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Today, nothing crazy like you guys, just put the RH headlight ring back on after doing some paint touchups.

 

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Changed the plugs, took out B7ES and put in BPR6EIX NGK iridium. I also hooked up the timing light to confirm that I was on the M mark at 5G.

 

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I got inspired to go find, what turned out to be my paper from Elvira at Alfa about the birth of my 77. I did find it in the end, two hours later. Turns out it was mailed in 97 and not emailed... I had sent in a fax request.

 

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Today on the 115 spider was cleaning the steering box and putting oil in it. I was going to take the front springs out and see if there were spacers that could be removed but I bailed on that, didn't see any hints at all that there were spacers down underneath the rubber isolators.... Then I got distracted with Spica tuning which started off innocently enough with flipping some clamps for the collars between the airbox and intake as it looked like a couple were rubbing on the rigid fuel lines. Which lead to a total redo of everything.... End result was only a half turn change on the FCS... Time now for some carrot cake.

Cheers,

 

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Today the 115 spider got a rip around the block... Had to do a test drive after the latest spica reset and other tuning work the last couple days. It was a nice ride, top down, ripping through the gears. I think that's the first time that car has done a burn out from a stop sign in years, mind you it does have really old RA1's on it. Love the smell of a Hot engine. Brakes too for that matter but I didn't get there with those today.

 

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Started changing vent window seals. Have the left side mostly done but have to come in and be domestic now for the rest of the evening.

 

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More vent window tinkering. This one has been more stubborn than the left side.

 

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Nothing too exciting,.. reassembled the right side vent window frame back into the door after changing the vent window gasket. Then went around and put the battery charger on all the various batteries around the shop, 8 of those. I will glue the window latches on when it’s warmer. I keep the shop at around 3 (about 37 for you ‘muricans) in the winter.

 

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Popped the valve cover off to put new cam locks on the front of the cams. Then the initial rip of the year. ?

 

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New tires put on today. I sandblasted and painted the part of the wheel between the beads so didn’t get to drive it today as I was dealing with loose wheels and tires. Raining pretty steady here.

 

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Thank you, just clear powder coat over the original magnesium.

 

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Changed the Spica front fuel with a Baldwin BF825 and checked fuel pressure. Discovered at the same time my short rod was a half turn too long so adjusted that which allowed me to back out the idle tube chokey thing. Finally got a test drive of new 195/65/14 Vredestein Sportrac 5, quite happy with that.

 

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Test drive, yay

 

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Tried my hand at reglueing vent window latches, which of course required a test drive..... ?

 

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Eh, thought I would quickly check valve shimming while it was easy to do. One stud pulled up on torque up...... sigh insert helicoil, carry on....

 

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Well, not all today, just finishing touches today. Put the head back on.

 

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Tried my hand at syncing throttles with my motorcycle manometer.

 

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Put in headlight relays today during breaks while working on a different car project while waiting for paint etc to dry.

 

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Started to tackle doing the CSS wiring mod and putting a fuel pump relay in but got hung up because I need some different sized ring ends. Next time I trek into town.

 

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Finished those items off. Along the way discovered that the spade connector on the bottom of my inertia switch would sometimes loose connection inside if I wiggled the wire just so. I took that apart to investigate, ending up soldering that joint.