Progress!!

I know, it's been a long time since I posted.  Well, here's the story of what's been going on since last time.  Brad, Christina and family came over Thanksgiving break.  The goal was to start the car for the first time.  Long story short....that didn't happen.  Then our slightly modified goal was to complete the wiring behind the dash so we could at least see the gauges light up.  Long story short....that didn't happen either.  Somebody (me) didn't realize that there are about 500 miles of wiring behind the dash!  Brad and I worked like crazy and worked late into the night.  On the last night we worked until about 3 in the morning...turned the key...nothing happened with the gauges except the volt gauge moved into position before we heard three of the fuses pop.  We went to bed very tired and very dissapointed.

Now flash forward almost a month.  It's been difficult getting back into the garage.  My REAL job has been crazy gearing up for the end of the year, everybody in the family has been sick at least once, and we've had a crazy cold front in Georgia for the past several weeks.  It hasn't been time wasted, though.  Since our late night failure, i've been double checking the wiring diagrams and doing tons of reading on the builder forums.

Over the past few days the weather has finally warmed up enough to work in the garage and still feel my fingers.  After reviewing all the wiring behind the dash, what I learned was that in our eagerness to see something light up we rushed toward the end and hooked up about four wires incorrectly and didn't ground everything.  Well, Colleen helped me move things around, create some more gounds, hook up the last few wires and.....lights!!

Brad hard at work.

Brad and Christina during a brief break.  Only 300 miles of wire to go.

Back to work.

Dash wiring.

Colleen helped to wrap it up.

Before, and........

After!