I was wandering through the " what did you do to your roadster today", and said to myself "self why the other guys and not us". I realize we are smaller in number but we were the world champs in 1965.
So I'll start. I am waiting for the coupe to arrive this week. I finished my body buck and rebuilt the power steering pump and I am going to go out to the shop and look at my Breeze hydro boost and mark the pressure line in and out, If I can figure out which is which and mark them, as such, since they did not come w/ directions. I will be posting pics when (hopefully) this week when coupe arrives.
Vinnie
Neither simple nor cheap. I opened up the center section and the oil is full fine dust from the friction disks. Didn't see any physical damage to the gears or bearings. Going to ditch traction-lok and try Detroit tru-trac.
I visited Jeff Miller's paint shop in Temecula...actually yesterday but who's checking... to check it out and get some pricing. I have a few loose ends to finish AND I'm waiting for my rear glass.
I did drive back from LA today. Total milage was 1291 miles and used 54.3 gallons of fuel...23.7 mpg...can you believe that???? 408 hp and 1291 miles with at least 300 of that was city or slooooow LA freeway miles.
A FFR coupe with this motor (Coyote) would be really cool.
I made some progress on the engine today.
got the push rods and rocker arms installed today. Also redid the gasket on the oil pan, It got messed up on the first attempt of install. The cork gasket seemed to work much better, hopefully no leaks.
I did do a little engineering work on my Spyder. Engineering work is where a sit on my roll around stool, drink beer and eat in the shell roaster peanuts and try to figure out what to do next.
I walked past my Coupe a dozen times this weekend but haven't worked on her in about 7 months. There have been way more excuses for not working on her than good reasons to get anything done on her. What are unfinished Coupes worth these days? I keep saying "I'll work on it eventually..." but eventually never comes...
Speaking of wiring, I'm finally back to about 99% complete with my wiring. Good grief, what a pain it is when you lose/break just one grounding wire. :confused1:
Never has Murphy's Law been more prevalent than when working on the wiring.
Got an email from FFR that my back ordered rear glass has shipped along with the hardware. Still working on "punch list" to get me to the "send to painter" milestone.
I really like this thread...I feel bad if I can't post something...which means I did something to move forward on the project.
So, actually yesterday, since I moved the T-Bird out I mopped and scrubbed the garage floor. The wife was giving me grief about tracking stuff into the house. Also, I reinstalled the gas tank and made the wiring for the backup lights. I bought the Mini Cooper backup light so now I need to decide if I mold it into the rear or just make a bracket and hang it off the bottom.
Brought the coupe back from the body shop after having the doors and rear glass hatch fitted. Also had a vent fitting glassed into the large hood vent for airflow over the driver's side headers. Total was 47.5 hours!! Now about 24 items to do before complete dissassembly and shipping back to the shop for paint!!!
Chris: Tip for the connectors on that Mini light
After you have the wire on the crimp connector, wrap the connector with heatshrink all the way down to the very end of the metal so you can only see metal when you look in the end of the heatshrink.
Trim the heatshrink flush with the metal on the end.
Grease the heatshrink on the outside.
Plug the wires into the light.
Fill the remaining area in the light socket with hot glue.
The grease should allow the wires to come out if needed, but the hardened hot glue will support everything and keep the pins from getting stressed from vibration.
Worst case, you can dig the hot glue out with a pick tool if you had to.
Thanks Meaty. I'll have to look for that at my local Autozone.
FYI, they have one especially for the Coupe...it's ceramic and water proof...$9.99 + $7.00 shipping :evil:
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