Well yeah, in most REMR (or whatever the hell they are) the 9 inch ford rear end and the 23 inch long auto transmission and driveshaft plus the length of the v8 engine consume all the cockpit...thus pushing the driver ahead of the firewall. I don't care for that look.
What I have is a Honda 4cyl DOHC engine mated to a VW trans-axle. The whole power train is about 30 inches from the axle to the harmonic balancer. With this combination I believe there is space ahead of the engine for a driver in the regular cockpit area.
Then the options are open to put a lakerster style nose from the fire wall out. So this may lead to having to open the firewall,inside the lakester nose, to acommodate the driver's legs.
Is that OK?
I'm up in the attic now looking through the Christmas boxes to see if my rulebook got packed away for the holidays.
Is that kosher....to open the firewall inside to let the drivers legs protrude through the firewall into the tapered lakeste stye nose?
Butch