Alrighty folks, sorry for such a gap in updates...I've been waiting on parts, time to work on the car, and a couple idiotic people (more later). But things have picked up again.
I got a new wiring harness for the EZ-EFI system from FAST, along with a new box (big thumbs up to FAST). They had originally sent me a wrong harness, made for the throttle body style intake. I finally got the right harness but apparently the TPS plug used on my original harness was a special item order for that system (same as TPS sensor for the Inglese set up). For some reason it has taken over two weeks for FAST to send me a new plug, anyways it is supposed to be on it's way as we speak. That is the last piece of the puzzle for the EFI system. I reinstalled the harness, along with a modification. I installed a fuse bar with 4 fuses. The fuses will be low amperage fuses. The fuel pump relay line, along with the fan, the tach pick up, and the 12v Switched line will all go through these fuses. These are the only four connections from the EFI harness which connect to the car's harness. So if something blows from that direction it will hopefully save the box, and tell me where it is coming from, in theory.
Otherwise I have followed the advice of a few of you guys (big thanks) by installing a couple more grounding straps. **Jerry, I pmed you about coming over a while back..** Now I have a strap coming from the block to the frame, and from the right head to the frame, along with one at the tranny. I might put another one of the other side of the engine...
I'm crossing my fingers that these fixes will be permanent...
Harness being "prepared". Mainly running some wires into the loom and tying up the ones I don't need.
Installed. The new fuse box in the middle.
Grounding straps.
Got the pipes back from the ceramic coater. Overall they look good except for a couple of bubbles on the end of the right turn down. My biggest gripe is the sand inside the pipes, which has gotten worse. They disregarded my specific instructions to plug up the pipes for blasting, a SECOND time. I was rather "unhappy/unpleasant" when I got the pipes back and could hear 1) the sand in the pipes going back and forth, and 2) the packing moving around because it is so saturated with sand. Un-freaking-real.
I told the coater to get me new Classic Chambered sections. I have mounted the current ones for right now so I can start it up and take pictures for registration.
I just finished another side project too. We didn't really like the small black shift knob provided by Kirkham. Looks cheap and too small. So I decided to make my own shift knob. I wasn't really sure of what to design but then we were driving in the Carrera GT and found the shift knob in there to be pretty neat. A little history on these. They are originally made of balsa wood for the Porsche 917 Le Mans car. The knobs used to get really hot because the linkage
was almost directly bolted to more then a 1000 angry horses, which made a tremendous amount of heat. So they made these wood shifter which wouldn't get super hot. Pretty neat.
Here is what the GT knob looks like.
So with a few hours in the shop I created my own version. The rings have a little more contrast then the original knob but I don't think it is too bad.
Here it is "finished". I still need to put a couple more coats of tung
oil polish.
The interior might be installed tomorrow... we'll see.