin and engine bay are crimped tube. Wiring has been a fear of mine since the start of this...

The air conditioning from Vintage finally arrived. Getting these out of the way from under the dash is a real bitch. Not fun at all. I cut, reversed and epoxied the offending bumps to allow the evaporator to sit flush under the dash.

Here is my quarterly update. It’s not because I haven’t been putting in the time. My build has actually become obsessive. I’ll start where I left off. I used the alternator and bracket from CVF. It needed tons of modification. The teeth of the fan needed to be ground down and the helm...

Where did you buy the linkage for the transaxle?

Is the fan on the alternator absolutely necessary? My alternator fits pretty good without it. I know some shave it down. What are the cons for keeping it off? Thx