The Day before the Challenge

So we woke up early Thursday Morning and pulled the car out of the garage. It was the first time we looked at it after completely painting it. Wow it looks so nice! I think the paint scheme came out great! We snapped some quick pics, and started packing for the long drive up to Gainesville....



Unfortunately the car started up and ran for about 2 mins before cutting off and not starting up again! We didn't know what had happened or why it cut off, but we messed with it for about 5 hours that morning before loading it onto the trailer... It still wouldn't start, but i figured we might as well go and see if we could fix it there. Christy and i drove the truck(thanks Matt) and jimmy drove up with Mariana a bit later. When we arrived I immediately began checking things in the parking lot. I re-soldered the AFM extension hoping that that was the problem, but still it would not start. There were a bunch of people walking around the parking lot that night, saying hi and looking at this years challenge entries. One of them was Johnny with the Yugo, He started fiddling with the coolant temp sensor connection, and viola, it fired right up! Thanks Johnny!