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Wheels to Adam (( 08-31-23 ))

Well I removed a couple things off the table today.

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The wheels are heading over to Adams to get Ceramic Coated.

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Wheels are Coated (( 09-01-23 ))

Final Battery Ground Cable (( 09-02-23 ))

Time to build the final ground wire and I have way to many wiring connectors.

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While the mock up battery was in the car I estimated the cut length of the cable.

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Looks good

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This was the point when I should have swapped to the Black Anodized tray.

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Confirming

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Crimping with my helper.

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Heat Shrunk cable end.

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Confirming the gap.

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I enlarged the holes to allow some wiggle room.

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Time to make some battery bolts. You can see that I used a shouldered nut and grimmped that in the vice and then I installed
the bolt and tightened it. At this point I can cut the bolt and not damage the visible nut.

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I also shortened the acorn nut to it didn't poke into the bottom of the battery case.

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Since the negative cable is close to these two nuts I swapped them out.

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Much better looking and of course they won't damage the ground wire.

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If you look at the ground wire you can see I wrapped it in DEI Abrasion wrap.

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Tray is in.

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Support Rod is in.

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And yet there is more !!! (( 09-03-23 ))

Final Battery Bolts !!!

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This is the hardware I will be using on the battery hold down brackets and I will be using star washers on all of the bolts.

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I need to swap out the bolt circled in red as it will be supporting the AC line.

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Enlarging the holes so I don't have to go to Home Depot !!!

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Test Fitting

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AC Hose secured.

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The area circled in red was bent into the engine compartment and it sure did look like it was going to eventually cut through
the ground wire. So I gently bent it flat and added some black touch paint.

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I also put a note reminding me that there is a Nylock nut on the other side.

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I ended up going Hi-Vis

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More star washers and I also confirmed that the longer bolts would not poke through the bottom of the battery tray.

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I installed the bracket and tightened prior to installing the battery.

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I really hope this is the last time I have to lift this battery.

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Ugh, I need to remove a little bit of plastic.

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Thankfully the utility knife worked.

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It's in !!!!

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and it' off

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Vintage Air lines secured and it looks so much better.

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What does the ceramic coating on the wheels do? Easier to clean brake dust?
Car is coming along great.

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Originally Posted by thedugan (Post 723967)

What does the ceramic coating on the wheels do? Easier to clean brake dust?
Car is coming along great.

Exactly and once I start driving the car I will keep you posted on how well it does.

On a side not I am going to have him do the wheels on my Cayman and I am also going to change the pads from race to street pads.

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Originally Posted by thedugan (Post 723967)

What does the ceramic coating on the wheels do? Easier to clean brake dust?
Car is coming along great.

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Originally Posted by syborg tt (Post 723970)

I had Budnik do that to a set of their wheels on my GTO, made cleaning them like doing a chrome wheel. No more polishing, stayed much cleaner than a normal aluminum wheel.

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Originally Posted by camcojb (Post 723971)

I had Budnik do that to a set of their wheels on my GTO, made cleaning them like doing a chrome wheel. No more polishing, stayed much cleaner than a normal aluminum wheel.

That is exactly what I am hoping for.

Optima Battery Charge Cord (( 09-04-23 ))

Since the Optima needs constant charging with all of the on & off I have done with the ignition I decided to add the charge plug back on.

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Tape is on & off again

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Charge plug is back on.

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Time to remove the blue tape from the Anvil Inner Fender

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I had to remove the air filter so I could get the rest of the tape off.

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I need to modify the little rubber things that go under the Anvil Radiator cover.

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Ugh, the nutzert that I installed started spinning so I had to tighten it up again.

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Anvil Radiator cover installed and I can't wait to see the Anvil Core Support cover installed.

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I needed to clean out the threads on the factory blind nuts

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