Finally got all of the loose ends taken care of this weekend.

Mounted the pcm with the bracket I picked up. ended up bolting it to the inner fender. Very sturdy and cleaner than my original plans.



Wired up a new fan harness with better relays. Picked up two new weatherpack relays and a new crimper and got the harness laid out and wired up. Then I got the fan harness and the rest of the pcm harness re-loomed and taped up.









Also for the stock battery cable end covers on. Just need a longer sidepost bolt to replace the regular bolt I was using. Just because I want to be picky.




Then I took the truck for a drive. The converter stall speed is exactly what I wanted. That along with the new shifter make engine braking much easier. Now I just need to make some shift point adjustments and she'll be ready to for the next auto-x weekend.

 

Nice! I can't wait to see how it performs.

 

Neither can I. Signed up for an autocross day on the 20th and for the Oreilly Street Car Nationals at Pomona on March 12-13th. Can't wait.

 

Got to take the truck out to a Speed Ventures Autocross day at Fontana yesterday. Had a great time. had time to dial in tire pressures and shock adjustment. Greatly improved as the day went on. Also got the Claudia out in her truck and even my boss and his Fiesta ST were out tearing it up.

Here's some pictures of the day:



















And for the grand finale:

















Helmet hair, don't care.



After Claudia beat my time. I re-set the faster time one the next run haha.

 

Looks like a blast. Your girl is super pretty.

 

Just Couldn't get beat by a girl could you...

And is her's still stock or has it been cammed yet???

 

He does have that nice 370 to her little 4.8......

 

I am definitely a lucky guy. Hard to find someone that loves all this car stuff as much as I do.

Uh, Duh. Haha

Thinking about leaving the long block stock and going with a TVS1900. But we need to get a house first...

I sure do. Haha. It really goes to show that for an autocross power isn't everything. It's a lot harder to put the power down. All these guys with Miata's can go WOT and not have to worry about blowing away the tires.

 

A wise choice!

For autocross, I am not sure a TVS is a wise idea. The on/off, on/off is what killed Angry Greg's SSS at the 2013 Truckin Shootout. He snapped the idler mount.

 

I was going to ask Brian what he thought. There are a lot of Lightning guys that do track days and autocross without issues.