The hot rod project has been on hold since mid-March. The hiatus was due to a number of things. First I helped a friend's sister flip her condo, we were out of the country for a few weeks and to get the car ready to go kart, the rack was being used. Now the hot rod is on the rack and we are starting up again, but have a bit of the summer blahs, so it's slow going.
Our main job now that it's on the rack, is to button up all the lines (brake, fuel, and electrical) that were too hard to get to on the stand we built. With it all the way up on the rack, we can really see how things are routed and make sure the lines are secure and routed out of harm's way. For example, we just tightened up the exhaust and it took a while since it touched the frame and would have caused extreme vibrations if we left it routed that way. So we reworked the exhaust so there was some clearance to the frame.
We are in process, but so far we secured the radiator hose, hooked up the emergency brake cables, and routed the oxygen sensors. Plenty more to do while it's up in the air.
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| very tight but we got it not to touch the frame |
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| The muffler and the heat shield above it |
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| Emergency brake linkage |
