Recent content by MarkB

Thanks Joel! Yea I'm glad I took the approach of driving it a bit (have 1900 miles on it prior to paint) just because it helped to expose pops, cracks, etc. and made it easier to fix minor things without having to worry about scratching it. For the windshield, when I installed it the edge of the...

As promised, here's the video on getting it ready for the paint shop and back together again:

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...

Thanks guys!

Finally have the car back together with paint! I'm cobbling together a video, but in the mean-time here are a few pics. Overall I'm very happy with how it turned out, particularly since I went with a 'track car' quality paint job (i.e. cheap -- under $5K). I went with paint rather than dip or...

You have to orient them so the bolts that mounts to the floor are underneath the seat. Unless someone else found a different way.

Same one I used

Thanks! Here are a couple pics of the steering shaft. It's just a 3/4 DD shaft mounted with spherical rod ends with clamps to prevent sliding. NRG makes a weld-on quick-release adapter. The turn signal bracket is just piece of 1/8 aluminum.

I ended up re-drilling the mount holes for the steering rack about .5" after I got the body/dash in and set the final seat position at the same time.

I just used expanding foam for those areas. Curious what others have done.

Hi all, A few spare parts for sale. Buyer pays shipping from Austin, TX. SLC parking brake kit. Removed from my SLC with about 1k miles. Includes mounting brackets/hardware for calipers and pads. Includes handle, but not the mounting bracket for the handle. Cables were cut for driver's left...

Hi everyone Doing some garage decluttering so I have a bunch of parts I no longer need. I'm located in Austin, TX. Everything listed buyer pays shipping. Alternatively I'll be driving up to Chicago in July to move my daugher in to an apartment so can haul things up there (particularly the...

I also decided to replace the fiberglass dash with a carbon fiber one after I didn't really like the prices/options of covering it (and I don't have the skill to do a satisfactory job myself). It's still the gloss epoxy from RCR's supplier -- I may do a matte clear-coat on it if the glare is...

Brake bleeder is fixed! Wow that was a pain in the butt. Helicoil, 90-degree countersink bit to re-grind the seat along with some valve grinding compound and a Q-tip on the drill for final polishing. Yes I was literally raised on a farm and my dad worked in a scrap yard, so you make it work with...

Several months ago I decided to upgrade my battery. I had a Deka ETX18L (340 CA, 20AH, 15.5lbs, $125) which actually worked just fine as long as I kept it on a battery tender when stored and shut off my battery switch whenever I parked it for more than a couple hours since the Infinitybox would...