Took a break from the metal work and decided to modify the tail light buckets for the LED panels. Overall not too bad but the brackets that are included fit like ****.
Then decided to put the glovebox in the car and check fit and begin wiring (you can see rear light wiring already run to the trunk in previous picture.
Also ran the pain power cable. 2/0 welding cable. Pretty intense stuff and a beastly crimper needed to attach the lugs.
Picked up a product called Shine Seal from the original founder of Zoopseal in an effort to seal the raw aluminum I have in the engine bay. I cleaned all these panels and lightly brushed with a 3m pad.
Did the reservoirs also.
Lastly I started working on the Holley wiring and making good progress for a short amount of time. I hope to have this harness completed and modified for my setup by this weekend. Hope I can find the time to hit the garage hard this week.
Test fitting intake and verifying lengths of harness.
Got back after it this past week/weekend and got a few things accomplished (mostly yesterday).
Tail lights Installed:
I have a C6 PWM fan controller, and wanted to find a good place for it that was out of the way. Core support went back on to see if the spot i wanted will work.
Lots of space!
Made me nervous drilling and putting nutserts in the beautiful shroud, but it needed to be done!
Next up was finishing the turbo drains and hooking up the power steering lines.
Hard to tell but the turbo drains are in place here, -10 90deg to -10 PTFE to the pan, and a 120deg fitting into the pan. That area is relatively flat but does have a slight uphil right at the end (passenger side mostly, to clear the starter).
Power steering lines were a PITA. To get them tight on the rack, I had to pull the rack hardlines to have access. They're done and hardlines are back in place.
Decided to tackle one of the jobs I was least looking forward to...Drilling the firewall for the ac bulkhead. I had to pull the AC back out and the glove box to have access to put these in place.
Since the AC was out, I mounted my bulkhead for the power cable from the top. Kept me from having to remove passenger downpipe to have access to drill it.
After getting those holes cut, I decided I'd take my chances and drill out the hole in the firewall for the wire pass through. I wanted to mount it a little lower, but lower and it would have interference inside, towards middle and it would hit map sensor, and other side had fuel pressure sensor and some difficult structure to work around.
No turning back now.
Pinned all the additional wires in the input/output harnesses for the holley and labeled them all.
Now i'll strip the rest of the loom off the original harness, lay these together and put it through the fiewall and start plugging it in so I can make the engine bay side all perfect length.
Brian Hobaugh SCCA National Tour June 2014
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