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No flame throwers!

The punch list is down to like a dozen items. Rattles (door weather stripping?). Double and triple-checking hose fittings and other oily-seepy bits (ordered a sump hardware kit from CB today). The fuel filter in the engine bay....

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Which leaks so is now bypassed...

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Gonna install some Jet Doctors to bud-nip the dreaded idle jet clogging issue. (And of course I intend to heim-joint the linkage while I'm at it. I have those parts.)

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Steering wheel came off for centering and to make the turn signals cancel. 

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And I still have to pull the disty, lock it out and set up the CB Perf Black Box, which is on the firewall, the wires all curled up and tied down low where you'd have to look for them. Get the vac hoses routed, get the spark map made and dialed in, then pop the O2 sensor in the tail pipe and read the Wide Band as we motor through the gears, over hill and dale, etc. 

You know...tuning.*

Then of course the inevitable clay bar, polish/compound, final touch-ups and the photos and vids.

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*So far, by the way, the engine seems to run well. Pulls strong from idle, very little if any "bog" at that common 1500 rpm spot, snappy throttle response in the 2k-4500 range. I've spun it over 5000 and it feels like it likes that, but I've not gone WOT to redline yet as my fuel filter and valve covers have been less than trustworthy.  

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