Recently my posts have been shorter, more frequent, and filled with pictures. It kind of reflects the ramped up rate of work on my Lil’ Red Wagon. I have either been at work, or working on the race car, every day for the past couple months trying to get ready for some racing before the [...]

My buddies at The Moore Speed Co really came through for me by working with me all weekend wrapping up several projects on the Race Wagon. We finished up the paint, door panels, fuelcell firewall, and a bunch of little things I needed some help with. I’ve still got several more issues to wrap up [...]

We painted on a couple stripes, got the front end back together, and made some door panels.  

We got a nice coat of fresh red paint on today. Some stripes and numbers are up next.

Loaded up and ready for a fresh coat of red!

This week I had the opportunity to meet Pete Weber, the owner and chief machinist at Quiet Horsepower. Pete’s one of those smart and quiet guys that has probably forgotten more about high performance exhaust systems than I’ll ever know. I purchased one of his Phase 10 mufflers for the Race Wagon and had it installed down [...]

My Lil’ Red Wagon belched it’s first breath of fire this morning, a small step in the long run but a big deal today. I dry cranked it first with the sparkplugs out to make sure I had oil pressure, then tried to start it up. After figuring out I had the dizzy leads reversed (doh!), [...]

I was originally going to rivet the rear flares on after painting the wagon so I could keep the rivets unpainted, but I decided to put them on now so I could check the fit beforehand. These are 14×7 Panasports with standared zero offset, 225/50/14 Hankook Z214′s, and .40″ spacers, using a Datsun 510 2 [...]