Disease please, I'll take two.

[Leny Mason]

How cool it sounds great hope mine sounds that good.

[jayb]

Dude, that is SO cool.  I just love the looks of the coil packs and individual plug wires running over the valve covers.  Congrats on a job well done!

[turbohunter]

Thank you guys

[cjshaker]

I probably missed it, or just forgot, but what is the silver tube for on the drivers side inner panel? It looks like a mini-accusump.

[turbohunter]

Steering reservoir.

[turbohunter]

Here’s one after making some changes.
I’m looking to get idle perfect but I’m still learning the system. Prolly gonna take a bit but thats ok. You can hear it search a bit.
I must be getting confident though I bolted the hood on and I’m gonna hang the doors this weekend.

https://youtu.be/vtuRsFF_8Fs

Oh yeah
The reason I had time to take a vid is that I was waiting for my fans to come on as I had just wired them. They are activated by the ECU. They checked out and ran when I put power to them but they didn’t come up by the ECU so I’ve got some figuring out to do.
Nothings easy, but it’s fun.

[427Fastback]

Sounds and looks great Marc....I should be starting( as in firing up) the 66 428CJ project in the next month...Little calmer than your endeavor tho.....Well done..

[cjshaker]

The idle is sounding really good, Marc. What mufflers did you use?
I'd be nervous about those hard fuel lines sticking up in the middle of the trunk though. Do you have any plans to protect them?

[turbohunter]

Flowmaster 40s Doug. I’ve always liked how they sound.
I know they drive some folks crazy but I like ‘em.
About the trunk, ain’t nothing going in there. If I ever do I’d put a floor in cut out around them. But no plans for that now.

[turbohunter]

Man I’ve had a really fun morning problem solving and learning.
Spent the early part of the morning learning the MS3Pro. There are a few guys on YouTube that put out courses really, on how to set it up and figure out how to get your car to run well.
I had a problem getting my fans to turn on. The programming in the ECU is easy but they still wouldn’t come on. So it’s wiring right? Went back and checked the voltage on both sides of every connection. Found my mistake. It was buying the relay kit from Derale. Should have made my own. They install a diode in the switched 12v wire. They must do it for their switch systems for some reason I don’t know. But, it wouldn’t let voltage through to fire the fans. Trashed ‘em rewired and fans fired. Hazzaw!
This was all after Jay had to remind/school me on how the ECU actually works after my first wire up.
So, the upshot is I’m learning a boatload of stuff that was way out of my realm before.
AND
My darn car is really starting to run nicely.

[turbohunter]

Getting details done for the street. Ya know like seats, lights, air cleaner, hang doors (try that by yourself), little stuff.
Speaking of air cleaners. I have barely any clearance. The scoop does afford me a chance though. I got one of these Ed triangle deals and darn if it don’t work. It’s mounting system is a bit hinky though. It’s a bar that spans the throat that is held down by nut. Only problem for me is that it’s inside the whole deal and the vision of a nut coming loose and heading down into my new engine is a no starter. So I am using a bolt and a nylock nut under the bar to lock everything in place so nothing can take a bad trip.
I had to hack off a half inch of the base so it would make it and it still clears the throttle linkage.
I’m not sure about the looks of it but for now it does it’s job.
One other job is fabbing a cover for my headlight and fan relay board that I mounted in the old battery compartment. The scribbled in area will be some type of screen to allow air flow and hopefully look good.

[BruceS]

Marc, a brushed aluminum cover with some Windows would where you would rivet either some light expanded metal or screen for ventilation might look good there. Maybe something to match the Ed air cleaner?  McMaster sells many types of rubber molding that you could use on the outside edges.

Happy 4th to all! 

[drdano]

17 year old me nearly lost a 75 Ford pickup due to a carb fire because of one of these.  I got a sneeze through the carb and the foam caught on fire instantly.  Be careful!   

[turbohunter]

Interesting

Edit

Well after some snooping around the web this air cleaner may be a non run only cap. For right now I’ll take it off for running.
There are plenty of stories about them breaking down and dropping pieces in or catching fire.
Thanks for the heads up drdano.

[jayb]

I've got one of those air cleaners on my 68 fastback and I too have had issues with backfires causing the foam to melt and drop into the carb.  Never had it catch on fire though.  Marc, if you get your EFI system tuned right I don't think it will be a problem.  My issues have always been carb related, for example with the car sitting for a week or so, you have to pump the accelerator pump a few times to get the fuel in the engine to fire, and if you go too much on that you can get a backfire.  With your direct port EFI system I think this is much less likely.