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Gents, what an emotional rollercoaster these last few months have been. It feels like I've had issues just snowballing one after another now. I even fought with myself about selling the car and I'm still considering that as a smart financial move if something else expensive goes wrong. I finally got...

Sorry for lack of updates everyone. I have a lot to add but a lot going on, I will post some updates soon.

Ran some shielded wire form the TPS to the ECU and it fixed the issue I was having with noise on the TPS/AFR. I took it for a ride before I was sure if it fixed the issue and it felt like it pulled much harder. Below you will see the new logs with the TPS holding very steady, I believe it is now rea...

dr.occa wrote:Yep, love my quik-latches.

For bumpers: it's important to have a strong shelf for the "studs".

I was going to to use one of these two points as my mounting point for the studs.

I was looking at the Megalogviewer while doing some testing and found that the TPS was getting a lot of signal noise and interference while full throtte. It appears the longer you hold full throttle the more erratic the signal becomes. I've done some research and it seems I should shield my TPS wire...

What a weekend! Car is finally half-tuned and I have been driving it for a few days now. It feels really strong and survived the dyno, however there are a few issues I have to resolve. I ordered a steering wheel and hub from a guy off an 86 group, he swore to me the parts were genuine and would bolt...

I'm going to replace most of it with more modern variants since it is so hard to find interior pieces in good condition anymore. This is my current plan. Dash: Retro-Spec Seats: Red Brides Door Panels: T3 Interior Panels: T3 (What they make) Headliner: refinish or fab up something at work Rear seats...

Thanks Brisco. I had a starting issue for the first time last night, I thought I had resolved the issue but it appears I have not. Of course I didn't have my voltmeter with me. I was also able to get FedEx to replace my package so I can re-pin the TPS and make it look nice. After that is completed I...

Friday night I was able to get the car to crank. I was waiting on some pins for the TPS plug since I broke one trying to re-wire it correctly. Somehow FedEx lost the package but I was able to crimp some wires together to try and start it. It took a few tries but the engine did crank, I couldn't get ...

I'll post some a more in depth update tomorrow, for now, enjoy!

Had issues with the car wanting to crank over, turns out it wasn't cranking because the power cable going to the starter was touching the block ever so slightly, so I covered most of the lug with heats shrink and now it's cranking fine. I had another issue where the TPS was doing 360s in Megasquirt ...

This weekend has had it's ups and downs but in the end everything is going very well. I spent most of Saturday plumbing up the new hard line vacuum tubing to the ITBs, it looks very clean and well done. I'm quite excited to have such a unique setup. I know many of you will be skeptical it will not h...

Ordered a drill combo which should be here today, with bits as well as the fuel fitting. Really looking forward to tomorrow, good thing it's going to be 36 degrees after being 80 degrees yesterday! Thanks Texas!

Well, last weekend was somewhat successful. I got even closer to getting finished but in the end I ended up getting cockblocked by some friends that were supposed to help and that kept me from finishing. I needed to mount the vacuum block for the ITB setup but I did not have a drill, I had invited 3...

This weekend was an amazing success, I got most of the work done and I'm really hoping to get a chance to start it next weekend. It's going to come down to locating a new electrical connector for the starter and thus far I can't find anything. It seems to be a very odd looking pin so I'm not sure wh...