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just kidding , here is a quick update , been busy with other stuff lately but did manage to work on this thing

first off , got the car running and for some reason the front end is sitting so much lower now. it looks awesome , but its riding on the bump stops so you can imagine how that feels driving down the road . here is how it looked :






I did raise the front end again and now it runs a ton better , I still need to scale the car to make sure the corner weights are all ok .

the car was actually sitting so low that the tire was rubbing the fuel line when I turned the steering wheel , which in turn frayed the fuel line , which had to be replaced . and since I was in that general area , I decided to reinstall the transmission cooler tot eh inner fender to try and keep it cooler , and remove the other one in front of the radiator:



and while I was there too , I decided to fab up a shroud to shield the cooler from the engine bay hot air. I started by making a CAD template ( Cardboard Aided Design) of the piece:



then cut , bead rolled it and bent it into shape :



Sorry no pics of it installed 

and keeping to the " while I was there" theme I decided to mount the water / meth. pump in the passenger side inner fender , and after looking around for a while I couldn't find a reasonable place to mount the tanks except in the trunk , so I fabbed up a small bracket :



and installed the tank:



I still need to plumb the pieces and wire the pump , and install the injection solenoid in the intake pipe.


I also replaced the walbro pumps with a pair or AEM 380's :





I plan on swapping the tank out to another one that's a bit more stealthy ( has a big pickup tube from the top instead of the two on the bottom , more on the later.

I have been a lot of reading about boost control and different setups , and figured out a pretty nice way to set up my system ; using CO2 to control the waste gates is a very nice way of doing it but I don't like the idea of having to replace and fill the CO2 bottle . so I decided to make my system a dual solenoid bosst controlled setup and added a small viair air compressor, 1 gal tank, and regulator in the trunk to have a constant supply of air tot he WG .
another added benefit is that I can use it to fill tires whenever I want .

here is how it looks all snuggled up in the trunk before I finalized their location :



so after all that I decided to head out to a local mustang club roll race deal , where I could start messing around with the boost settings and what not .

so I loaded my gear :



hit the road tot he track ( I love my 4L80   )




when at the track I found out a few things , I could not control my boost . I turns out there were two reasons, the first was kind of obvious ; I had to high of a WG spring (11 psi) to begin with , and I could not go lower . the other issue I found out later ,,,,, which was my boost solenoids were not wired (in my infinite wisdom I did run the wires to the pcm , but called it quits that night , and the next time I was at the garage I assumed that I had it all done )

so a few connections later and I have control of the boost now , but I couldn't test cause it was raining for almost a week now .


so hopefully I can try to do the following :

- make a few test hits to tune the boost settings.
- scale the car
- install a crotch belt to make it a legit 5 point harness
- fix the turn signal
- start sanding and prepping the new GT nose I got to cover my buck tooth intercooler 
- cut the rear fenders a bit to clear the slicks ( they used to stretch out at speed and start rubbing )

wish me luck