The "good enough" mentality isn't going to work for next semester. But where chemistry is concerned- good enough. I didn't fail. It's not a degree requirement, I will take no further courses in chemistry subjects. If I ever need chemistry help in the workplace, I will ask for it.
Back to the car:
The '82 is gone to the scrapyard, even after attempts to give it away no one wanted it, so I had to scrap it so it wasn't in Dad's way.
The '86 is in pieces. This kind of sums up what thing look like right now:
The engine in the '86 pumped a ton of oil out the exhaust. Enough that when I casually reached up to disconnect the shift linkage, my hand came away looking like this:
It's ability to run degenerated as I worked on it, and eventually it stopped running altogether. Still not sure why. When I started teardown there was fuel pooled in the throttle body, which I definitely don't understand, but it's not a big deal.
I just started tearing the engine down and preparing it to be pulled. The last few days, Dad and I have both been out working on it, which is fun. We rarely are working together on something for fun. Usually it is just hammer down and get the job done. This time around, it's more of a laid back working with lots of benchracing and talking interspersed among the work.
Precision dashboard removal- The heater box in there is actually the heater box from the '82 going in so I have a defroster:
Newer bearing- then engine had obviously been rebuilt at some point. Not a lot of carbon buildup, somewhat clean parts, obviously newer pistons, and the bottom of the conrods have all been marked.
This one will go in for now to get the ignition and fuel sorted, but I am heavily debating building the other one with the higher compression pistons over spring break and then dropping it in for the May meet. 9:1 just seems better than 7.5:1