I decided to stay with that design and printed another. THey are both fitted to the car now, and look good. Here you can see things kinda mocked up.
The aluminum ducting for the heater boxes finally came in and got it fitted to the heater boxes with some 2 inch pipe clamps. The other end is, for now, connected to 2 inch black ABS pipe running up the sides of the car to the footwell heater vents. I ran the engine a while, played with the open/close lever for the heater box vents and was pleased with the bit of heat coming out of them. Nothing too hot, but I will continue to run up the engine and test how warm things get, and possible replace all the ABS bits one day.
I got around to uncovering the other body I bought last year to have a better look at it. Here are some interesting things I found.
The canopy seal is just screwed on all around the perimeter. I've been worried about adhesives, perhaps this is a very simple alternative? Thoughts anyone?
Next, one of the previous owners used pin switches at the top rear of the side windows, perhaps wired to an alarm?
Top corner of the canopy, I saw this. A small Sterling badge and this sticker, which took me a few glances to understand what it really was. Odd place for it I think.
At the bottom right corner of the windshield I spotted wires and something encased in small vinyl pouch.
As you can barely see, there is a very thin wire there, and it runs the perimeter of the windshield. I think it's a thermal wire, perhaps to heat the edges of the glass to help prevent moisture build up? Anyone see this before?
And finally, these headlight bucket stand-off mounting brackets behind the headlights. I've never seen these before. Any idea what they're from?