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Well, he did say, " ... in _Scranton_ to Barber.", so shall we just consider that it's in northern Alabama?

If he changes his mind, I’ll take it... :-)

Plugs are plugged in, now gotta hunt down some missing angry pixies but it turns over, horn works, turn signal clicker clicks.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs4DlPhgkgg … hare_sheet

I yelled in his direction on Facebook.

I take it Maryland "historic" doesn't need an inspection? Because first time registration of anything normal usually involves an inspection that is rather comprehensive...

Yes it has tires that should be safer than not. At least two snows and a couple basic not race tires.

I don't think the donor car wheels will fit on the big front brakes. But you'll have lots of options since all the wheels will be going with you and so there will always be a spare!

It does not have any form of heater. I don't know what madness they did on the trip out to California, but between then and now that stuff is gone, gone, gone. But since It also has no Insulation, it's not like a heater is going to do much for you. I would advise the biggest plug in seat heater pad you can get, bundle up, and know thanks to Happy Jack, you won't be the coldest person driving a K car in the rally. You'll probably want one of those electric defroster fan things that go on the dash too. Basically Big Truck Stops will be your friend.

Also this thing is full of holes. The Closer you keep the heat to yourself the better because it's gonna have drafts. And with an un-padded aluminum seat, it's gonna suck the heat out of you.

Good news is it has the less crappy alternator. (for a given value of less) and you'll have 2 power ports on two diffrent fuses.

The plan is to drive up Monday night and stay at the Sleep In then hand you over to your fate in the morning at the rally Start.

Well given the engine was gone, the whole of the harness was gone and or shredded, and that Bob's plan is to gut all that anyways to do something crazy. The easiest solution was to just do a full powertrain transplant with a full harness.

And once we track down our mystery grounds tomorrow we should be good to start buttoning up and failing at swapping the windshield. Justin got it starting to fire while he was futzing with stuff today, but all he knows is he was leaning on bits of the harness inside the car trying to get the fuel pump to buzz.

Oddly it seems to work when the turn signal is on? So probably some ground we're forgetting or some weird ground that goes through a component or some madness. We'll find out tomorrow and hope to have a video of the crappy thing wheezing for everyone.

You're going to have spare parts?

Watched vid
Most likely, Big vacuum leak or map sensor, less likely items can be mentioned if it is neither

Don't overlook pulling codes from the ECM (or whatever Chrysler calls it) to help with the diagnosis.

I did so (when it was running the Mitsu V6) and it worked fine.

(The fact that it self-identified as a diesel seemed a bit off but whatever...)

I'm hours away from home yet but if you don't have an answer by then I'll dig into Mitchell and see what if anything the spotty 80s wiring diagram collection it has holds.

Are you sure when you slap the buzzer you're not also imparting a force on some other part of the harness or dash?

I think earlier in this thread (or one of the other ones) someone said Chris O. fielded a Mazda B-series truck at the same race where he ran the K in 2014. So that's probably where those parts came from. I doubt he misses them after all this time.