My install is not done yet. I've done some painting, and I did some of the prep-work today that makes room for the charge air pipe (new relocated coolant reservoir, and replaced power steering line).

I don't think I'll finish this week. With the way projects always go for me, I won't be able to finish in one evening after work. There's a chance of rain every day this week except Monday, and I'm driving across the state to go play on sand dunes on Friday. Too risky.

Good news is that I already have plans to go back to the sand dunes in September, so I'll get to try stage 2 out there soon after trying stage 1 there.

Today's disaster was learning the hard way that I don't know how to properly tap threads. I broke my thread tap off in the frame (for mounting the coolant reservoir). Turns out, your supposed to turn thread taps VERY slowly. I'm guessing I spun it too fast with the drill motor, causing it to heat up and either expand, or partially melt/weld itself in. I had a lot of fun drilling and hammering it out of the hole. Then the hole seemed threaded, so I tried threading a bolt in. I met some resistance about half-way in. I thought it was just a rough spot I could power through. Next thing I know, the end of the bolt is snapped off in the hole I just spent so much time clearing the thread tap out of. A lot more drilling got me back to an un-threaded hole of the proper size. Ran out to the hardware store for a new bolt and thread tap. This time I oiled the thread tap and turned it VERY slow (variable speed drill motor with low-speed setting). I could have saved myself about 3 hours had I known this.