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Hector, I laid up a fiberglass shell on the lens, trimmed it on a bandsaw and cleaned up the edges a belt sander. Not pretty, but it will get the job done. If you look at the picture below, it appears to be a great fit. However, in that orientation the beams would be pointed into the road 10...

Hector, It's always nice when your need for a tool coincides with a sale! My stock plates didn't align perfectly, but I just needed to use a drift pin in one of the holes to pry the plate. Welding always warps things and a good welder will know how to minimize it. I don't see why that...

Jeff, the original hoop is structurally sound, it just resulted in large A-pillars and reduced visibility a bit. To my understanding, the newer version is just as sound but increases the size of the A-Pillars. Hector, make sure that any welding is performed by a pro -- preferably someone with...

Hector, I made the changes over a year before I posted, so it’s been a couple of years… I should have taken pictures. It's a two-person job. Here's what I recall. I removed the bolts from the front hoop plate and placed an inexpensive hydraulic ram that I purchased from Harbor Freight (see...

Kyle, Peter did all of the hard work. Hopefully I'll be able to get the motor controller I bought to work. Hector, funny that you ask. I've had one sitting on my bench for months. Your post prompted me to cover it with packing tape and wax it (a little sloppy, but good enough for a basic...

Jeff, Allan had mentioned to me that Superlite had changed the way that the front hoop was made and that the gap between the hoop and the body was even larger. That would increase the need for the mod and it might mean that the stretching approach won't work. If you compare my before picture...

Jeff, the hoop doesn't fit the body well which results in massive A-pillars. The link below has before and after pictures and explains how I approcahed the mod. S2's Build Thread | Page 23 | GT40s

That block looks a lot better the old tube approach that they used to have (maybe they still have it as an option) JP's approach will also work. I've seen people take the impeller out of the stock pump which maintains all of the hose locations and provides the option to keep the pulley for belt...

I’m going to use the door actuators pioneered by Peter and implemented many times by Allan and others. Allan has two videos (here and here) that describe what to purchase and how to do the installation. I made a couple of changes: PIVOTS The actuators are powerful and exert a lot of tension on...

Howard, a torch will work. However, standard Loctite needs at least 325F and the high temp stuff needs at least 500F. At 500 you’re almost half the melting point of aluminum and it’s hard to be precise with a torch. While I’m not worried about melting anything, I didn’t want to degrade the...

In the last post I removed the bellhousing to machine it so the next step was to reattach it to the transaxle. Should be easy right? Well I couldn’t get the Loctite residue off of the studs. I tried using acetone with a wire brush and a metal pick, but that didn’t do much. I tried brake cleaner...

Bob, To register in MA you will need to go through a salvage inspection with a State Trooper. You need receipts for the parts. Any part that came from a donor car must have the donor car's VIN on the receipt. If the part came from a race car without a VIN number I'd have that clearly marked on...

To stiffen the chassis I’m going to use four indexable links to make the bellhousing a stressed member that triangulates the fore billet chassis uprights. This is the same approach that I took with the aft billet chassis uprights as shown below. To accomplish this, four of the...

Howard, dual independent electrical drives might seem new to automotive, but it's common elsewhere. Many years ago some code to implement differential steering for tank treads driven by two independent electric motors. I developed the PID module from scratch... If you aren't familiar with...

My understanding is that RCR used to ship cars with tinted windows. Pnut has a set and he's indicated that there isn't much tint... and he's not sure that he'd want more tint for night driving. In any event, people complained that they scratched too easily so RCR switched to hard coat...

Crossing four of the exhaust primaries under the engine is only possible due to the low-profile Daily Engineering dry-sump pan. It includes a -10 AN adapter which replaces the stock oil filter. While it’s massively smaller than the stock unit, it was too close to the exhaust. In the picture...

According to the guy that Allan buys his Tillets from "The B8 is basically the B1 made in a cheaper way."

Dog-box transmissions are about rapid shifts with minimal pause in power production— the exact opposite of how what you’d expect from a synchronized box. That’s fun on the track, but it’s typically going to necessitate the use of a clutch that will be a nightmare on the street. The combination...

The HCF solution coverts a manual H-pattern to a paddle shift. It operates the clutch and mimicks the shifting motions that a human was intended to make. The ST6-M is sequential so all that’s needed is linear forward or rearward motion... nothing could be simpler. This can be done manually via...

Do you mean an Albins ST6-M?