P100DHG Build Thread - Gen 3 Coupe #138

[P100DHG]

I can take credit for none of this except the part where the engine fits under the hood.

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[P100DHG]

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Merry Christmas!!!

[P100DHG]

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Picked up the chassis in Temecula, CA and took it down the street to get an alignment. This was just to get everything running straight down the road. One day when I take it to the track I’ll have a race shop do a full tune on the suspension.

Getting on to paint. If you’re following along you’ll know I do careful editing of my design ideas. Also my ideas are particular to my personal taste and specific to this car I’m building. So without further adieu the metallic blue I liked, I’ve ditched. After careful consideration I don’t want my car to look like someone sprayed glitter on it.* It’s a classic race car and it needs to feel like one. So a very extensive color development is underway. I’ve identified 2 solid dark blues I like and PPG is going to formulate them for me. One is an oddball and doesn’t exist in the automotive world and the other is a highly secretive Glasurit color which we have to reverse engineer (luckily I have a really good sample of it). But the cool part is since PPG will formulate the colors and it doesn’t exist in their catalog I get to name them according to PPG so that’s cool. As for what those colors are I am going to let PPG formulate them, do a spray out and then I’ll reveal them in a separate post and give you the background on how I found them.

Now all this seems very proprietary and it is according to PPG but if you’ve read the rest of this build thread I try to share as much as I can so I’ll post whatever I learn in case someone has to have it. I’m very excited about these colors, it’s going to be stunning. A very chic race car. I had not anticipated such an extensive process in picking the color but I think this will be well worth it and help this car separate itself further from the pack.

As for white I am looking for a cream color. Maybe Wimbledon White will be it but it seems very yellow to me at first glance. Cream color suggestions welcomed! So TBD on white.

* Let’s talk glitter! So first off, every car I own has either a pearl paint or metallic paint job. So I’m not disparaging metallic paints. I just don’t think it’s right on this car. When I say this car, I am saying my car. The silver powder coated panels inside have metallic to simulate that metal look so I’m not saying there isn’t a place for metallic colors on my car. I just want to be clear about this so I don’t offend anyone who mistakenly painted their car a metallic color. LOL I’m joking!!! Your metallic paint job is awesome just not right for the look of my car.

[P100DHG]

So rounding the corner here toward upholstery. So some details to share. I finally got around to mounting my pedal cover for the accelerator. I bought a pedal set for a Honda S2000 just used the accelerator pedal cover and mounted it with VHB tape to temporarily hold it in place while I secured it with 4 rivets. The pedal comes polished which doesn’t match the supplied finishes for the brake and clutch pedals so I hit it with some 2000 grit and wet sanded it. At perfect match. Got lucky.

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Well the seat belts are mounted in and I’ve got one seat installed. Might be getting close to the first road test. I did drive it with no seat in the parking lot of the alignment shop (held on to the roll bar for dear life) got going about 10-15 mph. Clutch is very easy I drove it up on the Uhaul trailer with ease and lots of control. It’s not an on off switch, it can be finessed.

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I applied Second Skin over the interior panels that will get leather for added insulation. Gives a good contrast of how things will likely look with leather. Lizard skin made the panels go from a tanging sound when tapped to a thud. Second Skin plus Lizard Skin has almost no thud at all. What does this mean? Probably nothing. I am sure the car will be so loud it won’t matter.

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I’m not going to lie I get nervous when it comes to finish work and honestly it’s my least favorite part so I’m hoping everything goes smoothly. As you can see the dash is installed hopefully for the last time and all the electrical is basically done and tested. Tentatively I have upholstery scheduled to begin January 9th so fingers crossed everything goes smoothly and I can meet that date.

[P100DHG]

Getting the hang of what a good movie should look like and shooting with a drone.

[Lancaster Lad]

Nice drone footage.
Where else but in Southern California on the 2nd or 3rd of January can you ride around
with no roof and short sleeve shirt.
Angeles Forest Highway?

[P100DHG]

Nice drone footage.
Where else but in Southern California on the 2nd or 3rd of January can you ride around
with no roof and short sleeve shirt.
Angeles Forest Highway?

That's a SOLID GUESS! Very close to there! I wouldn't be so brazen as to take it up Angeles Forest Highway. I would be too worried CHP would impound my car. I did it up above the Rose Bowl where I live. It's the road that connects Pasadena to La Canada up in the hills. Great stretch of road, nice and wide and I only ever see cyclists.

To get the drone footage on the last two videos I used a DJI Mavic 2. My original intention was to get some aerial footage of the car driving with the drone following me which the DJI can’t do at that speed. The drone I ordered that is capable of doing that, the Skydio came late and arrived Thursday and I filmed the car scene on Sunday so I didn't want to add one more element into it without prior practice with the new drone.

Just to add one other thing is I switched out the stupid latching relay for my high beams with something soooooo much better! I updated the original post but if you're using the Russ Thompson turn signal I encourage you to pair it with this relay if you want a latching circuit (meaning every time you press the button it either switches between two things i.e. high/low beams or turns something on and off. Standard Motor Products LR35 Relay . I am sending Russ the info and link so he's got it also. There is no socket that I could find for this relay so you're left with no socket or designing and 3D printing one, which I don't have the appetite to take on, work is crazy busy.

[P100DHG]

This should give you guys an idea of how close to home these amazing driving roads really are.

[Lancaster Lad]

Forest and Crest Highways are much busier than where you drive.
Since I am close to downtown Palmdale too dangerous to attempt Forest.
I bet the others on the road (if they are car nuts) must think it is an oversized Ariel Atom.
Is your flip down lid so the cameras will not know who is driving?

[Dave Tabor]

Love the stickers still on the tires.

[P100DHG]

Is your flip down lid so the cameras will not know who is driving?

No, it’s cause I was driving an open wheel car and didn’t want to get a rock in my face or pigeon poop. I had the Snell rated helmet from a BMW track day I did with my BMW F80 M3. I figured why not use it just in case something went wrong and the shield would keep rocks from hitting me in the eyes.

I know it doesn’t look it but I stayed on residential streets the whole time. Clocked 2.1 miles on the odometer round trip.

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Trip odometer shows 2.2 because the first 0.1 I clocked by spinning the rear wheels by hand with the car jacked up to make sure it would work before I road tested the car. And the odometer shows 4 miles because the first 2 miles came from the shop that built the speedometer for me (must of been done when they tested it).

[P100DHG]

I was able to strip this video from my upholstery guys Instagram. Very fitting time to show this as my car went to the upholstery shop this weekend.

More updates to come but I imagine it’s going to be slow from here as he’s estimating a solid week of work just to wrap the roll bars in leather and he’s got other customers too.

There is a ton of work so I made him a document to guide him which I’ll post here soon.

I think my car will be out for the next 10-12 weeks before the body and chassis meet again.

[P100DHG]

So my leather embossed horn button needs improvement. The embossing isn’t as deep as I would have hoped. That’s because the leather I am using was from my seats which are upholstered in arm chair leather and embossing upholstery leather doesn’t work so well. After doing some research I have to find the right leather.

But! Recently I saw what might be the most amazing restomod I’ve seen of any car. Totem Automobili took an Alpha Rameo GTV and did some insane stuff to it. I encourage you to look them up. Everything is literally custom made but what really made me think was their steering wheel emblem. Now they didn’t do a horn button but I’m intent on doing one. Worst case scenario it doesn’t work like I planned and I start over. But! What I decided was to try to custom CNC a horn button and I think I did a decent job with my little 3018 CNC machine I bought along side my 3D printer. It took 16 hours to mill not to mention about 100 hours of learning CAD, CNC software and learning about the different types of end mills.

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Once again the forum has turned my creations sideways for no apparent reason... for the right side up version try my Instagram.

Anyway I’m sure with better equipment I could do better but it should be good enough to send to the polishers, I’d like them to clean it up and then have it bead blasted and anodized and see if it will make the final cut on the car. I haven’t given up on the leather horn button either. So we will see.

[P100DHG]

The roll bar is starting to get wrapped. Everything is going slow but all of this is out of my league so nothing I can do to speed it up.

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You can tell by photo 2 that he foamed the roll bar slightly with special foam prior to wrapping it, though nothing is stitched together and there is a long way to go. Photo 3 I was matching the right color automotive leather to the upholstery leather I used for the seats. “Ferrari, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin” it’s beautiful stuff so soft just amazing looking.

I have been messing around just finishing off stuff. I polished the license plate bracket.

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And I started removing the milling marks on the horn button. So it’s ready for bead blasting.

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Great picture of how the interface looks on the computer. Easel (free web based design software) on the left and Candle (free CNC software to control the machine) on the right

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Time lapse can be found at the link below. I don’t think it’s YouTube worthy but fun to see how a hobby grade machine can turn out something.

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For now that’s all I got. Honestly I miss working on the car. I hope I’m not over sharing but the difference between good, great, excellent and incredible is all in the details.

[P100DHG]

I got to visit an amazing place last weekend with my son. 1042 Princeton Drive.

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We walked in the footsteps of legends. So amazing to have the history of this car so close to us.

Coupe is underway, paint samples have been made, the side pipes are getting polished and ceramic coated, roll bar is ready to be hand stitched and the new horn button is at the metal finishers.

[P100DHG]

Big news this week!

Body Work Update
Bodywork is well under way on my car. I popped into Jeff Miller’s place this week and was amazed to see the progress. His body guy told me that usually he just has to sand the seams and fill a little bit and they are fairly ready to go but mine required quite a bit of extra attention. Also, Jeff surprised me. We had originally talked about bonding the spoiler to the back of the car and using polished button head screws similar to those in my engine compartment to simulate the attachment; which is a look I quite like but he went a step further and grafted the spoiler into the body which is a look I love.

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Paint Development Done
So I waited to reveal this before it was completely settled because I really wanted to make 100% sure I was going to love what I chose. Just to recap for those joining the party now, I agonized over metallic colors before I decided to dump all metallic colors and I went for a solid color which in hindsight was a much harder to figure out. I wanted a dark dark blue not black but a deep midnight blue, a dark blue that didn’t read purple, but as dark as I could get it without distorting the color. I wanted a blue that would be dark blue in the sun and flop black.

I first considered Ferrari - Pozzi Blue but decided against it because I was worried about picking a color without actually seeing it in person, but it was a step in the right direction. I started looking at literally everything for the right color not just cars but literally anything blue, and it came down to two colors, Bentley - Pacific Blue and wait for it Essie - After School Boy Blazer Blue. Never heard of it? Bentley Pacific Blue is made by Glasurit and is some sort of closely guarded secret apparently but we reverse engineered it as I was able to get a hold of a color book from a Bentley dealer. As for Essie After School Boy Blazer... well ask your wives or girlfriends about that color cause it’s actually nail polish.

We formulated both and once again Jeff surprised me and did some awesome large spray outs on scrap fiberglass and when we both saw them in the sun it was unanimous that After School Boy Blazer Blue was the clear winner. The Bentley color just had a touch of purple in it that we couldn’t overlook. As for the After School Boy Blazer Blue it doesn’t read purple, it doesn’t read too blue entering into the royal blues, it’s an amazing, amazing color and the guys who formulated it at PPG knocked it clear out of the park with an exact match.

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So After School Boy Blazer it is! But what about the stripes and the rest of the white elements? Well I looked at a ton of whites, many were too white, too silver, too pink, too muddy, too gray but a clear winner stood out in my mind and frankly I didn’t have too look far (even though I did for good measure ) because it’s a color we know well Wimbledon White.

But actually I kind of revealed all of this in post #214 in the reflection of the polished license plate bracket as an Easter Egg

Upholstery
Lastly, the upholstery is coming along. The roll bar is almost done being wrapped, the upholstery shop is moaning about how much work has gone into it. They told me he’s been at it for 4 days already. By my estimate he likely has another couple days on it. Then we are going to have to figure out the other elements. My upholstery guy has strong design opinions so it’s interesting how we are collaborating. So far, so good and clearly we are coming up with good stuff.

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Design Thoughts
Though the color scheme blue on white isn’t so different I think this particular blue against a creamy white, with a beautiful brown leather interior and silver metal accents both matte and polished and discretely placed wood accents will be like a finely tailored power suit. It’s going to command a presence. It’s going to convey a classy, vintage, gentleman’s race car. And though many of you will probably be lapping me on the track at least when you pass me you’ll turn your head just to get one more glance.

Unrelated But Important
This week I got one of the most rewarding and absolutely fabulous opportunities that I will cherish for the rest of my life. I think we can all agree, COVID is something that has taken something from all of us in some way, our freedoms, maybe one’s livelihood, for some their health and for others their lives or loved ones lives. It’s been a tragic and negative part of daily life but I got to experience hope, community, human decency and participated in a common mission to rid us of this terrible disease. I volunteered at a COVID vaccine drive thru clinic and the mood was one of hope, one of elation to see us getting past this awful situation. It was also amazing because I saw more people in the first 3 hours than I had seen in 300 days. It was incredible to have that human connection. I encourage anyone who is healthy, willing and able, to find a way to make a difference in their community and I promise the feeling you’ll get for volunteering will be AMAZING.

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[TheMole]

That rear spoiler grafting is the way to go! The more I see it the more "kit-car" the rivets appear to me...Can't wait to see you finish this!!

[P100DHG]

Roll Bar Done:

We decided to do the harness bar which is the only thing remaining. My upholstery guy is encouraging me to let him make me a pair of custom seatbelts to match. We’ll see what happens. Finding the right color 3” webbing will be hard. But two options if we decided to proceed and can’t find brown webbing. 1 is to get a Braum harness in white and die it and another is to get silver/grey harness off the shelf and remove the manufactures patches to avoid the branding (I would do that with either option) and have silver belts to match the metal.

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Paint Samples:

In the shade it looks black and in full sun it’s a deep blue to very dark blue and really has some depth depending on the how the sun hits it, which is what you get from metallics but this color is able to do it without.

Shade:
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Sun:
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[jdm65]

Wow, the leather wrapped rollbar looks fantastic! Love that

[P100DHG]

That rear spoiler grafting is the way to go! The more I see it the more "kit-car" the rivets appear to me...Can't wait to see you finish this!!

I totally agree, I actually can't believe I didn't ask Jeff to do it, so it was a fantastic surprise. On that same level of detail, I was there yesterday, I brought Jeff the rear vent mesh. We are copying Alphamacaroon's idea to install the rear mesh by leaving tabs on the mesh and slots in the body. Found here https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/show...l=1#post440014 an awesome, awesome touch that elevates the quality, so big thanks to Alphamacaroon for the great idea!

Wow, the leather wrapped rollbar looks fantastic! Love that

Thank you! I love it, I can't wait to see the pieces of the upholstery come together, I'm so excited and I feel so lucky to work with such talented professionals that can pull that type of stuff off.

At this point I feel like you guys just watching the whole thing come together, I'm along for the ride and just get to enjoy the process.

[P100DHG]

This week's update is short but a good one. Things are clearly looking different and better now.

Horn Button:
My horn button is back from bead blasting and I think it came out great. Not bad for a newbie. Now to figure out the finish I want to use on it. (Why must it rotate my photos!?!? Face Palm. LOL)

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Body:
The body is in primer and the hood is being body worked.

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[Fman]

Nice work and vision for a custom one of a kind build, that rollbar looks so well done.

Looking forward to seeing your car finished.

[B Campbell]

What a great build thread. I`m just at the ordering stage of my Gen 3 Coupe and new to the forum. reading though some of the Gen 3 builds I have gained a lot of good information from those of you that are currently in a build or are on the other side and enjoying all of your hard work. hope to be able to contribute to the forum when My build gets started.

[B Campbell]

I know right where this is. I used to live in South Pasadena and would bike ride all around the Rose bowl area.

[P100DHG]

Nice work and vision for a custom one of a kind build, that rollbar looks so well done.

Looking forward to seeing your car finished.

Thank you! I love your roadster what a fantastic car you’ve built with such amazing attention to detail. So many roadsters have been done it’s hard to set one apart like you have. I appreciate your kind words.

What a great build thread. I`m just at the ordering stage of my Gen 3 Coupe and new to the forum. reading though some of the Gen 3 builds I have gained a lot of good information from those of you that are currently in a build or are on the other side and enjoying all of your hard work. hope to be able to contribute to the forum when My build gets started.

I’m glad you’re enjoying it. Please do contribute! It not only documents your work as a journal for yourself but I know I speak for many when I say we enjoy reading these threads for our personal enjoyment, and education. It also gives your car some pedigree and makes it more special in my opinion and certainly elevates the quality with so many experienced builders making sure you don’t misstep.

With my chassis in upholstery and my body 90 miles away and a timeline of 5-8 weeks before they meet again as I learned this week (quality jobs take a long time so I’m not rushing anyone nor am I complaining). I’ve had a lot of spare time to just read and learn and enjoy other people’s journeys and it’s been fantastic. I’ve even been lurking on the Roadster section; might get myself into trouble.

[Snowman]

Danny, can't wait to see this thing in it's full glory. I know a few places up here in the high desert you'll be able stretch it's legs.

Maybe we'll get lucky and Huntington Beach will happen this year!

[P100DHG]

Danny, can't wait to see this thing in it's full glory. I know a few places up here in the high desert you'll be able stretch it's legs.

Maybe we'll get lucky and Huntington Beach will happen this year!

I can’t wait either. It’s taking tremendous patience. I am going to need a good place to let it rip and a good therapist to help me get over my anxiety of rock chips. LOL

Huntington Beach is on my mind, I am hoping it happen and I hope I will be ready.

[P100DHG]

I had the pleasure of meeting Patrick today, handle is Snowman. A real great guy. Had I not had my wife and son in the car I probably could have talked for hours; something to look forward to in the future.

My side pipes came back from polishing and ceramic coating. Looks great. I had all the welds ground down and blended so it’s a smooth transition.

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However, go with the Gas-N pipes. By the time I made these look this good the Gas-N pipes would have been less hassle for similar money. Mind you I have a great custom look. But it was a hassle. I still would have gone with ceramic coating over polished stainless but Gas-N offers an unpolished set.

I’ll post more pictures when I unwrap them. They look killer. Highly recommend the ceramic coater he also does polishing for major brands such as Borla so it was a one stop shop.

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[P100DHG]

Paint Update

Had a great visit over at Jeff Miller's today. Such a generous and nice guy. Love going down there. I brought my 4 year old son (soon to be 5).

Final pictures of the car in primer. There is one roadster ahead of me and then I'm up for paint. Looking like mid to late April completion for paint. If everything goes well I'm looking at a mid to late summer graduation.

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Headliner Saga Solved:

I went through quite a headliner saga. I want a leather headliner to match the roll bars. My upholstery shop in Los Angeles which is 110 miles from Jeff's in Temecula wouldn't go down to do the headliner before the body is on the chassis, he also wouldn't do the headliner after the body was on the chassis so I was stuck. He wanted me to move the whole painted body to him and I was like... NOPE too risky! I made at least a few dozen phone calls, had one guy sign up to do it and then back out (which was a blessing in disguise because he was absurdly expensive) but then I met Oscar a local upholsterer in Temecula who is going to do it for me. He is thinking one piece but I am thinking 5 pieces. Just put the seams on the A and C pillars, roll bars are going to mask them anyway plus there is already enough technical work since all the edges have to be seamed since there is no moldings to tuck things into. Glad that is behind me for sure.

Upholstery Update

The chassis is coming together, progress is slow, he has a ton of jobs and since I'm not in a rush neither is he. He made panels for the foot boxes, which weren't spacious to begin with. Not sure how I feel about them but I am going to let him do his thing. This seems like a lot of brown but remember that the floor mats are silver metal, so are the foot box kick panels, dash, top of transmission tunnel and trunk walls are staying silver powder coated. He also finished the roll bar leather below the dash pad. As I am typing this I am realizing he's getting pretty close to complete. What's left is the dash pad, e-brake and shift boot, transmission tunnel walls, and a trunk mat. Oh!!! and a small touch inside the engine bay. Gonna look spectacular!

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Reconnaissance

I did some reconnaissance on roadsters the last couple times I've been at Jeff's, getting the itch. I think I should scratch it, don't you?

[John Dol]

Reconnaissance

I did some reconnaissance on roadsters the last couple times I've been at Jeff's, getting the itch. I think I should scratch it, don't you?

Isn't that funny, not even done with this one yet and already looking at other opportunities. I did the same, mine is a GT40 fix though!

Sweet looking interior so far, glad you got the headliner issue figured out.

John

[Rsnake]

Beautiful build!
I really like your seat choice and before I order, have you verified that they will clear once the body is on?
Hopefully yes.
Thanks

[P100DHG]

Isn't that funny, not even done with this one yet and already looking at other opportunities. I did the same, mine is a GT40 fix though!

Sweet looking interior so far, glad you got the headliner issue figured out.

John

Thanks John, your post lit a fire under my *** and rather than worrying about it I decided to put my energy into solving the problem. I appreciate the info you shared, it was really a big help.

What I learned from this build is that doing the leg work ahead of time really pays off, also with parts shortages and demand right now it may never be too soon cause the wait could be really long. I know you’re thinking about selling your Daytona But I’d love to see you do a GT40. Make sure if you do you loop us in if you pull the trigger. I want to follow the build!

[P100DHG]

Beautiful build!
I really like your seat choice and before I order, have you verified that they will clear once the body is on?
Hopefully yes.
Thanks

Thank you! I appreciate the encouragement.

Not only have I verified but I have lots of good photos to make you confident it will work. I did a write up on it, here are some links below.

First there are some good photos of the shoulder bolsters and the door clearances in post #110 titled Seat Install 1 of 2 - skip down to “I placed the seat in the car, mocked up the doors, I checked my clearances” there are 4 great photos.

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/show...l=1#post403642

In post #111 titled Seat Install 2 of 2 - click on the picture under “ Fun family photo last week” has a great picture of my father in law, sitting in the seat with the doors on.

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/show...l=1#post403643

One other picture in post #141 with the door off.
https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/show...l=1#post415549

The Sparco Grid Q seats are pricey but they are surprisingly comfortable especially if you can get them to recline a bit more. I am working on a slim wedge shaped bracket to get them to recline a bit more that would go under each seat slider. My first attempt was a fail as the 1/8” cold rolled flat bar I got is warped from the supplier but it was a good proof of concept, it just takes a ton of time to fabricate. I want to raise the front of the seat 5/8” but something is telling me to just shim the front with washers and keep it simple. That seems to be the consensus on forums like Rennline (Porsche Forum) from my research. Those Porsche guys seem to love the Sparco and Recaro seats, maybe their solution is the best... I’ll work through it. But extra info for you.

I hope this helps.

[Rsnake]

Thank you for the detailed information.
SOLD. I am ordering now. They look amazing in your car.

[P100DHG]

I figured why not give the latest news. There maybe more coming later this week. It's all a work in progress so there are some wrinkles to take care of (literally). LOL

Custom Seat Belts:
Got these great seatbelts to match the interior theme from Racer Direct . They asked me what car it would be going in and when I shared, David over there got creative and instead of putting their logo on the belts, he put a different one that matches the name of a person who shall not be named on this forum . I thought that was a cool touch he came up with. Total cost for each harness $90. Execution on the patches. Kind of poor. But I'll have the upholstery shop restitch them. I intentionally did not use the cam lock design to keep that vintage feel even though it's less convenient.

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I'll use the Simpson Seatbelts that came with my kit on a future build.

Upholstery Update:
Upholstery shop finished the removable trunk mat. I just let them have the design freedom to tie in the seat leather and roll bar leather. I think they did a nice job. I like how they played on the existing design of the seats and brought in the design theme of the racing stripes. The theme plays through the seats, the shift knob, and now the trunk mat.

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Dash pad is done. Incredible how he recessed/frenched the defrost vents in.

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Checklist till done:
Engine Compartment Firewall Panel
Transmission Tunnel Walls
Shift Boot
Hand Brake Boot

[P100DHG]

So yesterday I took a half day off work and went and helped the upholstery guy. I want the leather on the transmission tunnel to wrap up and over making a bolstered edge. I think it will make a nice detail and frame the center/ top of the transmission tunnel nicely. He had a hard time figuring out how to make the extension so I did it for him.

I measured the angles first

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Divided them by 2 where two pieces of the template would meet. Except for where it meets the dash and the rear wall.

So 136° means a 68° cut on each piece. (Might seem obvious but why not explain it.)

He wanted it made in 2 pieces so things are manageable and so I can remove the panels in the future to access the ignition system in the transmission tunnel.

This is how it looked when I was done. I had some scrap metal from the dash I used to make the pieces. I tacked them in temporarily with screws but they will be riveted later. 12v accessory plug and battery cut off can be access from the panels in the trunk and from underneath the car. But once again the pursuit of the right look has made this car harder to maintain.

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[kd0wda]

I just dropped my engine/trans in yesterday. I too ran into trouble with the trans plate. The holes are just off enough to prevent the screws from working. Did your's line up or did you have to modify the bracket? I'm off by about 1/8-1/4" on the extreme end of the slots. Anyone else have this issue?

[P100DHG]

I just dropped my engine/trans in yesterday. I too ran into trouble with the trans plate. The holes are just off enough to prevent the screws from working. Did your's line up or did you have to modify the bracket? I'm off by about 1/8-1/4" on the extreme end of the slots. Anyone else have this issue?

Since you posted a sub topic I'll answer the questions over here:
https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/show...lignment-issue

[P100DHG]

Anyone else think my horn button wiring was crappy? It's okay, I did too. If you're an engineer you probably tuned out of the build thread at that point from disgust. But if you happen to be around still, I think it was worth the wait because I am going to blow your mind! (Can you tell I am excited?) I have reinvented the design and I think this is going to be every engineers wet dream or a big yawn. I know how you engineers think, "could have done that 100 times better, and out of carbon fiber." Okay, okay settle down.

I encourage you to revisit my post, I have re-written it: #115 - Horn Button -- Wait he said what?!?!

To give you the short version I put CAD (for children, LOL), 3D Printing, and CNC all together to make this happen! Here it is in one photo:

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Also if you take the time to read the whole post to the very end, I left you guys a surprise.

P.S. - Roadster guys this will work for you too!

[Snowman]

Anyone else think my horn button wiring was crappy? It's okay, I did too. If you're an engineer you probably tuned out of the build thread at that point from disgust. But if you happen to be around still, I think it was worth the wait because I am going to blow your mind! (Can you tell I am excited?) I have reinvented the design and I think this is going to be every engineers wet dream or a big yawn. I know how you engineers think, "could have done that 100 times better, and out of carbon fiber." Okay, okay settle down.

I encourage you to revisit my post, I have re-written it: #115 - Horn Button -- Wait he said what?!?!

To give you the short version I put CAD (for children, LOL), 3D Printing, and CNC all together to make this happen! Here it is in one photo:

Also if you take the time to read the whole post to the very end, I left you guys a surprise.

Danny, outstanding work!! I had this execution as idea in my head, but you pulled it off way better than what I would have done. Thanks for being an excellent contributor to the forum. Folks like you are what makes this community such a positive bunch.

Cheers,
Patrick