Jeeze, Guys! Thanks for the compliments! I've decided that when I put the car on display this November at this small, not very well known, Muscle Car get-together in the Chicago area...i think it's called McCRAKN or something like that..... I'm going to have a sign that reads "Built by SuperDave....Powered by Yenko.Net"
Hmmmm... maybe not. That might set the Ford guys off in ways that would even make an NCRS guy envious! Sort of like when he's told that a bolt is wrong on his car!
Anywhooo.... moving on...
The factory speedo won't read right with the old gear in there since I've changed the rear gears and the tire size. Now, being a Math major in Elementary School, I ran a simple trigonomic function to figure out how many teeth I needed on the gear. To help others, you simply take the square root of the tire pressure, multiply 1/2 the diamerphrence, then divide by 7. That number, when inverted, gives you the reason that I just Googled it!
Picked up the remaining stainless trim to finish out the roof rails and glass installation, along with a pair of Koni Shock decals. Oh... and a new driver's side door regulator since I'm not happy with the smoothness of the original. The headliner goes in tomorrow!
Some detail items are the "Remove the Tie Down Brackets " decal behind the license plate and the "Battery O.K." Decal. I try and have the line worker's mindset in place when doing details like this along with inspection marks. Instead of being neat, think about their job: Mark it, put it on.... move along! Nobody aligned corners, made paint blops perfectly round, etc. So in other words...I don't try and work to hard at being sloppy. Sort of just do it.... it'll look more authentic in my book.
Also had these center cap spacers made. A friend of mine runs a CNC shop and we banged these out from scrap aluminum. McQueen's original wheels were 15x6. Mine are 15x7 and as such, the offset is about 1/2" different. Looking at Hero Car pics, you can see how far that center cap sticks out. I want that look and this should do it. Overkill? Ha! When have I done anything underkill?!? Is that even a word?
More tomorrow when I mount them up!
Cheers
Dave