70 duster: updating, and a no-dough pro-touring makeover

thanks.

dunno if ill still do the vette brakes. the car has yet to run out of brakes on me, no matter how hard i beat it. and if i keep my current setup, i can still run my steelies. which reminds me, i need to figure out the tire sizes again to put new skins on them....


and i would apprecieate that this thread does not turn into a debate about the constitution vs private and state rights, etc. well keep that for the private forum, and in which case ill probably participate in that one.

this thread is intended to be about repurposing and previously finished car, and a real-world log of the results as i spend time with my friends and family with the car.


there have really been no updates. i could try to blam,e circumstances, but i tend not to try to lay the blame on other places other than me.
at the beginning of summer, i blew out my knee. its given me trouble off and on over the years, but my daughter and i were playing in the living room and i heard it go POP. wound up getting a boatload of PT and not being able to drive stick for a few months. its finally geting back to normal. as i was in recovery for the knee, i managed to trip a 40 amp breaker with my heart. wound up with a mild heart attack, which pretty much killed the rest of the summer worth of working on the car and cruising.

now, im starting to get back into the swing of things. have gotten the red car driving again, thouigh i am having charging system oddities. which led me to take my freshly restored neon ACR on vacation this past weekend instead of the red car like i had planned.

the only red car updates i really have is that i got my EFI manifold finished welded, my TB adapter bought, a new tpo me set of injectors, and a new pair of front tires. apparently -2/5 degrees of camber kills them on this thing.....

on the short term to do list is find the charging problem, clean it up from extended storage, change the oil, and realign it to something a bit more sane. this winter i plan to do my five speed and EFI swapping, but ive got to get caught up at both jobs and my personal fleet first. gotta rehabv the scoobie, sell the camry, rehab my brithers trans am so he can sell it, service the truck, and change an exhaust manifold in the ACR.

build thread for the ACR
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/neon-acr-coupe-2012-challengedd-build/50461/page1/