OK.... this has been a long time coming so BUCKLE UP BETSY!
last post was in July and I have since moved states and settle into a new job, new home, & new life.
Thankfully, kit was pretty much in stage 3 before the move began, big tip for anyone who is doing a mover or transporter, make sure they have the right ramps to get your car inside their truck ;-) the old girl got scraped a bit, but their truck might have seen better days, whew!
so build process since then... last i mentioned the starter and the clutch sensor. BOTH replaced with new stock.
Afterward i figured out that the shift light on the dash board is kinda stock and not to worry about it. but there was another problem that cropped up shortly before the move. as I was getting things ready to have the car shipped I noticed that the tachometer was NOT working at all... speedometer was good, and occasionally I would not be able to start the car unless I jiggled the Crankshaft Position Monitor (CPM) wiring harness [which omg why would Chevy make that, more griping later].
So after having the car moved to the new home in MD { groan in regards to registration } , I started to diagnose why the RPM gauge was not working. Initially I thought ti was a faulty data wire, so I checked continuity for each end of the twin data wires in the harness... all good there... must have been the sensor, decided to change that... but i realize that to connect the sensor to the harness I would need a mini-harness to link the sensor and the engine harness. Why Chevy decided to go this route is beyond me, but I ordered it, waited, and swapped it in. thankfully that took care of that problem. Not going to go into my poor attempt at resoldering the old harness since the contacts were coming loose.... ANYWAY, now the engine starts up no prob, the tach works, and I can correlate the shift light and shift timing well. errr, at least well enough while it was still warm enough to drive it outside without my eyes freezing over.
I proceeded to continue work on the forward tilting hood and have come up with a temporary solution that works well but will need further development to make it more suitable as a permanent fix. I've fabricated my own intermediary hood mounting plate that will connect the hinges to the fiberglass nose. I've also sourced a couple cables stays that will hold the nose vertically open; only catch though is that the hood needs to be slightly squeezed to fit past the bulbous round headlights I had chosen. maybe a new bracket is called for... maybe later.
Images are soon to come, need time to grab them and up load. like mentioned, new state, new home, new job. all other things pushed this way down the priority list. once I'm a bit more settled in and have a permanent garage to work in ( leasing right now ), I am going to perform a major over haul and attempt to do the timing belt and clean the engine properly.
