Ariel you should be golden. Alex and I were in the same boat with our versions of the Gold box. I guess mine making it 3000 miles before failing is just a testament to my anal grounding strategies.

A good friend of mine from here came all the way from Greece to help me finish up the proper wiring of the car.


We ran a 4g welding wire from the (-) post of the battery all the way to the PS kick panel. Now all of my dash electronics will go directly to there and my ms3 box will ground to the same point also. All of the grounds on the car will be tied together and overdone. My ms3 gold box also gets power directly from the battery.

If you've got a battery in the trunk, power things directly and over do your grounds. You will lose your hair otherwise. I can't stress what Monte_Smith and others have said repeateldy. Buss bars are your friend!

I've got to backtrack once again and bench test my injectors and injector drivers to make sure I've properly fixed the issues. Something about running at 8:1 AFR isn't comforting and I'd like to avoid it.

You want the MS3 ground and positive direct to battery post.

Its about that time of the year that I update.

I reached a crossroads with the car. MS3 box was back in after some issues that I caused, and I wanted to rip off the vinyl top and paint the roof black.

Easier said than done, my roof under the vinyl top was solid bonds and pop rivets. Some waste of space threw a vinyl top over that mess sometime in the past.

I cut the roof off and I'm prepping a donor roof to go on. Not digging into a full restoration by any means, just throwing the roof and a new deck filler in and getting a bad paint job on the car.

After that, the Hemi action will start again. I started in July, and a bad work schedule has only let me make limited progress. I bought a Miller 211 welder, taught myself how to weld sheet metal and all the tools I need.

There never done, Thanks for the update

Good to hear Alex

Roof is still off while I fix rust. Nothing exciting to report.

The car will go the body shop for paint in a month, and then I expect things to get better.

Nice to see more threads blog style on here. don't be a stranger

I've been lurking on ih8mud.com for my land cruiser daily driven build. I've got a huge post going there: https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/my-fj60-project-thread.904068/

I'm daily driving a classic truck with 300,000 miles on it and it just makes me miss my hotrod more. I will likely just have these two cars in daily driven rotation.

The plan is to get the bugs worked out of the old car and start driving it the way I'm driving this. Road trip and power tour type stuff.

If my carb'd, 4 speed with no OD, 300,000 mile, 11mpg cruiser can do 15,000 miles a year...the EFI roadrunner with a modern engine should be able to knock it out no problem.

This is the 70 Roadrunner that gave its roof. Abandoned after Katrina down in Louisiana, everything has been stripped.

The older gentleman wanted $100 as is. No vin or title. I just wanted the roof and I've got nowhere to store it, so after I cut the roof off, it was crushed. I felt sad, but it was a goner and it is donating the roof and some of the complex patch panels that mine needs.

He also had a pretty awesome blown Hemi Roadrunner.

After sitting for quite a while, I'll be dropping the tank to see how well stabil keeps ethanol 93 and cleaning it out. Another 2 weeks before I'm back in the country from travels to get the car moving again. The life of a nomadic blue collar worker.

After that, I'll drive it onto the trailer and take it to get the roof replaced and body work.

Alex,
Been away for some time and looking to do a similar swap as yours except witha 6.4/392 Hemi crate engine with a 23 spline four speed. I couldn’t find any mention as to what pilot bearing you used. I did see you cut the input shaft 1/2”. Thanks

Wow!Just read through the whole thread, I'm impressed! Thanks for posting all the hurdles and how you've over came them. There's no telling how many people you've helped. Including me!

I’ve had a major update today.

I’ve agreed to let someone fix the rust.

Things will get better now. After the body is sealed up, wire the autometer dash reinstall the fuel tank and put my rear discs on.

Then, lots of efi tuning.

I have read every word of this thread ….twice...Thank you.

I’ll get back to the detailed articles when I’m at that point. I’ve really enjoyed cataloging all this stuff.

your thread, Goodie's thread and a few other I reference and send people to.

Are there any major changes or advancements that have been made in recent years however? I like reading these threads from the trendsetters and pioneers but I wonder how much of it has been solved by this or that part number now offered?

I don't believe so. I know that the VVT 5.7 and 6.4 are getting easier to swap, which means that the hellcat motor will be easier also.

I think the core choices for EFI and such have pretty much stagnated. I bet the majority of innovations will be valve covers and detail stuff from here on. I do see rocker stuff happening, but that is only needed in the most extreme of circumstances.

I can provide e-MS3-tuning support

I've spent way too many hours sifting through logs and making changes that I have gotten pretty decent at it.