172 Race Car
Monday 14th December 2009 - Loom Building Day 3 :dapprove:
Not really looking forward to carrying on with the loom, so we started on some mechanical jobs. First up the cat. We need to keep it for MSA regulations. We've been advised to switch to a twin box early 172 cat. The track car used to run a single box later style cat.
The wiring is taking so much longer than we ever imagined, but we are pleased with the results. The main aim today was to get all the chassis loom done and working. This meant connecting everything to the fuse and relay box. All the wires were cut to length and the terminals for the fuse box fitted to them. Then using 3mm cable we added main feeds to the fuse box and fitted it back in the dash. This made it a bit of a struggle to add further wires. (Switches in the glove box to turn off power steering and overide fuel pump relay)
Everything was working. When the red battery buttons were on the indicators, brake lights, dash, wiper and washers all worked as planned. This now just leaves the ECU and engine loom to do, oh deep joy!
Saturday 19th December 2009 - Exhaust
Time for the exhaust to go on. Its a custom made system that was on the track car (and another car before that) It will need some adjusting at a later stage but its on there of now.
Not really looking forward to carrying on with the loom, so we started on some mechanical jobs. First up the cat. We need to keep it for MSA regulations. We've been advised to switch to a twin box early 172 cat. The track car used to run a single box later style cat.
The wiring is taking so much longer than we ever imagined, but we are pleased with the results. The main aim today was to get all the chassis loom done and working. This meant connecting everything to the fuse and relay box. All the wires were cut to length and the terminals for the fuse box fitted to them. Then using 3mm cable we added main feeds to the fuse box and fitted it back in the dash. This made it a bit of a struggle to add further wires. (Switches in the glove box to turn off power steering and overide fuel pump relay)
Everything was working. When the red battery buttons were on the indicators, brake lights, dash, wiper and washers all worked as planned. This now just leaves the ECU and engine loom to do, oh deep joy!
Saturday 19th December 2009 - Exhaust
Time for the exhaust to go on. Its a custom made system that was on the track car (and another car before that) It will need some adjusting at a later stage but its on there of now.
