Been slow here unfortunately. Work has been nuts. It is a good thing though. I have a ton of money for a change. I bought myself my first welder this week. Just an inexpensive Harbor Freight MIG welder. I also had to get a new phone as I dropped my phone off of a roof the other night while I was tarping someone's roof at work. The week before I dropped it in a bucket of antifreeze while I was replacing the burnt coolant lines on the colt. So I spent a ton of money on other things.
On to the car. I got all the coolant hoses completely replaced about two weeks ago. It came out a little cleaner than the first time, and I was able to hang them and secure them better as well. I also got the timing belt cover off because it was damaged in the fire. While inspecting everything, at the last minute I found a very very small piece of the timing belt got damaged in the fire. About a 2"x1/4" strip on the edge of the belt. So that had to come off. Sucks, as that belt had about 300 miles on it. But it was donated from jaysmirage. It was a factory Hyundai belt. Bummer, but glad I checked.
I also made connection to the ecu with the laptop about three weeks ago. I have been working out a few bugs here and there. I was still getting a DTC for the coolant temp sensor and a knock sensor. I tried a new coolant sensor, still read fine, but kept throwing a code. So tonight I made some time and wired in the four new connectors for the primary injectors as they were damaged from the fire. I also wanted to make a serious effort on those two DTC's. I ran two new wires for the coolant temp sensor and that fixed that problem. I rewired the knock sensor on the ecu harness side. Still throwing a code. So I removed the knock sensor only to find out that it got hurt by the fire. It was strange, because when I checked last week it appeared ok, but may have got a little hot. Upon removal I found that under the sheathing it had melted both wires pretty bad, but the outer sheathing was in good shape. Must have just been from the heat. I can only assume it was grounding itself out. I could have rigged it up, but better safe than sorry.
Only thing left to do with the wiring is move four more wires from the "engine fusebox" and wire in the ford ignition. I am still trying to get confirmation on the correct wiring for the ford ignition. It is only three wires, but we can't get a good answer on what is what. Nick has the answer, he is just being lazy about getting me the info. I also have to put the new timing belt and new valve cover gaskets on when they come in tomorrow. So I am getting really close. Total damage including the $150 in coolant lines, is around $300 for the fire. Not too bad. And $60 of that was upgrading to the ford ignition.
So again, getting really close to having a start up video for you guys. I am going to have my little suedo-distribution block for the fuel welded into one whole piece, eliminating another failure point. I am going to try to get that done this week. I am super excited. I think this round is really going to make the car awesome. I have been wanting to do these things for years. And to know that I am doing them right, the end result is going to be sick. I hope to be able to report a 200mph run in the next 12-24 months.
