Baby’s First Laps, Tomorrow

Wednesday-Thursday, July 7-8, 2010

We worked until 11 PM again on Wednesday. We finished the electrical, installed a third brake light, installed passenger side roll cage padding, removed the tranny from the parts car, installed screening inside the air dam, other small stuff, ordered parts from OGTS, and now the car is just about ready for it's first date with Thunderhill on Friday. It still needs:

• To have the drivers-side floor repaired (Clint, Evil Genius Racing)
• Weld on a bracket for the instrument panel (Clint, EGR)
• Replace a seal on the tranny (us)
• Install oil temperature sensor (Clint, EGR)
• Install the windshield (us)
• Install mirrors (us)
• Tuning (the fine folks at EGR)
• Finish installing the roll cage padding (us)

We worked until 1:01 AM tonight and the track, which is about 90 minutes away, opens at 7AM. We still have a few things to do, so we should be able to get a few hours sleep. Hopefully the car runs well tomorrow.

Tonight we finished assembling the new, professional-looking (non-LeMony) gauge/switch panel. Don't mind the mess of wires behind it. We'll get that under control soon. Also, we don't have the fan, cool-seat, headlights, etc in yet.

The instrument panel was made by Front Panel Express.

Messy wiring, but it will get cleaned up.

The warning LEDs that will go in in the top right will flash when a gauge is in the bad area.

We got the floor repaired earlier today, got the gauge panel mounted, installed a harness, installed the windshield, succeeded in getting the shifter seal replaced, but no tuning. Not enough time.

If we survive the track day then all that is left is primarily cosmetic and fine tuning/adjusting, and driving it around the neighborhood late at night.