Paul,

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Greg,

I’m thinking , vapor lock problem ? 

stainless steel  very clean

Dang. That’s always the way, isn’t it? She quits when the wife’s aboard. . . Greg I can’t remember: did you clean out your gas tank already, maybe recoat the inside with POR 15?

Like they always say…its all in the prep work. Keep up the great work and she’ll be looking mahvelous!

Update on the TD for sale. It appears to be in pretty fair condition. The seller went out of town to Florida on vacation today so all I could do is drive by and look. It is a white TD and looks to be a MiGi or FiberFab kit. Could not tell if its VW based or not.

Great work!And yeah. Sanding. Not the funnest ever job.

My son and I started doing body work last
weekend to prep for our paint job. 

Probably one of the least favorite things
I’ve done so far.  Partly because, since my son does this kind of thing as
part of his work he is as obsessive about it as I have been about other
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Phil, Ed is 100% spot on.  I would have rated my TD as unsafe at any speed prior to removing all the small leaves and consequential lowering.  It may take some time and cost a bit, but is a well worth while expenditure.  Since my beam had not been rotated, removing the leaves put the ride height where it should be without adjusters.  In your cas…[Read more]

Phil:The reason you want to remove leaves is to make the car ride better–and handle more safely. The cut-and-turn method of lowering the ride height, which nearly every kt manufacturer specified because it was simple, results in a harsh ride and a dangerous tendency to understeer. The front springs are so stiff (since they’re made to handle over…[Read more]

Thanks— The answers confirm what I was suspecting.  The ride height is fine — so will not remove any leaves.

The way I see it, you can either remove the small leaves to reduce the height, or reduce the height by cutting and welding the beam. Since your beam is cut, rotated and welded, and its still to high, removing the short leaves may drop it down to the height you want/need. Easier to work the leaves than recut and weld beam back to original. If…[Read more]

Phil, if what Paul is asking is accurate, the answer is that removing leaves absolutely WILL affect the ride height.  On my Daytona MiGi, removing all the small leaves reduced the front end height by about 2-1/2 inches.

Who posted about buying a car with fire damage?

Back to Phil’s question.

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Good price – hopefully in lot better shape then the one I started w/

Paul.  In the Fiberfab asssembly manual I have, page 17 details how to cut, turn and reweld the front beam. It’s the same in the Fiberfab assembly manual in the down load section; page 17. (Although I believe what I have and what you have are the CMC Fiberfab manuals.) The Migi assembly manual I have, mentions cutting the lower tube only t…[Read more]

Fiber Fab kit

Phil,Do you have adjusters? Or were the tubes cut, turned and then rewelded in their new position?And you wrote, “…per the instruction manual… Which kit?