Daty, Glad to see that your almost done with it. So I guess you will be able to come up and help with the ROadRunner this winter. LOOKS GOOD! RONNIE in Okla.

Thanks for the kudos Ronnie, Are you bringing the Dart down on Labor Day? i'm hoping/planning to bring the vert down.

-Daty

Done a bunch of wiring but have a Q (in another posting) about where to hook up the ign wire. But what the hey here's a picture...

-Daty

Are you going to have it done for the Mini Nats ?

daty, I don't know if you are having hood clearance issues, but ford motorsports makes a 13" drop base that fits the mopar unsilenced air cleaner perfectly. I got mine for 22 bucks on ebay, summitt sells them for about 40.

in the attachment, the mopar in on the left, ford on the right, has a reall nice drop and clears my carblinkage and bouchillon kickdown easily

That's great to know, no idea if it'll clear or not, right now I think it will. I was looking at Moroso drop bases too but the filter is 1" too big.

RTSE, that's the plan, have it at the Mini-Nats, it may not be the cleanest it could be, but open headers will make up for it! I have three weekends left...

-Daty

VEEEERY interesting on the Ford filter base, never would have thought to look for one there. It looks just like a Moroso part, only a tad smaller. Neat.

So, the mini-nats are 3 weekends away? I wonder if there's any way in h311 I can get mine done by then, too? I've TOTALLY wasted today with jacking around with a stupid anti-virus problem, but just got done. Maybe I can get out there and get the engine harness finished up... Man, working in these temps is just a killer. No end to the 100+ temps for a while, though.

Looking good, Daty! Keep that paper towel holder workin'!

Clair

Tyson and I got about 80% of the harness for the car done (80% done, 80% to go) and in place. There's that pesky wire I started the other thread on (calling Glendora in the morning to see what they did on the Duster) but it's looking really good now though. It's back on the ground for now. I've attaching some pics of the progress. Oh yeah, it actually started raining while we were out there, cooled things off nicely...

-Daty

other side...

-Daty

front side...

-Daty

Love that progress you're making! In two hours I managed to solder 4 wires... not the fastest pace, but it'll be tidy. Funny how those little things can take so long some times. I guess that's to be expected when you're trying to make EFI look at home under the hood of an A-body. I mentioned the proposed schedule for getting things done and making it to SWMMN06, and Franzi gave me "the eyebrow". That usually happens when she's calling BS on something, I think she may have some doubt that I can get it all done... I hope we can park together in A-body Modified this year. It's going to be a long haul over the next 3 weeks!

Clair

You ain't kidding on time suck-up-ers, it took me a couple hours just to get the horns back in because of the remote oil filter/E-body radiator taking space, the harness on that side being modified/stripped, running it over the engine, etc... Gotta admit after this weekend it doesn't look much different than the week before, the wiring kinda disappears because of how we laid it out (so far). Tyson made a harness for the positive batt cable/relay/starter that's real slick, took two hours.

I know "the eyebrow", usually accompanied with a haruumph or sigh of some sort and a comment along the lines of male cow brown piles.

I was hoping they'd put me in A-stock. It's all factory stuff, right???

-Daty

for 440whiteboy for gettng his 5.7 hemi running!

-Daty

Put you in what class? Oh well, Just glad your about to get it going and I hope you do make it. I hope your putting ac on this one, I'll leave mine home and go with you. RONNIE

just saw this in the morning-
thanks daty

a well deserved thumbs up after a long frustrating adventure.
not to mention a super big smile you finally get at this point.

as you know by now with so many items to knock of the list -Time is a big factor.
summer is about gone and Im only half way there.

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No diagnostic plug and no MIL/CEL on the crate motor. The crate motors run a dedicated PCM and are hardwired in open loop.

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hey zippy can you define this a bit more please.

sounds like the pcm is fixed. what is the mil/cel function?

I dont have a crate. mine is stock and I will be using the obd.

They are the same thing....
MIL= Malfunction Indicator Lamp (the proper dcx term)
CEL= Check Engine Light (general shop term for all brands)

MP wanted to make it easy as possible for guys with older cars to install the crate motor, so they stripped the PCM down to the bare essentials to make it run in that application, and made it 100% simpler than the production wiring/computer. Open loop/no
02 sensors at all. Pretty much all your sensor readings are on the intake side + temperature related stuff. Must use a hydraulic shifted trans, also.

Also earlier there was a comment from somebody above who believed the 2 crate engine intake manifolds might be the same....they are machined differently so I guess that'd mean they aren't the same. The EFI manifold is machined for injectors wheras the carb manifold is not...not to argue or be contrary, just fyi/general info.

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MP wanted to make it easy as possible for guys with older cars to install the crate motor, so they stripped the PCM down to the bare essentials to make it run in that application, and made it 100% simpler than the production wiring/computer. Open loop/no
02 sensors at all. Pretty much all your sensor readings are on the intake side + temperature related stuff. Must use a hydraulic shifted trans, also.

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well after you put it that way it now is starting to make some sence. thankyou zippy for explaining this.

So Zippy, what do you know about the alternator, does the pcm control it or do I need to remove the alt pigtail and use a normal voltage regulator?

-Daty