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We are running a GPS speedo so the speedo drive in the transmission needed to be capped. I was told that the triple tree acorn nut for a Hardly Dumb-ass-one motorcycle... would thread on to it... It won't. The thread pitch is WAY finer. I googled it myself and found that an axle nut from... something would thread on though. I ran (and by "ran," I mean drove, of course) over to O'Reilley's and bought one... gave it a test tickle on a spare tranny... and then hole-sawed out a plug... and zooked that in... After it cooled, I crawled under the car and installed it... It does sit on top of the bolt that holds the pinion into the transmission... but it is hunkered down pretty tight, so I think it will be ok. Of course, after I was finished, I found a speedo cable... hanging on the wall. Oh well, it's what it's.

A few pages back (I'm not going back to find the post to quote it), I said this... was going to be the final arrangement for the "Zookie Lights." But since the smaller spot lights were upside down, this hood... was going to collect water. Well, today I drilled drainage holes... in them. Of course, me being me, I also drilled a drainage hole in my hand... Be careful how you hold shit when running a power tool, kids!

This I did... then bought four sets of sway bar bushings with saddles for it... and bolted the bar to the T/C rods... It turned out WAY better than it had any right to... A quick bounce on the fender showed a remarkable improvement. I am quite chuffed with this. We're going to paint it and the rear bar gold to "match" the T/C rods and rear control arms so I can stand back, point to them, and go, "Eh? Eh? Didja see the sway bars?"

To the best of my recollection, it is either a B-210 or automatic 1200 driveshaft that I shortened some 30 years ago when I first put the Z-20 in the car.

We finally have all the bits to have a driveshaft built... because, in addition to having non-serviceable joints, as the bishop said to the actress, my old shaft is just too long... Then we had a look at how we could make a sway bar for the front... We decided that we could do something similar to what the factory did on the rear by hanging a bar from the T/C rods... where the yellow line is. We made a template... and will have some spring steel rod bent to this shape. That will attach with the patent pending, Dimlight Racing Method... So stay tuned!

Well John, looks like "two days" is the answer to my question. What was the over/under again?

One might remember the collection of Hello Kitty knives I started earlier on this page. Well, I may have a problem... and open... I can't decide if I want to make a shadow box display for them or just continue to use this old pistol case.

So we finally got tired of the superfluous spark plugs... did a little Google searching, and discovered Honda oil drain plugs... should fill the holes in a much prettier manner. Of course, the heads of the plugs were larger than the recesses in the cylinder head, so we headed to the Dimlight Racing, Patent Pending, "Hillbilly Lathe"... and turned them down a little... Yeah, that one turned out a bit triangular. Anyhoo, we then stole the crush washers from the spark plugs we took out... and popped the plugs into the head... They should disappear once the "Dramatic Lighting" is removed.

One would think... but, no. I am a stubborn non-learner.

And better header to floor clearance, and steering rod/control arm angles.

Last week I relocated the oil filler pipe and secured it better in hopes that it would stop leaking oil onto the zorst. It did not. If anything, it made it worse. So I decided to ditch the pipe altogether... I saved it to use as a filler though... It was replaced with a standard fill cap... which is still easily accessible... Just don't burn your forearm on the upper radiator pipe!

Which is what we did. You have seen M8x1.25 button head bolts before (and I forgot to take a picture) so you will just have to be satisfied with this... And if you compare the above photo of the mismatched pedal height to this... you will see why... Oh, and the clutch master is all bolted in and plumbed again... So, we are basically back to where we were last month.

Which finally arrived! Drilled bolts made of titan-YUM... And in the process of swapping them out... and all in... Then, I broke out the safety wire pliers and got to work... I didn't like how this turned out so I cut it off and tried again... Much better. Only three more pairs to go. Back pair of front flange... Front pair of back flange... And back pair of back flange... And a final gestalt... SON OF A... Just kidding. That's one of the old gaskets.

So I got tired of the handheld controller laying on the floor. I installed the phone mount that came with the Aces EFI kit for the time being... It's just on there with one bolt... so it's a wee bit flollopy. But it's good enough for now.

... and would make our angles worse.