Trying to make it look 68 new!!
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03/24/13 02:32 AM
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Here's another engine compartment pic. Trying to use as many resto parts as possible !!! I love doing it all myself!!!
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Re: Trying to make it look 68 new!!
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03/26/13 01:52 AM
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Didn't see any reason to hide the box.I'm not building a 100 point car or a show car. Just my car. I've never had another mopar man tell me the orange box is a POS. Explain Please. I'm 46 yrs. old and have benn building mopars since I was 14 yrs. old.
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Re: Trying to make it look 68 new!!
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03/26/13 08:02 AM
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Didn't see any reason to hide the box.I'm not building a 100 point car or a show car. Just my car. I've never had another mopar man tell me the orange box is a POS. Explain Please. I'm 46 yrs. old and have benn building mopars since I was 14 yrs. old.
Some people have issue's with them. Not me.
Keep an extra with you is all.
I saw a 68-ish Dart with the inside of the washer reservoir colored blue and then cut open to hid the box. It was neat but you won't have fluid.
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Re: Trying to make it look 68 new!!
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03/26/13 10:36 AM
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Well Done!!!! I like it!!!!!!
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Re: Trying to make it look 68 new!!
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03/28/13 11:30 AM
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Didn't see any reason to hide the box.I'm not building a 100 point car or a show car. Just my car. I've never had another mopar man tell me the orange box is a POS. Explain Please. I'm 46 yrs. old and have been building mopars since I was 14 yrs. old.
I forgot to say that it looks good. 
You did mount the orange box where the washer res. goes, I don't know how inspections are in cali but where I live the windshield washer has to work to pass safety inspection.
The orange box of today is not the orange box of your youth. If that is a new orange box it pulls out timing above 4000 rpm. A local to me member/friend dyno'd his car last year with a new orange box and it showed that on the dyno.
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Re: Trying to make it look 68 new!!
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03/28/13 01:40 PM
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The orange box of today is not the orange box of your youth. If that is a new orange box it pulls out timing above 4000 rpm. A local to me member/friend dyno'd his car last year with a new orange box and it showed that on the dyno.
So what designates a "new orange box"?
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Re: Trying to make it look 68 new!!
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03/29/13 01:59 AM
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Thanks John. Got mine way back in the late 90's w/the elec. upgrade kit and it's still working, although never dyno'd to see the issue you speak of. So you would recommend the chrome box or ????
Chrome box is not supposed to be street friendly.
The 90's stuff may be the worst ?? , especially if the box is pulling out timing and it may be because for some stupid reason the rocket scientists at Chrysler thought that 30 , or more , degrees of mechanical advance in a RACE distributor was a good idea , probably the reason for the orange box to pull out timing because of the distributor.
you could probably see he timing being pulled out with a timing light look at the crank and bringing the RPM over 4000 .
anything would be better than an MP ignition box ...
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Re: Trying to make it look 68 new!!
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03/30/13 04:46 AM
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I don't know how inspections are in cali but where I live the windshield washer has to work to pass safety inspection.
Safety inspections here in CA ??? 
Thats a good one. Our cars don't rust themselves into becoming a safety violation. We have emission testing on cars built in 1976 and newer.
When a car is salvaged and rebuilt, you'd need a brake light, headlight and smog check. When a dealer sells a car, the cars get inspected for those as well. Otherwise, it is like the wild west out here.
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