[Ant]

Les,

Thanks for your input, the guy at the paint shop agreed with your ideas, the worst that can happen is due to expansion on a hot day the epoxy might expand differently to the polyester, but its not on top of car, and with a good coat of epifill etc................!
The painter, who has a waiting list of customers and does overseas classic cars, did my first Cobra (sold) 12 years ago in a paint called "clear over base rapid application? break that down and it was called officially Cobra paint, it wasnt the best compared to modern paints now, but I visited the present owner and its in absolutely concours unmarked condition - it had an epoxy filler about 1/4-3/8" thick on top of guards in places, as the body was an early poor example, we spent the best part of a year on it getting the gaps and shape right.

Transmission, I will go for a Richmond five speed with a 3.04 first gear instead of the 3.28, and being 1.1 top gear, and run my 3.27 or 3.08 that gives me respectively in top at 6500rpm with 27" diameter tires (160mph, 170mph) anyway its all theory at this stage. The biggest decision is what diameter wheels to run if I get 15" slicks I will stick to 15" and I dont think there is a very good variety in 16's!