3 weeks to go.

Damn there are a lot of parts in a car. Did you know most of them are sort of important? Ya, I know. As we continue with the build the annoying sound of a clock ticking is getting louder - and we're running tight on time. How'd we do this week? Click the link and read on...

Look, we knew it was going to be a lot of work. But come on, we've done dozens of cars. How hard can this one be - we can't even use good parts or make it look nice. Meh. Details suck time. Details suck resources. Details suck. We had good effort from team members this weekend, but it was still bitter-sweet. We never seem to get 'everything' done on the list any given weekend.

Somewhere in this mess is a brake light wire that shouldn't have been cut. Awesome.

Marc was able to get some traction on the headlight hotness. We're going to be running 3 sets of headlamps in various combination. But, the main car wiring still looks like a big pile of pasta in technicolor. Upon review - we're modifying the dash panel (again) for easier access to the fuse box.

One of the primary reasons we opted for the 4-eyed front end was to allow for reliable lighting during our 12+ hours of darkness. We're going to run regular headlamps in all 4 buckets - plus we're going to add 2 more lights on a removable rig for use as the situation dictates.

We managed to get the seat installed with new brackets - and got the harness bar location measured. The photo angle makes it seem too low - but the harness bar is 0˚ back from the seat when the sliders are all the way back - and about -5˚ when the seat is all the way forward.

.25" plate steel make up the front and rear mounting brackets for the seat.

Wow. What a mess. We were able to shift the seat inboard towards the center of the car almost 2 inches. This puts the driving position square with steering wheel - and inboard from the downbar of the roll cage.

As Saturday ended - we were all set to finish the remaining welding on Sunday. We had all the hardware for the window net, and the final harness bar notched.

The window net went in without much trouble (after many trial mockups.) and then the welder started acting up. (the machine - not the moron running it.) We had some bad tips - and low argon gas levels. The harness bar is in with several tacks, but we couldn't get a good bead from the welder after cleaning up the tips. So, looks like the rest of the welding will be finished Wednesday night.

We got the plumbing done for the oil pressure and water temp gauges. All fluids are waiting to go in. The transmission has been opened up, and the mysterious shifting problem has been identified. Hope to have the car fired up this week, terrorizing Matt's neighbors by this weekend.

By the end of Sunday we were all tired. We got a lot done - but not everything on our list. Seems we'll have some hours to put in during the week as well as the weekends. One thing that always goes well - kicking back after busting ass all weekend. Before the weekend ended, we got to watch the sun set while enjoying some Habenaro snacks with the Heimer family on the back porch. The temperatures were dropping and the beers were rising - great end to a bitter-sweet weekend. Cheers.