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Post by PICTUP on Dec 1, 2019 10:56:06 GMT -8
But then I'd have to be living in her :-( Stan And what's wrong with that? Except for the winter and problems parking somewhere and showers and, well, okay, I see your point
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Post by owdlvr on Dec 3, 2019 10:01:31 GMT -8
Gah! I really need to get back in the shop. Maybe tonight...and then off to Big White Winter rally. Sigh. I worked out my 2020 Calendar last night...gonna be a long while before this car is finished
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Post by owdlvr on Dec 6, 2019 21:47:58 GMT -8
Started working on the seat options and driving position fitment for the car. I’m constantly flip-flopping between fixed back race seats, which will then require a cage and getting some street seats which will allow me to cage less and have a back seat. Just when I thought I had decided on a new set of Cobra Imola seats, my good friend Andrew reminded me I already have a scalpel car…and I should “go with a more adult solution”. He has a point…and also has a collection of cars, some with cages and race seats, so his advice was coming from experience. Funny enough, I gravitate toward the street 911 when I visit, not the caged flavour-of-the-month. Regardless of seat choice, I definitely decided that the stock seat mounts are coming out, and I’ll create a custom solution. The carpets were going to have to be custom anyways, so no big deal here. Why are the stock mounts coming out? I’d like to sit in the same position as the rally bug, with the possibility of having the seat an inch or so further back. With the height of the centre seat mount, I can’t get the seats down to the same level, so it’s gotta come out. As a bonus, we actually need those bits for the coupe Quattro project! As I don’t yet have master cylinders for the pedal box, I’m guessing a little on how it will need to be setup. The big issue is the Balance bar, which mounts at the end of the brake pedal. It’s obvious on this setup that its designed to be below the mounting surface of the pedal box, but how low? Without a balance bar to test with, I can’t be sure. I’m guessing I need about 1/2” to 1” space, and that creates a new issue. My size 12 feet hit the bottom of the fuel take bubble. I could sink the floor on the drivers side, but ugh…the whole underside of the pan has been finished with bedliner as it was originally planned for a stock car. Fortunately, I got a text message this week that a balance bar has been found at the team shop, and so I’ll know before Christmas what sort of clearance I need. The team has also found a collection of good, used, master cylinders…which should save me a boat load of money. The sizing isn’t exactly what I wanted, but we’ll see how they feel. Once the master cylinders and balance bar arrive, I can solve the pedal situation and figure out where I’m going with the floorpan. In the meantime, my house has decided it’s jealous of all the garage work, and guess who’d doing a bathroom renovation due to water leak!?! Wahoo!
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Post by magikbus on Dec 7, 2019 8:55:33 GMT -8
Whoopie, I love bathroom rennos, on this house alone, done two and am currently working on a laundry room renno. (sarcasm) They suck for many reasons, $$$$$, tight work spaces, several trips to the hardware store for plumbing supplies (per fixture), many many options for plumbing styles etc.. Ughhh Stan
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Post by owdlvr on Dec 7, 2019 17:48:08 GMT -8
Whoopie, I love bathroom rennos, on this house alone, done two and am currently working on a laundry room renno. (sarcasm) They suck for many reasons, $$$$$, tight work spaces, several trips to the hardware store for plumbing supplies (per fixture), many many options for plumbing styles etc.. Ughhh Stan Yup. And it hit me yesterday that water really likes to travel. The water that has damaged the downstairs bathroom may be coming from the Laundry room next door, or the bathroom upstairs. Won't know until I get home to find out. Currently enjoying the snow at Big White Winter Rally.
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Post by magikbus on Dec 7, 2019 19:09:01 GMT -8
Hope you're enjoying big white. My son's chalet is just a couple of minutes walk from the village center. Pubs should all be running full speed by now. In the summer it's nice and quiet. lots of hiking and geocaching and rennos on the chalet to keep me busy. Stan
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Post by owdlvr on Dec 25, 2019 17:13:45 GMT -8
Some say it isn't Christmas if you don't play with some toys... Vermont Sportscar sent me a mounting kit, along with my master cylinders and balance bar. The mount kit includes some nifty aluminum captive nuts, aluminum bolts, and the steel channels they welded into the floorpans of the rallycross cars. The whole setup means I can now figure out exactly what needs to be done to mount the pedal box into the car. So my thought, rather than sinking the floor by the inch or two I need, I’d rather trim the fuel tank hump and replace it with flat sheet. This will give me all the clearance I need, without lowering the floor at all. I was contemplating a custom fuel tank anyways, and I’m probably going to use a painless or similar wiring kit, which will then mate to the Subaru engine harness…so losing the fuse box mount shouldn’t matter. If I don’t mess with the drain channel, I can’t think of any other reasons why this would be a problem...(he says, knowing something will come up later.) Off to Christmas dinner. It was a short time playing with toys, but a good one! Hmmm…a Stack would work quite nicely…
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Post by PICTUP on Jan 1, 2020 21:25:33 GMT -8
Hmmm…a Stack would work quite nicely… Okay....I'm dumb....what's a Stack?
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Post by owdlvr on Jan 1, 2020 22:21:19 GMT -8
Long used by rallyists, the Stack dash puts a tach in front of you with a small digital screen for all the other gauge info your vehicle might have. I *think* the Stack was the first to actually do this for race cars, but I'm not totally sure on that. Might just be the first one I saw used in race cars commonly. Definitely predates the fully digital Motec-style screens.
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Post by magikbus on Jan 2, 2020 7:49:38 GMT -8
$$$$$ ? Stan
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Post by Volktales on Jan 2, 2020 8:40:47 GMT -8
Don should know all about things that are "stacked"
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Post by owdlvr on Jan 2, 2020 10:56:31 GMT -8
Well, Stack street units (which include a speedometer function) are about $2k CAD...
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Post by magikbus on Jan 2, 2020 11:44:27 GMT -8
Ouch. Stan
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Post by Volktales on Jan 2, 2020 18:54:37 GMT -8
Fact of life. Cool stuff is expensive... Free stuff is more fun, though...
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Post by magikbus on Jan 2, 2020 20:57:37 GMT -8
I'll keep my eye out next time I'm in the auto section of the thrift store. Stan
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