weirdest thing happened today

95five-0

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Oct 23, 2003
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Mountain Home, ID
I was leaving base and the speed limit there goes from 15 to 65 so of course I gun it. Well when I let off the gas my car didn't. I start accelerating pass 75. So I hit the brake to 50. The car then slowly worked it way back up. The tac said the engine was about 1900-2000. So I thought the cruise control was messing up so I tried setting it and turning it off. I even tried to reach down and pull my gas pedal up nothing was working. It just seemed like my throtle was stuck a 2 grand. So I was just braking and letting it pick back up speed hoping it would fix itself. (By the way I was really freaked cause today was the first time I cleaned my MAF. And I thought I jacked it up.) So away way my buddy who is alot more mechnicaly inclinde than I lives right off this road. So I go into town with my car screaming. I down shifted into second and rode the hell out of my brakes. I made it to his house with only breaking the tire loose on the turns cause I could not brake hard enough. Trough the car in neutral and shut it off as fast as I could. Well he came out and took a look at it. The problem was when I gun it my throtle cable grabed a spark plug wire that held it at 2 grand. Was a great relief. Man I thought for sure something was jacked up.

PS the whole time I was driving the wife was yelling at me, " We can't afford to fix this. We just spent 600 hundred on exhuast. Ect....." You know how wifes are.
 
same thing happend to me after i installed my FMS plug wires, what i had to do was slam the pedal to the floor a few times to break it loose and as soon as i got home i adjusted the wires so that it wasnt in the way anymore
 
I think what happened was my wires are stupid long. Made by motorcraft so go figure. When I discounted the air inlet the wires go moved over. Cause when I got home I saw that the mechanic that put them in just shoved them down behind the trottle body to take up the excease. Well I am going to buy some zip ties untill I can get beter wires. No time like now to get some MSD or livewires.
 
Nascar engine builders use wire ties. Instead of bunching the wires together though use this method. Here's a poor diagram:
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Put one wire tie around all of them then use another between the wires to separate them. You can use as many ties as you want to keep the wires completely apart from each other. :nice: