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No worries, Mike, lol. It's your car anyway. I think it looks good.
I found this powder coat after seeing the red translucent wheels posted in the wheel gallery http://www.columbiacoatings.com/stor...cent-TGIC.aspx I ordered a pound of it to do my aluminum dash panel. I think it will turn out nice. You might find that it will give you the look you're after, too. You don't have to do a silver or chrome coating first if you're putting it on a bright metal base. You could also take their suggestion and try a different base color/coat all together and create a unique look. |
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Back to where we left on on the build part of the build thread:
Mike installed the front accessories and I got to working on the wiring harness. Mike had installed the dash harness and the lighting harnesses front and rear. It got everything measured up so I could cut out what we weren't going to use and plan out the additions like the fuel injection system, computer, vintage air and stereo head unit/amplifier. Dash harness initial http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ocked%20Up.jpg Replacing the old with new http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...y%20Lights.jpg Adding relays for the electric fan and the fuel pump http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...%20Harness.jpg and a completed piece http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...arness%202.jpg |
Those stringy bits in the middle are how the VHX by Dakota Digital wants to be plugged in. If I were to do it again, I think I would make a connector and make it disconnectable.
So the dash harness gets me to about here: http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...talled%201.jpg Then I took off the radiator support and started on the front lighting harness http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...20Loosened.jpg and I'll skip to the good part. Here's the lighting harness done and laid on the engine: http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...20Workflow.jpg |
I prefer the ultra cleanest install I can get. and I've never liked how the wipers came out of the engine side of the bulkhead. I always thought it would be a whole lot easier to disconnect the engine as a whole from the bulkhead. Besides that, Mike is considering doing a remote mount wiper since the firewall smooth sheet he made required a wiper delete. So I moved the wipers over to the lighting side.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...0Wires%201.jpg Speaking of ultra clean.. Here's what I did with the rear lighting harness. I included the fuel pump wiring and the stereo amplifier wiring and the gas gauge wiring right into the same harness. One harness disconnects the entire rear of the car. Nice. The former fuel sending unit ground was ran through the roof of the car. http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Ground%201.jpg So here's the leg bone being connected to the hip bone again.. the entire interior had to come out (less carpet) for the new lines to be run and the old to be removed. There were powers and ground running down the passenger side for the vintage air and speaker wires. http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Ground%202.jpg |
Engine harness pre assembly:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...%20Harness.jpg And here's partially through assembly: http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ogress%201.jpg |
Here's a little section I had to redo because the sheathing wasn't long enough and pulled out the shrink:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...arness%201.jpg Here's what it looked like before it was finished: http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ogress%203.jpg Lastly, I had to wait for a special tool to come in so I could finish the MilSpec connector that makes the engine truly disconnectable in a few seconds. http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...nector%202.jpg Here's the mating side of the connector and where it plugs into the ECM and the dash harness http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...nector%204.jpg |
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