A widow maker no longer.

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After Jason (the alignment wizard) was done with the car at T&T Tire Factory, it drove 80% better.  It was the fourth trip to an alignment shop but it was worth it to have a car that won't burn up tires just driving down the road.
After doing some reading on the MiniVtec forum, I found out front wheel drive cars are to have 1/8 inch toe out, my car was set up with 1/8 inch toe in.  The reason for the toe out is due to the front wheels pulling themselves in under acceleration.
 Sunday my dad and I took a drive with some heavy right foot action and the car still wasn’t right, it was much better but still required lots of steering to keep it pointed in a straight line.
Also this week I cut off the old failing studs that were on the hood mounting brackets and welded on some slightly larger ones then slapped the hood on.

In this picture Jason is fitting the "thing" on the rims.

The pressed in studs on the hood "bonnet" mounting brackets had worn threads.

I cut them off.

Here you can see I welded on new bolts through the holes.  Jerry rig specialists may notice some fine handwork elsewhere in this picture.

Studs painted and ready for the hood, now I can keep the road grime off my firewall, air filter, etc. as seen here.

Hood is on and the car looks done from the outside.  Carpet, and minor tweaks are next.