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Author of "101 Projects"
Join Date: Jan 1995
Location: Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Posts: 27,056
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My To Do list for the next few weeks:
Rear decklid:
- Cut rivets off of panels
- Solder connections onto panels (need to buy red and black wire – what awg?)
- Mount panels down with double sided tape (route and manage wires)
- Wire up panels underneath with zip-tie down blocks
- Cut and drill new rear window
- Install Solectria sticker
Body:
- Clean and install driver side stickers
- Repair front trap door access panel
- Create stickers for holes on each side of car
- Build new front headlamp “bucket”
- Clean up front nose
- Create and install Ingersold-Rand sticker
- Create and install DOE sticker
- Create ATdS entry form, etc.
- Patch and repair damaged spots (gelcoat repair or white vinyl tape)
- Cut and install new windscreen
- Clean out debris from bottom of body
- Clean frame
Interior:
- Recover seats
- Label dashboard
Electrical:
- Install dash light
- Install front headlamp wiring and switch
- Install front parking lamp markers
- On/off switch for support battery
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Doors:
- Cut new side windows
- Install new side windows
- Clean driver’s door
- Patch doors
- Lubricate door handle mechanism
- Install MIT sticker + Nissan sticker
- Patch gelcoat on doors
- Touch up paint on hardware
Powertrain:
- Crimp battery connection attached to emergency cut-off switch
- Crimp driver’s side battery connection
- Cut and connect circuit breaker wires to left-side shunt
- Mount bus bar at bottom front of chassis
- Check to see if cable length will be long enough for battery #1
- Install single stud junction block
- Modify front battery tray for newly-sized battery.
- Install front battery in place
- Lubricate chain
- Figure out reverse?
- New front tires?
Rear bumper:
- Clean up rear surface
- Install new emergency cut-off pull
- Wire up and glue new turn-signal lamps
- Wire up and glue in place license plate lamp
- Test fit new license plate frame
- Zip tie and tack down rear trunk wires
- Check LEDs on “driving lamps” on the one that doesn’t light up too well
- Reinstall rear lamps
- Place three stickers (MIT, Nissan, Aztec)
- 3D print new license plate frame and paint Dempsey Motorsports lettering white
Purchase List:
- DONE: Terminal blocks for solar panel wires
- DONE: Red and black wire
- DONE: 3M doublesided sticky tape
- DONE: Zip tie down blocks (to capture wires, etc.)
- DONE: Racing pull down handle
-Wayne
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