My Vintage Motorcars speedster now has 1200 miles on it, so I took some time to do some maintenance and add a few accessaries. This is my 3rd oil change and It will be good for the next 5000 miles for me. The car is running great no leaks, no rattles, no squeaks. I did have to give the front sway bar bushing a touch of WD40 after my ride home from LA, but that was it. The motor hasn't use a drop of oil and the temp is always on the low side of the gauge even in heavy traffic. This was the first time I got it up on jack stands and it went smoothly. Thanks for all the post on the jacking points. While I had it in the air I got to check out the underside of this Subaru powered speedster. Everything had witness marks that the crew at Vintage Motorcars had left to assure the bolts and nuts were tight and had been touched with a wrench. I did notice the 1inch square tube used to support the front of the car, had open ends on the tubing. I will get some 1 inch square caps and seal them up. Other than that everything looked good. I did the oil and filter change and had time the next day to add one of Bruce's front license plate gizmo's. It fit great ! I used a little trick I learned from a buddy on how to transfer hole to the project to be drilled. I got a strip of clear packing tape and attached it to the bottom of the bracket that had the holes already drilled. I took a sharpie pin and traced the outline of the bracket, the holes and lined the edge up with the bracket. I found the center of the bracket and marked it. The I measured the center between the bumper brackets and with blue tape on the bottom of the bumper I marked center. Now, All I need to do was remove the tape from the bracket and line it up with the bottom blue tape on the bottom. Now I was ready the drill my pilot holes in the center of my marks. Change drill bits the 1/4 inch and slowly drilled the 2 holes. I pealed off all the tape and placed the license plate bracket inside the bumper and tightened up the bolts. Everything lined up and fit perfectly. My next job was to install a 3rd brake light in the grill area. After removing the 4 tiny screws, the grill lifted out. I test fit the light and added some glue pads to hold it while I tested the light with the grill placed back in. It fit fine, so I drilled 2 small hole and mounted it with 2 small screws. I ran the wires inside the engine compartment and through the clamp holding the wires leading to the rear taillight. I was working alone so I didn't have anyone to step on the brakes to see what wire to tag on to. But I will have someone tomorrow that will make that happen. I tested the light with a spare battery and it is very bright. Should help out a lot ! I hear the BBQ calling ...............
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