Last weekend I pressed my lovely wife into service once again and we set the engine cover back down on the car and pinned the hinges, completing the Final Assembly phase of this build.
The car starts, runs and drives and is ready for fettling and registration.
There are 81 items on my Spyder punch list.
The list has actually grown over the past two weeks since I made it, even though I tackled several items already.
But the end is basically in sight. One of the items is “Go to MVA and get titled.”
Happy New Year!
So it’s been more than a month since I updated the blog. Part of that is because I’ve been unusually busy: I started a new job in mid April and that’s really cut into my wrenching time.
So I’ve not been doing much on the car, but I’ve not been doing nothing, either.
The three main themes are 1.) body and paint; 2.) engine and details and 3.) wiring. Not in that order. Wiring’s been the main thing. And it’s been a slog. Or anyway, it was a slog, before a buddy on the Spyder site gave me the color-codes to the Thunder Ranch harness.
They’re the keys to the kingdom.
The car came with a harness, replete with wires and switches galore. Trouble was, the instruction manual referred me to a color-coded section that was absent from the book.
Along Came A Spyder 