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I just bought a Factory Five GTM kit off of eBay. I guess I will get a first hand comparison of the handling of my RCR40 and a GTM. I either need to buy a new garage to go with the kit or I will be selling a nice Factory Five Cobra soon.

Have you worked out the issues with your shifter to get 5th and reverse?

The switch alone is about $100. I have bought two from Finishline. On the North kit you are paying another $100 for the aluminum bezel and the short column.

I just used automotive satin black paint. It looks pretty good. I need to get all the dust off of it to shoot some good pictures.

That is the detent that I was missing. I was still able to cycle through all the gears.

I routed both cables on the right side of the motor (looking forward). You need to be careful to put the cables where the AC compressor will not hit them. I routed it under the suspension cross brace. I attached it to the side of the frame with padded P shaped hose hangers and zip tied it to...

I had troubles with 5th and reverse as well. What I found is the bolt attaching the heim joint on the shift cable was stricking the transaxle case. You probably need to reverse the bolt so that the nut side is against the case and cut the bolt as short as it will go.

If it is as bad as you say call Factory Five. They would probably replace the bad panel.

I like it.

I just used a deep socket that was a close fit and then added some masking tape to make the fit even tighter. The splines cut into the tape and make it work pretty well.

Shelby was a great driver and an inspired car builder but he seams to have the leaden touch. Any gold he touches turns to lead. All his business ventures seem to end badly.

I just got back from the DMV. I now have tags and registration. I get to go for my first leagal drive tonight.

I used grommets cut into a C shape in each corner and U shaped trim along each length. Not very pretty but on the inside I covered it all with the carpeting.

I'll have to get my wife to play camera person.

That cage looks great. That had to take some time to put together.

I'm running on 016 not an 01E.

I got them from Fran.

Today was the big day. The car moved under its own power for the first time. It took a while to sort the shifter out. I could not get first gear. A bolt for attaching the shifter cable heim joint to the sector shaft was bottoming out against the transaxle before it got to the gate for first...

You don't. A replacement plug is about $6.

I bought one from Chassis works. It did require a little clearancing. They must have prototyped it on a transaxle with a different gear set than mine. I had to grind out about a quarter inch where it slipped over the gears. This was still way simpler than starting from scratch. I ended up...