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Been a hard couple weeks: deep freeze has prevented my spending any time in the garage. 

I did order five yards of "barber pole" vinyl, plus a set of seat heaters, and got in touch with my upholstery guy to make sure he's still in business. (He is).

Bought another sheet of aluminum, and ordered a set of spoiler dies. And I spoke at to Bic Green, who has designed and is almost ready (has been almost ready for a couple years tho) to ship a pretty neat looking 547-style fan shroud for Type 1 cars. He says it should be rolling into production by summer's end. Too late for me (I think) but it was sobering to get his insight on what it takes to make the design work. 

As with all things: harder than I suspected.

I may still try to make one but pretty sure this car is going to roll with the existing Raby DTM shroud and Type 4 integrated oil cooler.

That of course would make my whole front oil-cooler ducting system redundant, and obviate the need for the high volume oil pump I already bought.

Making things neater and simpler goes against my nature (in particular when it also makes them less "hey-that-looks-just-like-a-real-Spyder"), so I'm kind of stewing about all this...

Mainly, though, just itching to get back into this project.

Tomorrow is supposed to be over 40F. So with luck I'll be able to get something done.

 

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