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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><br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
I also drilled the shoulder bolt holes in the rear hoop of my cage.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Monday, I start driving it to work daily to get the engine broken
in.<br>
<br>
Asa Jay<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
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On 8/24/2012 9:04 PM, Asa Jay Laughton wrote:
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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 <u><i>Outhouse</i></u>), no
showers, but luckily a standpipe with cool clear fresh water.<br>
<br>
It's all good, we've had our showers now that we're home. :)<br>
<br>
Back to the Pantera.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
DRAT!<br>
<br>
It's always something isn't it? heheheh<br>
Three options come readily to mind. (not to mention the dogbone
air cleaner which I honestly just don't like the looks of).<br>
Option 1, offset base plate for the air filter, also the least
expensive, and possibly can be sourced locally:<br>
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href="http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-85-3540/?rtype=10">http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-85-3540/?rtype=10</a><br>
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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:<br>
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href="http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-60-1470/?rtype=10">http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-60-1470/?rtype=10</a><br>
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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:<br>
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href="http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-66-1510/?rtype=10">http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-66-1510/?rtype=10</a><br>
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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. :)<br>
<br>
I think vacation is over.<br>
Asa Jay<br>
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& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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