Fair warning

[Cody Forbes]

NC, about 45 northwest of CMP where they run two LeMons events a year.

I think it may be a bit too far down right now to make a LeMons  
budget. It will need a MegaSquirt (I removed the entire CIS, but  
having sat for 10 years I doubt it was good anyways), the sunroof is  
completely removed (37lbs taken off the highest point in the car!!!)  
but I haven't made a panel to fill the hole, and I think there's a  
rust pinhole in the gas tank (I can see what looks like it might be a  
pinhole, but never have poured anything in to see if it holds liquid  
or not). Oh, and I tossed the fuel pump 4 years ago because it was so  
encrusted in a half inch thick layer of tar crap from the decade old  
fuel that it was beyond hope. That's the $500 budget even if the car  
was free.

My plan for the car was NASA GTS where it's got to have 4 wheels and  
conform to a power:weight chart and that's basically it. I had gotten  
the car down to about 2700lbs still with all steel bodywork and the  
stock bumpers. The next step was to pull the driveline and put the car  
on my rotisserie to strip the undercoat and seam filler.

-Cody (mobile)

On Mar 30, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Mark Rosenkrantz  
<speedracer.mark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cody,
> Where are you?  It could be our next lemons car!   We're running a  
> FWD Civic hatch at CT this year.  We'll see how it goes!
>
> Mark Rosenkrantz
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
> I'm getting ready to crush an '86 5000tqCD. It was going to be a race
> car project, but since then my paycheck has been cut by a third and I
> need the money.
>
> It's got no interior. The reason it was to be a race car was it sat in
> the FL sun for 10 years and everything leather inside was destroyed
> plus the dash. I removed all wire harnesses as neatly as possible only
> cutting where things were soldered to other harnesses or crimped in
> the same terminal as another harness on the fuse board. If you want to
> do a heated seat retrofit i have all of tge bits in tact and
> functional including the (working) elements out of the seats,
> switches, and uncut harness. The driveline is still in it. KH engine.
> Has not run in a long time, but once a year or so I would pour some
> WD40 down the spark plug holes and turn the engine a dozen times by
> hand. It has 4 year old Bilstein Sports on it with less than 5000
> miles. All body panels are clean and straight. Has four good window
> regulators and door handles.
>
> I'm taking parts requests through the weekend. Plan to crush it in
> time to pay rent on the 12th.
>
>
> -Cody (mobile)
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