Dallas CC: engine drop Wednesday pm!

[Bwana Snake]

Miles,

Off to paint, I wish, my rinky-dinky day job has me all screwed up. I had hoped to have it to paint at the end of next month but I just had three new mil spec jobs hit me on Monday; documentation, documentation, documentation, documentation, dot the I’s and cross the T’s. Going Mad / Mad / Mad but still shooting to make paint by November 1.

Gary

[FST FOX]

Just left Sammy's place, both sidepipes installed, engine is primed, lowe radiator hose is almost complete, but the Distributor would not sit flush, we tried several tricks but no luck, I left but will probably return tomorrow

[Joe Wicked]

So Sammy, were you able to get everything done this week?

[SSSammy]

Friday, Patrick and John came over and we cranked it. Timing was way off from where I thought it was .. but John figgered out which way and ten minutes from when he arrived, we had engine start. Set the timing, ran it at 2000, 3000, 4000 and set the idle at 900. Engine sounds like an FE .. no surprise, right. We got all the tuning taken care of, then I said "look out, I'm going to back it into the garage. Instead, I put it in first and drove it around the block, only camera we had handy was Johns cell phone. Youtube sucks, the video really isn't this bad, but here it is .. turn your audio on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzf_TtXiHtE

It came back leaking all types of fluids I've got all that corrected, I think, will do another short drive Sunday. Today is get the gearshift adjusted day, and install the tunnel, shift boot. Had to insulate the tunnel, per ERA procedure. Have appointment with DPS Waiver inspector Mon to get inspection. Then will see if I can get it titled and registered. Will take Monday off work to do all that, fingers crossed. Doing it the legal way to set the procedure for all who come after me

See y'all Sun at the Garland show, in the caddy .. the Cobra is not legal

Sam

[Madmiles442]

Sounds great!
If you have all kinds of fluids leaking, then you probably have everything right. These things don't leak, they just mark their territory!

[FST FOX]

No problem, finally feeling better this cold / allergy kicked my but all week, was happy to see it start you won the poll between you and John, not by much but you still won

[SSSammy]

All dressed up, full tank, mirrors, seat belts, both seats, tunnel installed, cranked up to back out of driveway .. reverse gear won't engage With only 30 min left till the appointment with the trooper, I called him and rescheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

Been fiddling with the Hurst linkage, thought I had it perfect, but didn't adjust reverse after it worked the first few times. Today it was different, it wouldn't go in. Need to untwiddle the shift rod, not a big thing.

Big thing is the oil leak off the back of the block. I wish it was a bad pan gasket .. but I'm afraid it's a rear main seal or possibly the manifold seal. Will investigate further after the Sat DCC debut luncheon.

Sam