Long Time No Post

But we have made progress!  We finally fixed the exhaust.  We had to special order original pipes because no one around here will custom bend pipes with the old flange like we needed.  But given the non-original nature of some or our engine/manifold... we had to wrestle it a little bit.  In the end it's on and it doesn't leak.

Then we put on new leaf springs to help out the sagging rear end.  We found that the leaf spring mounting plates were cracked - which is pretty crazy given that they're just a slab of metal that holds the springs/shocks up.  Fixed.  That stuff and the exhaust was about $350.

Then we took it to the local tire place for an alignment and inspection ($102).  As expected our "eye-ball-alignment" was way off, but it rolls straight now.  And to Eli's surprise it passed the safety inspection on the first try!

With that, I went and got some plates ($40) for the thing and he legally drove it to work on 6/14/2017.

Lame video, I know.  But I was excited.  The car is a long way from finished... but it's nice to see it move around.

This stuff cost: $492

Total project cost: $4131.51