Got the Falcon lit off last week but quickly discovered that my starter wasn't really up to the task. Lots of kicking and bucking, nasty gnashing sounds. Pulled the plugs, spun up quite nicely. Plugs in, all sorts of bad nastiness.
New Powermaster XS starter arrived yesterday. Installed, hit the switch and spun like it oughta. Cool. Had The Totally Awesome Missus Murff give the hat a little squirt of alky, hit the starter, then the mag...and set the grass on fire under the car. Whoops. Put a little more advance into it, and had a buddy come by to assist 'cause the Missus was becoming a little cautious.
Buddy gave it a squirt of gas this time, I hit the starter, switch on the mag and VAROOM, fired right up. Got to hear it burn off the gas and then pick up the alky for the 1st time. Pretty cool.
Topped off the trans fluid, bumped a little more into the mag, and off on a road test I went. Nothing major, just a 2 block cruise around the neighborhood. No smoke shows or other violence, saw a few cats and small children running for cover and a few grownups grinning as I rumbled by, that was cool.
I did whack the throttle once as I approached the safety of my driveway, and to me the response seemed a little lackluster, didn't have the snap that the last build did. I'm going to pickup a good self powered timing light so I can find where this thing really is, and then go from there.
But so far I am pretty pleased with the way the car turned out.
And the rides of my assistants
Shoot, that's kind of a big picture, huh? Sorry.
Murff