No good deed goes unpunished...

Another weekend closer to the goal, and we're a few baby steps closer. Seemed like we did a lot this weekend, but don't have as much to show for it. Saturday we "fixed" the taillights. Apparently this car is picky about its grounding, and not having the fuel tank grounded (we had unbolted to attempt to take it out a couple weeks ago) made the difference. We jumpered the stupid "Lamp Failure Sensor" for good measure though.

This week I stopped by our buddy Caz's place, and he TIG welded up our stainless wye pipe with some aluminized steel adapters to start putting our exhaust back together. Below you can see his handy work, and the front of the glasspack we're currently running. Putting the wye pipe bace in was a bit of a trick though, as the welding had pulled the two legs closer together and things took some pulling on to line up. But we got it together.


And of course, we couldn't put in the new exhaust and NOT hear it. Duh... Its quieter, I think...

And Sunday Jeff stopped by to get some more welding done. And as you can see, we got the driver side door bars in, the plinthe boxes welded, and dash bar in. Not bad. Its all ready to weld to the car some night this week.



Jeff also fixed up the holes I blew through the sheetmetal and finished welding up the new, lowered, seat mount brackets. Might add a couple more braces, but I think we're good to go.

Saturday we got the beginnings of the new bumper fit together. Its about ready weld on. Soren also protected our new Cold Air intake (through the headlight hole) with some chicken wire. Looks a lot tougher now at least.

And last but not least, as a co-worker is fond of saying, no good deed goes unpunished. And sure enough, we put in some extra time Sunday welding things up, and the dash bar slips while being fitted, and pop, we have a cracked windshield. *sigh*


CORRECTION: Like Erik said, the front shocks are out now. But there's still some work to be done on the adapters for the new springs. Soren picked up some pre-cut pieces, and we got holes in two of them to fit over the shock, but need to cut at least two more to get closer to the expected height. So they're almost ready to go back on.