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The Spyder is registered and I'm into test-drives and adjustments now.

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Starts easy, idles a little low when cold, and the brake pedal is a bit low for my tastes. One pad may be rubbing just a tad as well, so I'll need to find that and re-shim the caliper, probably, and the brake line on the driver's rear caliper it taking paint off the inner fender, so I'm going to have to re-route it. E-brake also needs tightening. The car tracks and stops straight.

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Gears are all there and I'm going to leave them be a while and see if the shifter gets smoother or not. 

Left turn signal does not cancel. Dang. I'm not interested in pulling the wheel again to correct that, given the fiasco with the horn button. But I'll probably do it, all the same.

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Need to aim the headlights lower. Will do that after the ride height is set and settled.

Gonna try to fit the cloth top before swapping out the glass windscreen for the proper plastic screen.

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May yet have the slightest oil drip out of the passenger side valve cover. Need to make sure it's not a pushrod tube.

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Once that's squared away the aluminum underpan goes back on.

Also I'll be making a towbar system for it. 

 

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