Aventari has been lots more busy with his race car than I have with ours.
Last weekend I finished up all the wiring. Dennis made a little panel to mount the cutoff switch and the pushbutton starter. I had to puzzle out the back of the old key ignition switch. I couldn't find a diagram in my shop manual pdf on my phone. The black wire with the white stripe was the starter wire. I decided to keep the ignition switch and hid it under the "dash" so we can turn it off as a theft deterrent (or maybe it was just easier to stuff it under there than it was to cut it off and connect all the wires, because I can't imagine someone trying to steal it.
The moment of truth came when I tried to start it. Nothing happened. That didn't surprise me at all. The chances that I had gotten everything right seemed pretty small. After puzzling over it for a while, it occured to me that I might want to try it with the clutch pedal depressed. That did the trick. It started right up! Yay!
Tedd finished re-mounting the seat, so he and Dennis fit in it. It's perfect.
The tranny is the next big step. My lower back is telling me I'd better get my team mates to do the heavy lifting.
Last weekend I finished up all the wiring. Dennis made a little panel to mount the cutoff switch and the pushbutton starter. I had to puzzle out the back of the old key ignition switch. I couldn't find a diagram in my shop manual pdf on my phone. The black wire with the white stripe was the starter wire. I decided to keep the ignition switch and hid it under the "dash" so we can turn it off as a theft deterrent (or maybe it was just easier to stuff it under there than it was to cut it off and connect all the wires, because I can't imagine someone trying to steal it.
The moment of truth came when I tried to start it. Nothing happened. That didn't surprise me at all. The chances that I had gotten everything right seemed pretty small. After puzzling over it for a while, it occured to me that I might want to try it with the clutch pedal depressed. That did the trick. It started right up! Yay!
Tedd finished re-mounting the seat, so he and Dennis fit in it. It's perfect.
The tranny is the next big step. My lower back is telling me I'd better get my team mates to do the heavy lifting.
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