DeTomaso Mailing List: April 99, Message #172

Kirby, Chuck, Walter, et al.

     Thank you all for the advice and commiserating.  Jacked up the car
this weekend with the intent to install the lower and front upper pieces
and discovered the front trunk one isn't going in without moving
virtually all the brake lines that got moved around when I installed the
PPC ( Colorado ) master cylinder, so that one has to wait.  And yes I
realized as soon as I sent the post that the lower front A-arms are not
mounted the same as the rears ( they don't have to adjust in and out like
the rears, DUH, you do it with the top ball joint ).  This one will
hopefully go in the weekend at the Dyno/tech session at Roger Sharp's
house.  Now the lower rear, the brake line that runs along the inside of
the right frame rail will have to be moved, and all that black gooey sh*t
will have to come off  wherever we gotta' weld,  the brace that goes just
over the transaxle is too long to fit between the wheel housings when the
brackets are attached, let's see what else, oh yeah, the upper wheel
house brace hits the clutch slave cylinder so it will have to be notched
and a gusset welded in to clear.  Consequently nothing got put in.  But
on a positive note, per my instructions S.O. did some machining to my
intake manifold ( yes I know I'm a machinist but it's his dad's mill )
which should produce a few more horse power  ( giggle, giggle  :-),
sometimes I'm so clever )  and I fiddled the old Holley too, seems to rev
a bit quicker now, the proof will be at the dyno this weekend.
Well all  these trick chassis braces are cool especially when they're
just sitting in a box in the garage :-((.  Maybe they'll get installed
before my next track session May ninth,  
jeez I hope so that's what I bought 'em for.

Well wish me luck with this, I'm gonna need it.

GoNancy  ( sometimes I hate trying to do ANYTHING to this car )


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