Well tonight I tried finishing up some of the minor stuff to make sure I could actually drive it down to the exhuast shop Friday morning....you know, coolant, oil, power steering, clutch, etc... Well I'm all set to get it down there but I still got a lot of the little stuff to go. Mostly because I'm going to rewire all my accessories with this dual battery install.

I did chain the motor mounts down. and I put a little twist to it. I put a couple chains at an angle trying to prevent the motor from moving backward. This should help stop the EGR from hitting the firewall or the plenum from hitting my brake booster.



I then did some HOT LAPS around the neighborhood with no hood or doors.... I did get it up to 55mph already which IS legal on that road... Man is this thing loud with no exhaust! Hard to get a performance compraision now, but after the exhaust is installed I can run the tests again. so far I'm really happy with it.

Now as for quirks, It has some that I need to work on. The EFI relay appears to have power and ground to it all the time. so I'm affraid to leave the battery connected otherwise it could drain the battery. Plus the relay is getting warm to the touch. Just something I'm going to have to figure out.

The engine doesn't want to idle very well at start up. you have to give it some gas for say the first 5 seconds before it takes the idle. again I haven't tuned anything yet since I'm waiting for the exhuast.

I did find a loose banjo fuel fitting which was leaking gas. That could of been bad - Really bad! I just forgot to tighten it when I was putting the engine back together. but luckily that was an easy fix and nothing bad happened!

Here is what it looks like now! Hood, Grill, Doors are all back on! and just to let you guys know, I didn't have to modify the hood any for that radiator.