Man what a week! Starting last Saturday night when I picked up my notched fuel tank from Brett, I've been working on this car like a dog! In the last 8 days I've put in over 60 hours of work while still working 40 hours at my day job. Several early am nights lol.
This weekend (over 20 hours) made it worth it.
Today the car left the garage under it's own power for the first time in about a year!! Man that felt amazing!
Some of the little stuff I've been working on:
Getting the ECU mounted while still clearing the vintage air unit and allowing all of the ducting to fit was an extremely long process. The setup in the car now looks like a 20 minute install but it took me dozens of mockups and reinstalls to get it all to work. I really wanted to have a glove box but couldn't get this stuff mounted in the car any other way.
Took one of Joe Lutz's (PT.com member) aluminum mounting parts which I knew when I bought it that it wouldn't work out of the box with vintage air. Trimmed 2.25" off the left side which allowed it to clear my center vent as well as made room for the ducting.
Mounting part after cutting 2.25" off:
After another 10 hours of trial and error fitting everything. This was like a jigsaw puzzle for me. Even after a bunch of mock ups I originally had the ECU about 1.5" higher and the fuse/relay box mounted laterally with the fuses pointed straight out. Everything fit and then I tried closing the glove box. Anyhow enough moaning about this simple part taking me forever.
Though I don't have a pic right now I can confirm that I was able to get all of the AC ducts installed and working. Man it's TIGHT!
So after reading countless threads on LS steam vent solutions and then countless searches for the right size tee fitting (finally found the PN on a biodiesel site) I came up with my setup.
I needed to run an adapter in my return heater hose to go from 5/8 to 3/4 so since I needed a union no matter what a tee with a 1/4" barb was the ticket.
After a tip from Dick at Best of Show I decided to flip my LS3 fuel rails 180* so I didn't have to run a fuel line all the way from the passenger side to the driver's side.
Before:
Couldn't find my after pic but if you look in this pic you will see the supply side now comes out on the passenger side:
I decided it was probably time to update my CID badges...
And lastly a random under shot I took when picking up the car from BOS several weeks ago
No pics yet but today I got a lot of the interior reinstalled. Man it feels so good to walk out and see carpet and seats in the car again lol.
Brian Hobaugh SCCA National Tour June 2014
First Hemi 'Cuda Convertible Ever Built
Short clips: Goodguys Pleasanton autocross and pit videos
Congrats again!
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