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Thank you, I was coming up short! This is great info! What a compilation of pictures! This was especially helpful to visualize how people tie in the front strut towers to the rocker panels inside the front fender panels! I think most everything else I've done with my cage, it's pretty extensive. This has all been helpful to help me visualize it all, thanks again to you both!

Dang Mark, that is so crazy looking. Also, side question that I've been trying to figure out: are you the actor Mark Rolston, or do you just share a name with eachother?

Interesting info about the rocker panels being so important, didn't realize that! I'll look into this thread and post a link if I find what I think you're referencing. I'll look into the book! Thanks for sharing some insights and photos. I'd like to keep the passenger side available so who knows. Thanks for everyone's thoughts!

So you can see how my bars triangulate through the cowl area and I've got a pretty good sized hole here. Currenlty not worried about structure but I figured if I could cut a little bit more weight and have more room for electronics then rock on. I did realize in looking at this that I'd need to keep the driver's side mostly intact or fabricate up a mounting solution for the steering wheel/pedals, so If I did cut it it would be everything else until I felt like coming up with all those needs ha.

Thanks for sharing NewZed. I'm a little confused at what the cutouts are on this diagram. Are those indicating structural reifnorcements? Yeah my bad for not giving more background when asking the question, you're all good! I think mostly it is addresses, the triangulated bars will certainly stop the firewall from bowing out under pressure, but I'm thinking I may need to add a leg directly in the center of where the windshield mounts to stop it from bowing downwards without the inner cowl in place. I specifically want to remove just the inside where rain water is directed to the sides of the car. but leaving the top of the cowl area in place. Perhaps I'll post a picture of my cowl currently to give a better idea and make sure I'm on the same page as you. one moment

you can see at 2:23 how he's got it all tucked right into the cowl, it just seems like prime real estate for my electrical ha.

So my build is a pure track build for sure at this point. I actually already had my roll cage builder cut out part of the cowl to have some bars triangulated from the dash bar to the center of the firewall. It doesn't look great as it sits so i figured either fix it or cut it all out. Another point to him is his chassis is completely rebuilt, his panels are all carbon fiber, and he's (I'm sure) running a lexan windshield. The weight in the center of the cowl has got to be pretty much nothing for him. I do currently have a full cage throughout my chassis, but I haven't yet upgraded my frame rails, which I'd like to do. I'd want to tie the cage into them and that would complete my structural upgrades, but I'm mostly worried about the windshield being too heavy and causing some sort of sag or wiggling around. As far as wiring, I mostly just want space for different electrical buses/accessories/etc without it creeping into either side's leg room. I figure this would make that even simpler.

Any other experiences with doing this for your car?

So I'm looking into wiring my Z and watched this video of Shawn Basset's 240z's wiring: I realized Shawn has completely cut out his cowl! He made the cowl cover in a way that doesn't allow water through, of course. I was thinking of doing the same thing to give me more room for accessibility, etc. Is that structural at all? Will I need to add some bracing?

For anyone interested, I ended up just getting my tube hole as close as I could to that gap width, the mesh was almost touching but it seemed safer to me.

I need to do some tuning research. I figure that will be the next big learning project after I get it running! Do you have jus the stock diff in it? Or have you upgraded? I hear throwing an LSD is a huge difference maker.

I'm not sure myself, but if you put it to where the rocker is NOT lined up, then lift/rotate the front of the fender so the top sits farther back and the bottom nudges forward slightly will that fix the gap and also align the holes? Other than that, cut and weld ha.

Glad to hear you're out enjoying it! I've been working a bunch on mine, about to wrap up the fuel system. I need to post updates ha. Eventually we can cruise!

Dang you're ballsy! Glad to hear the trip went well! I had this motorcycle that the fuel gauge didn't work, so I would run out of gas all the time. I ended up getting a gas tank and strapping it 100% of the time to the back for when I ran out ha. It worked well since it was outdoors, but may be worth considering for a bit while you sort it out. Or just fix it quickly, I guess that's the proper way to do it ha.

Hey all, trying to figure this out. I had a custom pan made for my RB25 and I'm looking at extending the pickup tube now. There are varying standard results on what the clearance should be, Moroso says this: "Ideal clearance is .250” to .500” to ensure adequate oil supply." So I figure as long as I get somewhere around there I'm good. My main concern is the way the pickup tube is designed on the RB makes this confusing. It has the mesh screen for filtering (picture included). So do I need that clearance between the mesh and the pan or the actual inlet of the tube behind the mesh? If the latter is true, then I'd try and get my mesh touching the pan? I'm assuming that can't be right but wanted to verify. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Man that is awesome! Post up some videos soon!

Man, this is motivating me to finish my garage and get back to the Z!

Looking forward to seeing the progress on this!

It' the wheel well/entire rear quarter that is impressing me. I may have fully restored my Z rather than going race car on it if I had fab skills like that. One day with a different Z probably haha.

Holy crap, you bent that fender yourself?? That is insane!

Dang this is rad! Looking forward to seeing some videos!

Dang dude!!!! That is awesome! So glad to see this coming to a head for you, it looks way clean on the interior!

dang man your metal shaping skills make me want to learn bad! What are the lines for? Just to help see where your bends are?