So this was all day. Relocating the battery was actually the lion share of the day, and cutting the hold down bracket to make it work properly is what cost me the huge gash in the top of my left index finger. It actually needed at least one stich, but that would've killed the day, so....paper towels, and masking tape had to make due. It did slow things down quite a bit after the " incident" though.
Now that all of that is behind me, I'm sitting here with some butterfly closures holding it closed, and it's wrapped in an aluminum splint to keep me from bending it tonight and bleeding all over the bed. I'll tell you this, there was blood all over the place.
The throttle shaft was adjusted first. As many times as I've attempted this, I think I've finally figured it out. Each throttle blade is within .010 of each other now,..With the differences between cylinders, I'm not gonna obsess about getting them all exact.
Of all of the weirdest sht that could happen today,..the weirdest was that I actually put a 1ga. ground cable on the positive post. That cable goes from the rear to the front, and is mounted on a floating grommet at the other end. Several of the ga. Grounds are tied into that cable. After I moved the battery, I got the cables mixed up, and put a negative cable on the positive terminal.
Why this didn't spark like a bitch is beyond me, and what actually happened was that the turn signal indicator lamps, and the " low water level" light came on. Turning the key revealed that the fuel pump wasn't working, so this must've also been the ground for the Ecu as well. Why this didn't burn up a whole bunch of stuff I'll never know, cause it surely could have.
The hood is kinda a point of contention for me.....there's nothing really wrong with the one that's on the car other than its got those blisters (G-Nostrils), and a buttload of bondo slathered on it. I am now forced to cut holes in the hood to accomodate the Aero-catch hood pins to hold the hood down...and if I cut this hood to install them, I'd have to have everything exactly the same when I change over..
I'm thinking I don't try to keep the existing hood, else wise I could be opening a can of worms if/when I decide to swap.
The paint is gonna need some serious work...there are now swirl marks all over it from me buffing the sides prior to the stripe install. Add to that that the paint has a texture like it's covered in sand,..the drivers rear quarter window is flaking like mad, and there are various chips and scratches here and there....it needs me.
When I did the video,..I realize just how much stuff I've done by what I forget to talk about..I never mention the interior...the hand bent steel, covered in leather, or the chromoly tubing that was mandrel bent in my driveway, cut and tigged together. I never talk about it at shows either,..everybody focuses on the engine..to me, the interior is more of an accomplishment than anything I've done on this car...
Since it has sat on its tires since this afternoon, the rake is back, the front tires are way the hell up in the fenders like they're sposed to be..the car sat high in those pics that I took,...clearly, it needed time to relax after hanging for 6 months.