Progress Thread HeHateMe gets bent

Now I got to use 1 of my 2 favorite new tools. The hydraulic terminal crimper. I got my Pullapart freebie...about 20 ft of 4g cable, and ran it from the battery to the power post of the fuse block and crimped ends on. Happy Happy Joy Joy. (the other new favorite is the riv nut installer. I'm riv nutting this beotch up7


And I can't help myself. I saw this and had to have itl. Holley Dual Sync. @Davedacarpainter I really have it!

It's like $50 on Amazon. It's bad a$$. If you don't pay me the money you owe me, I'll crush your thumb in this bad boy!



I took the drop from my bracket cut and made a plate to mount my megafuse holders on. Which gets mounted under the solenoid with yep, you guessed it, RIV NUTS!


You can see where this is going, hopefully. Megafuse on left goes to fuse box by way of fender and core support and other fender. The right Megafuse is for the alt.

And the business end.

Next I realized I needed a place to mount an MSD box. I checked around and Summit has this very cool and very sturdy universal mount for about $30. Wham Bam, Paypal and it's at my door.



This is great. Except I want to mount it UNDER the fuse box partially. And I didn't take that in account mounting the fuse box and it's like 3/8" too low. No problem. Ditch those skyscraper MSD rubber mounts and use some nice O-rings.



Look at me...stainless button head screws and stainless riv nuts. Damn am I good or what.

NO says the middle finger. If you look at the pic above, you see the cut out for the 4 gauge power cable. Equally spaced past that in the side are 2 mounting holes. There's maybe 3/8" between the MSD and the side of the bracket. Hmm, how does one get a screw in here? Even if I take the box back off and stick the screws in their holes, I still have to put the MSD back on, before mounting the bracket, because it only sits about 1/8" of the fender apron. SO I have 2 options. Take a 3mm allen wrench and cut the end off until it's about 3/16" long and take the box off, put the screws in, put the box back and try to get the screws started with the allen wrench. Or run bolts thru from the outside of the rivnut and put a nut on the inside of the inside of the bracket. I am thinking option 2 will be the path of least resistance.



This turned out pretty fly for a white guy! It's a little out of square, but between the Harbor Freight grinder, and the Harbor Freigh cut off discs, that shred like they are made of paper, I felt good to get it this way without putting an eye out or losing a finger.

Oh yeah, MORE RIVUTS for the coil!

I mocked that MSD up! I realize now looking at the pics, I just mocked up the placement to mark the position of the rivnuts in the fender apron. I never mocked it up MOUNTED to the apron obviously!!!





I mocked up AND MOUNTED the fuse holder. And I had to redo both of those short cables. I didn't take into account the terminal length past the end of the wire. Used up all of those copper terminals....but Shazzam, a quick click on Amazon and more were here 2 days later without me breathing hard!!!





So my next trick the past few days has been to start cleaning up the fender liners. I can't believe this came out this clean. With just some scrapers, lacquer thinner and when I ran out of that, some reducer that must have been in my garage 20 years. It cuts right thru that greasy crusty gunk. And I get high.

A little primer.


A little paint....and this is where my Amazon train derailed. I ordered a 6 pack of semi gloss black. When, I started shaking, I saw gloss black. Oh I was pissed. I was like damn, they sent me the wrong stuff. So I ran in and looked at my order. I ordered 6 cans of GLOSS BLACK and the return window closed 2 days before. So I did what I do. I ordered semi flat clear.




I've got a bit more to clean on the passenger side, but I got it mostly there and got rid of the rust. Again, I can't believe it came so clean!

I'll paint and clear this part and then maybe, just maybe, I'll fire up the solder station I bought off of AMAZON!!

Oh yeah I painted the fugly battery tray too!

They make them...but evidently only in a 20. So I can quit looking or thinking about the wheels until this hooptie runs and drives again!