Pcm or intake manifold first?

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What I did when I pulled my TB is I unbolted the bracket that holds the cables. It's like two bolts. lol
 
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What I did when I pulled my TB is I unbolted the bracket that holds the cables. It's like two bolts. lol
I just picked it up and moved it to the side and left it connected. I was in a hurry that day. But what's the best place to order online tune up parts. I only get 20% off at work I can get parts cheaper online lol.
 
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Rockauto. And probably Summit for nicer stuff.
Yea from where I work the accel cap accel button and accel coil 92 and change not including my discount from summit 72. So ordering from summit saves me 5 bucks after I get my discount from work my total would be 75 but I think I might get next day shipping at work fo free. But then yet again I could always go on ebay and get it probably way cheaper.
 

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Yea from where I work the accel cap accel button and accel coil 92 and change not including my discount from summit 72. So ordering from summit saves me 5 bucks after I get my discount from work my total would be 75 but I think I might get next day shipping at work fo free. But then yet again I could always go on ebay and get it probably way cheaper.

I would just go with Summit for reliability. Next day shipping is nice, but Summit ships **** out fast. I ordered mufflers Sunday night and got them Wednesday
 
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I would just go with Summit for reliability. Next day shipping is nice, but Summit ships **** out fast. I ordered mufflers Sunday night and got them Wednesday
I was thinking of getting the summit distributor and rotor and a msd coil.
 

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MSD coil is fine, Accel coil stay away from it.
 

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I try not to buy brand name cap and rotor too much money, just find a good cap with brass terminals. Echlin comes to mind.

Edit: Looked at the Accel cap $19 same as what I pay up here for the Mopar cap.
 
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I was thinking of getting the summit distributor and rotor and a msd coil.
Don't get a distributor. No benefit and it's a ***** to setup the fuel sync.
MSD coil is fine, Accel coil stay away from it.
^This.
What about the Accel cap and rotor.

I put an Accel cap and rotor in my truck years ago now. Been working fine. It was a bit on the high side price wise, but it was the only thing I could readily get locally that was brass.
 
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Don't get a distributor. No benefit and it's a ***** to setup the fuel sync.

^This.


I put an Accel cap and rotor in my truck years ago now. Been working fine. It was a bit on the high side price wise, but it was the only thing I could readily get locally that was brass.

Not a full distributor I was talking about the summit racing distributor cap and rotor sorry for the miss understanding . Accel one is pretty cheap 19.99 for the cap 12 for the rotor. But the summit one is 23 for the whole kit I think.
 

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Not a full distributor I was talking about the summit racing distributor cap and rotor sorry for the miss understanding . Accel one is pretty cheap 19.99 for the cap 12 for the rotor. But the summit one is 23 for the whole kit I think.

Oh, gotcha.



Do the Summit kit just make sure it's brass. The Accel stuff has gone up since I bought mine. When I did that 3 years ago it was like 13 bucks for the cap and 7 for the rotor. :emotions34:
 
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Oh, gotcha.



Do the Summit kit just make sure it's brass. The Accel stuff has gone up since I bought mine. When I did that 3 years ago it was like 13 bucks for the cap and 7 for the rotor. :emotions34:
I got my pcm and put it in today and the mopar pcm feels way lighter than the stock pcm. I noticed the shift points are higher it gets up to about 4 grand then shifts.
 

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I got my pcm and put it in today and the mopar pcm feels way lighter than the stock pcm. I noticed the shift points are higher it gets up to about 4 grand then shifts.

I hope that's not under light throttle....lol
 
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Okay, as long as it behaves mostly normally when driving it like a normal person.
I have reg gas in my tank I had the radio off windows open and didn't hear anything.
 
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To Payoff the amount for a new PCM or Manifold, Yeah. Would take you 3 years to makeup for it then you'd finally consider getting better Gas Mileage.

Trust me... If your towing..... You wont get Better Gas ;)
 
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