Thanks for the kind words everyone. The dash covering and carpet were done by the shop which did the paint, but the rest was my work.
The discussions elsewhere on the forum about the idiosyncrasies of the long narrow GT40 fuel tanks hit home with a thud while Ron and I were going to lunch. When the tanks get down to ~1/3, the EFI will suffer fuel starvation from time to time; as they get down to ~1/4 the engine would die at idle, but start right back up. Although my tanks have explosafe in them, with EFI, it is quite apparent that a header tank is an absolute necessity: EFI fuel pumps will not tolerate being starved for fuel many times.
The Corvette pads on the front brakes came with shims that are siliconed to the pads in attempt to quieten the brakes. One of these shims had come dislodged and the corner was rubbing on the rotor hat making a very annoying squealing noise. I have since removed both of these shims.
The fore/aft shift cable apparently stretched slightly with use (and I have been driving the car a lot - more on that in a bit) necessitating an adjustment which was quite easy with the Sabre cable anchoring system on the rear of the cables. There was also an excess of carpet around the rear of the shifter which combined with the cable stretch to make going into 2nd and 4th less than consistent.
This past Friday evening at around 6:00PM I took my daughter to her first middle school dance in the GT40. As you can imagine, traffic at that time was insane. Two blocks from the school, she informed me that she had forgotten the ticket at home. So back we went to retriever her admission ticket. Although we tried different routes, the story was the same: rush hour traffic and two cycle delays at most lights. Although not hot, the temperature was in the mid to upper 70s. During this whole time the temperatures, both coolant and oil, were solid as a rock. I am very happy with this aspect of the car!
The speedometer is now calibrated. My initial setting based on instructions from Dakota Digital, which are fine if you are building a hot rod with traditional American parts, but which I found somewhat lacking in my application, resulted in a readout that was ~30mph fast. My second attempt at resetting the adjusting box put me about the same point on the slow side. So, starting a binary search, which should have put me at the proper setting in a max of 4 adjustments, I set the dip switches to the binary number that was midway between the two settings. This turned out to be dead on and my speedo reading matched the numbers obtained in the speed/rpm/gear chart for the G50-01 transaxle and my tire diameter.
The car in now completely legal for the road having passed its safety inspection. While emissions testing is not required, the guy doing the safety test agreed to check the engine with the 3 gas analyzer. CO and CO2 were great, but hydrocarbons were a bit high at idle. I'll be checking several things as culprits for this: fuel pressure, MAF readings and my homemade neutral sensing switch. The computer takes a signal from the clutch being depressed OR the transmission being in neutral to operate in "no load" mode which should provide just enough fuel to keep the engine running. I am sure you can guess which is my main suspect. I should also mention that the car was no where near normal operating temperature since the inspection station is only about 1/2 mile from my house and I had driven there first thing in the morning.
Regards,
Lynn
