The roll cage has a fresh coat of white enamel on it. The door bars and other ‘chip prone’ areas have been covered with gaffers tape. It’s a great trick that I stumbled upon when using it to secure camera wires while ice racing. I covered the areas previously scratched up with my ice shoes and it held up. If it does get ripped up, I can re-apply tape, instead of re-applying 3 hours of masking the inside of the car and re-painting. This time around I painted parts of the cage that had never seen paint and added truck bedliner to the front footwells.

The seats and new belts are in. If I never take the seats out again, it will be too soon. There is about 1 inch of clearance to get the driver seat bolts out and .0025 inches to get the co-drivers seat out. Add ‘Metric Gear wrenches’ to the Christmas list. Getting the allen screws into the bottom of the seats while laying across the back of the cage, arms twisted in some impossible position, moving it less then 1/8 turn every time, is awesome.

The list grows short though. Every time I look at what’s left I say: “Is that really it?” I keep expecting another $500 item to pop up. Driving suits, pads and rotors, skidplate finishing, some bolts, some tow hooks, spare struts, spare tires, a fresh catalytic converter. This weekends efforts will be the full length skidplate and trunk mounting the tools, spares, first-aid, triangles, and tow strap.