850spidermel
Low Mileage
Hi everyone,
I never ended up sharing my progress with you all, but I'm excited to share that the project is going well. Good news is that it runs. Some times it has a hard time firing up after running a while and one of my spark plugs is getting a little toasted. Nonetheless I can tell how fun it's going to be once dialed in. My compression numbers are currently as follows:
Cyl 1 - 135
Cyl 2 - 140
Cyl 3 - 160
Cyl 4 - 150
The car is stored in an industrial park in South San Francisco and I take it out for a local spin here and there. I'm yet to take it beyond this small area as a few things need some attention. The project went on a little break after we had our first child back in July, I'll be resuming the project early next year.
I have a long list of things I need. Most of which can be found on Midwest Bayless. Also I'm really close to abandoning my plans to go with CD31s. I was never able to complete my set and I'm left with 3 of them collecting dust. Maybe I'll get lucky and find a single wheel out there, maybe not. So be on the look out because it's likely I'm going to list them to fund misc parts.
I'm still deciding what bumpers to go with or leave it naked. As of now I think bumpers are the way to go if I'm not cutting costs. It would be awesome to have the clean blades from the early series one cars. I'm yet to see a clean one for sale though. Regardless I need to pick a solution where my front turn signals will rest.
Side note, does anyone have the maximum suggested wheel offset and size combination without any major modifications? A lot of nice vintage replicas out there that I think are pushing 10mm...
Take care,
- Mel
I never ended up sharing my progress with you all, but I'm excited to share that the project is going well. Good news is that it runs. Some times it has a hard time firing up after running a while and one of my spark plugs is getting a little toasted. Nonetheless I can tell how fun it's going to be once dialed in. My compression numbers are currently as follows:
Cyl 1 - 135
Cyl 2 - 140
Cyl 3 - 160
Cyl 4 - 150
The car is stored in an industrial park in South San Francisco and I take it out for a local spin here and there. I'm yet to take it beyond this small area as a few things need some attention. The project went on a little break after we had our first child back in July, I'll be resuming the project early next year.
I have a long list of things I need. Most of which can be found on Midwest Bayless. Also I'm really close to abandoning my plans to go with CD31s. I was never able to complete my set and I'm left with 3 of them collecting dust. Maybe I'll get lucky and find a single wheel out there, maybe not. So be on the look out because it's likely I'm going to list them to fund misc parts.
I'm still deciding what bumpers to go with or leave it naked. As of now I think bumpers are the way to go if I'm not cutting costs. It would be awesome to have the clean blades from the early series one cars. I'm yet to see a clean one for sale though. Regardless I need to pick a solution where my front turn signals will rest.
Side note, does anyone have the maximum suggested wheel offset and size combination without any major modifications? A lot of nice vintage replicas out there that I think are pushing 10mm...
Take care,
- Mel
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