Daryl

Here is a pic of the OE one.

I see your at the other end of the state. I live in North Central iowa looks to be about 4 hours apart. As to the bad gas that could be it. Gas sitting al winter will have degrading from its original qualities. I have also seen cars sit longer than that and run with no issues.

Katrina I live in Iowa too. I might be able to help if your close. PM me if insterested

Have you checked for bad a ground?

Yes, in that area

Does this help?

My dash is gutted out. I'll get a pic tomorrow of the location for you. Should be easy to see.

I finally got around to installing the gauges in the instrument panel. First thing I did was clean the old housing and gave it a coat of semi-gloss black. Next locate the inner gauge holder. It only goes on one way and is labeled at the top with the word “back”. Slide the gauge through the appropriate hole in the inner holder. Install the the retainer ring, washers and nuts. Repeat this process for all 3 large gauges. Once done the gauge holder sets in your original instument holder Next the backing plate goes on. Once again it is directional and is labeled “Back”at the top. Notice in the picture there are 8 screws partially threaded in the plate. These are jack screws. Once the rear plate is mounted, 3 screws at the top and 2 at the bottom, it will hold the inner gauge assembly in place by screwing in the 8 screws. The LEDs at the top are for your turn signal lights. That's all I got for now.... will finish up tommorow.

My heads I bought bare, but I've read that what Patriot installs in there complete heads is good stuff.

I am hoping my car is drivable by this Fall. I'm 100% sure it will feel like a total different animal. I went from a stock car with a transplanted Ls5 to a 4 wheel disc, hydroboost, 3" drop, tubular A arms, 4L80 trans, 650Hp motor, 4.10 posi, forged axles and a quicker ratio steering box. Oh and I forgot about the much bigger tires over the stock ones. Keep us posted with your progress. How do you like your patriot heads? I have them too but as I said I havn't driven it yet. For my rear disc brakes I have the type that mechanically operate the pads for the E-brake.

I did end up lower the rear 3" with springs from ccp. The car is setting just like I hoped it would.

How does it brake now? I switched to a hydro too but I'm still a long way from driving it. I can't wait till its done.

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Here's my set up

Update- I finally settled on Flowmaster 50 Series #843051