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Just working on a few projects around the 78 Camaro!

It is not as easy as we would have liked, but we do finally have the sensors installed, and just need to run the wiring. On the upside, we got to fight more leaks! Note the shopdog short at the end showing the level did not move, is relative to the position 2, not position 3, we had started the car before we left!

Just another day trying to make the Air Ride system reliable and usable!

We got a little more done on the suspension, but have a few discrepancies to work out!

We can finally lift the rear of car, but it sure looks like we are going to pull a lot of it back apart to check the fittings they installed. We have leaks in the rear suspension to deal with, and it is not going to be fun to get the air bags out. On the upside, we have ice cold air conditioning now!

The 78 Camaro body is back on the lift! Time to get the suspension back under her, and turn the car back into a rolling chassis. There is a lot to do yet, but it is good seeing parts starting to go back on! While installing, we had some bolt issues with what Energy Suspensions sent, but it turned out to be an issue with the cage nuts in the car, not a fault of theirs.

Well the camber is off, but the car is back together again! Pixie is learning how to do a bit of dash repair as well!

We have the 454 out of the truck, and the truck back to the body work stall. Took a bit of time and also finally got some center caps to fit on the T/A. Lots of excitement tonight!

It took a few hours, but I figured out a way to keep the shock from getting bent! This was an interesting problem to solve. Sorry about the sideways images, I missed that!

Here are a few random snippets of Greg and Dan working on the 69 Roadrunner last ShopDay. It was a hectic and crazy day! This Sniper install will not rev over 2490rpm, and they made some changes, but this uses the Hyperspark setup, and I had very little we could do with it. Unfortunately for them, it really looks like the issue is ignition related, and we hope to get some feedback later on this problem.

This was a crazy ShopDay! Tried to work on two cars at once, and just got run ragged! It is always fun pushing bushings, and for once no one got hurt, and we did not even have to burn any out! The new arms are going to work, but we really want to rethink the way the shocks were installed. Thanks to Frank's Pontiac Parts for continuing to find old parts for us! https://www.frankspontiacparts.com/

Well, it was finally time to take care of this water pump. We got the Butler Performance represented pump from Flowkooler, and also went to the newer style divider plates. This should really help out. Also have the clutch fan that came of the Shipping Cart (white 67 Camaro convertible). This actually went pretty smoothly.

It was a real mess under the truck, but we have the trans out, and are almost ready to pull the engine out!

We decided to break that long video down into two and this was a great spot since this video is just us troubleshooting things and trying to fix stuff! There is a little more driving!

Well, some nights are a lot more work than others! That truck sure is heavy!

Pixie takes the Dogsled out for its first road test after driving around the backyard a few weeks ago. Is the brake problem solved? Does she make it home? What does Neighbor Jeff have to say about all of it?

We just so happened to drive by Maple Motors in Hendersonville TN!!! This place is cool! https://maplemotors.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/MapleMotorsNickSouthgate

In a truly random video, we lower the wellhead, and get the torsion bar into the Cordoba!

..in which I have no idea what happened, I was at the aquarium!

Here are a few run cycles in which the anomaly does not happen! Looks like the ferrite cores helped! This is was to fix Holley Sniper EFI IAC issues!

In this rather slow video, we start to explore the anomaly. FOr those that don't know, at random the IAC will open without being commanded. Since the IAC does not provide any source of feedback tot eh computer, the Holley system closes it fully at startup, and then just remembers how many times it has screwed it out or in. If for any reason this relationship changes and the computer does not know about it, it will no longer understand how much bypass air is entering the engine. Other people have reported similar issues, and it is almost always either the IAC itself, or there is an RFI/EMI issue. In this video we try to gather more information, and start determining the cause. At the end, we have some positive results, but I do need to cold start and run this more before claiming victory!

Still trying to figure out the Sniper IAC issue. Starting to think it is an issue with the drivers on the computer.

We have a very long video that shows what we felt was a pretty great day! DogSled drove! There are several things we still need to figure out, but this was a wonderful day!

Well, we did a little more testing. Notice that the coolant now stays in the engine! We are still not confident in the brake system, and have some strange IAC issues (R.I.P. little IAC). Sorry about the sideways video, I missed that one!