A good day.
According to the MikeMatkosky dictonary,..a good day is anyday I get off of work at noon.
Today was that day.
With weather threatening to downpour at sometime in the "later afternoon" I set out to accomplish several things before I got wet.
#1. Get my rusty assed extreme subframe connectors to my friend for sandblasting. At the same time, pick up four free 12" x 14" pieces of 1/8' plate, courtesy of the same friend.
Check.
For the few paying attention,..you'll remember that I bought a supposedly running engine from a salvage yard,...and when tearing that engine down revealed deeply scored cylinder walls,...( So deep,..I'll have to sleeve the block to restore the cylinders to standard). When I called the salvage yard to let them know that the 300.00 I paid for a running engine seems high,..given that the engine would've been a smoking dog had I ran it, they assured me,..they'd make it good.
I called them on that today.
#2. I don't know how much a complete 90 mustang dash and console is worth,..but in the grand scheme of things,..given the G-monsters' dash looks like ass,..a decent dash that'll fit my monster w/o any modifications seems like it's worth alot. I had to pull it, which is a good thing, as I also got to get the A/C plenum, the complete wiring harness, E brake handle, and all the bolts, screws, and brackets.
All while the sky kept threatening to rain biblically on my ass.
I managed to get it all out, and in my truck just in time for the monsoon........I'm only "wet with sweat".
#3. When I get home,...My friends at USPS, and UPS have left presents for me. USPS has left me my UPR upper and
lower control arms,...UPS has brought me the fuel line and fittings from Summit I asked about on another thread.
The build quality of the UPR
control arms has made me a believer,...I'm happy I invested in a good set. The 3/8" alum line and related doo dads?........ Meh,.....it's trivial stuff,..nothing to get all misty about.
The dash is gonna have to be another thread, as I'm thinking about altering it. I was kinda thinking I'd do away w/ the stock gauge housing,..and make a custom piece. Again,..I wish I could draw,..and I'd have a sketch to work off of.
But I can't,...and I don't,..so I won't.
I'll just have to wing it.
Now I gotta take a shower,..and wash the junkyard off of me.
I actually grabbed a blanket out of another cars' trunk to lay on when I skinked under the Mustang to disconnect the e- brake handle.
A blanket,....out of a trunk,...from a car, in a junkyard.
I'm Cootified!!!