Hello all. Since purchasing my low mile SRT6 roadster in July I’ve been slowly sorting it out and doing some simple maintenance, fixes and upgrades. First up was adding a lighted wind deflector. Running the wires into the “trunk” helped me get to know the car better. Boy is it tight back there! I also swapped in the replacement antenna base gasket the previous owner was kind enough to send me. I also cleaned up the engine bay at the local car wash. The bare aluminum parts had the coastal salt air “bloom”. Some foaming Super Clean, scrub brush and pressure wash did an ok job for now.
Next up was fabricating a scatter shield. I used the LM21 design as a go-by. The engine cover doesn’t fit now due to the bracket to hoop attach hardware. But that’s okay because I’ve been collecting upgrade parts. I’ll be adding a Needswings pulley saver kit and a steel 65 mm pulley. I also plan on MSS ECU and TCU tunes. Anyway, all for now any suggestions appreciated. OBTW I’m ordering a new upper radiator hose support clip. The original broke the moment I touched it!

 

Looking good!

 

Well it’s been almost a month since my last post. Based on the learning experience from making the aluminum scatter shield I built one using stainless steel. It’s quite a bit stiffer than the aluminum version. After a few baseline drives with the stock SC pulley I swapped in the steel 65 mm pulley (thanks fastfred!). I then installed the slightly used PSK kit (thanks AMX1397!). I altered the PSK bracket by installing a solid 3/8-16 x M6-1.0 insert for the makeup tube support clamp. Allows use of the factory attach hardware.
Also, I made a combination support bracket for both the scatter shield hoop and the forward engine cover mounting point. Wife wanted the engine bay to look all stock.
Next up MSS TCU and ECU tunes.

”late to the party but trying to catch up”

 

Looks great!

 

Looks great! would love to hear your progress after tuning with the pulley swap. Are you adding the needswings DCAI too?