Thanks tboomer it’s been enjoyable so far. I’m lucky to have the 2 Grandsons I have. The older one who comes over to help on Sundays has been a big help. He’s been following me out the shop since he was old enough to walk and always enjoyed working with his hands. He’s actually turned into a pretty good mechanic….he’s doing it for a living now. I think one of the reasons he’s so willing to help on this one is he knows it will be the last car I build and I’m glad he and his brother are a part of it.

We got the K members changed over. The BB K member now resides in the red car so that’s back to being a roller now and is about ready to be rolled out of the shop and put up for sale.

z RC2 by M Patterson, on Flickr


One of the main reasons I bought the Green car was that the suspension work had already been done and it would be one less thing I would need to work over. I really figured that with the stroker BB in the engine bay that the torsion bars would have been changed over for heavier ones……nope. When we got the engine out and I could get in there to measure the torsion bars it turns out they were 6 Cyl bars. I decided on a new pair of PST “103” bars and while I was at it also added one of their 20:1 ratio steering boxes to the cart (the steering box in the green car had a little slop in it, but plenty of adjustment. Just for peace of mind I wanted a new one because if there did turn out to be issues with the box it would be a real job to change out once the HEMI was installed. With the new parts in hand the modified K member was installed in the green car.


Z GC by M Patterson, on Flickr


While I was waiting on the parts to come in, I started removing some of the stuff that I won’t be using on the green car and will sell along with the red body. When they wired the car they had installed the wiring for a Terminator EFI system…..I don’t know if they actually tried the unit or not but I won’t be using it, so out that came. I’m also going to remount the battery back under the hood so the cables for the trunk mounted battery also came out.

The hood that was on the green car is also going with the red car so we changed that over along with changing out the deck lids…..(saves me from having to fill the for the power switch that they had on the car).

z RC by M Patterson, on Flickr

With the holiday coming up it looks like a short week, but down times a good thing.