Well guys, I'm in a much better place! I took some time off a week or so ago from other things with my inspection due today and addressed the following:

- fixed a small leak at the oil filter cap
- replaced the idler pulley (old had damaged bearing)
- replaced the serpentine belt
- uninstalled the rotrex and cut some material off the mount for belt clearance and reinstalled
- installed a new egr valve
- cleaned maf
- designed a solution for proper crankcase ventilation (re-hosed with check valves)
- tuned out a nagging CEL
- re-mounted my IC pump in new location and re-routed hoses (had ripped off in lower front bumper after it got caught on a parking block)
- confirmed, tested, and refit my tensioner solution for the main belt (this time kept it on a low setting)

Wow! Well, a fresh new start with every single little tweak I've wanted to do, done. Then I took her down for an inspection and she passed with flying colors! Perfect, and I mean perfect drivability, idle, everything. Now, I want to continue an experiment with the AEM injector response setting and see where that takes me.

Right now I have low end and cruise at less than 2% LTFT! That is pretty damn cool to anyone in the know.

Now that the foundation is is perfect, I'm actually a little skiddish about turning up the heat!!!!! Oh well, Not really, I'm on a mission, and slowly but surely I'll get there. I need to revisit the high end miss that I had early on and make sure it is gone 100% after all the changes. If it isn't and the AEM proves to be too unruly, I may just go the srt6 ecu route or other. Regardless, success is just around the corner!!