Pictures from awhile ago

Our Exhaust System!

After many months of work, we got the car running fairly well. Everything seemed to work, and so Mr. Knight with the help of us and a few of his first period auto 2 kids loaded the LeMans onto the desk holder, which doubles as a trailer. We then tied it on in the rain, and drove over to our good friends at Planet Auto. After a week or so, they were finally done, a few days late, but thats okay. We convinced him to get it back, so during a 6th period a few of us and a few of his 6th period kids went over and drove!! the car onto the trailer. We then, in the blazing sun (quite a contrast from the rain the week before) got the car back to Paly, and with Dr. Knight's excellent driving skills, got the car and trailer back in their respective positions. It sounds beautiful. The exhaust is a dual exhaust with crossover, twin Flowmaster mufflers, and beautiful chrome tips coming out of the sides. Now that it is back at the shop, we have checked the timing, fixed some cooling system leaks, put on a fan and new belts, and checked the brakes. Today we will be taking the LeMans out for a test drive, to see how she runs, and find other problems. Hopefully everything will run smoothly. Knight said that he would try to get us a fiberglass hood with a scoop.

Things left to do:

1. Attach the radiator properly
2. Get a new hood
   
3. Get the trunk open
4. Fix accessories like a faceplate, sweet sound system, horn that plays dixie, headlights etc.
   
5. Beautify the car's upholstery, paint, fix dents etc.
6. Attach the kickdown
7. Get brand new parts like distributor, ignition coil, etc.
8. Hook up the AC system?

The Junkyard

Wednesday (the first sunny day we've had in a while) we made our second trip to the junkyard. We needed a hook for our e-brake line, a mount for our starter coil, and a new accelerator line. We found the hook and two accelerator lines, we decided to try one of the other mounts in the shop. At lunch today we put the hook in, fits perfectly, and in class later we got one of the accelerator lines in.

New Problems: for some reason the e-brake doesn't lock when pressed. we weren't able to get a mount we found on correctly so we don't know if it works. we have to find ways to secure the new accelerator line to the mount behind the carb and to the gas peddle (which is a different connection then our old line had), but at least now we have something to do other than wait for parts.

At the shop during Winter Break

A good portion of Friday, January 4th was spent working on the Lemans, despite the fact that school was out for winter break. The distributer on the car was loose, so we secured it with a distributer clamp that fit (after being modified a bit). We then spent a lot of time trying to take off the nut holding down a pulley on another power steering pump so we could put the pulley on ours. Having been told that the nut was reverse threaded, we spent many fruitless minutes trying to take it off, but it wouldn't so much as budge. We went out to lunch and when we returned, Dr. Knight informed us that the nut had not in fact been reverse threaded, and that he had taken it off with an impact gun. A little bit annoyed, but glad that the nut was off, we set to work taking off the pulley. The pulley was eventually taken off with the help of a few pry bars. We put the pulley on our power steering pump but found that it didn't line up correctly with the other pulleys. It was at this point that we all needed to go home, so we decided we would deal with this problem another day.