[TPR] ... and it's another Saturday in the history books.

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Today, I took the plunge of hacking up my perfectly good (well not 
-perfectly- good, but you get the idea) firewall cover.  Using the 
instructions provided by Jack DeRyke in the POCA newsletter, January 
2006 edition, I cut the bubble out of my firewall cover. <gasp>

Well, I -had- planned on keeping it in one piece for posterity, but 
being a bit cheap these days decided to go ahead and try for a 
two-piece.  If I ever want to have a one piece again... I'll buy one later.

It was -not- as easy as Jack made it out to be.  In my case, I had to 
remove the entire surround trim that goes up one side, across the top 
and down the other side.  There was no way for me to remove the vinyl at 
the top of the bubble without doing so.  -That- is a pain in the ass job.

Once I got that off, the rest went pretty easy.  I hope I got it cut in 
the right place, because it's a done deal now.  I've not tried it in the 
car yet; it's after quitting time for today.  I got the trim back on the 
main panel and tried to glue the vinyl wrapped on the backside.  
Tomorrow I'll wrap and glue the bubble, then try it all out for size.

I also drilled the shoulder bolt holes in the rear hoop of my cage.
I also picked up a 10" air cleaner from Napa, cheap, and will run it 
until I can get the proper sized/shaped one from K&N.  Oh, and with 
that, Shelley and I put the deck lid on too.

Monday, I start driving it to work daily to get the engine broken in.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
&  Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 8/24/2012 9:04 PM, Asa Jay Laughton wrote:
> Shelley, Sam and I just got back from a three day vacation in the 
> woods near the south end of Lake Coeur d' Alene, at Heyburn State 
> Park.  A small 12'x12' cabin, one room, bunk beds.  Out door flushless 
> toilet (read that as _/Outhouse/_), no showers, but luckily a 
> standpipe with cool clear fresh water.
>
> It's all good, we've had our showers now that we're home.  :)
>
> Back to the Pantera.
> It suddenly hit me sometime yesterday.  I can't put my deck lid on, 
> because the air cleaner is now too high.  It's not a matter of wanting 
> to put the engine screen on, no... it's a matter of the 14" air filter 
> sticks out past the deck lid line by about an inch and a half.  When I 
> had the stock manifold on it was no problem, the air filter fit tight 
> -under- the decklid.  Now with the aluminum dual-plane FPP-4145 plus a 
> half-inch spacer, the whole thing is too tall by about an inch.
>
> DRAT!
>
> It's always something isn't it?  heheheh
> Three options come readily to mind.  (not to mention the dogbone air 
> cleaner which I honestly just don't like the looks of).
> Option 1, offset base plate for the air filter, also the least 
> expensive, and possibly can be sourced locally:
> http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-85-3540/?rtype=10
>
> Option 2, Triangular K&N filter assembly, 14" diameter but we all know 
> how the geometry of a triangle works, right?  We'd simply point this 
> toward the window, leaving the flat edge parallel to and a half inch 
> or so from the leading edge of the deck lid:
> http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-60-1470/?rtype=10
>
> Option 3, an oval air cleaner, mount it sideways, valve cover to valve 
> cover.  I don't know this option has as much CFM capacity though:
> http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-66-1510/?rtype=10
>
> I'll be calling around Spokane tomorrow to see if I can source the 
> offset base; cheapest and easiest.  Then, I'll begin work on turning 
> my one-piece firewall cover into a two-piece firewall cover.  I have 
> no reason to believe that won't go well, so then the next item will be 
> to get the roll cage rear hoop in place, drill the holes for the 
> shoulder bolts (the stock attach point) and maybe bolt it in place.  I 
> say maybe because if I can get a friend to help fix the drivers side 
> hoop connection holes, maybe I'll take it all in for powder coating 
> and install the whole thing.  I also need to look at sourcing some 
> roll bar padding.  I guess I better start looking that up now.  :)
>
> I think vacation is over.
> Asa Jay
> -- 
> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
> &  Shelley Marie
> Spokane, WA
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