Well, I got pretty drunk today. Rummaging through the basement, I found an old box with all my matchbox-size cars and some other larger ones and spent a good hour reminiscing. I found a true gold nugget from my childhood: a small-scale first-gen red Dodge Viper RT-10. Man, I remember finding this in a personal goodie bag at an old friend's birthday party many years ago. I was something like 9 or 10. At that time, I was literally obsessed with the Dodge Viper after playing Test Drive 5 and it was pretty much the only thing I talked about even though I had absolutely zero idea how a car even worked, LOL. I remember getting into pretty big trouble after I pulled it out of the bag because the approximate words that I yelled, while among a group of several-year olds, was "it's a ******* Viper!" Man, did I get scolded but I didn't care. I was totally entranced by this sweet model Viper in my hands. What a nice memory. Hell, as I type this, I still keep glancing over at the model. One of these days...
Afterwards, I decided to go ahead and install my new DUI cap, rotor and wires. Not gonna lie, I've never done this job on anything before, let alone on an engine with the dizzy placed behind it under several inches of cowl. So I went into it with just a basic idea what to do. I still recalled my lesson from my Honda years back and installed all the new wires on the new cap before pulling the old one from the engine. I still left all the wires on the old cap and checked them over carefully multiple times before putting the new cap/wires on. I'm happy to say the engine fired right up with no problem. Now that I know I didn't screw it up, I just gotta route the plug wires a little more to pretty everything up plus put some of that dielectric on the boots.
The thickness of the boots made the cap end a little crowded but the ends snapped onto the terminals/spark plugs with meaty "snap." Just what I like to hear. Also, I made mention in a previous post to the DUI cap being hefty. Yeah, weight wise, it's an anvil compared to what was on. The DUI components overall are very high quality stuff.
The contacts on the old cap were pretty burnt and the rotor had some corrosion. A little disappointed since the stuff wasn't cheap and is only a couple years old. Time will tell how the DUI stuff holds up. For now, it looks sweet. As for difference in driving, no idea yet. By the time I finished, I had put down a forty of 211 and several Busch Lights. I wouldn't notice the difference if there was one, LOL.
Today was one of those days that makes me so glad that I got out of bed in the morning.