build diary

May 11, 2005: I accidentally spent a bit of time working on the car last night.
Since I'll have the opportunity for some nice photographs and I'm hoping to be showing the car off, I figured I'd make it look good. The panels were polished, partly to get the old adhesive from the track duct tape off the car. The foam around the hood was replaced with fresh stuff that wasn't soaked in oil (long story there) and a line of black tape was added to hide the chips in the paint from the hood chewing away. This actually really looks good. The freshly painted exhaust was installed. A long-overdue change was made to the fan wiring to stop a problem that's been around for a while. Naturally this only took about 5 minutes. Then I made my favourite change of all - I put the plastic cover for the gauges underneath the dash instead of over top. I've never liked the shape of that piece and this looks far better. The big question is - why did it take so long for me to realise this would work?

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