A lot of electrical work has been done since the February post. Here's a short summary begging for additional details. See the previous post for all the other updates. The board we made a while ago for fuel pumps (x3) and radiator fans (x2). In the third picture you see its secure mounting location for about one month before we dig into electrical work even more. As part of getting the rear bumper off for the kill switch (see previous post), we had to pull off the taillight housings. Read more...

It's been 2.5 months since my last update. The car is very nearly driveable at this point. This post covers all the non-electrical updates, and the next covers the electrical ones. New struts for the hood and the rear hatch. We installed a plate on the firewall to cover up most of the holes, and then immediately introduced a hole into it for the main wiring harness. We did the same on the driver side for boost controller and headlight wiring and the throttle cable. Read more...

While the pads, rotors, and calipers were installed long ago, I never actually had brakes until this last weekend. We finally ran fresh brake line and bled the system. Here's the plan I worked off of (here as a diagrams.net file). It went through a major change each time I found a mistake or oversight. For example, I didn't even remember originally that the 9" rear end came with brake lines, so I scrapped the plan to run hard line along the width of the rear end; the prudent thing to do would be to use the soft line and the T the rear end came with, even if the T is a silly blue color. Read more...