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Whole lotta sanding

Here's another goody from Pineapple....Intake Air Flow Balancer. From this unit Rob say's you can balance the front/rear intake track air flow, which it isn't in stock config. One piece to the equation why the rear runs leaner than the front. You tune it by using the exhaust temp at the marker. Hence I recently purchased their exhaust temp setup. Interesting concept, never used it.

8/29/06

So last weekend was interesting, had three FDs in the garage getting work done on them.

I finished sanding the first main layer and applied glazing on my car, then worked on Vince H. 94 31K FD. 

9-1-2006

I dropped the fuel tank today and will be fab'n up an internal swirl tank, that way it's in a protected environment and isn't in the way or visible. "Why no officer that's not a swirl tank in my cabin without any fire safety barrier, it's a water injection tank...ya, water injection tank.....what's that in the corner, my water injection tank, Doh! Never got around to doing this for myself, but did do it to two other tanks for other people, one day I will get around to doing it.

I got my Nardi steering wheel today too, I trying to decide if I want to Mod it and make it a D wheel or just leave as it is.

9/3/06

Spyder dropped off his new TIG welder so I could properly finished welding my front end. I finished spot welding today and started resealing. Need to do the under body now since I burn through the undercoat where ever I welded. The welds weren't all that pretty since I was welding over all the welding done previously with the 110 MIG. I did it to get better penetration into the sheet metal. Sanding, sealing and paint prep tomorrow and the first layer will be put on later this week! Yeeesss, sweeet. 

Disclaimer - My welding has improved considerably since then.

9-22-2006

Got all the Delrin suspension bushings pressed in except for the trailing link bushings. Trying to decide whether to retain the RE trailing arms I have or put the stock units in. (Put the stock unit in) I had to machine a custom press tool for remove and install some pieces. Good stuff.

I opted to not put zerks on because it would have provided negligible gains in maintenance. I was total wrong, ended up putting them on and glad I did it. I will have to remove all the suspension at least once a year to check wear anyways. Yeah right! Haha Another reason is only two or maybe three piece I could actually do it on; all others would have had clearance issues. Wrong again

It will be interesting to see the pros and cons of this setup both at the track and public roads. Track...Awesome, Public Roads..No so much, my car is vibrating itself apart. Holding a conversion with someone is hard too.