This is what happens when you get bored on a Sunday............

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02-06-2012, 03:52 PM

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So will your rollcage finally be painted? You know... the important stuff

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02-06-2012, 04:45 PM

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what coffee are they feeding you in NJ, that wiring must be a monster task?

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02-06-2012, 04:49 PM

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I did not see the kitchen sink in the photos

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02-06-2012, 05:13 PM

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So will your rollcage finally be painted? You know... the important stuff

The car is on the way down to you for prep and paint....didn't you get it yet?

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02-06-2012, 05:15 PM

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what coffee are they feeding you in NJ, that wiring must be a monster task?

Tedious is probably the best word but once you get in the mode it goes pretty fast. I did that before I did anything else and it only took about 8 hours to tear everything out, organize the individual harnesses and then shorten all the wires.

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02-06-2012, 05:17 PM

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I did not see the kitchen sink in the photos

My wife made me install it before I was allowed out in the shop to work on the car

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02-06-2012, 05:31 PM

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it'll never run again

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02-06-2012, 05:43 PM

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Thanks. I was itching for 2 days after that. The price you pay to save 2lbs and spend no money

Lol, thats dedication. Just gotta do the bumpers now to make the Honda guys jealous. J/k. Looks like youll have your hands full. Nothing like garage therapy.

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02-06-2012, 05:55 PM

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it'll never run again

But I know someone who could put it back together and I know where you (I mean he) lives and I'm in the area enough that I could leave the box.......I mean boxes of parts at your (I mean his) shop

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02-06-2012, 05:57 PM

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Lol, thats dedication........... Nothing like garage therapy.

Dedication..crazy, insane I think they are all in the same category.
A friend and I are thinking about starting a shop and calling it OCD Engineering.

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02-06-2012, 06:08 PM

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^^
Lol. That would be fitting. My wife has called me all of the above.

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02-06-2012, 06:32 PM

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Lol. That would be fitting. My wife has called me all of the above.

My wife calls it a one track mind

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02-06-2012, 06:39 PM

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it'll never run again

You're right, so I'm going to quit while I'm ahead!

Here's my new ST-2 car

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02-06-2012, 07:48 PM

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Getting bored can get expensive!

Great work and good ideas!

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02-06-2012, 08:28 PM

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Excellent progress for a days worth of hard work.

I'll echo the viking, I can't believe you are calling this a winter project when I am headed to the track next weekend. LOL.

-Kevin

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02-06-2012, 08:50 PM

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Getting bored can get expensive!

Great work and good ideas!

I'll heed those as words of experience!

This project is mostly labor. The budget is under $2500 at this point.

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02-06-2012, 08:52 PM

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Excellent progress for a days worth of hard work.

I'll echo the viking, I can't believe you are calling this a winter project when I am headed to the track next weekend. LOL.

-Kevin

I could join you at the track.....but I guess I would only be a spectator

I guess there is some advantage to living up here....longer project season.

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02-06-2012, 08:55 PM

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Very true and that is why I don't live in Chicago anymore!!!

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02-06-2012, 09:22 PM

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The car is on the way down to you for prep and paint....didn't you get it yet?

I just picked up a gallon of industrial gloss pink... you cool with that?

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...a shop and calling it OCD Engineering.

I work there

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02-06-2012, 09:42 PM

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Getting bored can get expensive!

It can save your behind too. I was "bored" two weekends ago so I pulled my valve covers to chetck my valvetrain. I noticed a rocker with a lot of play, like valve lash. Turned out to be a lifter with a bad roller bearing that had apparently gotten damaged before because of a broken valve spring. Luckily I caught it before it knicked the cam lobe. My boredum cost me a head gasket, a set of lifters for that side and the whole day....but Im sure it saved my motor.

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