Car pics

A few shots of the car's current state. Mostly its immobile.

Welding and descuzzification

I installed battery tie down mounts. I cut up an old rusty license plate holder from the Datsun and bent and welded it into place. Not a professional job, but it's solid and works. Couple that with the battery holder I found at LKQ and I have a good solution. Now I have to get a decent battery. I have 3 dead ones at the house.

I also removed the headliner from the car and the remainder of the interior trim. Looks more like a crap can with no interior. The Sparco seat is just a bit too tall, but I'll address that next. It was mounted in a mid 80's Mustang. I can't put it on the Celica seat sliders, as those have the seat angle adjuster build into them. The Sparco seat certainly contains the driver. I wonder how hard it will be to get out of it with a full cage installed?

Welder transport service

After the PCA meeting last night, we went by Ken's house and picked up the welder. Luckily, it's small enough to fit in the Porsche's trunk with the bottle stowed behind the passenger seat. Well, it fit in the trunk with no spare tire. Who needs a spare tire anyways?

More stuff coming...

I ordered four 5 gallon fuel jugs this morning from ebay.

I also ordered a 6 point Racequip harness to go with the Sparco seat I found at LKQ. Did I mention I found a race seat at the junk yard? Oh yes, I did indeed find one.

And Unofficial work session

So I cleaned up the battery connections with the junkyard cables. It looks better and there won't be a chance of anyone mistaking the red wire that lead (past tense used here) to the negative terminal as the positive terminal. That would have been bad.

Now I need to get the battery hold down and shut off switches installed and I'll be done with this checklist item.

Yeah for junkyards!

I really cleaned up today at LKQ.

I found the battery cables I needed, plus some heavy duty amp cabling with fuse. And I picked up a battery hold down bar.

I found two tachs, a speedo and fuel gauge from a 74 fiat. I'm trying to figure out how to mount a tach on the hood like the late 60's muscle cars. Can you have 2 tachs on a car? I guess I would need some sort of cable multiplier.

The big find of the day was in a mid 80's mustang:

Carbon fiber like speed shifting knob

Hood hold down pins

K&N Filter

and a Sparco seat!

Safety is Job One

The tires and brakes are done! Finished replacing the rubber hoses for the brakes last night. Bled them and put a check mark next to Brakes. The tires are all new, so they're done too.

Next on the agenda is to fix the fuel delivery issue. That includes replacing the coil wire. It doesn't really want to stay connected to the distributor. Not saying that's the problem, but it's gotta be fixed.

After that, we'll tackle engine cleanup, cage (!!!) and theme. There's tons of other things to do to, but that's the major stuff. Don't worry, I'll still post the useless stuff like when I install a kitchen timer to let the drive know how long they've been out. Or when we get a set of walkie talkies that Eric keeps promising, that I won't mention to him until it's almost race time.

We may move our work day to Tuesday to accommodate our recruit. More on that if it happens.