It’s been a while but it finally runs. Turns out it wasn’t the injectors, it was a bad fuel pump. What a PITA job that is. They really don’t make it easy to replace but I got it done. I have to thank my wife. She helped out a bit and pushed me through it. After getting the job half done I was really not looking forward to the rest but she kept saying “Let’s go, have to work on the car” so we got it done. I think she was sick of seeing it sitting on jack stands. Now I can get back to the interior.
I’ve been trying real hard to get the car driveable. It’s not going so well. I put the steering wheel back in and was going to take it for a spin around the block but it wouldn’t start. I’ve replaced the fuel filter, added some fresh gas and checked for spark. Still no luck. I suspect the injectors are clogged so this week I will be pulling them and either cleaning them myself or sending them out to be flow matched. I really hope that’s the problem. I also have to find a place to do the rest of the upholstery.
It has been a really long time since I’ve posted here. I haven’t really accomplished anything worth posting. Every now and then I get motivated to tinker with it but haven’t accomplished much. I did finally finish wiring the main gauge pod, but nothing works. Well, the temp gauge works but I had that working long ago. It’s hard to get motivated to work on it when things like this keep happening.
I also haven’t been working on the car lately because I’ve been distracted with other projects. If you are interested in seeing what I’ve been doing, visit my personal blog.
Oh yeah, what the $%^& was I thinking when I created that image at the top? That is ugly. I will have to make a new one. I really don’t remember doing that. Maybe I made a really nice one and it somehow got corrupted. Yeah, that must be it.
I just set up a new image gallery that is integrated with the blog and updated the link. The only problem is now the images are out of order. Before they were in reverse order by date. From now on they will be ordered by date, but all my past photos will remain out of order. Oh well. The old gallery is still up at http://www.ricklord.com/galleries/formula/gallery.shtml for now. I will eventually redirect that page to the new gallery.
I will eventually (that word keeps coming up) categorize the images so you can view all pictures of the interior, exterior, or whatever.
I haven’t had much to post the last week or so because I’ve been sick. If it weren’t for that I would have had my tail lights done last weekend. Since I was on the couch sick anyway, I took the opportunity to overhaul my website. I re-did this page, my personal page at ricklord.com and I started a new page like this one for my Diablo project. I also integrated an image gallery program I created for KitKar.com into my Diablo page. I think I will eventually use that to replace the image gallery here.