We dyno'ed the car today, and it survived. It also posted 84 hp max and 94 ft-lbs, at the wheels on a Mustang dyno. I'd say that's pretty good for this car. We are leaking oil out of the tranny, a lot of oil, through the linkage on the driver's side. We'll fix it and take it in for tuning again before our track day this Friday.
We got to drive the car a bit. Seems to run fine. No horrible noises, or smoke, and it shifts fine even though one of the synchro shoes is missing. We're going to pull the tranny from the parts car and have it ready as a spare.
Oh, and the motor sounds great, and a lot like a V8. Here's the video.
Other news, the air dam is on and we'll be working on a splitter tomorrow. The kill switch is in and I'll do a little rewiring for it tomorrow. Various brackets and other hardware are in, the battery is now in back, over the right rear shocks. A bunch of other small stuff got done as well.
Also, we had the car on a trailer while getting gas for it. Some guys driving by pulled in and asked "What is that?" We told them, and also about our plans for LeMons. They loved the car, and they too were preparing a LeMons car, a Mazda 323. And when we got to EGR for the dyno run, the owner of the LeMons famous V8olvo was there, and he saw the car, and he loves it, and always did like the GT. Looks like we'll have no trouble building up a fan club.
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| Looking very C4-like with its turbine wheels and fancy new nose job. |
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