[Bill Musarra]

Has been a while since I have posted any progress on my car. I apologise for that. Have been busy with helping the owner of the 66road car, writing an article for the GTD club, and honey do projects. Most of the progress that has been made, has been in the area of the wiring. I had it wired, had to do some welding, removed the wiring, reinstalled it, modified it to include multiple relays for all the pumps(4), fans(4), and other parafinalia, then had to rewire a good bit of that when I wanted the radiator fans(front) and the electric water pump to stay on if the temp was over the turn on setting when the ignition was turned off. The wiring manufacturer(American Autowire) advised against it. Told me that when the auto manufacturers WERE doing this, they had some costly fires and have since abandoned the practice. I then had to add another relay just to handle the function of the coil leads to all the other relays. That actually took two 40 amp relays, as the coils utilize about 5 amps each. Now I have to label each relay for reference. All this rewiring caused havoc with the wiring to the switches on the dash, as they contol the coils of the individual relays. So a lot of that had to be redone. The only thing left to do now is to wire up the ignition, which will be done at the engine buildes shop in about 2 weeks.
Many many packages have arrived and are to be installed. As the parts are added, I find some other part that needs to be modified like the external oil filter. I am using quick connects and the exhaust is going to interfeer with its location, so that hose has to be lenghtened. Then the hose to the cooler will be modofied as a result and so it goes.
I have gotten the silencers(what a rediculous word when talking about these cars) and have made the mounts for them. Decided to go with two seperate ones. I am planning to redo the mounts for the coolers after visiing the engine builders shop and seeing some of their handy work. Looks much neater. Will be done in tubing rather than strap.
Hard part was trying to find the quick connects for the water lines. Seems I need three since I relocated the pump. Finding them in a 12 and a 20AN is not easy(or cheap). Ebay helps, but if someone is bidding against you, it will cost more than you had anticipated on. Just trying to find these buggers is hard.
Some of you may remember I was trying to resolve the bump steer since I was going with the Flaming River quick ratio unit. I built a jig to determine where the c/l of the shaft should be. It wound up being 3 1/2" above the lower A arm mount. Then came the issue of trying to get the rack into the car. Should have done this before I paneled the front sections. So I made a cut on the passenger side to mimic the panel in the original DRBs. It will be put back so that it looks like it was meant to be. Since the panels are welded in, a system had to be arrived at if the rack was to ever be removed. With the system I am using it will easily be accomplished. More pics will follow when the car gets back home on Tues. Should have seats in. Lots to do before it goes out again. I'll try to be a little more timely with the next update.

Bill