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Schultz: How fortuitous that you'd post today of all days. I've got as big a piece of news as any about the project, and I was going to post about it just now:
I just got home from snatching up some ripe Craiglist loot: 4 stock Potenza RE92s on stock insight rims with the fancy little hubcaps all intact! $250 plus a bit of a hike (100 miles) but they were right near where my father grew up so I took him with me and we did some visiting and made a day trip out of it. One of the tires has some dryrot that hopefully isn't bad enough that it leaks. The rest of the tires are in great shape. One of the rims seems to have met and had a small conversation with a curb or some similar character at one point. Luckily it didn't get too influenced :P Anyway.... SCORE!
News item 2: This monday marked the completion of my bearing replacement! It was my first time with a hydraulic press and I finally got around to pressing a brand new bearing into my front DS knuckle. Once I put that back on and get my new tires on, I'll be confident enough in the safety of the vehicle to take it on longer trips and finally start getting an idea as to what kind of numbers I can get out of it sans aero. Then I start adding mega aero in time for the GGP. Hooray!
@Jim-bob: I did not replace the PCV, but I did a complete rebuild of the engine. One thing I wish I'd done while I had it cracked open was to balance the piston+rod weights. I saw a forum post somewhere where the person weighed each piston and took material off (from a non-critical area of course) with a dremel to make them all equal to make the idle smoother. I do indeed have very solid mounts, but the idle has gotten smoother. Installing a bunch of interior parts to dampen the initial fierce metallic rattling it had produced helped as well.
The guy who got me access to that hydraulic press (he made a user id on here and chimed in at one point earlier in the thread), who has been a great help and has taken interest in the project, is a megasquirt fiend with his 81 BMW. I'm sure I can rope him into helping me eventually break free from the confines of TBI. That's down the road though. There's your update, folks!
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