I have to say you are my new inspiration to get my truck done. I just hope mine turns out half as nice as yours. Awesome truck.
Excellent! Thanks for the compliment fellow hoosier!
I also got some work done this weekend. I didn't have much time to work, so I don't have pics of what I got done, but I'll get some when I can.
I had been having issues mounting my 2000 coil pack to the 01+ valve cover like I wanted (using the whipple eliminated the stock mounting location). I made some custom brackets and got the coil pack mounted to the valve cover, but using the 3.0 wires resulted in 2 of the plug wires being to short, and others were way to long. (It looked like crap) I'd been wrestling with my options for a couple of weeks, when I looked at my daily driver, and realized that the wires for a 4.0 SOHC might work just fine.
I picked up a set of 4.0 SOHC wires, and by mixing and matching the 3.0 wires and the 4.0 wires, I was able to make it work, and keep the install looking clean. Glad to have that issue resolved without resorting to cutting/splicing the harness!
When installing a whipple on a 98-2000, the TPS, and IAT are located in a different spot, and the factory harness won't reach the new locations. To get around this, I removed the tape from that part of the harness, pulled the wires out of the conduit until the connectors reached where they needed to be, and then retaped the harness. No cutting/splicing needed(there's a pattern developoing here)!
Also, since my truck originally had egr, and the whipple doesn't allow egr, I had some issues with the factory vacuum lines/egr controller setup. I decided to eliminate the factory setup, and egr controller completely, and just ran my own vacuum lines.
Also got my efan modified to fit in the shroud with the new (huge) 5.0 radiator I'm using.
So at this point, the only things left to do under the hood, are remount the supercharger, install the gauges, and wire in my efan. It's getting closer to running!