Exhausted

Although early in the week I'm tired tonight.. Did some work on the racecar and although the clothes dryer and my small heater kept me warm I ran out of energy.. I did make some progress.. I'm finishing the trunk area and will paint it this week..

Well gonna go..
Les
Mood 1>10 (7)

Almost the end of January

Hey,
Spent some time on the car today.. I tore apart my new fuel cell to make changes to the fuel line fitting. I changed the size of the out line to a bigger one. I had to remove all of the foam inside the cell and then drill a bigger opening for the fuel line fitting.. The whole ordeal took a couple of hours. I also went back and hooked up the inside door latches.

A couple of days ago I picked up my rear window from a friend that does tinting.. It looks real nice.. He's doing the rear quarter windows as well.. that should help keep the inside heat down some in the summer.. The racecar doesen't have roll up/down windows nor Air=conditioning..

I should have more updates soon..

Les
Mood 1>10 (7)

Progress Today

Well, made some progress.. I put together what's called a short block. That consists of the block, crank, rods & pistons. All the checks have been done.. Real hard to believe it's taken this long to get to this point of construction. I felt really rested today, so it was a good day to build the block. The assembly is time consuming because of the detail involved. It all went together perfect so I'm very happy. I'll post a few pic's this week.

See ya,
Les

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Racing Reflections

It's been sad really. I remember growing up and reading about Dick Landy "Dodge." I also have met with Bennie Parsons "NASCAR fame" .. Both Hero's Dick & Bennie have passed on this week.

I'm sure they will be missed!

Les
Mood 1>10 (5)

On the ropes again

I dun no actually.. work is just getting too frustrating lately. Nothing seems to be going my way and the grave sort 'a speak gets deeper.. Like I said frustrating and hope the clouds go away soon.. I did manage to do some work on the Mustang engine tonight dispite the cold shop temps..

Later,
Les
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Bogged down at work lately

Lot's of stresses at work lately. I was going to work on my Capri Saturday but then decieded to to work on the racecar engine. Since it's at our shop .. the shop owner told me I need to finish working on the Capri and my engine can wait.. The Capri has a computer fault when checked with a scanner but the problem only exists when you scan the car. The problem doesent exist.. Kind of hard to explain.. Anyways the car won't smog because what the scanner sees.. but when tested at the tail pipe the smog (emmissions) are OK.. It may be a bad computer but I took a computer out of an idental car and it has the same problem.. I checked the car I took the computer from and guess what, same problem.. so is it the scanner softwear or is there a problem that causes cars like this to fault in the same way.. Dunno??

Anyways I didn't work on the engine.. but you can bet your cookies were gonna get 'er done this week cuz I'm mad.. I'm lacking head gaskets so tomorrow I'm going to purchace some.. I'm down on the $$ ladder but.. need to finish the engine..

Not too much going on today.. I ran the lawn mower in the afternoon to pick up some leaves in the backyard.. I think it was like 30 something degrees.. too funny.. Never really mowed the leaves in the winter..

That's about all for today.. I'll post some pic's on the engine build this week..

Take care,
Les

Mood 1>10 (8)

Berrrr It's Cold Outside!

Umm yah! I spent some time in the garage tonight making a rubber spacer to support the fuel pump that comes up tru the trunk floor. I also worked on the Capri tail lights. They are painted to match the car color (Tan) but I wanted them black. The seperations in the fins of the lights are almost 1/2 inch. The gap made it hard to find masking tape cheap.. my life's story.

I have one tail light done but one side needed repair. I glued it so tomorrow I'll paint that one. I had to do all my lanudry tonight to heat the garage.. really.. I have a small heater but.. the dryer helps a bunch.

Well I'm sure the next few days are going to be real cold. Usually I expect a deep freeze around the last week of Jan or the first week in Feb.. It appears the cold came early this year. Along with the cold we havent had much rain. I'm betting for a real wet Feb/ March.. guess we will see..

Les

Mood 1>10 (8)

Blahs Lately

Umm not feeling all that great lately. I think there was maybe two days that I haven't felt like I had the Flu. Went on a bindge and purchaced the fuel pump for my Mustang.. not cheap for sure. I still need fuel filters and thoses are not cheap either.. My plans are to honker down and save the rest of the cash to get this car running.. I'll have to do without and put all my efforts in one basket. I'm still working on that convertable Capri. That car is running but has some trouble with the smog controls. It will pass the test but came up with probs in the computer end of it.. No worries I'll fix it at least that only cost's time.

Just need time today to write down my plans, still pushing to have the car ready for the 2007 season.. The track hasn't posted race dates as of yet.. I still have high expectations of my Mustang.. can't wait!

Les
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