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Try putting your tach on a separate ground.

OK, here it is. A video of the first start. The sound does not do it justice. The mike on the camera is tuned more to the frequency of the fans than the engine. YouTube - First Start

The black plastic brackets came with the fans. The aluminum fan shroud I fabricated.

I fabricated them myself.

I recorded some video with my camera but it really does not do it justice. I'll try to figure out how to post it later.

After the coolant I moved on to the oil system. I went to add a dipstick and that took a full day. The bung was obstructed. I though I could just bend the dipstick tube but the stick would not pass through the bends. That meant dropping the pan and welding in a new bung. Then I primed the oil...

In the last shot above you can see the bulkhead fitting I made for the heater lines. It has two bleeds in it that are very helpful in getting air out of the heater. Here is a handy trick for getting coolant into the system. Hang an IV bag:

I got the replacement part from KEP within two days as promised. The transaxle is now mounted and I moved on to plumbing the car. Here are some shots of the cooling system:

I wish I could say I accomplished a lot this weekend. With the three day weekend I thought I would get the engine and transaxle installed and be ready to fire up the engine for the first time. I got the engine installed but I got nowhere with the transaxle. On the first attempt I got the...

Too bad he did not take better care of them. either seal the building up well enought to keep birds and bats out or invest in some car covers.

There certainly was a police presence on the Dragon this year. We saw about 5 going up and 7 going down. That about one officer every 2 miles. I bet there is not anywhere else in the country getting that level of coverage. We did 30 MPH the whole way needless to say. I doubt that the...

I used a MSD distributor, which is pretty big. My distributor hit the roll bar before my water pump hit the firewall, so I put in the relief to move the engine further forward. I discussed this with Fran first and he said others have done it as well. I have less than an inch of misalignment...

You are correct on the boss that I am using.

Man that photo of the dash really shows the dust. The paint is pretty good that is just dust. I have also put a C notch in the seat belt bar on the roll bar to give the distributor some more room and clearanced the frame for the starter. The motor is nearly ready to be reinstalled.

I have completed the mock up of all the AC system and the dash. I added hidden hardware to attach the dash.

The last two weekends I did not get as much done on the car as I hoped. Two weeks ago I ran the Dragon (318 curves in 11 miles in the Smokey Mountains) in my Cobra with a group of twenty other Cobras, including a real 289. A RF40 was in the group as well.

I think your alternator is going to hit the drag link on that side. You need to mount it lower and more to the center. I think this photo will give you an idea of where you need to put the alternator.

The 600 must be on nitrous.

Rob, our front trims are going to be pretty close. I was measuring from the back of the cam cover and not the back of the pump. I believe that some of the cam covers are different thicknesses.

Sell your heads on ebay and buy different heads.