And So It Begins....

[peteracs]

Hi Guy

Maybe a silly question, but how are you determining the lengths of any given wire/loom?

Watching Retropower, they use a sort of climbing rope with labels to lay in the car to establish routing and lengths which seems a reasonable option.

Peter

[SanRemo78]

Exactly that method Peter. Ran a rope from the ECU down the left side into the boot and across with extra lengths taped to it for branches off that run. I’m going to get alternative colours for cables to the front left and right, cables to the stalks and instruments and ignition etc for clarity on the board.

In other news…. I put the dash back in yesterday. The bracket at the bottom to the brake linkage box was standing off it. The left side vent pipe behind the glovebox was resting on an aircon pipe. That’ll need rerouting somewhere. Bugger.

[HFStuart]

We don't have the luxury of a 3d modelling suite so these things happen. Overcoming them makes the end result even more satisfying.

[SanRemo78]

Well that's the loom from the brain to the back lights completed! Doing this on the board was 100% the right move. I can stand infront of it, test each wire as I connect the end terminal and the integrity of any spliced branches. The front left loom is started now with all the lighting circuits and horn completed. I need to add another branch to the rear loom for the fuel pump, gauge and warning lights plus the heated rear screen and rear bulkhead courtesy light. I'll also run speaker cables to the rear. I think that's it.

Tomorrow I hope to start running the cables for the right side front lighting and the column stalks and ignition switch and down the right side inner wing for the lights. I haven't found a home for the coil and ignition pack yet either but I'll be forced to soon. Can anyone think of a reason the Bosch pack shouldn't live on the left inner wing? Right side is occupied by the aircon compressor and chassis plate.

Guy

[HFStuart]

Are you keeping the distributor? If not there's a very neat mounting bracket available to mount a Ford coil pack where the dizzy usually lives.

[SanRemo78]

That sounds interesting Stuart! I was planning on keeping the distributor and coil as standard but the brain isn't an ECU for ignition and coil pack triggering so I'd need to know more about how that lot works including the rev counter signal feed!

Can you elaborate?

Please!