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Old Jul 16, 2001 | 07:55 PM
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Car: 89 Trans Am GTA
Engine: 383 TPI
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Where you guys putting your Ignition boxes?

I cant find any space where I can put it. Any ideas or pics would be great thanks.
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Old Jul 17, 2001 | 12:50 PM
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some people put it on the fender, some wedge it on the firewall somewhere. most pics i've seen of them have them on the back of either fender. i dont have a thirdgen right now, but i put mine on my firewall beside the distributor

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Old Jul 17, 2001 | 01:53 PM
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I stuck it under the charcol canister and used really long bolts... There are about 1000 pictures of where people have placed thiers on this board... try a search for it.

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Old Jul 17, 2001 | 04:30 PM
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I yanked my coolant reservoir, and put my MSD 6AL box there. I mounted it lengthwise, so you can read the MSD label from the driver's side fender. I made a bracket to go between the lowermost part of the box and the inner wheel well, and bolted the top of the box dirctly to the wheel well.

(edit: Otherwise, the curve of the inner wheel well is too great for the ignition box; the wheel well smacks the center of the box. This way I could get the two "upper" bolt holes laid down directly on the inner fender; and the bracket took up the space between the "lower" bolt holes and the wheel well. The center of the box sits up about 1/2 inch off the curve of the wheelwell.)

I then bought a small coolant recovery tank out of JC Whitney (I've seen them in local stores, too) and wedged it next to my charcoal vapor canister. I should really bolt the thing down one of these days; it's held there with safety wire.

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