Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes

It's been a summer of making some big and small changes to our car, things that even if you saw it before, you might not notice. If you look at this picture of the Chevy, you can see we have added a few nifty stickers to our ride. Once we get to Oaxaca, I'm sure we'll find a few things for the local Picasso's to add on.
Some of the new additions include, a Terratrip rally computer, so I can really get confused navigating. We have changed the exhaust headers from full size Hooker Headers to shortys made by JBA. This was because the Hooker's were the lowest point on the car and scrapped bottom on most every "tope" in Mexico during the Chihuahua Express. The jury still out on this idea. The clutch linkage was reworked taking it from needing to be god-like to push it in, to semi-superhero status. Some of the smaller fixes are, we reattached the window nets so if the door actually did fly open, we would now probably stay in the car. The gas petal was repositioned to eliminate a day long foot cramp and the fuel filter moved so it can be changed in three minutes rather than fifteen.

One thing we had overlooked was the breather on the rear end. The stock GM one was left on for the Chihuahua race, and the car got little greasy on the bottom side. That was changed to a long breather tube, with a catch can. We've replaced and repaired our auxiliary fuel pump, which also gave us problems in Chihuahua.

There's been some lights added, a third brake light, and LED bulbs to the regular brake lights. And also, a nice, bright red oil pressure light, in case it all goes bad.
There's a few other things I'm forgetting, but it's work in progress, right up till October 26th, about 8AM.


Next Time: Summer Sabbatical

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SPONSORS