Ken Roberts
Supporter
Beautiful car Mark. I love the look of the side mirrors mounted on the horizontal part of the doors or hood.
Thanks Joel!Looks fantastic Mark. Congrats!
Wondering how painting around the windshield went. Most builders have painted the body then installed the windshield.
I’m thinking to get the car on the road in Gelcoat to pass inspection and registration then do the same thing like you and have it painted afterward.
Any issues with painting around the windshield caulking?
20 Gals gas, no driver | ||||
Left | Right | Subtotal | F/R % | |
Front | 499 | 595 | 1094 | 40.1% |
Rear | 822 | 813 | 1635 | 59.9% |
Subtotal | 1321 | 1408 | ||
48.4% | 51.6% | |||
Total | 2729 | |||
Total without fuel | 2603 | |||
Cross FR+RL | 1417 | 51.9% | ||
Cross FL+RR | 1312 | 48.1% |
Mark:I'm curious if anyone else has run in to this issue: When turning moderately hard to the left with a full tank, I was having issues with fuel leaking at the flange. For the longest time I thought it was leaking at the large o-ring on the cap itself, but when I disassembled the filler to prep the car for paint, I realized that the problem was actually the thin factory rubber gasket that came with the Sparco filler. It was too thin to form a proper seal around the raised holes in the filler neck flange. I cut out a new one from cork gasket material. It's still hidden when installed and after driving around a few times since then it looks like that fixed the problem. You can see how thin the original gasket is compared with the new one below:
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Hey Hector, I had the cap/lever and flange powdercoated to go with my "want to be Batman, but not rich enough" theme.Mark:
Did you anodized the cap or did you buy it like that ? I love the black color. Also dumb question, could you use the gasket between the two metal pieces and so everything will be on the outside of the spider instead of sandwiching the fiberglass or that would be too thick and will not clear the rear clam? I hope I am making sense . I think the supplied gasket seals well between the two metal pieces but not 100% sure .
Hector
Great. Thank you, super helpful information.Hey Hector, I had the cap/lever and flange powdercoated to go with my "want to be Batman, but not rich enough" theme.
I do have it set up where everything is on the outside of the spider so the gasket is sandwiched between the cap flange and filler neck. The bolt holes on the cap flange are raised up a bit on mine -- not sure if the newer ones are. They are nearly as tall off the rest of the surface as my original gasket was thick. Mine is also from 2014 so possible the gasket dried out a bit over time.
Get used to it. That will happen every time!Took it to a exotic car event here in Austin today. Not my normal scene, but had a good time. The SLC got quite a bit of attention. I was getting a kick out of letting a few kids sit in it and at one point had a line of kids which included a few of their parents. It's still strange to me how the 911 parked behind me looks like an SUV next to the SLC.
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