Good point Dave. I will have to see how long the scuttle is- the MCs may be in front of the scuttle and allow easy access but I will review this more before buying pedals..
Made a little more progress this week- started shortening the rollbar for mounting on top of the rear bulkhead. I had originally planned on the roll hoop to attach to the bottom floor of the car but changed this since most sanctioning bodies require the roll hoop to be bent in one plane if I ever wanted to track the car....the first cut is always the most difficult. Dragged my kids out to measure from the top of my head when seated in the car to figure out how tall the roll bar will need to be, then started to cut...
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Then cut the other side to match and set it on the car.
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I have about 3.5 inches from the top of my head to the top of the roll hoop which should give some height for the thickness of a helmet also.
The bar will bolt into the car so I can remove this to change it, if ever needed. I cut out the plates that will be welded to the chassis and then mating plates that will be welded to the hoop.
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Need to decide how and were to put the bolts. Reviewed the SCCA GCR and on a brief look, they do not spec how many bolts to use but that they need to be a min 3/8" diameter. Will place the bar on the outermost, front corner but put it in far enough for welding space around the circumference. May try for three bolts per pad at this point and try to put spacers into the tubes to eliminate crushing the square tubes when torquing the bolts...
Then switched to working on the front suspension some more. The upper control arms are still a little rough so started shortening the upper control arm links to get the camber zeroed and also get the upper ball joint in the correct spot. I have the LCA adjusted so I can easily add lots more negative camber, if needed and there will be provisions on the UCA for caster adjustments.
As I started shortening the UCA links I noticed the steering arms were reversed so didn't think too much about that as I was switching them around but a short time later remembered that the lower ball joint is offset a little rearward so swapped the steering arms back on the correct LCA and then put the assemblies on the correct side...
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Got the camber on the driver's side about zeroed out and the caster correct but it looks like I will need new rear tubes for the control arms as I cannot shorten these enough and keep enough threaded section in them for the rod ends.