March 28, 2019 – work on headlights & fuel pressure regulator

Started out the day hooking up the wiring on the headlights, parking lights and turn signals. I found 3 lights that didn’t work (left low beam, right fixed/middle high beam and right parking light/tail light). Tracked all three down to the fuse holders where those three fuses weren’t making a tight connection. I pulled those […]

March 26, 2019 – front bumper and headlights reinstalled

While waiting for the new fuel pressure regulator to arrive, I cleaned up the front bumper in preparation to reinstall it. I removed the 3 rubber bumper pads and the 2 turn signal housings from it and started polishing the stainless steel. Here are a couple of picture of the polishing work in-progress with the […]

March 21, 2019 – Fuel Pressure Issue & Airboxes repainted

After I got the injectors all figured out, I proceeded to think about the fuel pressure situation (I am getting about 2lbs more than I need: 30lbs) – I was so happy to see full pressure in the fuel rail a couple of days ago that I forgot to do the second check of the […]

March 17-18, 2019 – Diagnosing ignition and fuel injection issues – great progress!

5 days ago, I got the car to fire up and run for the first time (you can see the video of the first run here), but it was without any tuning – just guessing on timing and not sure the point gap (dwell) was right… I also had some concerns that the fuel injection […]

March 12, 2019 – IT’S ALIVE!!!!!

Spent a few minutes making up the primary power lead and installing it between the positive battery cable and the alternator – and, as expected – I have power to the car!! Next I added 5 gallons of premium, no-ethanol gasoline to the dry tank – the fuel sender I restored last year appears to […]

March 9-11, 2019 – Nearly ready to fire up the engine!

Continued assembly the last couple of days. Started with connecting the vacuum and hydraulic lines to the “mixture control” device located below the driver’s side intake plenum. It is the green item you see in the middle of this picture (just behind the silver “Smiths Bypass Valve”). Here is a view from the driver’s side […]

March 8, 2019 – Ignition System installation, Fuel Injection Vacuum System installation and some wiring connected

Started today re-installing the ignition system. Here are the cassette points which David Hume already set to the appropriate gap back at Excelsior Motors: And here is the distributor cap with wires back in place: Next I connected the “Smiths Valve” which is part of the fuel injection system (it increases the air volume getting […]

March 6, 2019 – Steering, Accessory Rack & Air Filter Box Re-installation

Received a couple of brackets from David Hume @ Excelsior Motors that were missing from the car (most likely due to laziness of an italian mechanic in the late 1970s :-(. David sent me a used shifter cable standoff and a used “loop” bracket for the upper mount of the oil cooler hoses (above the […]

March 4 & 5 2019 – Fuel Injection System Re-installation

Took a couple of days off, but got back to it yesterday and today. Focus is now to get the Fuel Injection system installed, but first, I decided to get the exhaust hooked up again – nothing interesting to show, but the new gaskets that go between the upper header and lower “long tube” portion […]