My "new" car/project.

[bramagedained]

Stuff left to do:

Acquire and weld in the sheet metal to complete the rear floor then put the interior panels back in.

Get a drive shaft.

Tidy up/complete misc wiring that I left long until everything else was done.

Bleed brakes and possibly adjust the booster->MC pushrod.

Alignment

Cut out and patch the rust spots on the driver's floor.

Figure out why the switch in the shifter for the reverse light is staying closed(so the lights are constantly on). The neutral safety works as expected.

[A//// Guy]

Good progress!

[bramagedained]

I got the sheet metal and the box for the rear floor/fuel cell cover and borrowed the rivet nut tool for the weekend, so I'll have that all knocked out in the next couple of days.

[bramagedained]

I'm really shit at keeping with the updates it seems. I'll have pictures up later tonight. I had a driveshaft made on Friday. Was ~$280 with tax from Proven Force. That was the last missing piece to take it for a drive.

It's getting close.

My to-do list:

Check all new fitting connections. Fuel/trans/brakes/coolant.

Set preload on front wheel bearings-Need to buy cotter pins.

Bleed Brakes.

Adjust Booster->MC pushrod.

Re-Install exhaust.

Wrap up wiring. Dome light and +12v to cigarette lighter for cell charger.

Sand the seam sealer on rear fender arches and paint bare metal.

Modify carb. -Remove and drill two holes in butterflies for idle.

Set timing. I need to buy a timing tape for the damper.

Mount battery box.

Make access hatch for fuel cell. I have sheetmetal and piano hinge.

Alignment.

Proceed to coat quarter panels with rubber.

[bramagedained]

It's getting close.

My to-do list:

Check all new fitting connections. Fuel/trans/brakes/coolant. -Done

Set preload on front wheel bearings-Need to buy cotter pins. -Done

Bleed Brakes.

Adjust Booster->MC pushrod. -Done

Re-Install exhaust. -Done

Wrap up wiring. Dome light and +12v to cigarette lighter for cell charger.
-I keep forgetting to buy the damn lightbulb itself.

Sand the seam sealer on rear fender arches and paint bare metal.
-This isn't actually critical.

Modify carb. -Remove and drill two holes in butterflies for idle. -Done

Set timing. I need to buy a timing tape for the damper. -Done

Mount battery box.
-This will take some figuring out to find a spot that I can actually get to the bottom. The easy spot is on the driver's side which isn't ideal. Or, I can use nutserts and put it wherever, but, I don't know how hard those actually are to rip out of sheet metal.

Make access hatch for fuel cell. I have sheetmetal and piano hinge. -Done

Alignment. Done with a tape measure, should make it driveable for a test anyway. -Done(kinda)

Proceed to coat quarter panels with rubber.

Test drive is a socket for the axle nuts and brake bleeding away.

[bramagedained]

I've put about 350-400 miles on the car. I made it to the July Cars and Coffee with the car.

Bleeding the brakes didn't go well as Wilwood did a shitty job machining the spacer between the two halves of one of them. I disassembled the caliper and corrected it.

I will need to eventually install the proportioning valve that I have to add some bias to the rear. Really, it will just replace the OEM one that I left on there to see what would happen. The way OEM is set up doesn't seem to throw enough pressure at the rear. It is designed around small disk brakes in the front and drums in the rear afterall.

Even without fixing that, it definitely stops way better than it did before.

I should probably take it some where for a real alignment, right now it is done with a tape measure and a level. In doing so, I didn't have the steering wheel completely straight which is somewhat annoying. I can let go of the wheel and it will track straight, it's just turned slightly right of center.

On a warm day(above 85° or so) it was getting hot. A tad above 210° even with the heater on.

I bought an aluminum radiator to replace the stock 42 year old one which showed up on Thursday. However, I've still not been able to test it. I was having issues getting the water neck to seal which was all pitted from either shitty casting or just being old.

A new one will show up on Sunday.

The fan shroud is now sealed to the radiator and the radiator to the core support. I've also blocked all the random holes in the core support so all the air from the front of the car is forced through the radiator.

I changed out the wiring for the electric fans to a heavier gauge as well, what was there seemed a bit light considering it needs to carry 20-30 amps for the fan.

I'm sure at least part of the problem is that the headers give off a ton of heat, which I'm not really going to do anything about this summer. They will likely be sent off to be ceramic coated this coming winter.

I made a bracket today so I could hook the kickdown cable for the trans back up to the carb. In doing so I found that the throttle cable wasn't adjusted properly. Pedal to the floor didn't actually translate to WOT at the carb, I'd guess it was 20-25% short. Even like that, it goes pretty good.

It seems to be happy with how the timing is set, and the curve from the parts I had for the distributor. Carb tuning needs to happen as well, but, it pulls clean to 6k in any gear. I'm going to convert the secondary side of the carb to jets, then I'd like to head out to a track and make passes and play with jetting. I don't know how much BIR lets things slide on Wednesday nights as far as being NHRA legal goes, as some things right now are not and/or wont be changed until next winter.

Hopefully on Sunday I can go for a drive and see if the changes paid off for cooling.

[goodhart]

Wed night tech is pretty loose unless it's a relocated battery. It must have the vented box/shutoff and all that. That's the only thing I ever really seen them enforce.

[bramagedained]

Wed night tech is pretty loose unless it's a relocated battery. It must have the vented box/shutoff and all that. That's the only thing I ever really seen them enforce.

Welp so much for that then.

[goodhart]

Why? What's the current battery situation?

[MorningWood]

My friends cobra had theirs mounted in the back. No cutoff just a vented box and they light him run it