Progress to come

So, I cleaned up the shop over the weekend. It really needed it. Regardless, I have a lot to do over the weekend. I have lined up a friend to help me with reassembling the suspension, brakes, etc.

Below are some photos of painted shiny suspension parts. I would like to add that painting parts sucks. It never fails that you miss one side or segment of the part. The nice thing is that you can always get it on the next coat. There are certainly some flaws in the paint. However, for limited prep and horrible painting conditions they turned out pretty well.

Over the weekend

I was able to finish disassembling the suspension. I proceeded to paint any parts not painted on the previous weekend. This evening I was able to spray a little paint. Today was just touch up/second coat on a couple parts. Unfortunately lighting conditions were not ideal and I got a couple runs on one of the lower arms.

Over the weekend I also successfully installed the fuel sample port. This was very easy to do. This is purpose of this port is to provide a place where your race sanctioning body can test your fuel to ensure you aren't using something you're not supposed to be. It involves splicing the port into the supply line to the engine. In order to get a little extra length I purchased some additional high pressure fuel line from the local auto parts store and splice it in by removing the soft hose from the hard line, and adding some additional line between the existing end of the hard line and the end of the soft line. It puts the port in a much more accessible place.

Ugh, winter sucks

I have been battling a cold, maybe the flu, who knows. So, I have not had much of a chance to work on the car. That coupled with the fact that my commutes have been ridiculously long the last couple days due to the weather.

This weekend, I hope to get a bunch of stuff resolved. The goals are, all the suspension disassembled and painted, parts ordered, fuel sample port installed, fuel filter, and maybe start on the kill switch. It should be a fun weekend.