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Well for todays update I am going to have to stretch it out over a few posts. My computer has been freezing up, and if I do one post that is too long it freezes and I have to reboot it. I guess I just wore this thing out.

As I mentioned yesterday, I went to Home Depot and bought a piece of 3/4 inch thick outdoor grade plywood to do the inside of the firewall. I also went to a marine discount store and bought 10 yards of fiberglass mat and a gallon or polyester resin and hardner. There are two kinds of resin, polyester and epoxy. Of the two, epoxy is stronger and more expensive, but for what I am doing here polyester is fine. To put it into perspective, the majority of boats being built are made with polyester.

I like to use mat rather than cloth because it conforms to the shape of the car better and goes around curves better. It is the random pattern fiberglass you see, as opposed to cloth that is in a uniform woven pattern.

Here are some pictures of the mat and resin I bought.

Don