Slowly moving towards the goal...

Ken from Swede Lil Pigs dropped by to lend a hand last night and we were welcome to have him there. We got the kill switches sorted out. One inside where the driver can reach, final location to be determined when the dash is put back in. The other on the drivers side cowl where emergency personnel can reach. Both tested good. I need to add a hold down for the key so if it comes off we don't lose it.

I installed the heater core bypass. I did not get the core removed, but that's next on the list.

I'm still dreaming of getting the cage installed. It looks like I'll buy one and have someone local weld it up.

Newly Used Battery

Dropped in a slightly used new battery from CL and got the car to crank on the 3rd try. Still having to use starter fluid and the idle is bad. If I don't keep the gas on, it will stall. But it's a promising start.

I'm not going to gloat about my nut loosening ability.

Last night started a bit slow, but it sped up after I clobbered my head getting out of the car. It came with a nice bong sound and cartoon stars floating around. It wasn't enough for tweety birds though, so no 911 call. We have the cowl mounting point for the first cutoff switch drilled. Then we started pulling the AC. This will reduce load on the engine, lighten the car and allow firewall access for the kill switch cables. We got everything out except the heater core. That will be pulled at the next session and the kill switch finished.

I've had a lot of good response to the CL and Lemons forum post. I hope to see everyone that's responded soon. I sent out an email that details the costs and the schedule. My only expectation is that if you want to race, you need to come work on the car. I would rather race with people that I've worked with and have that shared experience, than selling seats at race time.

No pictures from last nights work session, so here's a picture of a old Desoto. I'm just happy we're not working on it.

Porsche Sidebar

I scrapped the left exhaust pulling out of an inclined parking space and it dropped the muffler. I'm not sure what's managled, but I've pulled it apart to get a better look. Hopefully someone on the Renn Tech forums will have an answer. They know everything.

Right side, the good one.

Left side, the bad one.

Sway bar, what happened here?

Plates for the Car

I would like to put plates on the car to drive it around. Here are a few options from the DOT.

Donate Life

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Secular Humanists

Special Olympics. I think this may be the one. Comments?

New site layout

Well the new site layout completely screws up the already screwed up picture layout I had. I wish there were an easy way to put the pics where I want them to go in posts. I just let them land wherever they feel like it at this point.

Car pics

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