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Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:39 pm

dustymojave wrote: You're welcome.

The consulting fees will be...

Our never ending gratitude! :lol: :lol: Well maybe a few hours gratitude.

Sun May 31, 2009 7:46 pm

Bright paint scheme- check
four cylinder- check
turbo-check
air scoops-check
zip ties holding license plate on-check
Anyone have any undercar neon kits i can have? :lol:

scoops plus a little paint

Hopefully these little bad boys will bring in alot of air.

They are mocked up for pictures with double sided tape. For the permanent install I'm gonna bolt in the front corners, and then use the tape for the rest, which should hold them on in gale force winds.

Sun May 31, 2009 8:40 pm

those are cool scoops where did you get them?

Sun May 31, 2009 8:44 pm

Cool. You ready to go back to Last Chance Canyon with us?

Sun May 31, 2009 9:07 pm

allencoal1975 wrote: those are cool scoops where did you get them?

Thanks! I made them out of fiberglass

Jeff, I'll be ready for the canyon this winter hopefully.

The baja probably won't get touched for a few weeks at least.

Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:19 pm

Awesome!

Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:09 pm

neat :!:

Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:59 pm

Update and a change of plans. I have decided not to go with a Megasquirt engine management system. Instead I will be running a stock Ford ECU and program it using SCT's Pro Racer Package. Reliability was always a concern of mine with the MS system, while the Ford ECU should never have a problem. This also allows me to keep the original Coil Over Plug ignition system and sequential injection. A big plus is that it will be MUCH easier to get running properly.

In other updates, the baja now has a roof over its, uh, roof :lol:

Some pictures for your viewing pleasure

Manifold coated with POR20

Added another brace to the rear cage

Ford ECU

SCT Xcalibrator2 Ford Flashing Device and a 2005+ Ford/Hitachi slot style MAF sensor. The Xcal will load the custom tunes on to the ECU through the OBDII diagnostic port, that's right, full OEM diagnostic monitoring :D

Also on the way is an Innovate LC-1 wideband O2 sensor and G5 gauge. The wideband will tell me exactly what fuel ratio the engine is running at, so I can hopefully tune it without blowing it up. It also has an analog output which will emulate a stock narrowband sensor and allow the engine to run in closed loop= good fuel economy

Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:39 pm

Still workin' on the ole pile :lol:

I Started hacking into the harness, I will say, for a stock harness it is very light and compact. Luckily only engine and trans components were wired into, so I don't have to cut out circuits for headlights and crap like that. Here is what I am starting with:

I picked up a Ford Taurus cooling fan from the local junkyard. Holy crap this thing blows :shock. For $29 they are a great buy. I've read online that it is rated for as much as 4000 cfm, and after test running it I beleive it. This is the fan of choice for the 4x4 and hot rod guys. The local junkyard had like eleventy billion Taurus's(taurii?) and I didn't even have to pull the fan off the car, just look around for the nicest looking one sitting on top of the motor from someone who pulled a radiator :D I ran it today with an amp clamp hooked to it, low speed pulls 17 amps, and high speed pulls a constant 37 amps, with as much as an 80 amp :shock: :shock: spike to get it going. So the standard 30amp bosch relay isn't going to cut it here.. The fan is going to be switched by the computer, low and high speed set points will be programmable to whatever I want.

Here's most of the junk stripped out of the stock engine harness, I'll need to change the injector plugs, move a couple of things, and figure out if I'm going to use large connectors to make the whole engine harness removable with the engine.

Whats left of the stock harness

Everything I cut out of it

The two miles of electrical tape and split loom that was wrapped around it

Been waiting on connectors and misc wiring bits. Got the engine harness 98% complete,all that is missing is the MAF sensor connector, thats what the wires leading off the left are for. I guess the wideband oxygen sensor wiring isn't shown either, but that's going to be in its own harness on the exhaust side of the engine.

I acquired a couple of Ford 42 pin engine harness connectors, they were used on almost every 90's Ford product, so they are easy to come by. The ones I got have 4 empty holes, and I have 2 spare wires left in the connector, so I've crimped 36 damn wires to this thing. And I've still got to do the vehicle side :roll:

Tomorrow I've gotta CAREFULLY double and triple check that I'm not missing any wires, and I can do the final taping and cover the harness in split loom, then I have to start the vehicle side, oh joy.

Wed May 26, 2010 8:26 pm

Any updates? i just went thru all 15 pages of your build. Your baja is AWSOME. Great work. I'd love to see how tha new motor works out 8)

Wed May 26, 2010 9:04 pm

Thanks.
No real updates on the Baja, but my house is painted now :D Hopefully I can get going on it soon. I'd love to see how it works out too.

Thu May 27, 2010 7:27 am

That roll cage looks really scary to me..... are those joints sleeved at least?

Thu May 27, 2010 7:41 am

shred625 wrote: That roll cage looks really scary to me..... are those joints sleeved at least?

Yes.

Thu May 27, 2010 8:47 am

I've got a 61 baja in my ole barn, and i've also got a good running 454 big block (well, the whole truck, but its rusted beyond repair), sitting in the corner doing nothing. i wonder......... :twisted:

Thu May 27, 2010 9:49 am

NICE JOB on those scoopers guy. I've thought the same idea over in my head many a-time. Its cool to see em' for real.

I might just have to mooch that idea for my car.

Do you have pics of how they are mounted (from the inside?)

Thu May 27, 2010 5:43 pm

MB, they aren't functional yet, but I have a nutsert on each front corner for 1/4" bolts and will have some GOOD double sided tape on the rest of it. BTW, they took WAAAYY too long to make, but I'm pretty happy with them, I hope they work. I still need to hole saw like a 4-5" hole into the body, then I'm planning on welding in a stub to clamp some large duct hose to. Hopefully some good stuff, not foil dryer duct from homo depot.

Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:06 am

Thanks for posting your build photos. I just got a 71 Super. I'm gonna model my front suspension after yours.