*new skirt is painted.Will color-sand,do finishing compound,then stripe.
*have been cleaning,color-sanding other sections,and doing 3M micro-fine finishing compound.
*Cleaner-wax for OEM paint surfaces.
*should have soldering finished tomorrow.
*I may install the tail and stinger tomorrow to work out a pothole-proof attachment strategy.
*The poco-loco stinger and rear wheel fairings are double block-coated and have foamed the lunar craters.Will spot in polyester resin and move towards spot-painting.
*when I do oil and filter,I'm going to modify the second-tier belly pan section for a central extractor opening like Ferrari has used.
*The poco-loco bedcover needs some TLC where the plywood has been disintegrating.
*am working on 'Spirit of Ecomodder.com' graphics.We'll use the self-stick vinyl sign material for these.
*with the new Bridgestone rear tires,she's turning around 2,250 rpm @ 65-mph.This will be my target speed for the trip.I'll just stay in the slow lane.(you'd expect that for a girly-man pickup
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*There's a lot of non-aero activities which must also be addressed before departure.
*I'll leave here the morning of Sept. 1,make Santa Rosa,NM for the 1st night camping.
*Green River,UT for the second night.
*and get into Ogden for a motel room Sept. 3rd.Ogden Sleep Inn.
*If all this happens,then it's Darko Technologies the next afternoon.
*a 3-ring circus in logistics!
*overnight lows are pretty high,and triple-digits for highs.I'll have to work fast with the fiberglass!