[eschaider]

Yo! Maven!

You belong to a growing subset of newbies that frequent the site here (at least for a while) with bushel baskets of questions that, when they receive answers, engage in a dialog exchange explaining why they would prefer not to do what the respondent to the question has offered.

You should start at your target replica supplier's dealer, get the answers to your replica mfgr-specific questions from the source, and then build your car the way you want it. It is, after all, your car.

When guys on the site offer you answers, opinions, and options to a replica build question you have posed and you challenge their, albeit opinionated responses, it begs the question, why did you bother to ask?

You should build your replica the way you want. If you like it when you're done, that's good — and pretty hard to beat! If it has good resale value — that's good. If it doesn't, then you have a valuable learning experience, and — that's good too! Of course, if you are unhappy with your build when you are done, you guessed it! That's good too! Just another learning experience and you're the beneficiary of the experience, which again is — good too!

In the end, you might have been able to learn all those good lessons a little less expensively but, the fact you didn't is also good — especially if you ever decide to do something this foolish again.