We apparently ordered one for a different mother board (I think?). Andrew brought his peak and hold driver to do the work until we buy one for ourselves.
The Red Furd is finally smogged. The intermittent problem cured itself by breaking completely, allowing us to find the problem. The shear pin on the distributor finally sheared, previously it was just wallowing out the hole and retarding the ignition by a bit at a time.
With a new to us distributor in place, it fired off and ran like a champ. Jason ran it down to the Smog Wizard wherein it was declared cleaner than a whistle and ready for license and registration. We'll take care of that next Monday.
It didn't really cost much to get the car on the road. It just takes a bunch of time to take a car from a shell to a running, licensed vehicle. We probably would have been done 4-5 months ago if we hadn't ran into the intermittent ignition problem. There were several months where we just walked away from the frustration.
Now the next phase begins, stick a Gillis valve on the wastegate tubing and TURN THAT MUTHA UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait for the carnage photos, and if no carnage photos, we'll do a twin cam head swap. Stay tuned.
I seem to be having more fun letting my son spend the money and helping him wrench, instead of me spending the money and wrenching by myself.
Yeehawwwww! Licensed, registered and legally on the road.
After spending a morning at the DMV, we have the paperwork sorted and the tags on the car. It coincides with Jason taking a job that requires some travel. We'll be putting together the emergency travel kit this weekend.
We've decided that we won't hot rod it until he has purchased some reliable transportation.
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