this is where we need Mr Steilow to pipe up with his insider gm knowledge

LatG doesnt have a pager for him? lol

I think Jackass is at Motorstates Challenge trying to break Jackass.....

Probably best they don't.... Guy would need a few restraining orders I bet

That's his local track so he should do well!

P.S. There is a pic of JA's engine on their FB page .... you could eat off that engine and still taste steak!!!!

I got my little stash of goodies from Mouser today, so it was time to figure out where to mount my new power distribution box.

Initially I thought I would mount it to the front of the shock tower, something like this:

http://www.pro-touring.com/~andrewb/cougar/713.jpg

That looked OK but seemed to stick out a little too much and I really didn't want to drill any holes in the shock towers. So I started looking around and I realized that if I moved the starter solenoid a little forward, I will have room between it and the shock tower. Like this...

http://www.pro-touring.com/~andrewb/cougar/714.jpg

I like that better and I was even able to use one of the existing fasteners for the outside shock tower brace to hold the panel in place. The wires will exit tightly by the shock tower and be loomed along with the other wires that I already have in place.


http://www.pro-touring.com/~andrewb/cougar/715.jpg

The module on the right is functional, while the module on the left is there to hold spare fuses.

http://www.pro-touring.com/~andrewb/cougar/716.jpg

If I need more high draw runs than that, I can always replace the dummy module with one that is functional. I will run a 4 gauge battery cable from the auxiliary post on my battery directly to the bottom post of the power module. I plan to run 5 10 gauge leads from the box to under the dash. This will fix all my current issues and also give me a couple of spare runs for anything else that may need power down the line, like maybe electronic power steering. :-)

Andrew

the pn on those modules wouldnt happen to be 12110129 would it?

also, think you could get teh base and cover pn's? Should be on them somewhere.

PN 12110129 is the module on the left with the bus bar on the right side. PN 12077569 is the module on the right with the bus bar on the left side.

There are numerous bases available, but as I said before, there is no single module base with the battery lug that accepts the 6 MaxiFuse module. Since there is no single module base, there is no single cover, however, I ordered cover PN 12160897 and it works well.

Andrew

i can trim like you did. No bigggy :)

thanks for the info andrew.

The 4 module base is PN 12129121....Looks like it's about 18 bucks from Mouser. If you want some of the parts I am not using, shoot me a PM.

Andrew