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Unread 10-24-2011, 11:49 AM   #1011
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Oh yeah, I guess there is a string attached. Wonder how big of a sock to the jaw that finally bill is going to be?
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Speaking of numbers...what are they on the dyno for now?

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Unread 10-24-2011, 11:57 AM   #1012
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Speaking of numbers...what are they on the dyno for now?

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Heck, I'm not really sure. At one point Aaron said it was 650 to 660, but in a later conversation he mentioned 692......... He's reluctant to put it on the dyno again for me to get video. I had been hoping for quite a while to get more video of it on the dyno, but it just never worked out. Now he just doesn't want to tempt fate by making a frivolous run just for me to get video.

Quite honestly, I think Aaron just wants to get the car out of there before something else breaks on him...
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Rich,

I am sure you will report how fun fast and furious it is after some driving...waiting for that!!!

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Unread 10-24-2011, 01:48 PM   #1014
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Yup the white flag is out. I think if it were my car and my wife had supported me through what you have been through I would let her drive it the first 4 or 5 miles and I would follow with the camera.
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Very glad to hear Rich. Hope their is no other shoe to drop.
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Unread 10-25-2011, 07:38 AM   #1016
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That's great news Rich. Guess you better get that space in your garage cleaned out now.I sure hope it runs good with no major problems.That dinner out, just got alot closer.
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This point HAD to come some day. Just over two years...that's just crazy! So, if I ever want to have a mean nasty engine build...I'm doing it myself. LOL
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Unread 10-25-2011, 02:24 PM   #1018
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That's great news Rich. Guess you better get that space in your garage cleaned out now.I sure hope it runs good with no major problems.That dinner out, just got alot closer.
Well, I have the bay in the garage cleared where the lift is located. Something tells me I'm going to REALLY need to do a bunch of cleaning underneath. Plus the interior was pretty wrecked looking last I saw it. Cobwebs in the back and two years worth of dust.

Aaron said he is going to clean up the car for me before I get it, but I don't expect him to put a lot of time and effort into that endeavor. When the body shop in Blountstown took out the scratches in the paint from being at Harwood's shop, they left a LOT of really bad swirl marks in the finish. Aaron says he thinks he can save the paint job.

I just wish I could stop thinking of Harwood's face every time I think about that car. If anything, that would be the biggest reason I might decide to get rid of it.
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Well, not going to be done this week after all.

Aaron told me that some mounting parts for the Pfadt front sway bar are missing. He had hoped I might have them, but no such luck. They are not in all the stuff I recovered from Harwood's shop belonging to my car, so there is no telling where they may have wound up by now. It's just a matter of some spacers and bolts, so Aaron is going to get them from Pfadt. So of course this won't be done until those parts show up. He was going to overnight the stuff, but I told him that a few more days isn't really going to make any difference to me at this point.

Aaron also told me that he finished up detailing my car and got all those swirl marks out of the paint finish. He said I wouldn't recognize the car now.

Let's see, what else did he tell me?

He needs to check to see what thermostat is in that engine.

Needs to charge up the AC compressor.

He discovered that the ABS cable had been removed at some point, but fortunately that was in the car.

Oh yeah, just to note, he replaced two of the O2 sensors because one was giving flaky readings while they were trying to tune the engine.

He said he drove it around 20 miles yesterday (Wednesday) looking for DIC error codes, but the slate was clean. So that's a good sign...

I guess that brings everything up to date, now...
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Well, this really doesn't come as any surprise after the length of time it has been unhooked, but the AC compressor is dead. He's going to take it to an AC guy he trusts to have him do the work. That will take place tomorrow. At the same time he's going to check that thermostat and if it's not a 160 in there, he will put one in for me.

Aaron is going to fabricate the parts needed to hook up the front sway bar, so that should be done today.

I'm waiting for the meteor to hit my car any day....
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