build diary

August 15, 2005: The Seven is sitting outside, waiting to go to the track for noise testing.
In a couple of hours I'll know how well my new Supertrapp tip works. I was reading David Vizard's A-series tuning book over the weekend and he is not a Supertrapp fan. Oh well, there aren't a lot of bolt-on solutions that I could implement this easily. I'm going to continue looking for a better muffler.

Most of the car time this weekend was spent working in Janel's little supercharged Miata, but the Seven got a little love. The glass for the instruments was installed. Unfortunately, the 2001 gauges I'm using now have needles that stand higher than the older style. I had to space the glass off the gauge cluster a fair way. This will let dust get in behind and makes the gauges look ill-fitting . I'll have to come up with a better solution. Putting the glass on the outside of the dash would work but that looks terrible.

A better fit on the instruments is the LED tach. I carefully cut a rectangular hole in the dash and was able to get a press fit for it. It looks good.

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