Alex Buchka
8 cylinders
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2004
- Location
- Los Angeles
Are you leaving the chassis harness alone? That was my initial plan but there is some mouse damage. Not sure if I should fix that or just convert to the blade fuse box.
The only part of the chassis harness I am touching is the stuff for reverse lights. Those wires now go through the bulkhead connector on the firewall instead of through the shifter hole.
Ran into a SNAFU with the clutch. The clutch effort required is absolutely herculean, over 100lbf at the pedal. This is obviously a no-go so I bought a 5/8" wilwood master cylinder to replace the 3/4" 740 master. Most of the pedal travel right now is consumed just taking up clearance between the slave and clutch fingers. Going to drop the trans tomorrow and space the slave out farther to reduce clearance. This should alleviate the problem a bit.
Got the wiring almost done last night, just a few small things left to finish up and the megasquirt will be completely wired up.This is the "main" harness from the firewall to the ECU. The small connector goes to the instrument cluster.
This is actually a jam nut receptacle but I machined off the flange to make it more of an in-line style connector:
Karl gave me a hand spot tying the harness together. It's a bit more time consuming than using zip ties but it came out looking super awesome.
The cam and crank sensor harness got the same treatment:
Here is the bussmann all wired up with the megasquirt. The power resistor is for the idle air motor.
Overall extremely pleased with how the wiring came out. Still need to do all the internal connections inside the brain box, and a couple of small mods to the mainboard. The engine should be ready to fire up sometime in the coming week.