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Old 11-24-2019, 11:13 AM
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I really thought I would be finished with this project and be able to close out this thread, but I have had a couple of setbacks. I will finish it at some point.

First, I decided to relocate my MSD box from being mounted upside down on the bottom of the glove compartment. It was visible below the dash when standing at the rear of the car and had bugged me for a while. After seeing AndrewB's mounting on the end of the glove box, I decided that was a beter solution. Unfortunately after I moved the MSD none of the wires were long enough. I spliced in extensions to all wires, soldering and heat shrinking the joints. I also added an MSD capacitor into the power leads as recommended by PatrickT and others. In the middle of all of this, we took a vacation, so I finished it up when I got home.

I started the car up after rewiring and it ran beautifully, as it always has. Now the MSD box is no longer visible, and is protected from electrical surges by the capacitor.

I then waited until a couple of events went by before proceeding, as I wanted to drive the car to them.

Just as I was ready to finish the project, our house got hit by an EF3 tornado. There was no structural damage to the house, just windows and holes in the roof due to flying debris. Also, the detached garage where I keep my cobra held up except for the glass panels in the garage door.

Below are a couple of pictures I took after the storm. The debris on the driveway is mostly from the house next door to mine that totally collapsed.

Unfortunately, we got a lot of water in the house and had to relocate until the house is restored, which will be about 3-4 months.

Due to the flying glass, my car looks like I drove down a gravel road at 100 mph in reverse. Every panel on the car has chips in the paint. I will be having a full repaint done on it starting next month (insurance is covering it), so I will be without the car for 2-3 months.

I will finish this thread up next spring. On an additional note, there were 9 tornados in Dallas that day, and no one was injured even though many homes and business were completely destroyed. A Home Depot about a mile from my house was totaled as the roof collapsed, but the manager had closed the store and sent everyone home about 30 minutes before the storm.
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