Seeing as the year is coming to an end I figured I should post up to show I'm still hanging around. New job, new place, less garage space has meant I've not been too busy with the car. A quick 2018 review:
Changed intake gaskets again due to a sealing issue, I should have gotten the face of the intake manifold surfaced because I still don't think its sealing 100% which means I've got some oil sucking in. While that was all apart I noticed some issues with my distributor advance mechanism due to the smaller weight springs I had put on previously, this explains why my idle moved around so much as the mechanism would bind and lock up past zero and get all twisted up. Easy fix just spacing out the springs with some tiny washers. I remember there were a few small other things in the distributor that needed adjustment and it all made a difference.

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Went to Monzaque again this year, thanks again for having us. Cant complain getting to see old and new faces, starting to feel like a go-to vacation spot since I know my way there and all the stops I make. It was tough with the new job and getting the car out late but as usual I drove the car around the week before to work a few times and called it good enough. I'm not always easy on the car so I usually know if its going to work out or not.

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Picked up some parts over the course of the year, I now have 90% of what I need for my fuel injection swap. Pulled the trigger on an Areomotive 450lph and Microsquirt V2 for the big items, shopped throughout the year and managed to save money, USD to CAD is a real killer as some of you guys know. I also installed a cutoff switch as things start to progress I'd like to have
some safety equipment.
Also went to a car show / drag event with some friends, I only went down the track once because of the bad track conditions and no shutdown area, they use an old airport runway (year round) but use less than 1/8 mile shutdown area with no timing stripe markers. Completely unacceptable as you're running WOT towards a wall of concrete dividers with no real reference for distance or turnoff. Long story short-ish, spun the tires off the line, broke sideways into second and got out of it just after the 1/8th, then I saw my friend coming up beside me so I stabbed it to keep him behind me and ran 14.2 @ 88, for reference I was 82 in the 1/8th when I backed out of it and still only had a 2.3 60-foot. Needless to say I'm done messing around on the track without proper tires, I wasn't even going to run that day but I figured I'd go easy on it. Beings sideways in 2nd (60-80mph) on a narrow track was not fun and I just parked it for the rest of the day. Between my friends it was funny enough my car was the only one without problems that day and I had the oldest car there by close to 15 years.

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Later in the fall I finally picked up a set of Hoosier QTP 26x9.5 DOT Slicks and mounted them on a spare set of wheels I had been holding onto. The fitment isn't exactly what I wanted but the wheels are cheap and light. I'm looking forward to seeing what the car does with some actual grip next year. Definitely want to lower the rear of the car regardless.

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