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Took it out for a longer drive.
I had to torque the electric choke open, but other than that, it ran just great. With the 3.73 gear and the 700/R4, a little throttle goes a long way.
I need to do some thinking about the brakes. They're not as solid as I would like. They're 4-wheel disk, with GM up front and Ford Explorer disks on the back. The master cylinder is a Corvette 4-wheel disk type - the same as I used on my model A. I bench bled the MC, and bled the wheel cylinders several times, but I still don't like the feel. Unfortunately, there's no room to add a power booster.
The new front shocks put the front up higher than I liked, but it rides very nicely. I drove a mile or so around the neighborhood, and didn't notice anything unusual other than the noise. A fiberglass car with no carpet, upholstery or sound deadening is like random noise with the amp turned up to 10. After that trip, I ordered sound deadening today. :toocool:
I prepped all the documentation for titling and registration, and am just waiting for 01 JUL to take advantage of the new VA replicar law. The windshield is next. Once that and the wiper are installed, I'm street legal. :)
Next step in the Gibbon saga . . .
A week ago, I left the car at the glass shop to have the windshield installed. I decided it was more than I wanted to mess with. So I dropped the car off, along with the windshield that Gibbon supplied.
What I found out:
- The windshield didn't fit. They had to cut a new one.
- The rubber molding was the wrong size, and wouldn't fit on the glass.
- The urethane was solid, the wrong type and unusable
- The butyl dam was the wrong size.
Final result:
- The entire windshield kit ($295.00) gets tossed on the junk pile. Oh, and this wasn't the glass guy blowing smoke. I've seen his work, and I pretty well expected that the stuff I had was junk.
New photos coming up this weekend. I should pick up the car this Friday.