hemisedan
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Way to go. Nice to hear about Mopars, especially our A body Mopars, being featured. Kind of sick of seeing Camaro's featured all the time.
Nice work Jim. i plan to do mine this summer with factory headrests. Hope to see you at Carlisle next month. MikeFinished the passenger seat. My Cuda didn't originally come with headrests, but I thought it would look better with them, so I bought a set and an installation kit.
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I saw it at Carlisle last year. Beautiful car.Jim your car looks awesome. I can hardly wait to see it in person. Wish I was making as much progress as you. Hope to see you at Moparfest.
Omg this was one Incredible read . Hats off to you on all your quality fabrications , & extreme attention to every minute detail . Amazing, from beginning to the End .
Yessir.Thanks Harry
Jim
ThanksNice find. It will turn out great. I’ve seen your work. Met you and your son at the Chrysler nationals 2017.
It had been painted in lacquer in the late '70's and as the years went buy, it has deteriorated and now shows many cracks.Jim that car still looked great the last time I saw it, but then again I know your standards.
Nice car JimOn to the next project!!! It is another '69 Cuda, 340, auto, Formula S, heavily optioned. It needs a total restoration. Plan is to take it back to factory original (no Hemi this time!!) Last week my son and I pulled the engine and tranny at his place and this week we moved it to my garage. The winter project is to strip it completely and get it ready for blasting (plastic media) in the spring, followed by body work and paint. The passenger floor needs to be replaced and there is bondo on the lower rear quarters and a few other places.
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Thanks for posting this. I did this with the OEM PCU after a couple of years driving it. I had it ground like this first picture pretty much. Then started having some issues. And grounded everything.Making some revisions to the main positive and negative power connections on the SRT8CUDA. On the FAST XFI 2.0 User Support Facebook page, I've seen several posts about problems that have been traced to poor wiring installations - especially concerning grounds. I e-mailed David Page (Fast Technical support) to get his perspective on my wiring and he said that I definitely should make some modifications. In particular, he did not like the fact that I was using the chassis for my main ground path - and- also that I did not have the ground wires from the XFI and XIM boxes going directly to the negative battery terminal. This is what he had to say:
Our recommendation is based on practices that have consistently resulted in noise and interference free operation. ALL ground wires from the XFI or XIM MUST GO DIRECTLY ON THE BATTERY NEGATIVE TERMINAL.
I also strongly recommend that you run a negative cable from the engine block to the battery negative terminal equal to the size of your positive battery cable. This will minimize the current spike and voltage drop while cranking the engine. Using the body or frame to carry this ground is a bad idea as they are subject to change conductivity with age, temperature, and degradation due to oxidation and corrosion. In other words, just because it works fine now does not guarantee that problems will not arise in the future.
So based on what you are indication, I would strongly recommend moving the XFI and XIM ground wires directly to the battery negative terminal and installing a ground cable from the battery to the engine block.
The first photo shows how it is currently wired and the 2nd shows the proposed new wiring.
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Thank you JimMaking some revisions to the main positive and negative power connections on the SRT8CUDA. On the FAST XFI 2.0 User Support Facebook page, I've seen several posts about problems that have been traced to poor wiring installations - especially concerning grounds. I e-mailed David Page (Fast Technical support) to get his perspective on my wiring and he said that I definitely should make some modifications. In particular, he did not like the fact that I was using the chassis for my main ground path - and- also that I did not have the ground wires from the XFI and XIM boxes going directly to the negative battery terminal. This is what he had to say:
Our recommendation is based on practices that have consistently resulted in noise and interference free operation. ALL ground wires from the XFI or XIM MUST GO DIRECTLY ON THE BATTERY NEGATIVE TERMINAL.
I also strongly recommend that you run a negative cable from the engine block to the battery negative terminal equal to the size of your positive battery cable. This will minimize the current spike and voltage drop while cranking the engine. Using the body or frame to carry this ground is a bad idea as they are subject to change conductivity with age, temperature, and degradation due to oxidation and corrosion. In other words, just because it works fine now does not guarantee that problems will not arise in the future.
So based on what you are indication, I would strongly recommend moving the XFI and XIM ground wires directly to the battery negative terminal and installing a ground cable from the battery to the engine block.
The first photo shows how it is currently wired and the 2nd shows the proposed new wiring.
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