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PostPosted: August 17, 2014, 8:41 am 
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Looks great Jack. I had considered making a sliding canopy for my build but wanted a full cage.

Posting the drawings for others considering a sliding canopy.


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PostPosted: August 17, 2014, 9:39 am 
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I like that, MiataV8, though the "scrap metal block" needs a philosophical rethink (unless you have some scrap titanium blocks laying around). When I get home I'll dust off my Tony Bingelis library--I'll bet there's a lot of how-to info from the EAA bookshelf that would be relevant to us lightweight car guys.

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I'm not totally sold on the lots of little portholes look, although I'm sure it's quite functional, but the wrap around windshield combined with that canopy shape really complements the lines of the car!! :cheers:

Are the side windows planned to be removable or half-opening sliders?

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PostPosted: August 19, 2014, 7:15 am 
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For now it will be fixed ( aluminum pop rivets ). My biggest surprise was it doesn't feel any warmer with top on and I have lots of holes with hot engine air blowing into the cockpit.
83 MPG last fill up driving 55 to 65 mph .


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PostPosted: August 19, 2014, 12:44 pm 
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Driven5 wrote:
I'm not totally sold on the lots of little portholes look...
Though you gotta admit it's a cool look on SpaceShip1:
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...although I'm sure it's quite functional...
Very much so when at traffic lights (though fewer portholes would work too). I thought they'd be too small to be very useful but it's easy to move one's head around so there's a porthole in the right place.
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...but the wrap around windshield combined with that canopy shape really complements the lines of the car!!
I agree, and that'll be a homework assignment for me when I get home.

Also I found the tinted base on the windshield (it's a tinted top edge on the GMC pickup from whence it came, before being sectioned and flipped over) is pretty nice at toning down the glare off the hood of the car. I really enjoyed my visit, and my rides, and my time behind the wheel.


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PostPosted: August 21, 2014, 1:50 pm 
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Here's a video (brief--23 seconds) of tuft testing Jim's top. Somehow downloading this screwed up my channel and now none of my other aero test show up. Grr.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/ovNO5EL0xoc[/youtube]
Uh...how's that embedded youtube video thing supposed to work? Looks like I did it wrong.

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PostPosted: August 21, 2014, 2:59 pm 
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Hey, first, I'm sorry for coming late to this party and if you already fixed your problem. After that though, what about the weather stripping from a refrigerator? Put a ferrous lining, or double sided tape on a strip of magnetic sign material so that it can make the proper contact to seal?


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Front spindles and associated parts SOLD but there's more to the story.

Grr. I got a call from UPS telling me one of the two boxes was being returned and my claim was being denied...

What claim? I haven't made a claim?

It's automatic when a package has been damaged. The claim is being denied because the packaging was insufficient. You should have packed it in a box with a minimum burst strength of...

Wait, you don't need to tell me how to pack it. I had it packed by The UPS Store.

Oh. I wasn't aware of that. Can you hold please...

No I can't. I have to go. Please send me details by email.

So one of the two packages is coming back to me, and they know they lost some of it because it weighs less than it did when it logged into their system, and somebody back in Oregon will have to inventory it for me, and repack it, and I'll have to get replacement parts, and and and shipping it didn't save me nearly as much trouble as I'd hoped. I repeat: Grr.

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PostPosted: September 11, 2014, 8:11 pm 
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I did an alignment on my max-lola-lalo.
My rear end is a miata and about 3" wider than the front so when I eye balled the first alignment
I put 3/4" toe in unknowingly.
Now I know why my car pushed so hard & would back up a foot after pushing it forward.
I set it to zero.
Now it pushes easy,
The steering wheel doesn't want to jump out of my hand when I hit a bump.
It doesn't squeal going around corners.
But now if I don't leave it in gear it will roll away.


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PostPosted: September 14, 2014, 8:57 am 
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You probably gained 10 mpg hwy and better performance; a regular guzzler, not so much.

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82 MPG last tank full before alignment.
I don't think I will ever drive an entire tank at 55 or less.
Looking over that long sexy hood driving down a S turn expressway ramp has me channeling race car drivers of past.


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Dang.

Found out this week that, at least on paper, the State of Kentucky requires both a windshield and a wiper. The wiper can be hand-operated, but the wind screen has got to be of DOT laminate glass.

Was so hoping to get away w/ the motorcycle goggles....

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Dang.

Found out this week that, at least on paper, the State of Kentucky requires both a windshield and a wiper. The wiper can be hand-operated, but the wind screen has got to be of DOT laminate glass.

Was so hoping to get away w/ the motorcycle goggles....

Just scab something on that will fall off after inspection. Wink wink, nudge nudge. That was going to be my plan if anyone wanted to see bumpers on my car.
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PostPosted: June 28, 2015, 9:26 am 
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I guess it really depends on where you are in KY. LEX -LOU area might be a problem, but a town like, little old Hopkinsville never gave it a second look on my locost 4 years ago

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PostPosted: June 28, 2015, 9:28 am 
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Just saw that you were in Louisville. sorry

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