the momstang rebuild begins TOOK A TRIP AROUND THE BLOCK!

ttocs · Jan 24, 2019

I swear if I didn't have bad luck I would have no luck. I ended up having an issue with a few switches where they did not work or worked off and on. I was afraid that during the fitting of the pieces with some sanding/fitting that I got enough dust into the switch that it did not work. I had the correct power/ground at the harnesses that plugged in so it had to be the switches I thought. Talked to the manf and they were really cool to send a new set out for free even though I told them that it was my fault. I got the switches in yesterday and finally got them in today and found I was still having the same issues. After a really close inspection of the harnesses that plug into the switches I found that the pins in the harnesses were not aligned perfectly and when pushed together it was pushing the harness connector just far enough back that it was not making contact. After spending a little time to figure this out and then more time to correct it I finally got to see it all together, in place and working. But I did switch to a different looking switch that I think looks better myself. Now I can finally put stuff together and.....

g36 monkey · Jan 24, 2019

That came out soooo slick dude!

ttocs · Jan 24, 2019

REALLY happy with how it turned out now that its in. The only thing I can think of changing is that I might try to make the trim ring out of aluminum and polish it as my first aluminum project since I have the size down now but otherwise I just want to see the seat back in it. Right now its made from acrylic and has chrome vinyl on the back which is why it looks kinda fuzzy in some spots.

ttocs · Jan 25, 2019

I got the lights in for the dash display. These do not light up as bright as the other lighting pieces but I like that being that they face me. I can only light up one at at time right now as I only have on 120v inverter for the lights. The isolator light is blue when it lights up.

g36 monkey · Jan 28, 2019

The car is like a space ship lol

SnakeBit! · Jan 29, 2019

WOW!!!!

ttocs · Jan 29, 2019

I have had some people ask if I could make a switch panel for them. Let me know if your interested I am trying to figure out how much would be fair to pay.

97stanger · Jan 30, 2019

that's really really sharp, great work!

ttocs · Mar 11, 2019

don't you love it when you spend enough time(weeks) on trying to figure out what was wrong that you are frustrated enough that you have to step away for sanity? And then when you do get back into it, spend some time looking at manuals and other crap only to figure out that its a problem you created and it didn't even really exist to begin with?! After installing the switch boxes I noticed that for some reason the abs indicator(SMOKE MODE) was not turning off. When I installed the switch boxes and switch panel I wired up two switches so that one would power up just the stereo portion for shows, and another would power up the ignition to run the water pump/fan and to allow me to mess with tuning crap with out the key in and the door binger "bing binging" away. I had to take a little time to diode isolate some of the wiring so it would not get power to do this and since then I have just been using the switches to power up the ignition and that was when I noticed the abs light stayed on. After a lot of thought today, tracing wires, checking connections I decided to do something I had not yet tried, I turned the key... To my amazement the light came on for 3 secs like it was supposed to and then turned off just like it was supposed to and now the eject/line lock turns it on the way it should.

evilcw311 · Mar 11, 2019

Who’da thunk it?!?!

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ttocs · Mar 12, 2019

and of course I forgot the pic of the dash finally installed.

96blak54 · Mar 12, 2019

Thats a cockpit!

white95 · Mar 12, 2019

ttocs said:
and of course I forgot the pic of the dash finally installed.

How well does the dash handle glare?

ttocs · Mar 12, 2019

white95 said:
How well does the dash handle glare?

lol that would require getting out of the garage... Something I hope to do this week, stay tuned and remind me if need be.

97stanger · Mar 12, 2019

Damn like a space ship in there!

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g36 monkey · Mar 13, 2019

O man that looks so slick!

ttocs · Mar 13, 2019

thanks fellas I am happy to see it all together now. Looks better then that stupid head light switch sticking out at the very least. I was wanting to start it up again yesterday for the first time in months to make sure I didn't mess up any wiring but I remember when my hard drive melted down 2 weeks ago that I need to reload the efi software. For some reason it give me some weird err about side by side compatability or something. I hate computers...

evilcw311 · Mar 13, 2019

Did you step up to a ssd when you replaced it??

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ttocs · Mar 13, 2019

no idea what an ssd is. I learned early in my tech career that I hated broken computers, and hated fixing them even more. I took it to a tech that did it and I will probably drop in and see whats wrong as it seems like it has something to do with the way windows was loaded. It give me a process err 14001 that says something about side by side config was not right.