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Kyle's orphan 220 amazon wagon

Yeah it's been a long journey with this one. Here's to actually working on it in the future and maybe even an interior? That would be unheard of
 
Dialing on this thing for mountain meet. Really all it needed was the trans re shimmed and installed. I think it was out from the trans adapter being off center a little bit, but I got that dialed in pretty damn close. I swapped out the counter shaft retainer with a billet unit, re shimmed both the counter shaft and the main shaft, and swapped in a steel input shaft retainer. It seems to shift a lot cleaner at high engine speed vs how it did before, as well as having a little less nvh at 6k+ rpm. I mean it's still a t5 but it ain't bad.

Apart from that I've just kinda checked bolt tightness around the whole car, and put a good half turn on some pretty needed front suspension bolts. They're all nylock but still, some had pulled back a little bit.

Final thing this go round is going to be balance the tires again, and I'd really love to wire up my fog/spot light. We'll see on that one.
 
Just a general bump. The drive back and forth from mountain meet last September went well with no issues, because of course it did. However...this thing sucks to drive on the highway. So right now I'm working on two things.

1. I have put another muffler in the thing. My ears ring at 80mph and ya boy is getting old. So I bought a Vibrant "super quiet" resonator and welded it in there. Results and youtube video pending.
2. It's winter and I've put my foot down and refused to be cold, see old af comment above. To that end I'm rebuilding the heater box, valve, hoses, all that jazz. It's good and bad as usual here. My heater box is in remarkably good shape due to it being a desert car, but it needs everything apart from the metal. That and the cylinder head is about 10mm away from the outlet of the heater core, and it's being kinda a total pita. I think I'm gonna pull it off, but it's been a journey that's for sure. Again, results pending.
 
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