massive reconfiguration time again.

Well the hood held down on the freeway and seemed to do just fine the way it is. And would like to still do some kind of lexan on the open holes. I'm kind of getting everything ready for summer. I just changed the oil and oil filter some new penngrade 15/40. took a couple to good degrees of timing out of it the other day. Haven't had a chance to test that yet but since I'm so close to detonation I figured I'd back it off a couple. I thought it was at about 36 all in but it seems more like 34 and I backed it down to what I believe is 32 now. I'm gearing up for its first long-sh Freeway Drive of 60 miles each way. I pulled the plugs because I'm going to put some new ones in and started a compression check and it wouldn't crank long enough with the plugs out to do two cylinders so it looks like that five-year-old battery is finally giving up the ghost. So I skipped to now looking at resetting the valve lash or checking it at the very least. sometimes I forget how pretty it is underneath the valve covers...
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