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I'm not quite done yet, still need to hide some wires on passenger side under the carpetm here is my progress. I have now spent over 5 hours taking off old electrical tape, zip tying, and putting on the powerbraid, and hiding wires. I have a nice stack of crap I have pulled out, including the head unit for the aftermarket stereo. I need to buy a dash block off plate now.

 

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Car seats ready for transport to the show tomorrow

 

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Detail spray loaded

 

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I'm not quite done yet, still need to hide some wires on passenger side under the carpetm here is my progress. I have now spent over 5 hours taking off old electrical tape, zip tying, and putting on the powerbraid, and hiding wires. I have a nice stack of crap I have pulled out, including the head unit for the aftermarket stereo. I need to buy a dash block off plate now.

 

Before:

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After(wires on left not done yet):

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Halfway through:

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Nice work. Looks much better.

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Nice work. Looks much better.

Thanks. Forgot to get a before shot of the spot in the engine bay. Looked like a crayloa box exploded once I had the electrical tape off. The tape did its job, but was getting old, looked bad, and the stickiness was literally melting off, making a shiny goo, that was a pain to wash off when you touched it.
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Well crap, have to figure out where that frayed disconnected wires goes. It came off the driver's side of the trans near the front

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I found the connection I pulled apart. It was stuck in carpet glue so when I pulled the wires out for the powerbraid it came loose.

 

Two good stories today. Pulled into a Braums parking lot this morning in the early am when troubleshooting. When I climb out of the footwell an S10 is RIGHT THERE. I jumped and the guy was like "OH! Sorry, just wanted to tell you its beautiful!"

I guess he had followed me in the lot.

 

On the way home, a ram is next to me for 4 blocks, I think nothing of it, every time I drive it this happens. Mind you the OD is off so I'm at 3100 RPM with straight through mufflers on a 541 V8. Then I notice their window going up.

 

Sorry Ram 3500 wasn't trying to snub ya, I just didn't hear a thing. Still can't, actually

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Day started off cold (40s) and rainy but ended sunny and mid 60s

 

The dealer putting on the rally had a nice Tahoe. Loved the color. Price tag for the LT version (Leather, rear dvd basically fully loaded LT was $59K)

 

Car also rolled over 4K miles today

 

 

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Out of the 100 or so cars mine was the only Ashen Gray

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Next mod?

 

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I even got my daughter saying "supercharger" haha

 

 

Ryan

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2014 hood with the functional heat extractor vents. Have the vent color matched. Will be easy to match paint since yours hasn't seen a UV ray.

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2014 hood with the functional heat extractor vents. Have the vent color matched. Will be easy to match paint since yours hasn't seen a UV ray.

I am really considering this as it gets hot under the hood. Guy in our club just had his done

 

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Ryan

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I was going over the botched dyno session story with a coworker(Ford guy), was telling him about the strange timing setting I found on the ignition control box.

 

He was thinking maybe a previous guy had done that when the starter was starting to go, he said it can help it fire up quicker. He's a hard core mustang guy, has a 65, and a 03 Mach1 that I wouldn't be surprised if it kept in a climate controlled bubble. He looked it over for 15 minutes and said "everything looks right", was impressed.

 

He has a Sprint Car, and said he has seen around 70HP differences on it with just a few degrees of timing change, so he thinks I picked up a lot of power when I removed the retard the day after the dyno. He agreed it probably is over 700HP like I originally thought. That stupid dyno had me so worried before I found out it was botched.

 

Its been getting me thinking about getting that custom billet cam from Straub, he was sure he could get another 100 RWHP.

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