Hello! While I'm not totally new to the boards, I figure perhaps an introduction is in order. I'm a 35 year old software engineer (designing and building databases for a large bank) who would rather be be working with my hands and tinkering with real life things rather than being in the world of software. I have a wonderful wife and two kids.

When I was 15-16, I did a frame-up "restoration" (meaning I tore it down, painted everything, and pretty much put it back together) of a 1980 Chevy C-10. I had help in the form of my mom's then-boyfriend/fiance thing that tended to berate me more than help, so in the end I had to figure most of it out myself. It had a 350 out of a Corvette with 4-bolt mains, an aluminum intake and a Holley 4-barrel. It was snappy and at the time, that's pretty much all I knew about it.

A few years later, I sold the truck after not having much money or time to put into it anymore. Then life happened; I went to college, got married, had two kids and then spent three blurry years after my oldest son (at 3 years old) was diagnosed with Leukemia.

A year ago, I somehow managed to talk my wife into letting me buy a truck I found on Craigslist. This particular truck was a 1978 F150 Supercab 4x4 with a long bed. It had a D1VE-A2B 460 with D0VE-C heads and a Holley TA 670CFM carb under the hood. The seller had no idea what any of the specs of the internals were and I haven't had it apart (yet) to know. The Holley isn't exactly an ideal carb for this motor and the combination proves to get about 6 MPG no matter the time, place or circumstance. The owner had stripped the truck of things like its doors, glass, seats, etc. only to apply an unknown quantity of bondo and rattle can flat black paint all over every inch of the body.

I loved it.

About a week later, it was sitting in my driveway under an Ez-Up tent with no glass or doors. Over the next 6 months, I slowly put it all back together, bought new glass and managed to pass PA inspection + emissions--just in time for the deadly winter salt. One of the things I had done was go over the entire undercarriage with a rust converter, sealer and decent quality top coating, but I still couldn't bare the thought of that toxic-brine-sludge they spray all over the roads here being all over my truck.

So it sat under a mound of snow until the roads could be washed off with a few spring rains and I have driven it every chance I get. It's almost amazing how many people have walked up to me in parking lots and asked if I wanted to sell it. The answer is a resounding NO! I figure I'll have to be pretty senile before it goes away.

Anyways, last April I made the decision to go for EFI and after some (now questionable) research, I ordered a FiTech 30002 throttle body directly from FiTech on 5/3.

I still have not received it.

I'm on the fence as to whether I'll share the whole story or not (it isn't that long), but it won't be a positive review. They seem to be victims of their own success; at least in my case.

So long story short, just saying hi!

Nick