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Bet you didn’t see this coming… Psych! This is HAPPENING people!!! Sad to say it’s been 6 long years since I got the Matador. A lot has happened in that time. Mostly what’s happened is my son will be FOUR soon! But also I have done a lot of other car stuff. I had pretty… Continue Reading Madd Matt – The Re-Birthen-ing (part 1)
Ok, after the epic fail at Buttonwillow it was time to dig into the Javelin and figure out wtf was going on with the timing. I had the car dyno tuned before the race to make sure the engine was running good. And it did run good on the dyno. So what happened? Well, the… Continue Reading Distributors 101… NASA AIX AMC Javelin update
After the track day at Infineon I had a list of items I need to address. So I dragged the car back to Joe’s and we started crossing things off the list. Here are the highlights – – to try to address the oil leaks we pulled the intake bolts one by one, put a… Continue Reading Thrash week redux… American Iron Javelin update
worked on the dash today. Got it painted, riveted the gauge and starter switch panel to the dash and loaded up the gauges. dash came out ok. I will probably have to notch it to allow me to fit a windshield brace since I’m running a lexan windshield. The wiring isn’t done though but I’ll… Continue Reading dash mostly done… NASA American Iron Javelin update
I finally got around to installing LED taillights in the Javelin this weekend. This is something I’ve been thinking of for years and even experimented with building my own LED board about 5 years ago. I just never followed through and finished the job. But, twice this year at the track people have come up… Continue Reading LED Taillights… a long time coming.
I had created a simple particle board, covered in cheap fuzzy “carpet” as an amp rack. As lame as that was the real issue was the way I mounted it was a simple piece of sheet metal, bent into a wide L bracket, screwed into the back of the board and riveted to the trunk.… Continue Reading Amp rack, round 2
so I put together a little video blog entry on the dash/gauge cluster I modified for the Javelin. I’m planning to do a few track days this year and bought a GoPro HD camera to do some in-car video with. I also got a new point and shoot camera that does HD video so I… Continue Reading my first video…
doh… ok that was lame. for some reason when I was wiring up the dash I only put power to the speedo and tach?! once I realized my mistake it was a simple matter of getting the rest of the gauges switched 12v. now the oil pressure and gas gauges work. I’m sure the temp… Continue Reading gauges work!
been working on tying up some loose ends so I can start driving the car again. I actually started it today and let it run for a few minutes. the brakes need to be bled and the tires aired up but other than that it should be driveable. as for the loose ends, I got… Continue Reading light ’em up…
picked up some molex connectors at my local electronics store. haven’t used them before but they looked like they’d be perfect for the main dash connector. I used a 12 connector for all the gauges and indicator lights. the headlight switch and wiper switch has they’re own separate connectors. the molex connect was really easy… Continue Reading molex connectors