Yeah whatever, G. This rig was made and marketed to do what I'm asking it to do on the VW parts I've installed it on. I should not have to calculate any angles or engineer any ratios. The slave ain't pulling enough and it keeps blowing bubbles. The pedal takes a while to come up after I close the bleeder so I'm a little stumped right now. No leaks anywhere I can see (yet). I bled this thing out like a year ago and thought I had a decent stroke on it then. Obviously I do not know my business.
Meanwhile: right front caliper is also leaking. dang.
I messed with the pedals and the hydraulics for a couple hours today and in between doing that (whilst pondering my life choices) I did a little upholstery work.
The second run of 550 Spyders all had this intriguing bit of frippery at the leading edges of the doors. As previously discussed, there were curled aluminum somethings riveted in the lower front corners, making a sort of Nabisco corner over the lower edge.
These took me like five tries to make to my satisfaction, and what I ended up with is still not quite right.
Above those, presumably to block any air intrusion through the door gaps into the open goddamn cockpit are these baroque rolled bits of vinyl around rubber tubes held in place by machined 1/3-round aluminum tubing screwed to the doors.* Looks something like:
So I cut off a bit of my wife's garden soaker hose, applied the grinder to some alum tubing and
*"Just why Porsche went to such lengths to trim out a race car is a mystery to me."
–Rainer Cooney, The Spyder Factory