It is nearing the end of 2010 and I am going to reflect on the year. Looking back I can see the progress I have made since January of this year.
I started the year with a chassis on a rotisserie and a few bits and pieces on it. I assembled most of the car on the rotisserie for the ease of being able to rotate the car and install pieces standing up. Installing the battery cable and fuel line, to name a couple, were a snap with the car rotated on its side. If any one is thinking of doing a car seriously consider using a rotisserie.
Assembling the car has been fun, interesting , educational, and occasionally frustrating. The manuals and repair information is sparse on some details, I have been using a lot of pictures to confirm the placement, orientation and routing of the bits. One of the best resources is the before pictures and I have found that the most important picture is the one you didn't take. The other one is what you are looking for is just outside of your picture. I have become friends with a gentleman in Italy who has a wealth of pictures and hand drawn diagrams that I have been lucky enough to have access to. Andreas's photo album which has several hundred photos of many projects around the world. I have been very interested in how others have done there cars, and see the same issues with deconstruction and rebuild problems. I have to say thanks to Andreas for making the info available to me.
The end of the year brings me to the point where the car is on the ground with engine almost ready to start, I still have to check all the wiring. Once this is done a couple of small parts need to be installed then time to go vrooooom vrooooom. I doubt that it will happen before the new year so late Jan 2011 might be the time. At that point the car will be able to return to Jason for final assembly.
So in short Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. I will start posting again late January
Aaron