Starting to do some planning for the spring. I grabbed a '94 Cobra MAF in preparation for having the engine tuned. But... since I apparently just LOVE to make more work for myself, I now see that the '94 MAF housing mounts differently than a Fox one.
It bolts horizontally into this big ugly housing in the green circle.
Rather than mounting vertically to a bracket Fox-style. Soooooo....... I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that yet. Ugh.
Besides that, I'm trying to work up the confidence to do this shortblock swap. The weather is going to get really cold again next week though, so I have some time before that happens. I reached out to a guy I know that does tunes. He says he likes SCT tuners. I've been talking about it here.
http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthre...16#post1901216
I'm planning some exhaust work before the tune happens also. I'm adding hi-flow cats as well as probably resonators to the H-pipe. While I'm at it, I thought i would clean up the catbacks where the non-stainless extension pipes were added. They've become rusty and ugly. The ones under the car by the mufflers, I may simply paint. The ones visible below the rear overhang.... I think I might just cut out and replace all of that.
get some new polished stainless pipes the right length and clamp them on right at the axles where the pipe straightens out. The problem is, I like the slash cut of the Flowmaster catbacks. I have yet to find stainless pipes I can use there with the slash cut. And also, I'll need to invent a new way to hang them. I've never been happy with how they are hung now off the bumper mounts. They are loose and rattle. I may have to have those cuts made and some mounts welded on at a shop. But I've heard exhaust shop labor is not cheap. Not sure what I'm going to do about that either. I was hoping to find a nice pipe I could just slide over the whole mess, but I don't think such a thing exists.
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Originally Posted by wraithracing
I guess there's no reason you can't run a manual with an auto's ECU, but you can't do the opposite. My '90 parts car was an auto, and I'm still running the ECU from that (A9P) and have been for years since I first did the swap. The harness comes into play because the Neutral Safety Switch does different things between a manual and auto. The O2 sensor harnesses have different part numbers between manual and auto, and the NSS circuit goes to different pins on the ECU. I THINK all you need to do is swap one wire from one spot to another, but I haven't looked into it in depth yet. I'll need to though because I'm looking to go to a Cobra computer and those are manual-only. I guess if you don't do this, damage can be done. 
Why would you say it's IDENTICAL to a '93 Cobra housing if it IS a '93 Cobra housing?! I totally don't believe him, but I guess it doesn't matter at this point. I have what I need. 
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