Mark's 1G Winter Projects

[Mark Leasure]

Quick update:

I finished off the dash last week by adding a USB bulkhead connector to make it easy to interface with my laptop.



I'm also going to remove the AVCO rear swaged tube lower control arms. They broke on the dyno last time and I just replaced the broken ones with the same Afco replacements. I would like to dyno the car at some point, so I need to beef up the lower control arm to handle the additional load due to how it is strapped down to the dyno.

old ones:


To insure that this doesn’t happen again I ordered 1.25” diameter, .120 wall, 4130 tubing and weld in inserts for the female threading. I’m also replacing the cheap Afco heim joints with some QA1 Teflon / Kevlar heat treated heim joints to remove any play in the joint. I’ll snap a pic when all is finished up. I have an alignment appointment Friday to dial everything back in.