Next up: Transmission Mount Redo 2.0. After looking at many, many builds, it would appear that the tail of my trans is too low. From all of those pics, the trans mount is supposed to bow upwards. All my work until now was with it in the bow down position
The kit instructions say the engine should be angled between 3 and 5 degrees down. I recall measuring a rough 5.5 deg and thought it would be OK when things were fully bolted in place. After seeing the pics, I took some measurements on the power train and the crossmember and put it into CAD. If I reverse the bow, it will make a 4-degree change, putting the power train at ~1.5 deg. Not good. Soooo, more work to do on the engine/trans mounting. I may have to build a new crossmember. However, it has turned cold. -4deg F this morning. I want to measure the roadster powertrain for references. However, it is sitting in the driveway under a winter cover. it is to damn cold outside right now to do that. I also need to open the garage door to get the car off the rotisserie. There goes that heat. Not gonna happen until I get a warm(ish) spell.
Wife an I went to my local American Science and Surplus store on Wednesday to look at some embroidery thread. I happened to see, off in a corner, a barrel with 4 or 6 tubes. Each tube was labeled as containing 2 leather hides in a grayish beige for $99. IIRC, it was ID'd as upholstery leather. It is AS&S so descriptions are missing a lot of details. As it is, that is a steal price for leather. Being Wednesday, seniors get another 10% off. Essentially $90 for 2 hides. I started to think really hard...... This morning I decided to let that go for now. I have to many other boxes to check off as it is, before creating more boxes. The website
https://www.sciplus.com/ doesn't list this so I can't get any more info on it.
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