04/13/02
Well, as I'm sure you saw from the front page, this car died in an accident in Bakersfield CA. 3 years of hard work building a beautiful car wiped away in about 11 seconds... The car will be missed, but has since been replace with a bit tamer, family sedan. I never did get to get that roll cage built. Luckily for me, I survived the accident without a scratch.

04/03/02
Looks like the clutch install hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. After the 3rd install, I still had a vibration. I removed it for the fourth time, and sent it back to McLeod again. This time the instructions were to rebuild it with new parts, rebalance it, certify it's perfect, and send it back to me one last time. I expect to have it installed next weekend. I'll keep you posted on how it's working.

The appointment has been made for the roll cage. I was originally planning on going with a Wolfe Racecraft cage, but their prices have gotten so high, that their mail order roll cages are almost as expensive as having a custom one built for you. Sooo. I decided to have a custom cage built and installed at PBR in Crockett CA. It will go in on 5/11, and should be completed within 2 weeks after that. My goal would be to have it look like Jeff Stevens cage, seen here.

01/26/02
Well, it's been a tough winter for the car. As my last update was in regard to the tuning of the nitrous system, I'll start there. That turned out to be simple. It was a bad Fuel Pressure Safety Switch. Once it was replaced, all is fine.

In addition to fixing the nitrous, I also installed a new clutch. The McLeod Street Twin is a tempramental thing, but now that it is in, I'm really happy with it's performance, and this should hold all the horsepower I can throw at it.