Thanks for the mojo boost, motoTrooper. Getting lumped in with the Bad Obsession guys is a heck of a compliment. The bike is a Seca, I believe. It belongs to the guy I split the shop with so I don't know much about it.
The bracket that held the TPS that PO had made was a giant pile of crap. It put the TPS in enough of a bind for it fail completely. The Bosch part number brought up a Saab and Volvo part, so a new one was easy enough to source and only set us back $30. Who knows, maybe that's the stock Yugo part, too.
Here's the template and the finished TPS bracket knocked out of some 16ga.
It slipped nicely into place after a trip through the oven with some black wrinkle coat.
The same loving attention was used to make the old throttle cable bracket. I would have let the old one stay, but since I changed a bunch of stuff on the other end of the cable I needed more adjustment. I had a reaaaaaally slow day at work, so I got started on a new one with out any sort of measurements.
After a fair amount of fiddling I had this (that's the old bracket next to it).
Admittedly, I took a bit of a long way 'round on this one, but it is done and does it's job nicely.
Other than those few things I have just been keeping busy with the tail end of the megasquirt install. The terminations on the relay board have seen better days, but whatever. I will get to cleaning this up in the next week or so. I'm all out of 3m Friction Tape in the meantime.
The bay is looking pretty good overall. The ugly intake manifold is really letting things down. I might be powder coating that this week as well.
The car is running berkeleying fantastic now after a bit of basic tuning. The laptop I'm using has very limited battery life so I'm just doing what I can to make sure the engine is safe and isn't going to have a meltdown in the meantime. According to some old posts by Guy Croft, if you put a F.I. 1300 Yugo head on a stock 1500 bottom end you end up with roughly 10.6:1. So, as you can imagine, it berkeleying rips on the bottom end. I expect it to fall off pretty hard up top, but the added torque should help with the taller 5 speed ratios. Hopefully once we roll some miles on it, the rings will seat in and it will be even better. I keep forgetting that this bottom end was essentially junk.
And, since the holidays are now behind us, I can finally share with you guys the little surprise I picked up fory wife.
Hopefully I can get back to updating more frequently now that the boring MS install is done.