So now fitting the rest of the hood....
This is how the hood sits now. Some notes:
1. The construction paper on the windshield marks the area of windshield that will remain when I make my first try at chopping a top. Gonna cut out 7" (insert jokes here) which might make it more like the original late 50's curvy cars.
2. The hood comes back to roughly 8" forward of the windshield, where surprisingly the Miata firewall was. Strange how that happened. The bits that I cut off of the end of Jack's doghouse now make the beginning of the cowl covering. You'll note that the cowl cover won't touch the windshield -- I have to have windshield wipers due to local requirements. There will be mesh under that where I'll put the air intake, wipers, battery, etc etc.
3. The motor doesn't stick up as much as I (and Jack) feared. The original Lola MK1 had the doghouse bottom level w/ the wheel hubs, and I'm some 9" higher than that. But the front of the nose is flush with the bottom of the frame, so that can't go lower. And if I lower the rear of the nose section then the motor will just stick out more -- might as well hide the wipers I guess.
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And here is the rear of the cowl covering as it sits tonight -- notice that I'll have to fill in some really complicated shapes here. Fortunately, Jack's kit came with a cowl that can be, uh, modified to provide the corner bits that I need.
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