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Check with Andy at Tornado. I believe he made some important upgrades to the rear suspension of the early cars. You would want to add these to your build as they strengthen things up.

I love all this great mpg and stories about the hybrids etc. However I think we many times are selling our old clunkers a little short. I have a 2000 VW Jetta that I bought used for $7000 US. It had 50000 miles on it. It now has 140000 miles on the clock. It returns 30 to 32 mpg on the hiway...

A terrific piece and a real eye opener for those who have an open mind.

Reggie if you are really interested and ready to get into a replica gt40 take a look under cars for sale. There is a beautiful gulf liveried GTD for sale at $65,000. A steal for that very well done car that is practically brand new.

According to the GT40 Illustrated Parts List there are 8 Guages. 2 fuel (one by the speedo and 1 at the drivers end of the dash), 1 oil pressure (next to the tacho), 1 water temp (other side of tacho), then the 1 oil temp, then the ammeter and last the speedo.

Bill, your car is turning into a show stopper! The color combo looks great and I think you are in for some serious fun.

I noticed in your pictures that your rear antiroll bar is a high mounted unit. !990 or 1991 GTD changed to a low mount unit. Again I would guess it is 1989 or 1990 - not later and not earlier because of the rear disc set up and the Lotus shift nob and center shift. Serial number will get the...

As it is a disc brake setup and has a center shift, I would quess it is a 1989 or later GTD.

Replica GT40s are usually very optimistic in the speed indicated. They alsotend to have a lot of needle jump due to the long cable. Do yourself a favor and look into the Speedhut offerings in GPS speedos Dead accurate regardless of tire size, no cable to break and easy to install. I installed...

Thank you Brett. The Poly kit is on its way from Burton Power. These parts are impossible to get in the US , as only the Mk 1 & 2 were ever imported here. The Cross Fire Mirrors are the single greatest change made to the GTD. I can drive on the public roads and have confidence in knowing what...

The rubber mountings used to hold the Steering Rack Assembly in place on my GTD need to be replaced. Can anyone help me in identifying them so I can buy replacement Rubber mounts?

Thanks Mike.

Still looking for some confirmation of the cooling passage issue on the 289.

I have been told that there are water passages in the heads of a 289 that do not have openings onto the earlier (1965-66) blocks. My understanding is that there is a template for locating the right position to drill these openings into the block and improve cooling. Anyone familiar with this...

I just drilled a small hole in the center of the defrost panel, fed the ant. wire thru, coiled up the excess and hung it on a frame piece under the dash. The antenna end just sets there on the defrost panel which is black like the ant. No problem. Mine just fits between a couple of bumps. If it...

When clicking on tthis guys link I get a big Synantic Warning - Malicious Web Sight.

Back in the day Ray (at GTD) experimented with an air gap, double pain bulkhead window. It seemed to help but took a special sub frame to mount.

She might have some inaccuracies in her comments , but she sure has the overall picture of what the mess over there is how we seem to be to stupid to end it one way or another!

Your pictures in post 9 show some serious electolisis going on.