It made noise

[1970camaroRS]

While waiting for my baby son to wake up for his 3am feeding, I wandered out into the garage, found a switched 12v source that worked during cranking as well, and wired in 12v to ignition relay and 12v to primary fuel-pump relay. Twisted the key and VROOOM. Shut 'er down ASAP and now I'm on cloud 9. Have to get neck deep in an '86 Corvette tomorrow, so I very painfully, have to wait...

[Dan Barlow]

Congrats. Nothing like hearing something come to life after a long hibernation.

[VTJUNK]

Very cool. Been a while since I've had that feeling you get first time you fire something up for the first time.

[TheSilverBuick]

Yeehaw!

[Barry Donovan]

that is simply rewarding..
a pile of the rest of details fills my head. Never stay gloating for long.

I have been playing with the little boxer for some time, lost count..
plucked one out of a horse trailer, one out of a wreck, pieces everywhere...one sat behind a garage, with a tarp flapping in the breeze pretending to cover it.

boom.

start and drive, tighten the valve cover bolt forgotten..

it really is fun.

the v8 is always a surprise, pre exhaust, a bigger kaboom to life.
changing compression after a 50k-100k mile routine in the same car is stunning... or any bigger engine felt at the wheel just to idle.

the little things are endless, like motivation if to have been there.

[Dan Barlow]

And by the way, I don't remember you ever.mentioning it before, how about some info / pics.

[1970camaroRS]

And by the way, I don't remember you ever.mentioning it before, how about some info / pics.

I've been keeping my nose to the grindstone more than documenting this one. But I do have a thread for it in the under $5,000 challenge. Hint: I failed and am a few grand over-budget.

http://www.bangshift.com/forum/forum/bangshift/project-cars-update/the-5-000-bangshift-project-car-challenge/44231-1978-oldsmobile-cutlass-supreme-daily-driver-lq4-swap