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[Gary t]

I had also thought about doing a layer of glass on top. The repairs I did seem to be very fragile.
I had hoped to not go with a whole new part. I am going with the excuse that my time is free and education as some value.

[BDA]

Do you need some pictures of how it can look?

[Gary t]

Yes BDA that would be great. It is not the next planned project but I like to have a idea where I am going.

[BDA]

I don't know if these will help you but here are some from my car. I have an old foam crashpad (NLA) and I had it covered with vinyl. When my car was "new", the edges of the dash against the windshield had come up so when I talked to them at the interior shop, I told them to make sure that wouldn't happen again. I suggested they glue or pop it under the windshield because I had heard of somebody doing that back when it was "new." I don't know how they did it but it looks like they followed my suggestion. You can see some of the vinyl wrapped over the body and covered by the black windshield goo.

If you need different views, just ask.

[Gary t]

Thanks so much for  the  photos.  I hope  I can get close to as good.  My car  is a s2 with  the screen  in the rubber strip.  I really  like the  corners  against the  a pillars.  I am really  leaning towards putting a layer of fiber glass on to help the cracks and then I could extend the front corners.

[Gary t]

New subject.  Today (last couple of work sessions)  in goes the new parking brake cable. New to regrow some skin. It all seems ok except that the horseshoe rubs on the cooling tubes, is this normal? If not  what have I done wrong?  If it is normal does anyone protect the cooling tubes?

[jbcollier]

Everything should “just” miss.  Open part of the horse shoe facing up?

[Gary t]

No dought that it touches.  Yes open side is up.

[Gary t]

So I have gone through it all again, left more DNA, it all works but there is the contact on the cooling tubes. Any ideas what I might have wrong? Or what I can do?

[SilverBeast]

It does touch the cooling tubes mine does it too. I asked the same question in the thread for my car here http://www.lotuseuropa.org/LotusForum/index.php?topic=3266.0

[jbcollier]

I'd be inclined to wrap the cooling tubes with something to protect them, especially if they are aluminium.

[Gary t]

John that is my if all else fails plan (I have an old crazy carpet that I cut pieces off of). But it would be nice to get it right.

[Gary t]

Fuel tank in piece of cake. Only took 6 hours, but am pretty happy with the results. I used polyurethane  pads on the mounts. Was surprised how easy the rubber hose for the filler went.

[dakazman]

    I had to do it twice ,the original birdcaged on one side so I pulled it out and put in another one. I know your pain. My ebrake also touches slightly. I guess a rubber pad / matting would quiet it up a bit.
Dakazman

[Gary t]

Dakazman it's all fun. I zip tied plastic sheet (from a crazy carpet, a sheet that kids of all ages use to slide on snow) it's maybe .025 thick.