Decided to modify my cross rails to set the driver’s seat down. Four hours of cutting, drilling, grinding, welding and painting yesterday and we got about a half inch lower in the back.
The surprising thing is, I could feel it.
Month: October 2018
Shifter, e-brake, fabrication, seats and compromises
Today, a short illustrated essay on replica compromise. As is known, the Brandwood cable shifter is the go-to Spyder replica shifter.* It’s reportedly easier to set up and keep in tune than the Jamar linkage shifter that used to come standard. Both are pretty different from the exacting engineering in the original 550, but the cable box’s bulk makes for noticeable changes in the replica Spyder cockpit. Here’s the car I’m trying to copy.
You can see here how small the original shifter housing is. At about two inches off the deck, it tops out about even with the top of the front bulkhead.
Whereas my cable shifter…
Windshield and jack fit-up
Windshield came today from Fibersteel. Very nice. I test-fit it and it looks like it’ll cinch down very easily with the supplied leather gasket and almost (not quite) cover the end holes I drilled for the Speedster screen. I’ll plug those up with something you can’t see that will be none the less easily removable. Maybe a wine cork.
Failure of the wipers & test fitting seats
Spent some time assembling the windscreen wiper system this weekend. It’s a bugger.
Along Came A Spyder 