I've been offline for 3 days and there's only two new posts? Wow. Okay, so here's an update from my weekend.
Left work early on Friday. Went to Checkpoint Racing to help Mitch get ready for the hill climb over the weekend and pick up the air compressor I'm buying from him. Went home and got to work on the car. The interior is now completely stripped and all tar removed. Trying to figure out a safe, easy non-chemical method to removing residue though. Shitty Harbour Freight sander has limited to no results. Work on car until sundown (in street) then shower, go see X Men 3 with Mark, bar, then home around 2 am.
Saturday wake up early and run to Home Depot to buy some electrical stuff. Cap all unneeded wiring inside car and clean it out further. Attempt a wire brush on angle grinder for removal of tar. Give up and go with Steve to watch some beach volleyball. Screw around for a couple of hours with Steve and then go home. Finish underdash wiring clean-up and start reinstalling dash. Dash and front two seats are back in. Mark and I go for a quick drive. Car handles pretty sweet and completely lowering spring seat has fixed popping CV. Get out into a really rough dirt parking lot. Mark almost ends up in my seat after some spirited driving in parking lot and no passenger side seat belt. Biggest impression, open diff is horrible in a rwd car. Need to get the welded or a Supra diff in soon. We meet up with Steve and rest of crew at bar downtown. Drink, drink drink. We are on the patio on the 16th street mall. By the end of the night I had made around $25 doing random shit, my cell phone is now in about 15 pieces after multiple times of throwing it at a pole across the street but finally the bus running over it was fatal. Then it got lit on fire thanks to a broken/leaking lighter. I harrassed many people with an orange construction cone. Wandered off alot. Couldn't find any cockroaches. Passed out at the second bar we went to. Slept until 1:30 Sunday then laid around until work. Went out in Merkur after work. Put about 50 miles on it, and other than a poof of smoke at startup and running really, really, hot, it seems in good shape. Going to pull AC system today after work to try to clear up flow to radiator. New radiator should be here this week as should exhaust and intercooler piping so may get started on that. Oh, new question, actually construction related.
Nah, nevermind.
Grant Hughes
