Went to Blountstown this morning. John found two sockets that fit locking lug nuts, so we took both of them. I'll return the other one that does not work on my car, as certainly someone else there now, or in the recent past, is going to be needing this thing.
Luckily Connie noticed the two aluminum panels on the table, as those were the rear guards for my gas tanks that were not put on the car. So much for everything being mechanically complete on the car.
Went up to Thomasville to see them still working on the tune for my car. Apparently there is something wrong in the wiring (possibly) that is making one of the O2 sensors ground out and cause the CPU to try to enrich the fuel to compensate. So the one back starts running REAL rich. They are going to bypass this problem for the time being by forcing the AFR to run in open loop. Once other issues get straightened out, then they will troubleshoot the problem so the car can run in closed loop. Still hearing a chattering from the rocker arm area. Sounds louder on the driver's side. Not sure what that is at this point. Do MSD coil packs make noise? It almost sounds like an ignition spark noise to me.
Both valve covers are leaking oil, so Aaron is going to have to yank them off to see what is making them leak. Justin had to pull them both off when he fixed that coolant leak at the back of the heads, so maybe the gaskets got pinched in the process. Oh yeah, they found a couple of the spark plug wires were loose. And here I was thinking the new cam was making that nice lope in idle....
Aaron is a little concerned about the oil pressure being lower than he likes it to be. Not sure what this means yet.... But he asked me if Chris had primed the oil pump properly before starting up the engine for the first time. I never heard Chris mention it, so I just don't know. Evidently this is something that needs to be done to every engine when it is built. Something I never heard of before, so I sure hope Chris knew about it.
No earthly idea when I'll be seeing my car back home again. But I certainly do get a pounding headache lately whenever I think about this...