Lizard Skin V2, Alternator, and Pedal Refurb  - 06/06/2011

After giving it some thought, I decided to be on the safe side and do the second half of my lizard skin transformation. Last summer I did two coats of lizard skin - sound control. Since then I've gone back and forth on what to do for insulating the transmission tunnel. In the end I bought a gallon of Lizard Skin - Ceramic Insulation and top coated my sound control coat (which it's designed to do). 1 gallon was enough to make two quick passes over the firewall, floorpan, and trans tunnel. I felt like it was just enough:

While the ceramic insulation was drying I decided to do Danzan's self exciting voltage regulator alternator mod. It was pretty straight forward. The only thing I fought with for a minute was the soldered connection terminal on the voltage regulator to alternator connection. The alternator side of the connection is actually a "loop" (connection is circled in the pics below) that the voltage regulator slides into, then the connection is soldered. I just thought it was two legs soldered together, so I heated up the connection and tried to pull the old regulator off. It wasn't until I closely inspected it that I saw it was a loop and the the regulator had to drop out from under it to clear the loop. Maybe pictures will make it easier to visualize