That area you mentioned on the Legend, Randy, is poor manufacturing in my books !
~ Gimp ~
Mine are now sealed with a tighter cover with no air gap around the shaft of the split in the cover. I also sealed my firewall to the drive shaft tunnel and sealed the hole a the left lower corner of the firewall.
Plus I moved my fire extinguisher nozzles all in the drivers compartment and upgraded to 10lb bottles; We are not going to risk fire injury again.
I will also say that I have upgrade to quilted three layer suits, one by OMP and the other is a Sparco. After doing a lot of research, I have learned the quilting of the suit compartmentalizes the suit and the ability to protect. Most of the time in a race car fire it is the hot air/steam (from sweat) that causes injury; not the flames itself.
Sorry, if I was overbearing, but I learned the hard way; do not go the cheap route when it comes to safety. I can say now that my kids are adults and make their own choices, the foundation I laid is still protecting the today.
It is really amazing how tragedy effects our view of safety, but it does bring things into clarity.
Randy - RPM