UPDATE:
If you have been reading this thread recently you will see that i have been in doubts over what to do with the car. This has mainly been due a fair few big changes in my life. Some may not think its all that but its a fairly big deal for me. Last week i left what a few will know was a position on the magazine Fastcar, and in 3 weeks time i will be starting a position on another automotive magazine. However the new position is alot further away. Initially i will be commuting (112 miles a day, 2 hours each way), until myself and my partner find somewhere else to live (hopefully quite quick). We will not know anyone where we are looking to live but i spose thats also exciting.
So how does that relate to the build? well financially it will be massive as the cost of moving will be a fair bit, with fee's etc etc, then there is the new place.... where we live now we got a super deal so we pay very little, (but i spose we were just lucky).... add to all of that my initial cost of commuting. The other thing is were the car is located. The car currently sits in a friends unit, i pay him for this privilege and work on it over weekends. I can use his tools etc so its very handy. His brother is also a painter/sprayer (my friend who was going to be painting the car) but has recently moved to a new location.... either way though these will both be very far from the new location where i will be living.
This brings me to a stage where i need to get as much done as possible in 3 weeks, i can't leave the car at my friends unit for too long as i will be paying for storing it there and i doubt i would rarely get back to work on it. I really want to get it over to his brother to paint as its in the best state it will ever be for paint ie... fully stripped, windows and wires etc etc out, but again it would be best if it was running for this to happen.... we will see how i fare over the next few weeks, but to say i have lost a bit of enthusiasm is an understatement.....
i thought this was also fairly amusing with the timing, i can't believe its been off the road a year.... hey, well here's to another year, what the hell...lol
so today, the start of the 3 weeks.
I started off walking around the car and looking at what needed doing and taking notes... this is my list, i know there is so much more....
i then started to look at how i may route the loom. I finished trimming the loom down the other day after loosing the door sensor etc....
see the last few chunks of wire...
i really don't want to have the massive fuse box etc inside the car once done so i looked at how it could sit in the scuttle pannel. Initially i will just slot it in here for the 1 journey it will make which will be to matt at TDF, then this will probably all come out again and be redone, for that trip i will not put in the washer bottle so there will be enough room for all the gubbins....see below
this will allow me to loose a fair few big holes in the bulkhead/dash area of the car. i have made up the cardboard templates for these so we can cut the metal to fit then just weld it in.
passenger side.
centre air vent
and the others i have pictured before.
with these now enclosed i looked at how i would route the loom. the passenger side loom is very small so this will come trough a small hole (i will probably just chop the wires and re-attach them the other side when it comes to it), but it will be nice and neat.
for the rest of the loom, i looked at how i could get it discretely to the other side of the car, i come up with the idea of running it across the bulkhead in the scuttle panel and then emerging it through the upper middle air vent, i will need to make a hole in the bulkhead somewhere but that shouldn't be too much of an issue....
so after making up the template for the middle air vent i marked it and cut it, this should give me enough room to pass all the plugs and loom through.
so from this
to this
i will cut a hole just behind the gap i have left here so it will pass straight into the bulkhead. that may be tomorrows first job.
to make sure this would be viable though and that all the wiring would fit where it would need to go i routed it through the lower blower hole (a longer way around)... below you can see that it still reaches everywhere, happy days, once it comes out of the upper hole i can nicely hide it behind the dashbar...
i then removed all the wiring again so i don't damage it, in doing this however i came across this plug in the scuttle, the wiper motor plug also comes off of its loom, for the life of my i can't work out where it goes, any ideas?
and after that, that is when things started to go pair shaped, i wanted to do stuff but just found myself standing around looking at it, it was proper bugging my and getting me annoyed, i did cut the battery cable ready for doing the anderson connectors and ring connectors but i don't have the ring connectors.... doh
so my last job was to make a template for the fuel pump cover that i will make from carbon....(the big circle really tested me)
before i left i also picked up my headlights, i am taking these home to bake, i plan to split the lights down and then paint the inner lenses black, i thought about doing this before and when i saw burpseeds ones i was sure to sort it, so i will do that shortly....
hopefully day 2 will be a bit more productive.. i need a good few days were all goes well.. then i may get the love back.