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Jake, While I am not building a RCR GT40 I am building a RCR SL-C which construction wise is quite similar. I am located on the other end of the turnpike in NW Ohio (Wauseon) if you would like to meet up and review my project and what it entails for comparison. I can share my timeline with...

Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Holiday surrounded by their friends and loved ones (in a Covid safe manner of course). May we all get the toys we requested for our current projects;)

Congrats, looking forward to following your upcoming build.

Kyle, It appears you are having the same idle surge issues I was having. The timing table I made (and you now have) helped a lot. Other than that it just needed to learn. Once you run it for a while, get it up to temp, and allow the fuel table to learn the surge will get better/go away. I...

Kyle, Certainly, but no guarantees on anything. I am certainly not a tuner and will probably have a professional tune done when I get her on the road. My current tune is derived from the wizard with a custom made timing and afr table, both of which are conservative. Mine did not run very...

Dan, Thank you for the tip, that is good to know. About 3/4s of the way thru my last can the bubbles did stop in the window and it was just a smooth flow of liquid refrigerant so I would say based on your knowledge I should be good!

Vacuumed down and charged the AC this morning. All is well, I have cold air coming out the vents about 35 degrees below ambient. My pressures are on the low side but it is also not very warm outside and was about 65 in my shop while I was working so I am sure that is affecting the high and low...

Hector, This is not a race. You are making great progress, keep up the good work. I am a slave to my schedule and am probably spending too much time on the car and not enough on the darling wife, she is starting to feel like a "project widow" and is letting me know as much. Do not make that...

Yay, my AC system held pressure overnight so I do not have any leaks after all. :) The problem was in the quick connect couplings on the gauge setup I am using that connect to the lines on the compressor. Either the Vintage Air connections are a little too loose or the o-rings are worn in the...

Alan, Thank you for the tip. I have a UV light and glasses to test that way if I do not find my leak by pressure testing. Good to know that the system will pressurize to compressor turn on temp with only a small amount of R134a added. How much R134a do these systems take? Vintage air states...

Hector, You may get a chance to catch up with me, I drew a vacuum down on my AC system last night to leak test prior to charging (I want to make sure I have no leaks before final body fitment). It pulled good vacuum but after about an hour it bled off. I must have a leak :-(. Tonight I...

Mark, This is exactly what I was considering to fix mine. Glad to know it worked for someone else. Thank you for sharing. It is scary sometimes to watch professional body men fitting steel panels on cars. The methods used are a little bit crude sometimes, very similar to your jack...

Hector, It would appear there is no rhyme or reason to how far this assembly is off from build to build. Just checked mine and the drivers side is 1/4” lower than the passenger side. Guess I have some extra work to do as well, just on the opposite side of yours. I should have checked earlier...

Dan, We have three officers who live in our neighborhood as well as the retired police chief. I was living life on the edge with my test drive thru the neighborhood for sure.

Kyle, I did not make these myself, I had one of our sheetmetal suppliers at work laser cut and bend them for me. The four pieces total came to $100. If you would like a set I would have to get a current quote from them and see what shipping would cost in order to give you a firm price...

Back in my motorcycle days I always had good luck with Novus products for cleaning and polishing scratches out of lexan motorcycle windscreens.

Today was go-kart time! My adrenaline is still pumping from the experience. All I can say is I made the right decision to build this thing. It is going to be more fun than I can handle! Below is a video of my first trip out. The quality is poor, it is just my phone mounted to the "dash" of...

Pierre, Yes, I had to recline the seats a lot with custom brackets. I am 6’ 2” and tall in the torso. It’s a good thing I made my pedals adjustable because now that I have my clutch adjusted I need the pedals closer to me.

Well it is not a first go-kart session but my SL-C moved under her own power today (all be it only a few feet back and forth in my shop). I finished up polishing the other day, mounted my seats, and did some temporary wiring of the ECU, fuel, and start switches. Today I went to adjust the...

Kyle, I used this from Pegasus Racing. It is definitely a very tight fit at the front of the engine.