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I added a small hood scoop to mine, but it doesn't do much. Plan on going pretty tall if you want very much air. Mine helps a little, but it doesn't do a lot. Raising the windshield to let air under it helped a lot more. https://dfkitcar.com/forum/threads/footwell-vent.3545/

I vaguely remember that I had one of the pedals hitting and having to notch the firewall. Maybe.

If the master cylinder was empty (not the reservoir) it can be very hard to get all of the air out of it. It's the highest point in the system and can occasionally require bench bleeding before installing.

Are you bleeding the brakes or just opening it up and pumping?

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Fairly simple to graft on a new frame end, but probably not worth it if insurance is available to pay.

Scrape or lightly sand so the numbers are still full of powder coat but the remaining tag is bare aluminum.

Because they can.

Before you work too hard at it, you need to find out if an 8-digit number will do you any good with your DMV. If they are wanting to be hard to work with, I bet they will try and insist that it have a standard 17-digit VIN.

Even if there is a number from DF it won’t qualify as a VIN. It would only be the chassis number. Typically the state supplies the VIN on these and mine is just a tag riveted to the frame.

Right off hand, I don’t remember it being stamped in the frame. Maybe someone else will correct me. But I know where you can buy stamps to add it.

And if you don’t correctly run the heater hose elimination you can have overheating problems.

I ran my pump with a relay based upon a random hot on ignition circuit. But then again I set up a mini fuse box to run the add-ons that rune off a relay.

I use T88 since it has a high strength and you can buy it in larger quantities with a long shelf life. But it turns out it can be susceptible to creep, although I haven’t had a problem with that I can identify. JB Weld in the slow set version claims good creep properties compared to other...

You can do a quick internet search for epoxy creep. I didn’t know that was a thing, but I don’t know that it would apply here. It has a continuous load time component to it happening and I don’t know that applies here. Most of the load would be carried by the mechanical fasteners and the epoxy...