A brief overview of the “work” (I say this word like Fonzie says “sorry”) I’ve (we’ve) gotten done over the last few weeks or months or however time is measured in this inescapable hellhole.
The key was forever stuck in the ignition until I boldly ripped the steering column apart with my bare teeth (and a bunch of tools and no teeth, but still).
Removed all the seats and tattered carpeting and got the rat nest interior (judging by the size of the turds we found it may have been a Rottweiler nest) to go from this:
To this:
Not pictured is removing and replacing the rusted out gas tank.
Then it was on to the engine bay.
A lot has and will go on in here. Stuff I don’t know enough about to explain anyways, so I’ll keep this brief and boring.
All this junk on the left side of the above picture is 1970’s last minute slap dash emissions technology. It essentially does nothing to save the earth, but is really good at sucking horsepower out of an engine and spitting out engine bay fires. Luckily in good ole red state Ohio, a 42 year old car doesn’t need to pass echeck (not that this crap would help), and I can just get rid of it. Much less cluttered engine pictured below.
Next and most recently were on to updating the ignition system by switching the distributor from points to an electric style system.
And finally today I upgraded the coil from 28000 volts to a “sports” 40000 volt coil.
Still needs a bunch of work before I can find out if this engine is even any good.
I hate working this hard.
Ok. Time for an update. I expect this thing is on the road with a cherry red paint job.
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