Nothing to Worry About, Dave!
Just went out and hooked the battery up again to see if all of our lightness-adding activity had negatively effected the starting and/or running of the engine. I’m proud to say that it still started right up and idled just fine. Looks like the accessory gauges all still work too, including the tach. The speedo cable isn’t hooked up to the transaxle, so no speed. But honestly, it’s the other stuff that we’re really concerned with, isn’t it? We could always clamp a datalogger on the car to get the speed stuff, G’s, etc.
Also got the brake master cylinder bled of the nasty old fluid that was in there and flushed out the front brake system. That got a little messy as I hadn’t tightened all the bolts up front quite enough, but nothing that a little oil-dry kitty litter stuff can’t handle on the floor. Got the front brakes bled out and the wheels back on. Still haven’t changed the rear pads or bled out that part of the system, but I’ll either do that tonight or we can work on that on Saturday in Jesse’s shop.
In related news, the race seat, mounting brackets, and racing harness all arrived yesterday, so that’s good news. I just learned that Recaro makes some sliding racing brackets that allow for re-positioning of the seat for different driver heights. I put the factory seat back in the car last night in prep for driving it onto and off of the trailer on Saturday and realized that we should probably look into that, since our heights are pretty varied. I’m just about 6′0″, maybe a little under, and it would be less than ideal for me to be sitting the same distance from the wheel as my 6′5″ brother. Or however tall he is, he still needs it further back than I do.
I figured in that car the setting will need to be “all the way back” for almost anyone?