Well it's been awhile because we have been working our asses off. This car was supposed to be easy and cheap. Turns out nothing is easy and cheap in Lemons. Let me try to recap the fun:

first we get the car to James. The same James that does LS1 swaps for breakfast. Well it turns out James only has 11mm and 13mm sockets available and they are made by Husky. We broke a header stud off in the head installing Jersey Joe's rusty header that I traded for a stereo. Then we jacked off the rear brake caliper trying to fix the e-brake. Then james cut our springs on the car because he "does it all the time". Turns out that blow torches and rubber brake lines don't mix.



header shield face palm




Some good things happened along the way. Eric installed the $20 intake cam from a 91 sentra with no issues. Brandon extracted the header stud AND the drill bit we broke off in the stud.

Then James has an awesome exhaust shop hookup: $200 later and we have a crappy 2" crush bent exhaust. Sweet. After the cam and exhaust install the car still felt slow. After reading for hours on sr20forums we found out that the bad knock sensor wiring was causing the timing to be retarded 7 degrees. Not good. Lemon Disney fixed that up no prob and I set out on my first kill. Lemon Lane and I line it up against his brother's race Saturn in front of my house. Sweet victory. I sawed him off worse that James saws off brake lines.

We also have a new team member. Kevin joined the team after James quit. Kevin has been kicking ass in auto-x and is a cool, easy going dude, so I was very happy to have him.

The car is now just waiting for parts that I purchased. Autopower cage, seat, harness, fire extinguisher, spare parts, etc, etc, $, $, $. While Lemon Diz is waiting for the parts, he is doing small things like this neato tow hook. I love it! His engineering professors must be proud.