Isabel's West Coast Sister by relentless

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OK, two weeks until the Back to the 50's car show. Here is some more progress. I dumped the oil and put in fresh synthetic. Some of you might doubt the wisdom of putting synthetic oil in an engine that isn't broken in yet, but I trust science. Here is an engineer's perspective. I was not aware that all new Corvettes have synthetic oil straight from the factory.  

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I scored some black XR7 door panels. Still waiting for the speaker covers and door pull straps, but I think they look a lot better than the standard door panels I had. I also put on the XR7 stainless steel window mouldings.  



I had to take the front wheels off to put some bolts back on and do some basic cleanup. You can see where I slotted the bumper mount to body so I could pull the passenger side in to line the bumper up even with the driver's side, and in line with the eyebrow skirt. I have bumper fills on order.



I've spent countless hours dinking around with the engine bay. I am happy to say that today I am nearly finished dinking. I covered the wiring harnesses as best I could and put on the new spark plug wires.







Underside of the hood is now painted flat black - much better than the raw fiberglass color.



While the wheels were off I gave them another polish job using Turtle's Chrome polish, which I really like.





Front turn signals are repainted and back on. Still have to wire them in. Robert, what is the best way to route the wiring harness from the turn signals to the main harness, can you provide me a picture please? Does it route through the opening inside the hood stops like I show here?

Did you guys catch my joke?



His tail's up! That's a Brit expression for someone going for it.



The hood cowell doesn't seem to be fastened down, what screws do I need? I found a rubber hood seal, does it mount as shown and if so, what do I do about the ends?



I'm gonna have a ton of questions about the interior. I have never pulled one of these cars apart and all I have are boxes of ... parts. I was able to get the clock mounted in the dash, but I need to figure out what to do about the plastic cover that isn't very clear.