An East Coast Speedster

Excited for you, she's a beauty!

Very nice, Bill.  You are now officially mad.  Have fun and we'll see you in Carlisle.

Congratulations!

Congratulations, Bill!  Your driving season is off to a great start!

Your paint can look "two feet deep", too.  It just takes a clay bar treatment, 1600 - 2000 grit paper and polishing compound (and a lot of elbow grease) to get there.  Maybe that might be a #5?

Good for you! Welcome as well Workin progress,  I think that is what every women calls her husband as they try to fix you

Where to you plan on putting the camera?

The can fan force air is pretty neat, one old member had a cold air vent installed to add outside air in as well... and the madness or upgrades continues.

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The backup camera is mounted on a rear license frame by default, but somewhat obtrusive there so I am thinking about below the rear bumper instead.

I have been thinking about using the shine up light and using the back up light as a spot would be neet to hide it behind a clear glass there and add another backup light a la VW.

The camera body of the backup camera I got is 1.25 h x 2.00 w x 1.25 deep and the lens is surrounded by 7 little LEDs. (I haven't powered it all up to see how much light it throws.) That size is why I might want to get it hidden under the bumper. I've seen cars with third brake lights on the engine grill; that might be a possible spot too.

I would be trying to be stealth, but that is me.

https://www.flickr.com/gp/farsightful/0Ni6R2 The carpet set in this VS build car has a velcro flap just above the VIN inspection port. It just shows a few inches of horizontal frame member. Are there examples to be seen of use being made of this window?

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@wrkinprogress , the shiny metal underneath the carpet flap is a removable sheet metal cover that allows access to bits underneath. The bits underneath are the connection between the shifting shaft (that runs back through the tunnel from the shifter) and the transaxle.

That shaft runs through a replaceable nylon bushing that wears out over time. To replace the bushing, you need to unhook the shaft under the access panel and slide it forward, out of the bushing.

If you look up 'PITA' in the dictionary, you will see a little picture of the bushing there.

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Thanks for this ongoing education. SOC is a treasure.

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@wrkinprogress , the shiny metal underneath the carpet flap is a removable sheet metal cover that allows access to bits underneath. The bits underneath are the connection between the shifting shaft (that runs back through the tunnel from the shifter) and the transaxle.

That shaft runs through a replaceable nylon bushing that wears out over time. To replace the bushing, you need to unhook the shaft under the access panel and slide it forward, out of the bushing.

If you look up 'PITA' in the dictionary, you will see a little picture of the bushing there.

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PITA, indeed! That's why I decided it was recently well worth paying my favorite mechanic the one hour's labor he needed to fix my Qwik-Shifter. Inasmuch as that bushing "died" after over 10 years of "not-so-soft" use, I figure I'm ahead of the game...this time, that is!

What some guys do is replace that stupid plastic POS with a bronze bushing. That makes it a one-time PIA.

https://ev4unow.com/vw-bushing/

Danny I went to that site and I started to read and all of a sudden I thought I was reading a post from Stan...

“In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the Supreme Excellence is Simplicity.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yeah, I know, but the part looks good.

@wrkinprogress

I'm curious if your back-up camera broadcasts to your phone or is it hard-wired to a monitor?  I had one on my very 1st Speedster and thought it was a great idea, especially when I had luggage on the luggage rack, but it turned out to be pretty useless.

As I recall, I mounted my camera to the license plate light and mounted my 7" monitor underneath my stereo housing.  I figured out some way of making it so I could flip it down and then back up when I didn't need it so it was out of the way.

What I didn't take into account was that we drive these cars with the top down and I quickly discovered that I couldn't see the monitor screen during the day and at night the car headlights behind me totally washed out the monitor.

I hope you have better luck.

Troy: I'll play with it this weekend and shoot photos. It's https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B071D5CN9D and has a hardwired 4.5 in. screen. I can picture the problems you describe, and I hope to be able to mount it far enough into the footwell not to be washed out by daylight and yet not uselessly far away. Maybe in a little black shroud? I'm very spoiled by backup cams on everyday cars, and one side of my driveway is the brick wall of the house, so I'm motivated to adapt it some way.

That's a pretty small screen, mine was a 7" screen and it was well under the footwell. 

It is, but it is also small enough to try it flipping down from the mirror or velcroing it over the tach just while it is in use and then returning it to a storage pocket. If we didn't like design challenges, we'd all have bought Saturn Skys.

It's a great idea, good luck.