1978 Pontiac Firebird Week 2009 12 12

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This Saturday we had another meeting of the Car Nuts. In attendance was Don Schafer, Tom Deyle, Len Ball, Jim Boehly, and Donald Goodman.

This is what took place. The Firebird had the headers bolted up (quite a task), the Exhaust temperate bungs on the headers had plugs install (stainless steel expensive plugs!), The data recorder was removed, the ETP were removed, the shifter was removed ( this had to be done as the transmission now in the Firebird has a forward shift pattern), the distributor was installed along with the oil pressure sending unit and low pressure warning. The front clip was removed from the back yard and installed on the car.

The finally was a single elimination Pro tree practice session on the practice tree with a $5.00 pay out to the winner. Who was the winner, you will have to come to the next Car Nuts meeting to find out. There will be a $5.00 pay out to the winner at every car nuts meeting.

Next week we should be able to start the engine.

	The first thing we did was to install all the header bolts and tighten them. This is not a easy task but was made simpler as the front clip was not on the car. Hand dexterity was displayed by Donald Goodman to get this bolt in.
	Tom Deyle is showing the same dexterity on the passenger side. Take a close look at the expression on  Don Schafer’s face (your kidding me right, a bolt really has to go in there?)
	The front clip was installed and then after that job was done Jim Boehly showed up. Jim we will make you pay later. Donald seem to like the drivers side of the car, Don, the body shims’ go between the front clip and the body of the car, no between the bolt and the clip.
	See Jim, I told you would pay. Here you are the only one working, Lenny is asleep, and both the Dons are drinking good coffee.
Next on the list of tasks is to remove the data recorder, with Lenny as the supervisor (he woke up).
	Here Jim is scavenging the oil pressure sending unit and low pressure warning unit of the FED engine.
Removing the plug to install the scavenging the oil pressure sending unit and low pressure warning unit
	f you can not succeed from one side try the other. As the saying goes, try, try again an you will succeed.  The car has a nice rake to it.
Who is that blurry charactor with the sissy pony tail and fat stomach
Time for a committee meeting on putting the distributor in.

We called it a day after the meeting and went an played in the basement. Open time trials were held on the practice tree, and then a single elimination contest with a $5.00 payout to the winner was held. Can you guess who the winner was. Come next week to hear the engine run and take part in the second weekly shoot out with the practice tree. This week it was Pro Tree, next week will be a full sportsman tree.