Wow, I could of swore I updated this thread?????
So life, family, and other things have gotten in the way of getting the Fire Hazard up.
I had Steve come by a month or so ago and hook up the Mega Squirt System. Good news, gauges work........well enough to show me that oil pressure drops significantly when the car gets warm......especially when the previous programming drops a ton of fuel into the cylinders, greatly ensuring that oil viscosity gets close to water. Dropped the oil and cut the filter and thankfully found that we were minus the sparkly contents I figured would be included.
Changed the oil, and replaced my anemic main circuit breaker.
So last weekend I had Steve back over. Changed the battery cable ends and had him tighten yet another leaking line off the fuel rail. Hopefully he has the mojo to keep it from leaking again. Steve then actually got to his MacGyver work in tuning. Heck yeah. At this point he had already caught my miswiring of the Cherokee, making it run for the first time since the new motor was in. The guy was on a hot streak. So tunes not opening the air idle control valve. Steve pulls it out and does some soldering and jumping......boom everything works like it should.
Excited as I am, I can't help wait for something jacked up to happen. We go to roll out and as we get out of the drive we hear a noise from underneath. I think it's something to do with my current ride height and tire clearance. Again, Steve's on a friggin roll (next time we're going to the casino) and automatically finds it's the bolts for my drive shaft loop rubbing the driveshaft. Before I can get him some wrenches he's got the thing up on a jack stand. Hoop removed, we hit the road. Now I remember the intensely singular feeling of driving a foxbody. It definitely grows on you. After a couple of miles she's running fairly well, but warming up. No real spirited driving due to rings and the clutch needing broke in. The one time I did step into it we did see a wee bit of a boost spike at 16lbs vice the 9 we should have seen.
So thanks to Steve (AKA MacGyver) and Black Fox EFI for getting this pig running after almost 10 years of collecting garage dust.
What I'm looking at now is actually mounting the extremely important front air damn, ensuring I've got all the air out of the coolant system, possibly adding an oil cooler, and rebuilding my wastegate (it has been sitting for 8 years)