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

Sun Aug 26 05:24:23 PDT 2012

Way to go Asa, you're really cook'in with gas now!! BTW, I did Jack's two
piece conversion on my car a few years back & yea, it was a PIA project! If
you run into any problems with mounting the bubble back on to the engine
cover feel free to e-mail or give me a shout & I'll try & help if I can. In
the meanwhile, keep plugging away so you can be @ SSCC to keep Dawgy &
the boys out of trouble!! :o))

Rowdy

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:06 PM, B Hower <b.hower3400 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   Glad to here it is going well ------- I know you put in lots of effort
> and hours.
>
> Bud #3400
>
> --- On *Sat, 8/25/12, Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com>
> Subject: [TPR] ... and it's another Saturday in the history books.
> To: tpr at teampanteraracing.com
> Date: Saturday, August 25, 2012, 11:00 PM
>
>
>  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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