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I took the opportunity last weekend to pull the whole interior harness out and rework it now that my computer has changed locations and I got the A/C installed. They are both going to sit on the tunnel up front, so I wanted to extend the console to cover them up and clean things up. It looks a...

Splitting this up into a few posts since I was trying to limit pictures per post. Here are some pictures of the final install on the interior side, at least as much as I could get with everything in the way. I'll see if I can get some of the engine side the next time I have the car out of the...

Mostly finished out my install yesterday, aside from the work I still need to do on the center vents and controls. But at least everything is functional and in its place now. I got my glovebox reinstalled, which was a lot more work than I thought it was going to be. I didn't actually end up...

That actually makes pretty good sense. You'd only need the hotter spark while cranking, so why not tie it to the starter relay.

Fair enough. The Megasquirt is probably not nearly as annoyed by brief power glitches, or maybe by some miracle I just have a really good switch. I guess I wonder now what would happen if both wires were hot briefly on the original coil setup. Without drawing it out I'm thinking you'd just be...

I replaced my cabin one because I just wanted to rebuild my harness with new terminals originally. It fixed a lot of issues with flickering lights and flakey switches. I ended up adding a bunch of fuses because that was the easier way to splice power as well instead of the factory setup, but I...

Bussed PDCs are the way to go for sure, though I would agree that having a little more flexibility on power/ground outputs would be nice. The last place I worked used ones just like what you were looking at for an EV project. They have them in a couple different configurations of all fuses or...

My dad had some PVC pipe laying around, and as it turns out, 1.5" pipe is pretty much just the right size for the hose to slip on to. So my plan at the moment is to cut a section of the pipe and tie it to the dash and then route hose to either side of it. I might get fancy and 3D print some 90...

I used the factory alternator and A/C with my setup, but I've got a pre-Eagle engine and the truck front cover that mounts them up high, so lots of room. The downside being it's not the prettiest and it can limit intake choices. My carb style intake doesn't care since it breathes through the...

I think that really depends on how far you want to take it and what your mechanical/technical ability is. I did a carb swap on mine way back when I first swapped it in the car ~15 years ago and I kept it all pretty cheap. Motor mounts, headers (could have probably made manifolds work to be...

Ah, yeah. I have heard about the variable orifice tubes as another option, but never dug into it that much since I didn't have one in the Vette to begin with. That does seem like a nice option.

Okay. I think I was confusing it with the POA valve used on my 71 Vette. I think it's some variety of EPR valve on the Vette because my understanding was that it essentially bypassed refrigerant around the evaporator based on the temp, so if the evaporator was cold enough, it would limit the...

So I think I may have found a good way to route the left driver side vent ducting to get around the steering column and wiper linkage, but there's a bit of a caveat to it. I think it will route above the instrument cluster in the space in the dash pad. There are even some holes in the dash...

Are we married to the same person? lol

So I've been looking at my dash and thinking about ways to incorporate my modern electronics in a way that's a little more factory looking and had the idea of mounting another switch on the dash next to the flasher. Based on the instrument panel bezel, it appears that there might have been an...

I saw those electric kits a while back and kind of wondered about them. I never really considered the under dash style for my car for a couple of reasons though. First and foremost was because I had my digital dash / infotainment system mounted there, so it was kind of a no-go to start with...

I'll see if I can get some pictures now that stuff is all together. Harder to see all the "fun" now that the covers and stuff are on, but I'll get what I can. As for the mounting, it might be a little different for you. It sounds like you have a factory A/C car already, which I believe has a...

That's more or less what I've got under my carpet now (though just single sided), but obviously much less well done than yours. I've got pretty good coverage basically wherever the carpet touches at least, but will have to see about extending it around some more. Would love to get it up under...

Hmm, never thought about having it pull double duty, but that makes a lot of sense. I might even have a bunch of that sitting around as my wife is a bit of a Goldbelly fan and has ordered her fair share of fresh and frozen food over the years that I hung onto the bags for projects. I lined the...

So now that my A/C is installed and I'm continuing my journey to make my car more daily commute friendly, I'm trying to figure out where most of the road noise and stuff is coming from to see what I can abate. I've already got the foil backed denim style insulation under my carpet and was...

Okay, I'll keep my eye out. It's only supposed to be in the 60s for the next week or so, compared to the 80s it was when I was putting the kit in (lucky me), so haven't had the need to run it all that long yet.

I finally got the full kit installed and charged the other night. Well, mostly installed. I still need to get the last driver side hose and vent routed/plumbed, but planning to look into that some more this weekend. Also planning to update my controls and center vent mounting now that I have...

Here are a couple of pictures I grabbed the other day when I got my new hoses cut and installed. So far I'm really happy with it. Time will tell at the next oil change, but it can't be any worse than it was before. I think the lines look closer to the fan than they actually are. Generally...

This is the key. If you can lock up your current brakes today, larger brakes don't really make you stop any better (though they might let you stop at maximum ability more often). There is more to it than that like pedal feel and just general manners, but from a physics standpoint at least...

I had a guy in a new C8 Vette offer to buy my Dart on the spot the other day at a stoplight. I could have thrown him a stupid number, but my car is basically my hobby, so as much as it can aggravate me, I don't know how stupid of a price I would need to say yes.

Just out of curiosity, any reason you didn't just run the factory MAP sensor? I know I've had my problems trying to figure out the actual response curve for my sensor, but ultimately they are all just one form of a 5V output (well, probably 0.5-4.5V, but same difference). I tried putting a...

I think part of it for me is also just that my engine bay is kind of rough to start with. I did try to rattle can it back to somewhat the same color as the body when I first put the engine in (I have the pictures to prove it used to look decent, lol), but I didn't do any kind of metal work or...

While potentially true, the thing I like the most about my Dart is that I make it as close to what I want as I can. I don't have to live with compromises because I can change about anything I want. Seats uncomfortable or not sitting right? Just find new ones and make my new mounts to get them...

Man, everybody has such clean builds. I feel like the redneck that duct taped my engine into place on a dirt floor barn, lol.

I was tempted to try upgrading my torsion bars after I got my subframe connectors in, but I'm not sure my headers will play along with them. I think I at least have the V8 bars in it now, but they are already practically rubbing the headers, and that's with the dent/notch that TTI put in...