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(80 K25) "Nigel" 3/4Ton of Fun
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TreeFarm
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These hooker block huggers aren't that bad at all, miles of room from the truck. I just wasn't expecting the wiring on the starter to be so close. Nothing a few degrees out didn't fix. In reality my pain is the y pipe. I didn't want to go behind the t case or under the drive shaft like factory. So that leaves a ton of snaking over the drive shaft and under between the bellhousing and trans.
Yeah I guess I could have mentioned that when you asked for the part number on my headers. Haha! I'm pretty confident that your solution will end up looking better than mine.
TreeFarm
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Finished up some more stuff today. The truck drove out of the garage under its own power! Exhaust is done up to the muffler, I needed the bed on for the rest of it. The bed got put back on. Fuel filler is done. All of the wiring is done. I started on the intake. I need to stick a bracket connecting it to the fender on tomorrow, then paint, and it will be done. My sending unit crapped out. I tested the resistance before I put it in. Now it only reads empty, anything above that is open. So the bed will be coming back off tomorrow for the new one to go in.
TreeFarm
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HOLY HELL this thing flipping rips!
Leaves some good 11s in first and second. Never has a 6200 limiter come up so fast for me.
Anyway, spent the day finishing the intake, cleaning up some wires, replacing my sending unit(hopefully this one last more than 0 miles) put on some MSD wires since factory was hitting the headers. I took it around the block for a test drive, then kept going. parts store for its first oil change and antifreeze and then the grocery store for distilled water. I need to do a few flushes before I add the antifreeze. Tomorrow Ill double check all my bolts and then return to service.
I still need to crimp my AC lines and get that serviced.
Leaves some good 11s in first and second. Never has a 6200 limiter come up so fast for me.Anyway, spent the day finishing the intake, cleaning up some wires, replacing my sending unit(hopefully this one last more than 0 miles) put on some MSD wires since factory was hitting the headers. I took it around the block for a test drive, then kept going. parts store for its first oil change and antifreeze and then the grocery store for distilled water. I need to do a few flushes before I add the antifreeze. Tomorrow Ill double check all my bolts and then return to service.
I still need to crimp my AC lines and get that serviced.
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TreeFarm
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And video.
Of burnouts
I put some up of the engine bay.. the outside. just imagine the way it used to look, only the area behind the missing grill is blacker now
as for videos... I need to find a closed course to do my burnouts on..
TreeFarm
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I was talking only about burnouts...
But more pictures anyway
Gah, are burnout videos and pics the only things people care about on this site?
TreeFarm
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You know... My girlfriend just moved into a brand new apartment building that she hates. Their pristine parking garage could use some tire marks haha
That thing sure looks good in that engine bay. I love the beater truck look with the modern engine hiding underneath. I love how tight they package those engines and accessories. What wiring did you end up using? Factory modified or stand alone aftermarket? Any way you could do one single post with most/all of the parts and part numbers you used to do it?
TreeFarm
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Thanks. I absolutely love the look of the engine bay and the way the engine sounds. You don't expect an old beat up truck to be bouncing off the limiter like this thing does haha. Its a modified factory harness with the MAF removed. If you go back to the first page, the third post has all of the big part numbers in there to cover the fuel system, and clutch. all the other stuff is pretty self explanatory. I can get you some more if you want
is it building pressure? Vented cap?
TreeFarm
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I'm using the factory filler and cap.
The port that is leaking is the pressure port coming from the pump to regulator so probably has like 80 psi on it. Ill tighten it up, of that doesn't work replace the packing between the sending unit and AN adapter
80 psi? Isn't it regulated down to 58 or whatever?
TreeFarm
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Right. I am using a corvette regulator filter combo mounted about 4 feet from the tank. This leak is pre regulator so it's just straight pump pressure
You need to put an access door in your floor to get to that pump with as many times as you have had to pull that bed off.
