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Photo the day she arrived. It was 1 year ago today, plus 1 day, that ..... My Beautiful RedBird arrived in my life!!! Purchased in Dec 2015, stopped on her way from Miami in Jacksonville for some repairs, then on to me. I am so excited at having my lovely RedBird, I just wanted to post a note and share with you all my joy! She now has gone a month with her new/old ECU, and has no more of the worrying problems I/we had been dealing with. Again, I am sending volumes of appreciation to each of you that have made suggestions, sent parts, and have driven distances to do the hands on work on her. All of you are wonderful! I've never known such a great bunch of strangers actually, to rise to my assistance, surging forward on your AmaZing Z Steeds. To say Thank You, in pouring out my heart, I am humbled. God bless you everyone. Jai

I pulled the O-rings and plugged the holes. Life has taught me that 1-in-100 odds of dropping something into a hole means it's almost certain to happen, unless I want to do it, in which case it won't happen in 500 attempts.

I don't use gloves with metal snaps. I once bumped a metal fence, and it grabbed the snap and made a gash in my skin. I will keep using the Velcro- or elastic-wrist gloves.

http://www.autodromo.com/accessories/ love these I am sure you will too!

With all this leather, where do you plan to install the chains?

Flannel, blue jeans Herman Survivors, wallet with a chain. I was a stud and so were my wrist bands. At least that's how I remember it.

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Well..Friday night, we got it all buttoned up...colortuned..timing set...carbs synced and put the hood on... . I put a few miles on it and thought the timing must be off or something.....it just sounded "off". Came back to the garage, checked the timing...which looked good. Then I looked down and saw the #5 plug wire just hanging there....doh! As you can imagine...ran a hell of a lot better after I put that back on! Saturday I drove it a bunch and now have 115 miles on it. So...it time to change the oil when I get a chance this week. But, so far..no leaks, smoke or any issues at all! Runs very nice, pulls smoothly. I've obviously been keeping the revs down while it breaks in, but it is already obvious how much more power this engine has. The big cam by the way...seems to pull on the street down low just fine! Totally streetable. The idle is certainly rougher and more lopey than stock,(which I think sounds awesome)... but it smooths right out as soon as you come off idle. I know it will really shine once I'm able to really let it pull to redline. Can't wait to drive it more! A couple pics...my friend it editing together a video he shot of the whole engine install and first test drive..should have it sometime this week.... IMG_6187 by blodi, on Flickr IMG_6186 by blodi, on Flickr IMG_6188 by blodi, on Flickr