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Just redid my engine to chassis main negative ground. I have a trunk mount  battery.

Fired it up to take it for a test drive, the engine idled better when cold and my gas gauge went from less than a quarter tank to a half with a very solid needle.   Could be wishful thinking but felt like it ran better.I can't believe how well everything worked with all my average at best grounds.  I need to go through and check every ground. Thanks to this thread. ?

This was the old ground mounting point.

I think mine is grounded by that body clip also. Thought it looked a little janky. Also just purchased a new AGM battery from Interstate Battery store and found out they will make you a custom battery cable at the store. 

IMSA is showing a live feed on their web site on some of the historic races. 

https://imsatv.imsa.com/

I had the privilege to know Tom Hattem back in the 80's and 90's.  I worked with Tom on a small Sports Car team for five years or so and had the honor to see him get married. He was a great person, smart and a helluva mechanic and a genuine good guy.

RIP  

$ 11,600 on their web site

I cleaned up my new used instrument bezel and one of my Son's coworkers redid the pinstripe around the gauges.

Turned out,  he did a great job on the pinstripe. Also repainted  the backing rings and redid the matte white. Now the fun begins. ?

Nice job on the hubcaps. Whats a set of restored hubcaps worth ? I have five or six that came with my 02 that need restoration.

Looks like a nice little project to do. 

1 hour ago, Geoff Raynak said:

You will NOT be disappointed ... the whole 'thai post' tracking thing is a bit whacky ... but just trust in it ... 

mine are amazing (two post up!) ... if you need drawings for low-profile adapters ... LMK ... i have them ... 

 

 

Thanks, I might have to take you up on the offer.  Pretty  excited, he said he was going to stop making them after  the first of the year.    

Purchased a set of Recaro's for my 73 2002. Now their on a slow boat from Thailand.

I think I would attempt to clean that up also. Tyvek suit, face shield mask and a grinder. Be a dirty job can be done.

Maybe more pics of inside of roof. How stripped down is the rest of the car ?

Interior looks very very nice. Love the colors. Well done.

Made a new battery hold down for my new battery. Cleaned up the  electric fuel pump ground and fuel gauge ground.

No more jumpy needle.  

Double checked my radiator install. Everything seems to be okay.I've driven it quite a bit and the temp gauge stays right at half.

A little surprised it didnt take any extra water. 

Replaced my radiator with a spare  tested radiator I had. Seems to be working pretty good but don't think I got the thermostat to open yet. Kinda late and not to anger the neighbors I called it a night.

Purchased an Interstate AGM battery for my trunk mount. Nice battery but of course its a 1/2 inch taller and my threaded rod

 hold down is now to short and its metric thread and nobody in town stocks the stuff.  wtf really 

From just those few pictures appears to be quite a bit of rust. The paint job could be a little suspect also with the runs and pealing.

I think its cool and very nice that your trying to help someone out, but I bet its not worth nowhere near what the  owner thinks.

Hopefully it wont be an exercise in frustration.  Good luck with it.  

You can try if you like . I went with this one do to recommendation and results in this forum.

Works great.

https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/NF_EL13

My battery done died today. 

My Kirkland December 2013 battery is getting tired as of late. Debating to make my own rear shock tower brace and battery tray.

My set up takes up way to much trunk space I think.   I do like the idea of under the rear seat. I have speakers there now, but that could change.  Oh these rabbit holes. 

Walked by it 50 times to grab tools. Spent the day working on my brothers Jeep brakes.

I will never own a Jeep. ☹️

The 73tii I had also did the driver side window in the late 1990's .  I'm standing in the yard and kablamo shattered glass everywhere.   

Spam,  no way I was hoping to get my kitchen redone while they did my dash.  wtf

27 minutes ago, ezlnh8u said:

I upgraded to an electronic flasher, a while back. I was running led bulbs on the rear, and everything worked fine, now with the new led bluntech kits, the rear signals only work when the flash unit touches a magnet, I tried a new flasher and the same results.

That is truly strange. Do the hazard flashers work correctly ?  

19 minutes ago, Chris_B said:

You may want to think about whether the odor is coming from exhaust fumes, which after entering the trunk smell very similar to gas fumes. Check your trunk (boot) gasket for integrity.

For sure its fuel I can go to the garage in the morning and pop the trunk and smell it. Thanks though

14 minutes ago, mike said:

If you still have the cloth covered hose connecting the tank's outlet pipe to the plastic fuel line, remove, throw in neighbor's pool (don't lose the plastic ferrule on the tank nipple) and replace with some US style rubber fuel hose.  That now 40+ year old cloth covered hose cracks under the cloth, and will seep gas--enough to smell but not enough to see.

 

mike

First thing I replaced,  all the fuel lines have been updated. Thanks Mike

I thought about a smoke test, with a really really long hose to check it with. ?

It's not leaking any fuel but smells bad enough that you don't want to put luggage or anything nice in the trunk.

Last night I was searching and came across this. A couple more beers and I think I'd buy it.  

29 bucks on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Combustible-Detector-Portable-Certified-Flexible/dp/B07MZRXM8Z/ref=asc_df_B07MZRXM8Z/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=241986369569&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1053295675480939407&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1019385&hvtargid=pla-644920637214&psc=1