Probably the worst subject, most tired and complained about day of the week, and why? It’s because there are essentiallly two days of work pile-up, happening behind the scenes while we pretend we have a day (or two?) off.

The morning was spent pushing broken cars over the frozen ice covered parking lot, pushing with all of one’s might and suddenly the floor is so slick you fall to your knees, blaming… Monday.

Once the cars were all in position for us to start working on them, the Civic outside, but never over night, the Prelude outside for the day, the Super Production Wazoo Racing WRX was pushed inside for Nick to continue wiring harness work. I was working closest to the office on a Legacy GT, installing a built 2.5 liter motor and AVO turbocharger, Bill worked on a Nissan for most of the day, shoring up interior wiring and preping the car for some dyno time. It has a Power FC, popular choice for Nissans.

We called to check in on some missing parts for a Honda we’ve been working on. The car is really cool and should be done soon. Scot had it on the scales this weekend to do the ride height and cornerweighting.

Corner balancing the Civic Track day car

By the end of the day the Nissan was done, Wazoo’s car was closer to getting on the dyno. The car has AVCS now and a Vipec ECU which should be very good once everything’s done. I got the motor in the Legacy, exhaust on and some of the essential fluids into the motor. I’ll finish that tomorrow morning but it’s all for naught since I’m waiting for the correct injectors and there could be still a problem with the AVO turbo (we’ll have to wait to see on that one)

For a Monday we got a lot done. Tomorrow we’ll continue work on the Wazoo car, finish the Legacy, at least make it run with the wrong injectors to check for leaks, and then later this week move onto the Toyota Corolla 20v that’s been haunting me for the last year or so.

We are seriously reconsidering the viability of difficult, long term projects. Personally I feel that project management, which we aren’t paid for eats about 20% of the total project time. That makes many of those projects not good prospects financially. Not sure how to weigh that against the enjoyment and challenge of working on them and completing them. Hopefully everyone starts racing and we can make every long term car a race car.

Matt performs a sensor check on the Vipec Ecu (Wazoo Racing Rally car)

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