It is a little out of time and running very rich, but rich is good since we needed to break in the new cam. Keeping an eye on the head temp gauge and oil pressure gauge, we ran the engine for about 10 minutes until we decided to let the engine cool a bit. We had fans blowing on the heads and into the scoops. After it cooled, we ran it another 5 or so minutes.
Tomorrow it will get fresh plugs and an oil and filter change. The clutch hydraulics will be bled. Some of the wiring will be redone since there are no longer any gauges in the dash. Well, there is no dash anymore. We will be installing oil pressure and shift lights. Wednesday or Thursday, it will go next door to Tuxedo Park Racing for tuning on the Dynapak chassis dyno.
We are still waiting for the custom rear rotors. Hopefully they will be here this week, because we want to test this weekend. And we have a local event the following Sunday. We will be at the Milwaukee Tour the next weekend if we have to swap the front brakes back to drums.
Also to be done this week is the fabrication of new training arm mounts and spacers. We swapped the entire transaxle assemby from the Lynx to the "Beach". The Lynx has alway used wheels with two inches less backspacing than we use on the "Beach". So the trailing arm mounts on the axle tubes must be changed. We have come up with a design that will allow the old mount to be retained in case we swap this transaxle back to the Lynx. Once this is done, we will string the car and do the alignment.
The engine that came with the "Beach" when I bought it will be going the Archway Imports soon to be converted to a 1915. The transaxle with also be going in for a rebuild since we know that it has a broken tooth on a spider gear. When they come back, they will be installed in the Lynx. We will rent the Lynx cheaply to local autocrossers, provided they fit in it, in order to try to build interest in Solo Vees in the area. I will probably sell the Lynx sooner or later because after much looking and measuring, we have determined that there is no way I will ever fit in it. We can raise the roll bar, no problem, but we just can't move the pedals forward enough.
Oh, yeah. I now have to go find some stock VW wheels and some tires for transport. The new front disks make the car too wide to get into the built to fit trailer. The trailer door is 63 3/4ths inches wide. With the front disks, the car is now 65 inches wide.