MR2 Update: VVVvvvvvoommmm Psht

Vindication came in the form of surprise. True enough, yesterday I went to the car and it started without a moments hesitation. So after I warmed it up, started it and stopped it a couple times, and tested out the car around the block, I went to correct something a friend had confirmed for me.

The gas was bad, real bad.

Incrementally I placed load on the engine so to test and eliminate potential misfiring that I had discovered inopportunely on its last voyage. It pulled hard at every opportunity. The next stop was the open road of Covington Pike and the gas station down the street.
Now, I must impress that my opinion of the project car is that something is wrong. Something is always wrong and I must test to find it. Failure of some form, for now, is the modus operandi.

Pulling out to Covington Pike, I let down the accelerator.

It was kinda like that.

It works! It pulls hard. Turbo wining and throwing me quite surprisingly into the back of the seat, my neck strained to move forward. I was out of breath. I'm not sure if it was because of the acceleration or from mere unadulterated surprise that there wasn't anything particularly wrong. But it worked! This was my second outing in a SW20, in a car in the post 200hp range, or in a turbo car at all, and I must say that the brief 5 minute drive was awesome.

My enthusiasm tempered when I fueled up though with the pungent aroma of a burning clutch. That's the least of my worries (and a planned contingency).

The part is already in route.

Of course it flooded and died again that evening, feet from the garage and at such an incline to make pushing it with the tractor necessary. That, I must confess, is more concerning.