Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Almost there

Success! Carb acquired. Installed. Engine tuned. Dry ran (out of the car) the engine, started up flawlessly within seconds. I have a little tweaking to do, but this baby is almost ready to roll.

Pics:






And heres a movie of it firing up for the first time:



Tomorrow I put the gas tank/engine/cv joints in and give it a test run.

Someone recently told me that Squoot was the love child of "squee!" and "Woot!" SQUOOT!

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  2. Dang, that's a well-balanced engine to not even shimmy on the jack in the least. Sounds and looks (excepting you-know-what ;) ) great. "Squoot" indeed.

    Alright,
    whc03grady

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