70 Swinger Street/Strip build
Welded in the hold down studs. I was hoping to find some partially thread 6.5-7" bolts locally. The home Diablo, I mean home depot, has bolts that are threaded almost full length. Instead of ordering some, used 3/8" all thread and some 1/2" .060 wall tube to sleeve it for a cleaner look. Welded the all-thread to top and bottom of square tube. Dropped tube over, welded it at bottom along with 3 plug welds along the length.
Got most of the ignition plate done. Need to put a small tab on it to hold the alt charge wire, starter relay hot and maybe the 2/0 main starter wire. the red junction stud will get the alternator feed and MSD box will pull from there. The starter relay will be fed downstream from the cutoff switch. Dash and original fuse box will pull power from starter similar to original wiring approach
Wired the MSD multi retard box. I used weatherpack connectors. Nice pieces. I've done this before and learned from my mistake... The box has 2 sets of 4 wires exiting the unit. I've installed the tower connector to both before. Now if you are in a hurry, you can connect the wrong set of wires, criss-cross them. Makes for a bad day as sometimes thing detonate in the system. Now I use a female (tower) connector on one set of wires and a male (shroud) connector on the other. No way to hook the connectors up wrong even if it's poorly lit.
Welded in the hold down studs. I was hoping to find some partially thread 6.5-7" bolts locally. The home Diablo, I mean home depot, has bolts that are threaded almost full length. Instead of ordering some, used 3/8" all thread and some 1/2" .060 wall tube to sleeve it for a cleaner look. Welded the all-thread to top and bottom of square tube. Dropped tube over, welded it at bottom along with 3 plug welds along the length.
Got most of the ignition plate done. Need to put a small tab on it to hold the alt charge wire, starter relay hot and maybe the 2/0 main starter wire. the red junction stud will get the alternator feed and MSD box will pull from there. The starter relay will be fed downstream from the cutoff switch. Dash and original fuse box will pull power from starter similar to original wiring approach
Wired the MSD multi retard box. I used weatherpack connectors. Nice pieces. I've done this before and learned from my mistake... The box has 2 sets of 4 wires exiting the unit. I've installed the tower connector to both before. Now if you are in a hurry, you can connect the wrong set of wires, criss-cross them. Makes for a bad day as sometimes thing detonate in the system. Now I use a female (tower) connector on one set of wires and a male (shroud) connector on the other. No way to hook the connectors up wrong even if it's poorly lit.
