My Blaze Cut install.

Looks good!

Pretty cool install! 

nicely done

Thanks.

The two epoxied attachment points are elevator bolts. They have to be bent to fit the curve of the engine lid. After I found where they should be, I sanded the coating off of the engine lid to reveal fiberglass. I then epoxied the bolts and used tape to hold them until they set.

I wanted to reinforce this bond even further with some fiber glass. I drew a circle with a center point on a scrap piece of wood, covered it with some plastic wrap,  cut out some fiberglass circles, and cut holes in two pieces of a sponge.

I painted some epoxy onto the plastic wrap, staying in the circle, and added the two layers of fiberglass circles I cut out, saturating both in epoxy. Keeping all the circles centered, I used a sharp knife to cut an X in the center. I then centered this epoxy band aid onto the sponge, keeping the X center on the hole.

Next paint some epoxy onto the bolt base and push the sponge onto the bolt and press firmly. Make sure to tape the threads on the bolt before applying. I used a board with a stick against the frame of the car to keep the pressure on until it set.

After it sets, pull the sponge and plastic off and clean it up with some sandpaper and give it a shot of paint.

Just in case anyone was wondering.

CG

Very clever Carlos. In fact I was wondering how you mounted everything up. Great job.

Be careful with the amount of tension applied to the elevator bolts over a few month period they can pull inward a bit leaving a dimple on the outer painted surface..I found this out the hard way a few years back.

Alan Merklin posted:

Be careful with the amount of tension applied to the elevator bolts over a few month period they can pull inward a bit leaving a dimple on the outer painted surface..I found this out the hard way a few years back.

 

Would spreading the load out a couple inches prevent this Alan?

I would think it would, my issue was I tightened the elevator bolts too much and over time the flat head settled into to the fiberglass. ...lesson learned.

I used a couple of layers of fiberglass in hopes of spreading the load.

I was surprised on how much weight the blazecut had. It's also the 9' version. I figured more is better for a fire suppressant.

So far so good.

I hope you never have to answer the more is better question...