OK. Yesterday I put the fuel system together,that is the singular.....the truth is I put the fuel system together, completely, once....but I put it together to various states of completeness a lot of times.... There is very little room anywhere in our car and the area behind the rear bulkhead which contains the fuel tank, filter and pump is a madhouse.I methodically worked my way through every single wrong way to assemble it ( and even just now I thought to myself " oh, I should have , dah, dah ,dah ,dah ,dah.")before finally do it all in an order so that I could fit and tighten everything........it was a relief today when I filled the tank and it didn't leak anywhere......so by the end of yesterday I've got most of the muster done on getting to starting the motor today............We get into it this morning, the Rev is trying to nut out the megasquirt system he's built sorted out and the Colonel and I are out in the shed getting the final stuff done to start-up.
We fire the motor for the first time it splutters.....second kick it stumbles and the starter throws out, third time it fires and runs, but it stumbles off idle, though it was a bit off color the Colonel looked at me comically and said " is that louder than it was before?", too right it was, much, much louder and with a sharper edge to the note..........The Colonel is a bit WFWAT after a birthday for his significant other yesterday, I've went to a fortieth, last night....The Colonel isn't looking like he's relishing an afternoon of gremlin chasing.....we stop for lunch, just for the exercise we swap the computer in the car to another stock one ( we ran with a stock ecu with a memcal chip last year), it ran fine..... so that was a relief, a bit of mix and match will sort out what's wrong with the chipped computer.
The Colonel also fitted some "idiot lights" to the switch bay in the cab, this stuff isn't really accessible when you're driving, it's six inches left of your head, we didn't have a light on the alternator, so it had no exciter working and the other one is an injector function so it's for startup.The dash, on the steering wheel, has changed slightly.....it's getting complicated , there's velcro for the GPS,a main switch toggle off/on(the starter button is just inside the front hoop where it's reachable from out side), a momentary button for the chute release, a 1x2 inch red light ...oil pressure.....I think that sums it all up
We put the water tank on and the tail bodywork,we had to do some fettling on the elbow fitting off the rollover/breather to clear the bodywork , the chute release is much improved , we're looking OK at this point and there's news of good salt ......