Thursday, April 30, 2009

Car fell apart again : (

Yup the exhaust again. Our ghetto fab lasted just over 100km. I rigged it up again in about 25min, this time no cement, bigger bolts, this time more than just finger tightened, and an extra metal clamp ring around the brackets that were once cemented to the pipe.

It looks less sturdy but I'm convinced it's going to be stronger since before we were relying on the cement which apparently is pretty weak, and this time we're relying more on bolts.

Mitch also flushed the rad and replaced the coolant to try and get our running temp down but the car still reports to be running hot. We're starting to think it's just a bad thermostat. Also discovered the problem with our door chime never turning off is because the modern keys we got cut aren't quite right and we just need to jiggle them a bit in the ignition and it will stop the chime! :D The keys were like 3 bucks each and look just like modern car keys which is awesome since our ride clearly is not.

Mitch took the car to Wise Guy's and washed it down and sprayed wax for a solid 4 minutes. Car is looking great in a shit box sort of way. Might try and touch up the paint later, I dunno.


One of my fav shots ----^

-steve

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