nerves like nylon, nerves like steel

Before I can plate the car in Missouri, it has to pass two types of inspections: safety, and emissions. To pass the safety test, I need to fix the wiper motor, horns, and various lights on the car. I’m not too worried about that, as those things appear to be easily fix or replaceable.

The emissions test is more problematic. The engine doesn’t appear to want to idle at less than 1500 RPMs, and tuning that has been… difficult. Exacerbating this is the fact that all the vacuum lines are capped off, including the advance for the distributor. I’ll borrow a timing light and see how far off the timing is.