Installing many things just takes time. Guide lines help allot. these are some tips I have picked up from various sources which have made my life easier and so now I show them on here for you.

MSD digital disc 2
 

Estimated time: About 20 Minutes.

• Make sure you have everything (MSD box, harness, wire connectors, electrical tape, wire strippers)

• Cut the wires about 1ft from the plug that connects to the coil

• Wire the msd harness as shown in the wire diagram (its very easy)

• Ground the black wire as close to the unit as possible

• Always use a fused lead for the power wire (cigarette lighter wire works great)

• That's it!

I have made many, they can be cheap or expensive. Basic ones are not hard and can be made relatively cheap while still looking good.

Materials: wood, jig saw, card board, material, spray glue, staple gun, markers.

Estimated time: depending on complexity, at a minimum expect a full day.

• I made a cardboard template of what I wanted, then traced it on to the ply wood and cut it out.

• Stapling the top back I stretched the material to the bottom and stapled it. then stretched left to right stapling as I went so there were no wrinkles. I sprayed the wood with the spray adhesive

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• Using a sharp knife I cut pie shaped slits in the material where the speaker will go, then stapled the pieces to the back of the board
•  I also made a false floor using the same steps as stated above. Here is the finished product.

Here are some other enclosures that I have made.

These are steps to making re-locating your battery from under the hood to your trunk. Why? the battery takes up allot of space, and many times gets in the way for a cold air intake. With the battery gone it also allows easy access to many parts of the engine. Here is a helpful hint. DON'T BUY THE RELOCATION KITS! A simple and cheaper alternative is a car stereo amplifier installation kit for a minimum 1,100 watts power handling. Think of this project as the opposite of installing an amp, you will do all the same steps as instructed in the kit except wire everything working from the trunk (as under the hood) forward (as under the trunk).

Estimated time: about 2 hours.

• Remove stock battery

• Remove floor trim panels

• Run a minimum 4ga wire from the trunk to the fuse box, and replace floor trim panels.

• Using a distribution block under the hood, connect the main wire to the 4ga inlet, then with the two other inlets connect the fuse box wire and the starter wire.
  ( I modified my battery tray to make a bracket as seen in the pictures)

• Mount a battery box in the trunk in your desired location.

• Run your power wire into the box and using the terminal connect the wire to the battery.( make sure you have a fuse within 1 ft of the battery!!)

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Plug and play. this is a very simple install and a great upgrade to your ignition.

• Remove your stock plug wired from the coil

• Remove the Wire harness plug. first by pulling the red tab away from the coil, and then press down on the clip and pull

• Remove the 4 bolts holding the coil in place (remember which one's goes in the front and back, they are different!)

• Pull up on the coil and it will come off, replace the stock coil with the MSD coil.

• Replace the 4 bolts and then the wire harness plug, finally re-install the spark plug wires.

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How To drive your neon

Shift at the redline, not at the torque peak!

Reason? Lets do some math.

P = F * V  ...rearrange to get F = P / V  (where F=force, P= Power, V= Velocity.) That means that you get the maximum force pushing the car if you maximize your *Power* at any given velocity.  This gives us another useful rule:

    Shift to maximize engine POWER, not engine torque!

Here is the neon's power curve

 RPM     HP
1000    10
1500    19
2000    30
2500    44
3000    59
3500    76
4000    91
4500   107
5000   124
               5500   139  (peak torque)
6000   149
              6500   151  (peak power)
7000   147

As you can see the neon makes peak horsepower at 6500 RPM, Although the neon can rev above 7000 RPM the torque amount decreases. A car running at its (net) power peak can accelerate no harder at that same vehicle speed.  There is no better gear to choose, even if another gear would place the engine closer to its torque peak.  You'll find that a car running at peak power at a given vehicle speed is delivering the maximum possible torque to the tires (although the engine may not be spinning at its torque peak).  This derives immediately from first principles in physics.

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