Progress Thread Fire Hazard GT build: On the road

Well the Jeep is still not done, getting closer though. Wiring, some floor, reconnecting alt/AC/starter, welding some new replacement panels into the rear cargo area, and it will resemble being done. As far as the Fire Hazard, I've walked out into the garage and stared intensely at the car. If Steve asks it involves consideration toward the wiring and the vacuum line for the MS3. If JR asks, it's to decide where to mount my new LED KC off road lights and light bar. Considering they both know me, they're well aware it's actually just procrastination.

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)

Two questions.

1. Is anyone running an oil cooler on their Fox. If so, what do you recommend?

2. I'm considering a new puller fan for the radiator. Anyone have an "inexpensive" suggestion?


I say "inexpensive" because I have just found Mishimoto, is no longer the cheap brand I remember it being. Heck, the want almost $400 for their oil cooler now.

CarMichael Angelo said:

look at the front end of the Monster. Two Stacked fin oil coolers hanging under the front bumper. One is an engine oil cooler, the other is a transmission oil cooler.

16 rows I believe, -10 in/out. the last time I bought one it was...40 bucks on amazon.

You guys need to really pull your head out of LMR’s ass.

Click to expand...

I ended up with the vastly more expensive unit in black. To be fancy, it comes with lines, fittings and oil filter sandwich. I'll let you know just how chitzy it is after our Chinese hot rodders send it to me.

For the fan I went with a t-bird fan. It's supposed to be a cheap ($80ish) high volume fan with a built in shroud. It's 2 speed, so I need to decide if I just want to go all out, or just wire it on "high".